Author: Nichola Khan

Nichola Khan CPsychol is a senior lecturer in the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton. She is a social and psychological anthropologist researching topics of violence, migration, mobilities and mental health with a regional emphasis on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Afghan diasporas. She teaches on ‘Violence’, ‘Psychosocial Transformations’ and ‘Mental “Disorder”’.

Nichola Khan

#Review: The Politics of Humanitarianism: Power, Ideology and Aid

May, 2016 / By Nichola Khan

Humanitarianism is a chimera, arguably an infection, but certainly an ethos and organising principle of our age that intersects with […]

Afghan Elections: the pen, the gun and the slippage between

September, 2014 / By Nichola Khan

Afghanistan’s Presidential elections were scheduled to coincide with the withdrawal of U.S. and foreign troops and Afghanistan’s first democratic transfer