Waquar Ahmed

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book

• Funke, J.J., Ahmed, W., Chatterjee, I., McCauley, S. (2025). Geography in the 21st Century: Defining Moments that Shaped Society. London, Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/geography-in-the-21st-century-9781440873256/
• McCusker, B., Ahmed, W., Solis, P., Ramutsindela, M. (2021). Routledge Handbook of Environment and Development. New York, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Development-and-Environment/McCusker-Ahmed-Ramutsindela-Solis/p/book/9781138325661
• Amitabh Kundu and Richard Peet. (2011). India's New Economic Policy: A Critical Analysis.
• Suman Sahai and B. Mahanta. (2005). Farmers' Perception on Agro-biodiversity.
• Suman Sahai and U. Kumar. (2005). Indigenous Knowledge: Issues for developing countries.

Book Chapter

• Funke, J., Ahmed, W., Chatterjee, I., McCauley, S., Peet, R. (2025). Introduction: Geography of the Twenty-First Century. Geography in the 21st Century: Defining Moments that Shaped Society (edited book). London, Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/geography-in-the-21st-century-9781440873256/
• Vazquez, P., Ahmed, W., Funke, J.J. (2025). United States’ ‘War on Terrorism’, Afghanistan (2001-2021), Iraq (2003-2017).. Geography in the 21st Century: Defining Moments that Shaped Society.. 1 London, Bloomsbury Academic.. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/geography-in-the-21st-century-9781440873256/
• McCusker, B., Ahmed, W., Solis, P., Ramutsindela, M. (2021). Introduction: Development and Environment in the 2020s. The Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment. 3-16. New York, https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Routledge_Handbook_of_Development_an/rLBHEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Routledge+handbook+of+development+and+environment&printsec=frontcover
• Furtick, R., Ahmed, W. (2021). Is This Land Made for You and Me. The Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment. 112-127. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Development-and-Environment/McCusker-Ahmed-Ramutsindela-Solis/p/book/9781138325661
• Simon, J., Ahmed, W. (2021). Terra sacer: water infrastructure and core-periphery reconfiguration in Dallas/Fort Worth. The Routledge Handbook of Development and Environment. 161-178. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Development-and-Environment/McCusker-Ahmed-Ramutsindela-Solis/p/book/9781138325661
• Ahmed, W., Underwood, R. (2017). 'Corporations and Multilateral Organizations. The International Encyclopedia of Geography (John Wiley & Sons in collaboration with the American Association of Geographers). 1-10. John Wiley & Sons in collaboration with the American Association of Geographers.
• Ahmed, W., Chatterjee, I., Cafruny, A., Talani, L.S., Martin, G.P. (2016). Antinomies of the Indian State. The Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy. 331-50. London, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Ahmed, W., Underwood, R., Lee, T., Warf, B. (2016). Energy and geopolitics. Oxford bibliographies in Geography. Oxford University Press.
• Edited by Waquar Ahmed, Amitabh Kundu and Richard Peet. (2011). From Mixed Economy to Neoliberalism: Class and Caste in India's Policy Transition. In India's New Economic Policy: A Critical Analysis.
• Edited by K. R. Gupta. (2008). Indigenous Communities and their Marginalized Space in India. In Studies in Indian Economy.
• Edited by G. Raverkar, P. S. Rawat and V. Dar. (2006). Mobile Global Capital and Corporate Ethics. In Business Ethics, Challenges & Scenario Ahead: A Compendium of Research Papers.

Book Review

• Ahmed, W. (2010). Space, Oil and Capital, by Mazen Labban.

Journal Article

• Ansah, H., Ahmed, W. (2023). Behind the Curtain of PublicSpaces: Revealing the Narratives of Corporate Street Hawking in Globalizing Accra.. Geographical Review. 113 (5) 647-665. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00167428.2023.2177994
• Ahmed, W. (2023). Nurturing the production of nature. Human Geography. 16 (1) 101-103. https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786221105800
• Ahmed, W. (2023). Understanding Marxist ‘Development’ in Marx’s Terms in a World of Climate Change. Area Development and Policy. 8 (4) 460-472. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23792949.2023.2199070
• Ahmed, W. (2022). Marxist Geography: A Personal Journey. Human Geography. 15 (1) 45-51. SAGE. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/hug
• Ahmed, W. (2019). India Has Lost All Moral Authority and Right over Kashmir. 12 (1) 78-81. Institute For Human Geography Inc. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/human-geography/journal203685
• Chatterjee, I., Ahmed, W. (2019). Dialectical materialism: Marx’s method in human geography?. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies. 18 (2) 364-393.
• Ahmed, W. (2018). India Abroad, or Hinduism, a Love Story. Human Geography. 11 (3) 83-87. MA, Institute of Human Geography.
• Simon, J., Ahmed, W. (2018). The Promise of Progress: Modernity, Accumulation, and the Urbanization of North Texas Water in the 20th Century.. Human Geography. 11 (2) 19-34. Bolton, MA, https://hugeog.com/the-promise-of-progress-modernity-accumulation-and-the-urbanization-of-north-texas-water-in-the-20th-century/
• Ahmed, W. (2018). Governing foreign direct investment: post-Enron initiatives in India. Review of Radical Political Economics. 50 (1) 5-23.
• Steve Wolverton, Justin M. Nolan and Waquar Ahmed. (2014). Ethnobiology, Political Ecology, and Conservation.
• Ahmed, W. (2014). The political economy and geopolitical context of India's economic crisis, 1990-91.
• Waquar Ahmed and Ipsita Chatterjee. (2013). Contradictory policies of neoliberalizing India.
• Ahmed, W. (2012). From Militant Particularism to Anti-neoliberalism? - The Anti-Enron Movement in India.
• Sagie Narsiah. (2012). The Neoliberalization of Water and Energy sectors in South Africa and India.
• Ahmed, W. (2010). Neo-liberalism, Corporations and Power: Enron in India.
• Ahmed, W. (2009). From Mixed Economy to Neoliberalism: Class and Caste in India's Economic Transition.
• Ahmed, W. (2008). Neoliberalism and Contested Policies of the Power Industry in India.
• Ahmed, W. (2006). Capital and Labor: Contestation in India in the Neo-liberal Era.
• Ahmed, W. (2006). Global Discourses and Local Politics in the Production of Power Policy in India.

Magazine/Trade Publication

• Ahmed, W. (2020). Pondering Over Syed Ahmad Khan’s Legacy, And Questions Of Caste Among Muslims. New Delhi, https://www.karvaanindia.com/2020/10/19/pondering-over-syed-ahmad-khans-legacy-and-questions-of-caste-among-muslims/?fbclid=IwAR2UrJqNbpM0qvjUZ_TwpsRDblegYYvNqVWkMWs0kWs4GcS8O9JgVieWgbQ
• Ahmed, W. (2020). The USCRIF Report On India As Opportunity For Victims To Contest Their Tormentors. New Delhi, Karvaan India. https://www.karvaanindia.com/2020/05/10/the-uscrif-report-on-india-as-opportunity-for-victims-to-contest-their-tormentors/?fbclid=IwAR3lsoMGBlDlXjrOjQJ2XKSKt_xGTyKqb0ntuDDSTYU-1KnisSXAiWPtMiQ
• Ahmed, W. (2008). Defending Democracy.
• Ahmed, W. (2008). Our Own War.

Newspaper

• Ahmed, W. (2020). Normalization of Hate in India -- Part II. Balochistan Times. https://www.balochistantimes.pk/epaper/popup.php?newssrc=issues/2020-05-07/377/03.jpg
• Ahmed, W. (2020). Normalization of Hate in India -- Part I. Balochistan Times. https://www.balochistantimes.pk/epaper/popup.php?newssrc=issues/2020-05-06/353/03.jpg

Popular Press Article

• Ahmed, W. (2009). Tumor in uniform.

Reprinted Article

• Ahmed, W. (2020). Casteist or Progressive? Pondering Over Syed Ahmad Khan’s Legacy. Naya Daur. https://nayadaur.tv/amp/2020/10/casteist-or-progressive-pondering-over-syed-ahmad-khans-legacy/?fbclid=IwAR3i38A688nX1AWFzGj4Ut__Vc2zxpMCmZHUPoOyaNFMKRtVZLmjVxx2RFU
• Ahmed, W. (2020). India: Politics Of Hate Continues To Spiral Amid COVID-19 Pandemic. Naya Daur. https://nayadaur.tv/2020/05/india-politics-of-hate-continues-to-spiral-amid-covid-19-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR2wT8HHF5sNAdydrAT8nGgcHZJhfMc4nftx0M1dUc0I0MdrK8SjHQldhpQ#

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Fellowship

• Das, N.D. (Principal), Ahmed, W. (Other), "Smart Management of Waste Life-Cycles in Smart Cities," sponsored by Fulbright, Federal, Funded. (2022 - 2022).

Grant - Research

• Ahmed, W. (Principal), "Political economy of foreign direct investments in retail in India: the case of Walmart," sponsored by Institute of Human Geography, National, $5000 Funded. (2015 - 2016).
• Ahmed, W. (Principal), "Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investments in Retail in India: The Case of Walmart," sponsored by Institute for Human Geography, NFP, Funded. (2015 - 2018).