Waquar Ahmed

UNT Faculty Profile

Dr. Ahmed is a human geographer focusing on the socio-economic manifestations of capitalism. His current research focuses on governance, policy making and state theory; political economy of climate change; geography of development-underdevelopment; neoliberalism and corporate power; geopolitics and imperialism; and commodification of nature.

Email: Waquar.Ahmed@unt.edu

Office: ENV 310C

https://facultyinfo.unt.edu/faculty-profile?profile=wa0047#publications

Research Interests:

• Political economy of climate change
• Geography of Capitalism and uneven development.
• Neoliberalism and corporate power
• Geography of governance, policy making and state-theory
• Political economy of nature and natural resources
• Geopolitics

Editorship and editorial board membership of academic journals:

• Managing editor of Human Geography
• Series coordinator of Radical Geography Book, a sub-series of Studies in Critical Social Sciences, published by Brill
• Editorial board member of ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies
• Editorial board member of Capitalism Nature Socialism

Selected Books:

Funke, J. J., Ahmed, W., Chatterjee, I., McCauley, S. (Eds.). (In print). Geography in the 21st Century: Defining Moments that Shaped Society. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

McCusker, B., W. Ahmed, M. Ramutsindela & P. Solis. 2021. The Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment. New York: Routledge.

Ahmed, W., A. Kundu & R. Peet. 2010. India's New Economic Policy: A Critical Analysis. New York and London: Routledge.

Selected Articles:

Ahmed, W. (2023). Understanding Marxist ‘Development’ in Marx’s Terms in a World of Climate Change.

Area Development and Policy, 8(4), 460-472. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23792949.2023.2199070

Ahmed, W. (2023). Nurturing the production of nature. Human Geography, 16(1), 101-103. https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786221105800

Ansah, H., Ahmed, W. (2023). Behind the Curtain of Public Spaces: Revealing the Narratives of Corporate Street Hawking in Globalizing Accra. Geographical Review, 113(5), 647-665.

Ahmed, W. 2022. Marxist geography: A personal journey. Human Geography, 15, 45-51. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786211049496

Simon, J.-E. & W. Ahmed. 2021. Terra sacer: water infrastructure and core-periphery reconfiguration in Dallas/Fort Worth. In The Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment, eds. B. McCusker, W. Ahmed, M. Ramutsindela & P. Solis, 161-178. New York: Routledge.

Furtick, R. & W. Ahmed. 2021. Is this land made for you and me? In The Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment, eds. B. McCusker, W. Ahmed, M. Ramutsindela & P. Solis, 112-127. New York: Routledge.

Chatterjee, Ipsita and Ahmed, Waquar (2019), 'Dialectical materialism: Marx's method in human geography?', ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 18 (2), 364-93. doi: https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v18i2.1637

Ahmed, Waquar (2019), 'India has lost all moral authority and right over Kashmir', Human Geography, 12 (1), 79-81.

Ahmed, Waquar (2018), 'Governing foreign direct investment: post-Enron initiatives in India', Review of Radical Political Economics, 50 (1), 5-23.

Simon, James-Eric and Ahmed, Waquar (2018), 'The Promise of Progress: Modernity, Accumulation, and the Urbanization of North Texas Water in the 20th Century', Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, 11 (2), 19-34.

Ahmed, Waquar and Chatterjee, Ipsita (2016), 'Antinomies of the Indian State', in Alan Cafruny, Leila Simona Talani, and Gonzalo Pozo Martin (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy (London: Palgrave Macmillan), 331-50.

Ahmed, Waquar (2014), 'The political economy and geopolitical context of India's economic crisis, 1990-91', Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 35 (2), 179-96.

Ahmed, Waquar (2012), 'From militant particularism to anti-neoliberalism? The anti-Enron movement in India', Antipode, 44 (4), 1059-80.

Ahmed, Waquar (2010), 'Neoliberalism, Corporations, and Power: Enron in India', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100, 621 - 39.

Selected Media Appearances:

• "Gun Violence in the United States," Voice of "Interviewee." (July 8, 2023). Voice of America
• Russia's invasion of Ukraineon News 18 (televised on March 18, 2022)
• US Special Representative on Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad's visit to India and the prospects of peace in Afghanistan on Voice of America (broadcast on September 23, 2020)
• Analysis of President Donald J Trump and Joseph R Biden as presidential candidates and their prospects for victory in the November elections on Voice of America (broadcast on September 22, 2020)
• Analysis of President Donald J Trump and Joseph R Biden as presidential candidates for November 2020 elections, impact of BLM and COVID19 on the election process onVoice of America (broadcast on July 23, 2020)
• Courses Taught:

• Economic Geography (GEOG 3010)
• Capitalism, Nature and Climate Change/Critical Resource Geography (GEOG 4420/GEOG 5420)
• Geography of International Development (GEOG 4245/GEOG 5245)
• Foundations of Geographical Thought (GEOG 5160)
• Geography of Power: US Presidential Election
• Global Societies (GEOG 1200)

Education:

Ph.D., 2007 Geography, Clark University

M.Phil., 2002 Geography, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

M.A. 2000 Geography, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

B.Com (Hons.) 1995 Commerce, St. Xavier's College, University of Calcutta

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