Munib is a PhD candidate at the Urban Studies department supervised by Prof. Dr. Johannes Schubert. His research congeals around the social and political life of infrastructure, everyday state formation, and the affective atmospheres of developmental projects in frontier regions

His doctoral project, Giving a Dam in a Himalayan Outpost, is a political ethnography of the operationalising (and maintenance) of hydroelectric power projects in northern Pakistan, examining their bureaucratic interface with the surrounding valleys amidst the broader context of a stuttering transnational economic corridor.

Trained as an architect, he holds an MSc in Urbanism Studies from KTH, Stockholm, and an MA in Critical Urbanisms from the University of Basel. He welcomes conversations and collaborations around shared interests in infrastructual anthropology and visual ethnographic methods.

• Anthropology of infrastructure; hydroelectric infrastructures
• Political ethnography; postcolonial development; everyday state formation
• Ethnographic methods; visual ethnography.

• Northern Pakistan
• Himalayan and Karakoram frontier regions
• Central/South Asia.