Ali Mir
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ali Mir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Mir |
| SIGNATURE | MIR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | William Paterson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2211-7459 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Belles-Lettres
Assessing family planning progress in exemplar countries
Family planning (FP) is a critical component of reproductive health, enabling individuals to plan the number and timing of children through various contraceptive methods. We outline the conceptual framework and country case study methodology used by the Exemplars in Family Planning (EFP) project. This was based on the wider Exemplars in Global Health programme, which uses mixed-methods to examine determinants of FP progress in countries that exce…
Family planning exemplar country selection methodology
INTRODUCTION: While many countries achieved notable gains in contraceptive use levels after the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development which redefined family planning (FP) as a human right, there was a long period of 15 years when contraceptive use levels did not receive due attention. It was only later that its subsequent inclusion in the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2012 London Summit on FP renewed global commitmen…
Abortion and unintended pregnancy in Pakistan
BACKGROUND: Despite induced abortion being highly legally restricted in Pakistan, studies in 2002 and 2012 showed that many women rely on abortion when faced with an unintended pregnancy. Following the 2012 study, concerted efforts were made to improve contraceptive services and to strengthen postabortion care. The availability and use of misoprostol also expanded in the past decade. Our primary objective was to provide new evidence on the rates …
Anti-Blackness in Management and Organization Studies
The papers in this special issue engage Black radical intellectual ideas to highlight the related concepts of anti-Blackness and racial capitalism. As such, these works challenge white supremacy in scholarship and beyond by providing case studies, interviews, essays, and theoretical explorations that center Black liberational thought and radical Black knowledge-making. Underpinning these efforts, is a commitment to challenge anti-Blackness in man…
The Business of Stealing Futures
In this paper, we argue that the system of student debt functions as one of the most egregious and yet poorly understood mechanisms by which structural racism is reproduced in the U.S. today. We present evidence that student debt is unevenly distributed across race and gender, show that this pattern arises from policy choices made over time, and demonstrate that these disparities play a significant role in maintaining and exacerbating racial and …
The Crises of Racial Capitalism
U.S. capitalism and the prospects for democratic socialism
Racial capitalism and student debt in the U.S
This paper focuses on the current phase of Black resistance exemplified by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which urges us to recognize and reckon with the differential racial impact of student debt in the U.S. and calls for the cancelation of student debt as an explicit part of its demand for reparations. Using the concept of racial capitalism, the paper examines the structure of student debt and its consequences for Black borrowers, analy…
The colony writes back
It is perhaps a truism that modern organizational theory has tended to objectify the colonized nations, and the subjects of imperialism. Even the critical traditions in OT tend to be mired in Eurocentric assumptions, and many of the issues that affected the ‘victims of globalization’ simply did not figure in OT debates till the 1980s. In the 1990s, when organizational theorists focusing on workers and subjects from the poorer South began expressl…
Hegemony and its discontents
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to discuss the phenomenon of knowledge transfer within multinational corporations (MNCs), and how the imperatives of thought and action that constitute new knowledge are received in the terrain that constitutes the MNC subsidiary. Design/methodology/approach - This study employs an ethnographic approach, and juxtaposes primary data collection with a variety of secondary data sources. Findings - The data are …
Offshoring, exit and voice
Purpose This paper seeks to explore the impact of corporate offshoring moves on the economic and psychological contracts between firms and their employees. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws upon literature from diverse social sciences to explore the phenomena of social contracts and offshoring. Especially deploying the exit‐voice theory of Alfred Hirschman, it is argued here that offshoring decreases the regenerative power promised both…
Producing the Governable Employee
Workplace empowerment and the issues surrounding it have been well documented in the organizational literature on the topic, with critiques centered on the question of whether it is possible to craft an 'empowered' workplace where employees who are embedded within capitalist relations of production are actually able to exercise meaningful control over the environment in which they labor. Our contention in this paper is that workplace empowerment …
Producing hi-tech
This paper examines the role of the state in the context of globalization. Taking up the specific case of Indian software engineers and their migration to the USA, the authors show the involvement of the Indian state and the US at different levels. The growth of the IT labour sector was based on changes in the higher education policy of the Indian state while the large-scale migration of IT workers from India required changes in the immigration p…
Toward a Postcolonial Reading of Organizational Control
The notion of organizational control has been a constant theme in the construction and representations of euromodern1 organizations. The discourse of control has been justified in organizational theory on a variety of counts, such as the need to eliminate stubborn “soldiering” by recalcitrant employees (Taylor, 1911), the inducement of collaborative enterprise (Barnard, 1938), the curtailment of opportunist practices in organizational transaction…
Redefining Secularism in Postcolonial Contexts
The article raises the problematic of translation of the political doctrine of secularism in postcolonial contexts and the inherent challenges in articulating secular subjectivities that are trapped in the discourses of modernity, nationalism, fundamentalism and religion. Acknowledging that the diverse interpretations of secularism have produced more debate than consensus in postcolonial nations such as India, the authors seek to interrogate crit…
The Codes of Migration
This paper presents a case study of the software industry in India and the US as a step toward an ethnography of transnational migration. By focusing on the subject positions and forms of work created by the new international division of labor, contemporary theories of global culture and difference are brought into question through a political economy of globalization. The analysis suggests that the phenomena of postnational deterritorialization …
Multiplicity of Knowledge Forms
And say (O Mohammed): My Lord! Increase me in knowledge.(20:114)In the above verse from the Qur'an, God enjoins the Prophet Muhammadto literally plead for knowledge. I believe that this verse has very significantimplications for the topic of Islamic epistemology. Not only does Godmake a categorical statement about the importance of the pursuit of knowledgein human endeavor,' but He also declares Himself to be the fountainheadof all knowledge in t…
On the Politics of Community in South Asian-American Studies
The colony writes back
It is perhaps a truism that modern organizational theory has tended to objectify the colonized nations, and the subjects of imperialism. Even the critical traditions in OT tend to be mired in Eurocentric assumptions, and many of the issues that affected the ‘victims of globalization’ simply did not figure in OT debates till the 1980s. In the 1990s, when organizational theorists focusing on workers and subjects from the poorer South began expressl…
Producing hi-tech
This paper examines the role of the state in the context of globalization. Taking up the specific case of Indian software engineers and their migration to the USA, the authors show the involvement of the Indian state and the US at different levels. The growth of the IT labour sector was based on changes in the higher education policy of the Indian state while the large-scale migration of IT workers from India required changes in the immigration p…
The Codes of Migration
This paper presents a case study of the software industry in India and the US as a step toward an ethnography of transnational migration. By focusing on the subject positions and forms of work created by the new international division of labor, contemporary theories of global culture and difference are brought into question through a political economy of globalization. The analysis suggests that the phenomena of postnational deterritorialization …
Multiplicity of Knowledge Forms
And say (O Mohammed): My Lord! Increase me in knowledge.(20:114)In the above verse from the Qur'an, God enjoins the Prophet Muhammadto literally plead for knowledge. I believe that this verse has very significantimplications for the topic of Islamic epistemology. Not only does Godmake a categorical statement about the importance of the pursuit of knowledgein human endeavor,' but He also declares Himself to be the fountainheadof all knowledge in t…
On the Politics of Community in South Asian-American Studies
The Codes of Migration
This paper presents a case study of the software industry in India and the US as a step toward an ethnography of transnational migration. By focusing on the subject positions and forms of work created by the new international division of labor, contemporary theories of global culture and difference are brought into question through a political economy of globalization. The analysis suggests that the phenomena of postnational deterritorialization …
Redefining Secularism in Postcolonial Contexts
The article raises the problematic of translation of the political doctrine of secularism in postcolonial contexts and the inherent challenges in articulating secular subjectivities that are trapped in the discourses of modernity, nationalism, fundamentalism and religion. Acknowledging that the diverse interpretations of secularism have produced more debate than consensus in postcolonial nations such as India, the authors seek to interrogate crit…
Toward a Postcolonial Reading of Organizational Control
The notion of organizational control has been a constant theme in the construction and representations of euromodern1 organizations. The discourse of control has been justified in organizational theory on a variety of counts, such as the need to eliminate stubborn “soldiering” by recalcitrant employees (Taylor, 1911), the inducement of collaborative enterprise (Barnard, 1938), the curtailment of opportunist practices in organizational transaction…
Producing hi-tech
This paper examines the role of the state in the context of globalization. Taking up the specific case of Indian software engineers and their migration to the USA, the authors show the involvement of the Indian state and the US at different levels. The growth of the IT labour sector was based on changes in the higher education policy of the Indian state while the large-scale migration of IT workers from India required changes in the immigration p…
Producing the Governable Employee
Workplace empowerment and the issues surrounding it have been well documented in the organizational literature on the topic, with critiques centered on the question of whether it is possible to craft an 'empowered' workplace where employees who are embedded within capitalist relations of production are actually able to exercise meaningful control over the environment in which they labor. Our contention in this paper is that workplace empowerment …
Offshoring, exit and voice
Purpose This paper seeks to explore the impact of corporate offshoring moves on the economic and psychological contracts between firms and their employees. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws upon literature from diverse social sciences to explore the phenomena of social contracts and offshoring. Especially deploying the exit‐voice theory of Alfred Hirschman, it is argued here that offshoring decreases the regenerative power promised both…
Hegemony and its discontents
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to discuss the phenomenon of knowledge transfer within multinational corporations (MNCs), and how the imperatives of thought and action that constitute new knowledge are received in the terrain that constitutes the MNC subsidiary. Design/methodology/approach - This study employs an ethnographic approach, and juxtaposes primary data collection with a variety of secondary data sources. Findings - The data are …
The colony writes back
It is perhaps a truism that modern organizational theory has tended to objectify the colonized nations, and the subjects of imperialism. Even the critical traditions in OT tend to be mired in Eurocentric assumptions, and many of the issues that affected the ‘victims of globalization’ simply did not figure in OT debates till the 1980s. In the 1990s, when organizational theorists focusing on workers and subjects from the poorer South began expressl…
Racial capitalism and student debt in the U.S
This paper focuses on the current phase of Black resistance exemplified by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which urges us to recognize and reckon with the differential racial impact of student debt in the U.S. and calls for the cancelation of student debt as an explicit part of its demand for reparations. Using the concept of racial capitalism, the paper examines the structure of student debt and its consequences for Black borrowers, analy…
The Business of Stealing Futures
In this paper, we argue that the system of student debt functions as one of the most egregious and yet poorly understood mechanisms by which structural racism is reproduced in the U.S. today. We present evidence that student debt is unevenly distributed across race and gender, show that this pattern arises from policy choices made over time, and demonstrate that these disparities play a significant role in maintaining and exacerbating racial and …
The Crises of Racial Capitalism
U.S. capitalism and the prospects for democratic socialism
Abortion and unintended pregnancy in Pakistan
BACKGROUND: Despite induced abortion being highly legally restricted in Pakistan, studies in 2002 and 2012 showed that many women rely on abortion when faced with an unintended pregnancy. Following the 2012 study, concerted efforts were made to improve contraceptive services and to strengthen postabortion care. The availability and use of misoprostol also expanded in the past decade. Our primary objective was to provide new evidence on the rates …
Anti-Blackness in Management and Organization Studies
The papers in this special issue engage Black radical intellectual ideas to highlight the related concepts of anti-Blackness and racial capitalism. As such, these works challenge white supremacy in scholarship and beyond by providing case studies, interviews, essays, and theoretical explorations that center Black liberational thought and radical Black knowledge-making. Underpinning these efforts, is a commitment to challenge anti-Blackness in man…
Belles-Lettres
Assessing family planning progress in exemplar countries
Family planning (FP) is a critical component of reproductive health, enabling individuals to plan the number and timing of children through various contraceptive methods. We outline the conceptual framework and country case study methodology used by the Exemplars in Family Planning (EFP) project. This was based on the wider Exemplars in Global Health programme, which uses mixed-methods to examine determinants of FP progress in countries that exce…
Family planning exemplar country selection methodology
INTRODUCTION: While many countries achieved notable gains in contraceptive use levels after the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development which redefined family planning (FP) as a human right, there was a long period of 15 years when contraceptive use levels did not receive due attention. It was only later that its subsequent inclusion in the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2012 London Summit on FP renewed global commitmen…
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