Research and Publications
Across fields and higher education institutions, I have been committed to applied research and learning that addresses how the politics of land, labor, agriculture, food, and the environment are repositories of diverse histories and cultures, and key avenues toward building belonging-based societies. Across my research and publications, I center law and policy in ways that affords contemporary social movements, public officials, and civil societies the tools to succeed.
Applied Research and Learning
Policy Analyses and Reports
Ayazi, Hossein and Betsy Popkin (Coordinating Lead Authors), “Climate-Induced Human Displacement & Migration,” California Fifth Climate Assessment, Topical Synthesis Report. Sacramento, CA: California Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation.
Ayazi, Hossein and Elsadig Elsheikh. Climate Refugees: Facts, Findings, and Strategies for ‘Loss and Damage.’” Berkeley: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2023.
Ayazi, Hossein, Dimitri Diagne, Elsadig Elsheikh, and Basima Sisemore, “African Just Transitions: Assessing the Activities, Strategies, and Needs of African Climate, Agri-food, and Environmental Organizations.” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2023.
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.
Online Databases
“Climate Displacement and Resilience Database.’” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2023-Present.
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, “Climate Displacement and Resilience Database’” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute (online database and case studies), 2023-Present.
“We Can't Have Climate Justice Without Global Justice: US Energy Policy and the Inflation Reduction Act in Perspective.” Othering & Belonging Institute (blog), August 29, 2022.
“Global Forced Migration and the Entanglements of Race, State Power, Capitalism and Environmental Change.” The Berkeley Blog (blog), September 28, 2017.
“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 Betsy Popkin (Coordinating Lead Authors), “Climate-Induced Human Displacement & Migration,” California Fifth Climate Assessment, Topical Synthesis Report. Sacramento, CA: California Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation.
Ayazi, Hossein and Elsadig Elsheikh. Climate Refugees: Facts, Findings, and Strategies for ‘Loss and Damage.’” Berkeley: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2023.
Ayazi, Hossein, Dimitri Diagne, Elsadig Elsheikh, and Basima Sisemore, “African Just Transitions: Assessing the Activities, Strategies, and Needs of African Climate, Agri-food, and Environmental Organizations.” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2023.
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.
Online Databases
“Climate Displacement and Resilience Database.’” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute, 2023-Present.
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, “Climate Displacement and Resilience Database’” Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute (online database and case studies), 2023-Present.
“We Can't Have Climate Justice Without Global Justice: US Energy Policy and the Inflation Reduction Act in Perspective.” Othering & Belonging Institute (blog), August 29, 2022.
“Global Forced Migration and the Entanglements of Race, State Power, Capitalism and Environmental Change.” The Berkeley Blog (blog), September 28, 2017.
“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
Negrón, R., David Hernández, Hossein Ayazi, et al. “Critical Approaches to Climate Migration Research and Solutions,” Local Environment: International Journal of Justice and Sustainability.
“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
Liberato-Mercedes, Keon, Anndretta Lyle Wilson, Martin Smith, Nicholas L. Baham III, and Hossein Ayazi, “Class, Labor and Racial Capitalism.” In Love, Knowledge, Revolution: A Comparative Ethnic Studies Reader, eds. Nicholas Baham, Jocyl Sacramento, Carlos Salomon, Jennifer Tran, Anndretta Lyle Wilson. Forthcoming.
“Pedagogies of International Development: Managing Black Nationalism and U.S. Racial Capitalism.” The Gospel of Work and Money: A Global History of Industrial Education, eds. Karine Walther and Oliver Charbonneau. Forthcoming.