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Dr Majed Akhter

Academics

Lecturer in Environment and Society

Biography

Dr Majed Akhter was born and raised in Saudi Arabia, and has lived and worked in Pakistan (Lahore and Karachi) and the United States (Atlanta, Tucson, and Bloomington). Before becoming a geographer, he was a resource economist and an industrial engineer.

Research

Technopolitics
Physical infrastructures
Water resources
State theory
Marxism
Pakistan

Teaching

PhD supervision

Majed would be interested to supervise anyone looking to research:

Historical geography and politics of Pakistan
Politics of large physical infrastructures
Critical approaches to environment and development (especially water)
Geopolitics of state formation

Further details

See Majed's research profile

Latest publications

'Walking the talk' in land management: Structural factors influencing pro-environmental intention-action links in a tropical watershed
Espinoza-Cisneros, E. & Akhter, M., Oct 2020, In : Journal of Rural Studies. 79, p. 334-344 11 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.08.054
From Building Dams to Fetching Water: Scales of Politicization in the Indus Basin
Aijaz, A. & Akhter, M., 1 May 2020, In : Water . 12, 5, 1351. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.3390/W12051351
Adjudicating infrastructure: Treaties, territories, hydropolitics
Akhter, M., 31 Jul 2019, In : Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 2, 4 Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619864913
The prose of passive revolution: Mobile experts, economic planning, and the developmental state in Singapore
Meulbroek, C. & Akhter, M. S., 1 Sep 2019, In : Environment and Planning A. 51, 6, p. 1242-1263 22 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X19843923
Lost in translation: resilience, social agency, and water planning in Tucson, Arizona
Akhter, M. S., 2010, In : Critical Planning. 17, p. 47-65 Research output: Contribution to journal - Article
Water security in South Asia: Between state and society
Akhter, M. S., 2016, In : Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs. p. 37-41 Research output: Contribution to journal - Comment/debate
The political ecology of the water scarcity/security nexus in the Indus Basin: decentering per capita water supply
Akhter, M. S., 2017, Imagining Industan: Overcoming Water Insecurity in the Indus Basin. Springer, p. 21-33 Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding - Chapter
More on the sharing of the Indus waters
Akhter, M., 24 Apr 2010, In : Economic and Political Weekly. 45, 17, p. 99-100 2 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Comment/debate
The politics of sovereignty in Pakistan
Akhter, M., 14 Jan 2012, In : Economic and Political Weekly. 47, 2, p. 17-19 3 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Comment/debate
The Unbearable Humanness of Drone Warfare in FATA, Pakistan
Shaw, I. G. R. & Akhter, M., Sep 2012, In : Antipode: a radical journal of geography. 44, 4, p. 1490-1509 20 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00940.x

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