Dr Majed Akhter Academics Supervisors Senior Lecturer in Environment and Society Research subject areas Geography Contact details majed.akhter@kcl.ac.uk
Authoritarian urbanism in Pakistan and Indonesia: a conjunctural comparison of two new cities Water: A Critical Introduction The Spatial Politics of Infrastructure-Led Development: Notes from an Asian Postcolony Dams, Development, and Racialised Internal Peripheries: Hydraulic Imaginaries as Hegemonic Strategy in Pakistan “Walking the talk” in land management: Structural factors influencing pro-environmental intention-action links in a tropical watershed From Building Dams to Fetching Water: Scales of Politicization in the Indus Basin Adjudicating infrastructure: Treaties, territories, hydropolitics The prose of passive revolution: Mobile experts, economic planning, and the developmental state in Singapore Lost in translation: resilience, social agency, and water planning in Tucson, Arizona Water security in South Asia: Between state and society The political ecology of the water scarcity/security nexus in the Indus Basin: decentering per capita water supply More on the sharing of the Indus waters The politics of sovereignty in Pakistan The Unbearable Humanness of Drone Warfare in FATA, Pakistan Geopolitics of dam design on the Indus THE DRONIFICATION OF STATE VIOLENCE State, society and power towards a new political economy of Pakistan Infrastructure Nation: State Space, Hegemony, and Hydraulic Regionalism in Pakistan Dams as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy: Geopolitical Implications for Pakistan The hydropolitical Cold War: The Indus Waters Treaty and state formation in Pakistan The proliferation of peripheries: Militarized drones and the reconfiguration of global space The irrigation technozone: State power, expertise, and agrarian development in the U.S. West and British Punjab, 1880-1920 Desiring the data state in the Indus Basin Geopolitics of the Belt and Road: Space, state, and capital in China and Pakistan View all publications
21 April 2023 New book argues for a critical, social understanding of water to solve global challenges The book by academics from the King’s Water Centre explores how social practices and geometries of…