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Majed Akhter is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at King's College London, part of the School of Global Affairs. His work focuses on the intersection of development geography, environmental studies, and geopolitics with a regional emphasis on Pakistan and South Asia. He joined King's in 2018 after prior work at Indiana University.
Research Interests: Akhter's research employs a historical-geographical materialist framework to examine technology, territory, and trans-regional relations. Key themes include state formation, infrastructure-led development, water resource management, and the geopolitics of Pakistan. He critically analyzes hydropolitics, authoritarian urbanism, and the impact of global projects like the Belt and Road Initiative.
Academic Contributions: His recent work includes studies on authoritarian urbanism in Pakistan and Indonesia, spatial politics of infrastructure-led development in postcolonial contexts, and the role of dams in geopolitical strategies. He co-authored Water: A Critical Introduction (2023) and has published extensively in journals like Antipode, Urban Geography, and Political Geography.
Affiliations: Akhter is affiliated with King's Water Centre, the Contested Development Research Group, and the Critical Global Capitalism Studies Collective. He supervises PhD students exploring topics like Pakistan's political ecology, hydraulic imaginary, and infrastructural state power.
Grants: He led the SSRC-funded project 'Decolonizing infrastructure: Empire, expertise, and the imaginative geographies of the Colombo Plan' (2018-2022), examining colonial-era infrastructure networks.
