Graduate Student
Farah Adeed joined the Ph.D. program in Political Science at Boston University in the Fall of 2023. He studies resistance, religion, and authoritarian power in South and Southeast Asia. His research examines how citizens navigate authoritarian control through everyday forms of resistance, focusing on religious movements and identity-based mobilization in Pakistan and Indonesia. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and comparative historical analysis, he explores how religious communities develop what he terms “resistant rituals” – practices that simultaneously demonstrate compliance while subtly subverting state authority.
Adeed is particularly interested in how religious symbols and practices become vehicles for political resistance and how communities maintain autonomy under increasingly sophisticated forms of state control.
He holds a Master of Arts in Political Science and an Advanced Certificate in Comparative and Global Politics from San Diego State University. His Master’s thesis focused on analyzing why certain Islamic organizations support democratization while others oppose it. Prior to his time in the United States, he studied Political Science and Sociology at the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan.
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