Maha Rafi Atal
Biographic Data
| ID | 2744883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maha Rafi Atal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maha Rafi |
| FAMILY NAME | Atal |
| SIGNATURE | ATAL M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4136-4420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Commodifying compassion in the digital age
Digital and data-driven technologies are transforming the humanitarian and development sectors. With the promise of faster, more efficient and accurate aid delivery, these technologies are often designed and implemented in partnerships between aid organizations and private technology firms. Consequently, “Tech for Good” has emerged as a significant humanitarian domain, where Big Tech companies aspire to create innovative technological solutions t…
Oligarchic sovereignty
Contemporary technology oligarchs are reshaping global power through their control over critical infrastructures, political institutions, and ideas. Across six essays, this forum examines the territorial, temporal, and ideational ambitions of Silicon Valley billionaires, highlighting how individuals like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg exercise unprecedented influence over states and societies. From charter cities and netw…
Afrofuturist ambiguities
In recent years, two changes have begun to transform the South African banking sector. First, financial technology startups have emerged, offering payments and other services via bespoke mobile apps, powered by a combination of official access to bank application programming interfaces and unofficial screen scraping. Second, banks have expanded their mobile offerings through applications that connect to third-party messaging services from compani…
Globalizing Regulation
The past two decades have witnessed growing concern about the challenges governments face in regulating multinational corporations. Trade and investment agreements play a crucial role in setting the regulatory regime that governs these transnational activities. The multilateral trade and investment regime has been experiencing a period of crisis, with the collapse of proceedings at the World Trade Organization’s appellate body and the failure of …
Measuring the Wages of Whiteness
This comment responds to the recently held Global Research in International Political Economy roundtable on race in IPE. In particular, it argues that scholars of political economy could draw fruitfully on the notion of “whiteness as property” from the critical race theory subfield of law in order to trace the workings of whiteness, and race more broadly, as a material force in the economy
Commodifying Covid-19
Corporations have become prominent actors in responding to COVID-19. Within the context of increasing privatization of humanitarianism and marketization of social justice, corporate marketing has played a part in the “interpretive battles” to define the global crisis of COVID-19. Understanding corporate COVID-19 communications contributes to understanding the politics of the global pandemic. This article analyzes companies’ humanitarian communica…
The Janus faces of Silicon Valley
In recent years, the power of large technology corporations has become a focus of public debate in both developed and developing countries. This growing chorus brings together complaints about breaches of privacy and data protection, competition and market consolidation, and electoral and other political interference. The most powerful of these companies have grown into behemoths by establishing themselves both as purveyors of their own products,…
White capital
The cultural and economic power of advertisers in the business press
Media studies scholarship on advertising has traditionally fallen into two camps. Cultural analysis emphasizes the signals advertisements send to consumers, focusing primarily on the role of advertising creatives. Economic analysis emphasizes advertising’s impact on media companies’ financial performance, focusing on the role of sales managers and proprietors. Both approaches minimize the role of reporters, against whose work advertisers place th…
Introduction
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The Janus faces of Silicon Valley
In recent years, the power of large technology corporations has become a focus of public debate in both developed and developing countries. This growing chorus brings together complaints about breaches of privacy and data protection, competition and market consolidation, and electoral and other political interference. The most powerful of these companies have grown into behemoths by establishing themselves both as purveyors of their own products,…
The cultural and economic power of advertisers in the business press
Media studies scholarship on advertising has traditionally fallen into two camps. Cultural analysis emphasizes the signals advertisements send to consumers, focusing primarily on the role of advertising creatives. Economic analysis emphasizes advertising’s impact on media companies’ financial performance, focusing on the role of sales managers and proprietors. Both approaches minimize the role of reporters, against whose work advertisers place th…
White capital
Commodifying Covid-19
Corporations have become prominent actors in responding to COVID-19. Within the context of increasing privatization of humanitarianism and marketization of social justice, corporate marketing has played a part in the “interpretive battles” to define the global crisis of COVID-19. Understanding corporate COVID-19 communications contributes to understanding the politics of the global pandemic. This article analyzes companies’ humanitarian communica…
Introduction
No abstract available
White capital
The cultural and economic power of advertisers in the business press
Media studies scholarship on advertising has traditionally fallen into two camps. Cultural analysis emphasizes the signals advertisements send to consumers, focusing primarily on the role of advertising creatives. Economic analysis emphasizes advertising’s impact on media companies’ financial performance, focusing on the role of sales managers and proprietors. Both approaches minimize the role of reporters, against whose work advertisers place th…
The Janus faces of Silicon Valley
In recent years, the power of large technology corporations has become a focus of public debate in both developed and developing countries. This growing chorus brings together complaints about breaches of privacy and data protection, competition and market consolidation, and electoral and other political interference. The most powerful of these companies have grown into behemoths by establishing themselves both as purveyors of their own products,…
Measuring the Wages of Whiteness
This comment responds to the recently held Global Research in International Political Economy roundtable on race in IPE. In particular, it argues that scholars of political economy could draw fruitfully on the notion of “whiteness as property” from the critical race theory subfield of law in order to trace the workings of whiteness, and race more broadly, as a material force in the economy
Commodifying Covid-19
Corporations have become prominent actors in responding to COVID-19. Within the context of increasing privatization of humanitarianism and marketization of social justice, corporate marketing has played a part in the “interpretive battles” to define the global crisis of COVID-19. Understanding corporate COVID-19 communications contributes to understanding the politics of the global pandemic. This article analyzes companies’ humanitarian communica…
Globalizing Regulation
The past two decades have witnessed growing concern about the challenges governments face in regulating multinational corporations. Trade and investment agreements play a crucial role in setting the regulatory regime that governs these transnational activities. The multilateral trade and investment regime has been experiencing a period of crisis, with the collapse of proceedings at the World Trade Organization’s appellate body and the failure of …
Afrofuturist ambiguities
In recent years, two changes have begun to transform the South African banking sector. First, financial technology startups have emerged, offering payments and other services via bespoke mobile apps, powered by a combination of official access to bank application programming interfaces and unofficial screen scraping. Second, banks have expanded their mobile offerings through applications that connect to third-party messaging services from compani…
Commodifying compassion in the digital age
Digital and data-driven technologies are transforming the humanitarian and development sectors. With the promise of faster, more efficient and accurate aid delivery, these technologies are often designed and implemented in partnerships between aid organizations and private technology firms. Consequently, “Tech for Good” has emerged as a significant humanitarian domain, where Big Tech companies aspire to create innovative technological solutions t…
Oligarchic sovereignty
Contemporary technology oligarchs are reshaping global power through their control over critical infrastructures, political institutions, and ideas. Across six essays, this forum examines the territorial, temporal, and ideational ambitions of Silicon Valley billionaires, highlighting how individuals like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg exercise unprecedented influence over states and societies. From charter cities and netw…
Political science (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Finance (3 works) · Order (exchange (2 works)