This presentation outlines Asaf's progress and preliminary findings for the Mid-Term Review of his PhD candidature.

Asaf’s project explores the issue of enforced disappearances in varied contexts of South Asia focusing on the practices and strategies used by families of disappeared persons as they navigate complex processes of seeking justice. How these families engage with legal, social, cultural and political mechanisms to assert their rights, challenge state narratives to demand right to truth and accountability. The aim is to understand how pursuit of justice constitutes a response to state impunity and repression by exploring vernacular cultures through various meanings, contexts, and expressions of justice as families continue to engage with diverse actors and institutions across time and space.

About the speaker

Asaf Ali Lone is a PhD candidate at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University. His research explores how peacebuilding, transitional justice, the rule of law, and redress mechanisms intersect across different temporal nodes, gendered dimensions, territorial imaginations and spatialities in South Asia and beyond. His previous research focused on land and housing rights, urban marginality, segregation, violence, migration, and participatory planning in Indian cities. Building on his earlier and current work, he experiments with creative and collaborative methodologies using art, poetry, music, and visual ethnography to capture textures of everyday life in India and across the South Asian diaspora.

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