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Waqar Ali Shah is a critical language studies scholar from Pakistan. He is currently pursuing his doctoral research in Applied linguistics at the Center for Applied Language Studies (CALS), 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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Critical Applied Linguistics, Critical/Cultural Discourse Studies, Textbook/Curriculum Studies, Decoloniality, Southern Epistemologies.

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Waqar Ali Shah

Waqar Ali Shah is presently a doctoral researcher at the Center for Applied Language Studies (CALS), 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.
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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.

Waqar Ali Shah