HOSSEIN AYAZI, Ph.D.
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Publications

Book Manuscript

Verdant Empire: Race and Rural Economies of Containment, invited by Duke University Press (Expected submission Spring 2022).

Refereed Journal Articles and Review Essays

“ ‘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, no. 1–2 (2016): 207–20.

Manuscripts in Submission

“Post-Plantation Economies of Dispossession: On Blackness and the National Economy,” American Quarterly (Under review).


Manuscripts in Preparation

“The Plantation at the Cusp of Empire: Debt and Diplomacy in Firestone’s Liberia.”

Policy Analyses and Reports

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.


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. 


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