Sana Ashraf

Sana Ashraf
Australian National University | ANU

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Publications (3)
Finding the Enemy Within: Blasphemy Accusations and Subsequent Violence in Pakistan
Book
  • Sep 2021
Moral Anxiety in the 'Land of the Pure': Popular Justice and Anti-Blasphemy Violence in Pakistan
Thesis
  • Jan 2019
In recent years, Pakistan has witnessed incidents such as lynching of a student on a university campus, torching of a Christian couple alive, attacks on entire neighbourhoods by angry mobs, and assassination of a governor upon allegations of blasphemy. This thesis begins with the premise that the anti-blasphemy violence is meaningful political acti...
Honour, purity and transgression: understanding blasphemy accusations and consequent violent action in Punjab, Pakistan
Article
  • Jan 2018
Since the incorporation of anti-blasphemy laws protecting the religious sentiments of the Muslim majority in the Pakistan Penal Code in the 1980s, Pakistan has seen several cases of extra-judicial killings, mob violence and vigilante action against the accused. Based on my fieldwork in Punjab, Pakistan, this paper deals with the meanings associated...