Asif Mehmood is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai. He completed his doctoral degree in Environmental [Social] Sciences at the State University of New York (SUNY-ESF), Syracuse, NY, USA. He has a master’s degree in public policy from National University of Singapore (NUS). His doctoral work ethnographically explored how China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects work at the intersection of infrastructure, nature, and statecraft. He is interested in questions of urban political ecology, land, infrastructure, nonhuman ecologies, urban governance, and environmental humanities. His research appeared in (peer-reviewed) journals like South Asia Research, Cultural Studies, Antipode, Political Geography, Human Geography, and EPD: Society and Space. His work has been supported by SUNY-ESF, IJURR Foundation, and American Institute of Pakistan Studies.