Publications
Across fields and higher education institutions, I have been committed to producing academic scholarship and public curriculum that addresses how the politics of land, labor, agriculture, food, and the environment are repositories of diverse histories, cultures, and terrains of liberatory struggle.
Public Curriculum
Policy Analyses and Reports
Ayazi, Hossein and Elsadig Elsheikh. “Fighting Poverty with SNAP: Reassessing the Toolkit for a Unified Movement for Economic Justice.” Berkeley: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2021.
Ayazi, Hossein and Elsadig Elsheikh. “Climate Refugees: The Climate Crisis and Rights Denied.” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2019.
Elsheikh, Elsadig and Hossein Ayazi. “The Era of Corporate Consolidation and the End of Competition: Bayer-Monsanto, Dow-DuPont, and ChemChina-Syngenta.” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2018.
Elsheikh, Elsadig and Hossein Ayazi. “Moving Targets: An Analysis of Global Forced Migration.” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2017.
powell, john a., Elsadig Elsheikh, and Hossein Ayazi. “The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Corporations Before People and Democracy.” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2016.
Ayazi, Hossein and Elsadig Elsheikh. “The U.S. Farm Bill: Corporate Power and Structural Racialization in the United States Food System.” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2015.
Food System Assessments
“San Mateo County Food System Assessment: A Practical Tool for Food System Change,” San Mateo County Food System Alliance, May 2014
Web-based Publications
Ayazi, Hossein. “Global Forced Migration and the Entanglements of Race, State Power, Capitalism and Environmental Change.” The Berkeley Blog (blog), September 28, 2017.
Ayazi, Hossein. “Can Eating the Food of the Cultural ‘Other’ Constitute a Meaningful Cross-cultural Experience?” Invited Response. Aeon (digital magazine), July 20, 2015.
Media Appearances
“Climate Refugees: Climate-Fueled Drought, Sea Level Rise, Storms & Fires Displace Millions Worldwide,” TV and Radio Interview, DemocracyNow!, 2019. https://youtu.be/_-v-XX7MM9k
“Racist U.S. Farm Bill?” Radio Interview, WORT 89.9 FM, Community Radio, Madison, WI, 2015. https://wortfm.org/racist-u-s-farm-bill/
Policy Analyses and Reports
Ayazi, Hossein and Elsadig Elsheikh. “Fighting Poverty with SNAP: Reassessing the Toolkit for a Unified Movement for Economic Justice.” Berkeley: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2021.
Ayazi, Hossein and Elsadig Elsheikh. “Climate Refugees: The Climate Crisis and Rights Denied.” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2019.
Elsheikh, Elsadig and Hossein Ayazi. “The Era of Corporate Consolidation and the End of Competition: Bayer-Monsanto, Dow-DuPont, and ChemChina-Syngenta.” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2018.
Elsheikh, Elsadig and Hossein Ayazi. “Moving Targets: An Analysis of Global Forced Migration.” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2017.
powell, john a., Elsadig Elsheikh, and Hossein Ayazi. “The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Corporations Before People and Democracy.” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2016.
Ayazi, Hossein and Elsadig Elsheikh. “The U.S. Farm Bill: Corporate Power and Structural Racialization in the United States Food System.” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2015.
Food System Assessments
“San Mateo County Food System Assessment: A Practical Tool for Food System Change,” San Mateo County Food System Alliance, May 2014
Web-based Publications
Ayazi, Hossein. “Global Forced Migration and the Entanglements of Race, State Power, Capitalism and Environmental Change.” The Berkeley Blog (blog), September 28, 2017.
Ayazi, Hossein. “Can Eating the Food of the Cultural ‘Other’ Constitute a Meaningful Cross-cultural Experience?” Invited Response. Aeon (digital magazine), July 20, 2015.
Media Appearances
“Climate Refugees: Climate-Fueled Drought, Sea Level Rise, Storms & Fires Displace Millions Worldwide,” TV and Radio Interview, DemocracyNow!, 2019. https://youtu.be/_-v-XX7MM9k
“Racist U.S. Farm Bill?” Radio Interview, WORT 89.9 FM, Community Radio, Madison, WI, 2015. https://wortfm.org/racist-u-s-farm-bill/
Academic Publications
Book Manuscript in Preparation
Verdant Empire: Race and Rural Economies of Containment, invited by Duke University Press.
Refereed Journal Articles and Review Essays
“Land Reform, Race Reform: Interwar Anticommunism and U.S. Racial Capitalism,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2022.
“ ‘So God Made a Farmer’: The US Agrarian Imaginary and the Lived Assemblages of Settlement and Empire,” Comparative American Studies: An International Journal, 2019.
“Modern Liberalism and its Fictions.” Book review of Lisa Lowe’s The Intimacies of Four Continents. Qui Parle, 2016.
Book Chapters
“Pedagogies of International Development: U.S. Race Reform and Liberian Land and Labor Grabs.” The Gospel of Work and Money: A Global History of Industrial Education, eds. Karine Walther and Oliver Charbonneau, 2022 (Forthcoming).