Ijlal Naqvi

Ijlal Naqvi is Associate Professor of Sociology at Singapore Management University. He is a political sociologist studying state capacity in the Global South, with a particular interest in energy infrastructures and urban citizenship.

His book uses the electrical power infrastructure in Pakistan as a lens on questions of uneven state capacity in the Global South. He conceives of governance as an emergent compromise produced out of the nested fields of the state’s electricity generation and distribution network, thus connecting national policy issues of chronic undersupply and crippling debt to the everyday challenges of the infrastructural state. The book draws on extensive fieldwork at the offices of the Islamabad electrical utility and experience with policy reform.

Research and Teaching Interests

• Development
• Urban Studies
• Political Sociology
• Democracy
• Infrastructure
• Service Learning

Course(s) Taught in SMU

• Sociology Study Mission
• Contemporary South Asian Societies
• Public Policy Task Force

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2005 — 2011)
• Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy Tufts University - The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (2002 — 2004)
• Bachelor of Arts - BA Middlebury College (1994 — 1998)

Companies

• Associate Dean (Curriculum and Teaching) Singapore Management University (2021)
• Associate Professor Of Sociology Singapore Management University (2020)
• Assistant Professor of Sociology SMU - Singapore Management University (2012 — 2019)