In April 2024, South Asian Urban Climates organized a book panel for Waqas Butt’s book Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan (Stanford University Press, 2023) in dialogue with Yaffa Truelove and Dean Chahim.

Waqas H. Butt is an anthropologist and Associate Professor at University of Toronto Scarborough whose work focuses on the political life of infrastructure in contemporary Pakistan.

Yaffa Truelove is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder, whose work examines the connections between urban waterscapes and socio-political processes in cities of the global South.

Dean Chahim is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at New York University, whose research and teaching broadly trace the interactions between political power, engineering, and the urban environment.