ISLAMABAD: Dr Hifza Irfan has successfully defended her PhD dissertation at the School of Sociology, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) under the supervision of Prof Dr Muhammad Zaman, says a press release.
Her doctoral research advances a novel theoretical framework Reflexive Motorisation, examining how rapid vehicle growth, weak enforcement and fragmented urban planning are producing new forms of social risk in Pakistan’s cities. Drawing on Ulrich Beck’s theory of the Risk Society and the reflexive modernisation thesis of Beck and Anthony Giddens, this study argues that motorisation in Pakistan has entered a phase where society must confront the unintended consequences of its own development trajectory.
