Center for South Asia Fall Lecture Series 2025
Shahana Munazir, "Crafting ‘Behtar Zindagi:’ Rethinking aspiration and ethical labor of Muslim women in Urban India"
Event Details
Date
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Time
12 p.m.
Location
Description
Munazir’s dissertation explores how middle-class Muslim women in North India negotiate aspiration and Islamic ethics within a majoritarian context. Drawing on over fourteen months of ethnographic research, she examines how women reimagine futurity through qadr (divine destiny), challenging conventional narratives of social mobility. Moving beyond binaries of agency and submission, she conceptualizes women’s everyday discourse on destiny as “ethical labor”—the cultivation of sabr (patience) and k
Cost
Free
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