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Waqar Ali Shah is a critical language studies scholar from Pakistan. He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His doctoral dissertation focuses on discursive normativities and ruptures in ELT pedagogy and textbooks in addition to offering insights into diversifying critical discourse studies (CDS) from a southern perspective. Professionally, he is working as a lecturer at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan.

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Waqar Ali Shah
Waqar Ali Shah holds a PhD from University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He holds his Bachelor of Studies (BS) (University of Sindh, 2012) and Master of Studies (MS) (Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, 2016) in Applied Linguistics from Pakistan. Waqar Ali Shah speaks three languages: Sindhi as a native, Urdu as a national language of Pakistan and English as an international lingua franca/academica. Waqar Ali Shah basically hails from a small village namely ‘Sita Village’ located in district Dadu, Sindh province of Pakistan and migrated to Hyderabad city of Pakistan in 2007.
In my view, the research-pedagogy nexus is central to the transformation of contemporary academia by confronting, in Santo's words, three pillars of domination: capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy.

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