Shahram Azhar
Biographic Data
| ID | 5804810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shahram Azhar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shahram |
| FAMILY NAME | Azhar |
| SIGNATURE | AZHAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Daron Acemoğlu's or Paul Baran's prize? A critique of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics
The paper critically examines the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. It argues that their work provides a mystified account of Paul Baran's seminal work on the political economy of growth, the long-run divergence between rich and poor countries, and the genocidal roots of settler colonialism
HT Parekh-wl-4606-The Rediscovery of Unequal Exchange
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Global Accumulation & Gendered Class Exploitation
The paper conducts a gendered class analysis of the impact of the Covid pandemic on the global garment industry to explain the coproduction of retailers' profits in the core, as measured by higher retailer markups, and the biopolitical control over the minds and bodies of women working on production lines via exploitation and oppression (wage-theft, intensification, violence) in the Global South. The paper proposes the concept of an SRT-augmented…
Individualizing Consumption
Zoe Sherman's Modern Advertising and the Market for Audience Attention presents a powerful, provocative historical-theoretical analysis of the advertising industry, building on Polanyi's conceptual framework of the "fictitious commodity" to demonstrate the historical process by which our sensory organs have become objects of capitalist commodification since the 1870s. Drawing on archival sources, advertising case studies, and an analysis of the c…
The Conditions of the Global Digital Working Class
This paper examines the conditions of the global digital class of platform labourers by drawing on the theoretical paradigm proposed by Engels in his pioneering contribution, The Conditions of the Working Class in England (CWC). Using a host of empirical sources – surveys, oral narrations, medical and legal journals, and journalistic accounts – the paper develops a political-economic understanding of the working conditions of contemporary crowdwo…
Consumption, Capital, and Class in Digital Space
Theories of digital capitalism explore two interrelated conceptual problems: how seemingly "free" use of social-networking websites is compatible with capitalist commodity production and how the Marxian class-exploitation conceptual apparatus can be extended to understand newly emerging digital social relations. This essay's dialectical approach problematizes digital production in relation to digital consumption, connecting these two moments to t…
Class Analysis of the Experience of Migration during the Partition of India
The paper conducts a class analysis of the human experience of migration during the Partition of India using a dataset constructed from 1,000 recently published oral narratives by migrants from across the Indian subcontinent. The dataset collates and maps information for four key variables: (1) origins and destinations of migrants; (2) class backgrounds of migrants; (3) modes of transport used during migration; and (4) experiences of direct or in…
Rethinking informal labor in peripheral capitalism
The paper presents a critique of the discourse of precarity that assumes that regulated era labor relations in advanced capitalist economies represent the norm, while ‘irregular work’ represents a historical aberration under capitalist employment. We argue that this approach fails to inform labor theorists in any meaningful way as it conceals the differences in the social relations under which work is performed. The catchall term ‘precarious labo…
Consumption, Capital, and Class in Digital Space
Theories of digital capitalism explore two interrelated conceptual problems: how seemingly "free" use of social-networking websites is compatible with capitalist commodity production and how the Marxian class-exploitation conceptual apparatus can be extended to understand newly emerging digital social relations. This essay's dialectical approach problematizes digital production in relation to digital consumption, connecting these two moments to t…
Rethinking informal labor in peripheral capitalism
The paper presents a critique of the discourse of precarity that assumes that regulated era labor relations in advanced capitalist economies represent the norm, while ‘irregular work’ represents a historical aberration under capitalist employment. We argue that this approach fails to inform labor theorists in any meaningful way as it conceals the differences in the social relations under which work is performed. The catchall term ‘precarious labo…
Individualizing Consumption
Zoe Sherman's Modern Advertising and the Market for Audience Attention presents a powerful, provocative historical-theoretical analysis of the advertising industry, building on Polanyi's conceptual framework of the "fictitious commodity" to demonstrate the historical process by which our sensory organs have become objects of capitalist commodification since the 1870s. Drawing on archival sources, advertising case studies, and an analysis of the c…
Class Analysis of the Experience of Migration during the Partition of India
The paper conducts a class analysis of the human experience of migration during the Partition of India using a dataset constructed from 1,000 recently published oral narratives by migrants from across the Indian subcontinent. The dataset collates and maps information for four key variables: (1) origins and destinations of migrants; (2) class backgrounds of migrants; (3) modes of transport used during migration; and (4) experiences of direct or in…
The Conditions of the Global Digital Working Class
This paper examines the conditions of the global digital class of platform labourers by drawing on the theoretical paradigm proposed by Engels in his pioneering contribution, The Conditions of the Working Class in England (CWC). Using a host of empirical sources – surveys, oral narrations, medical and legal journals, and journalistic accounts – the paper develops a political-economic understanding of the working conditions of contemporary crowdwo…
Consumption, Capital, and Class in Digital Space
Theories of digital capitalism explore two interrelated conceptual problems: how seemingly "free" use of social-networking websites is compatible with capitalist commodity production and how the Marxian class-exploitation conceptual apparatus can be extended to understand newly emerging digital social relations. This essay's dialectical approach problematizes digital production in relation to digital consumption, connecting these two moments to t…
Class Analysis of the Experience of Migration during the Partition of India
The paper conducts a class analysis of the human experience of migration during the Partition of India using a dataset constructed from 1,000 recently published oral narratives by migrants from across the Indian subcontinent. The dataset collates and maps information for four key variables: (1) origins and destinations of migrants; (2) class backgrounds of migrants; (3) modes of transport used during migration; and (4) experiences of direct or in…
Rethinking informal labor in peripheral capitalism
The paper presents a critique of the discourse of precarity that assumes that regulated era labor relations in advanced capitalist economies represent the norm, while ‘irregular work’ represents a historical aberration under capitalist employment. We argue that this approach fails to inform labor theorists in any meaningful way as it conceals the differences in the social relations under which work is performed. The catchall term ‘precarious labo…
Individualizing Consumption
Zoe Sherman's Modern Advertising and the Market for Audience Attention presents a powerful, provocative historical-theoretical analysis of the advertising industry, building on Polanyi's conceptual framework of the "fictitious commodity" to demonstrate the historical process by which our sensory organs have become objects of capitalist commodification since the 1870s. Drawing on archival sources, advertising case studies, and an analysis of the c…
Global Accumulation & Gendered Class Exploitation
The paper conducts a gendered class analysis of the impact of the Covid pandemic on the global garment industry to explain the coproduction of retailers' profits in the core, as measured by higher retailer markups, and the biopolitical control over the minds and bodies of women working on production lines via exploitation and oppression (wage-theft, intensification, violence) in the Global South. The paper proposes the concept of an SRT-augmented…
Daron Acemoğlu's or Paul Baran's prize? A critique of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics
The paper critically examines the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. It argues that their work provides a mystified account of Paul Baran's seminal work on the political economy of growth, the long-run divergence between rich and poor countries, and the genocidal roots of settler colonialism
HT Parekh-wl-4606-The Rediscovery of Unequal Exchange
,
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Capitalism (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Class (philosophy (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)