Rakib Akhtar
Biographic Data
| ID | 165284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rakib Akhtar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rakib |
| FAMILY NAME | Akhtar |
| SIGNATURE | AKHTAR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0049-304X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The ‘peri-urban turn’
With the rapid pace of urbanization, urban sprawl has become a prevalent phenomenon, particularly in the global South, leading to the emergence of peri-urban spaces where rural-urban interfaces occur. These peri-urban areas exhibit dynamic and continuous interactions among social, economic, and environmental systems, offering valuable insights for fostering resilient futures. However, this aspect remains largely unexplored in current research due…
Development Has Gone Crazy’
Since the mid 1990s, the western Indian state of Gujarat has been continuously led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a Right-wing Hindu nationalist political party. The BJP has aggressively pursued Right-wing religious ideologies, while, on the economic front, it has taken on board neoliberal policies. The outcome of this mix came to be referred to as the ‘Gujarat model of development’, as the state delivered impressive figures in the economy,…
The entrepreneurial shadow state delivering a smart city
Among the many issues that have been discussed under the scholarship of entrepreneurial state, the place of and strategies to mobilize, a shadow state apparatus have so far received little attention. It is particularly relevant from state practices in the Global South. This article gives an account of shadow practices that an entrepreneurial state undertakes in its attempt to deliver a smart city project. It documents a host of practices that ess…
Protests, neoliberalism and right-wing populism amongst farmers in India
Why do farmers facing imminent dispossession still support and acquiesce to a right-wing nationalist project? Why and how does a neoliberal capitalist state make welfare provisions to subalterns? This article answers these questions by explaining the weak protest of local farmers in an under-construction smart city in India. Underlining the key role played by the state, the article shows how right-wing leaders launch redistributive neoliberal pol…
The ‘peri-urban turn’
With the rapid pace of urbanization, urban sprawl has become a prevalent phenomenon, particularly in the global South, leading to the emergence of peri-urban spaces where rural-urban interfaces occur. These peri-urban areas exhibit dynamic and continuous interactions among social, economic, and environmental systems, offering valuable insights for fostering resilient futures. However, this aspect remains largely unexplored in current research due…
Protests, neoliberalism and right-wing populism amongst farmers in India
Why do farmers facing imminent dispossession still support and acquiesce to a right-wing nationalist project? Why and how does a neoliberal capitalist state make welfare provisions to subalterns? This article answers these questions by explaining the weak protest of local farmers in an under-construction smart city in India. Underlining the key role played by the state, the article shows how right-wing leaders launch redistributive neoliberal pol…
The entrepreneurial shadow state delivering a smart city
Among the many issues that have been discussed under the scholarship of entrepreneurial state, the place of and strategies to mobilize, a shadow state apparatus have so far received little attention. It is particularly relevant from state practices in the Global South. This article gives an account of shadow practices that an entrepreneurial state undertakes in its attempt to deliver a smart city project. It documents a host of practices that ess…
The entrepreneurial shadow state delivering a smart city
Among the many issues that have been discussed under the scholarship of entrepreneurial state, the place of and strategies to mobilize, a shadow state apparatus have so far received little attention. It is particularly relevant from state practices in the Global South. This article gives an account of shadow practices that an entrepreneurial state undertakes in its attempt to deliver a smart city project. It documents a host of practices that ess…
Protests, neoliberalism and right-wing populism amongst farmers in India
Why do farmers facing imminent dispossession still support and acquiesce to a right-wing nationalist project? Why and how does a neoliberal capitalist state make welfare provisions to subalterns? This article answers these questions by explaining the weak protest of local farmers in an under-construction smart city in India. Underlining the key role played by the state, the article shows how right-wing leaders launch redistributive neoliberal pol…
The ‘peri-urban turn’
With the rapid pace of urbanization, urban sprawl has become a prevalent phenomenon, particularly in the global South, leading to the emergence of peri-urban spaces where rural-urban interfaces occur. These peri-urban areas exhibit dynamic and continuous interactions among social, economic, and environmental systems, offering valuable insights for fostering resilient futures. However, this aspect remains largely unexplored in current research due…
Development Has Gone Crazy’
Since the mid 1990s, the western Indian state of Gujarat has been continuously led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a Right-wing Hindu nationalist political party. The BJP has aggressively pursued Right-wing religious ideologies, while, on the economic front, it has taken on board neoliberal policies. The outcome of this mix came to be referred to as the ‘Gujarat model of development’, as the state delivered impressive figures in the economy,…
Neoliberalism (international relations (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Nationalism (2 works)