Outputs (3)

Refugee status as a productive tension (2015)
Journal Article
Novak, P. (2015). Refugee status as a productive tension. Transnational Legal Theory, 6(2), 287-311. https://doi.org/10.1080/20414005.2015.1086198

Who is an Afghan refugee in Pakistan? The paper delves into this question through a detailed discussion of the concrete mechanisms that contextually define who an Afghan refugee in Pakistan is. Drawing on an understanding of law as generatively irres... Read More about Refugee status as a productive tension.

Tracing connections and its politics (2014)
Book Chapter
Novak, P. (2014). Tracing connections and its politics. In H. Alff, & A. Benz (Eds.), Tracing Connections: Explorations of Spaces and Places in Asian Contexts. VWB

The chapter argues that studying places and identities as a tension yields useful research insights, because it forces us to do three things. First, it forces us to think about places and identities as processes – as continuously configured and re-co... Read More about Tracing connections and its politics.

The Success of NGOs (2013)
Journal Article
Novak, P. (2013). The Success of NGOs. Development in Practice, 23(7), 872-888. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2013.869976

During the 1990s, and as part of a broader drive towards the 'Afghanisation' of humanitarian assistance in Pakistan, Afghan NGOs became key implementing agencies supporting refugee-related and reconstruction activities in Afghanistan. The paper provi... Read More about The Success of NGOs.