Waquar Ahmed

Waquar Ahmed is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of North Texas (UNT), specializing in critical political economy, capitalism's socio-economic impacts, and geopolitical dynamics. He serves as Managing Editor of the Human Geography journal and coordinates the Radical Geography Book series under Brill's Studies in Critical Social Sciences.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Geography, Clark University (2007)
• M.Phil. and M.A. in Geography, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2002, 2000)
• B.Com (Hons.), St. Xavier's College, University of Calcutta (1995)

Research Focus: Dr. Ahmed's work centers on the political economy of climate change, capitalism's uneven development, neoliberalism's corporate dynamics, and the commodification of nature. His scholarship critiques state policies, global power structures, and environmental injustices through Marxist and critical geographical frameworks.

Recent Trends in Articles: His recent publications (2020s) emphasize climate justice, Marxist methodological debates, and urban geographies of inequality. Notable themes include corporate encroachment on public spaces (e.g., Accra case studies), water infrastructure's geopolitical dimensions, and re-evaluations of Marx's theories in modern contexts.

Advising & Grants: Supervised doctoral students producing critical work on climate injustice (Kamrun Nahar Keya), urban hawking economies (Hilary Ansah), and agrarian dispossession (Andrew Hoyt). Current advisees hold roles in academia and environmental policy sectors.

Labs/Teams: Active in UNT's Geography Department research clusters and collaborates internationally on development-environment nexus projects, including co-editing the Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment (2021).