Yousaf Nishat-Botero- PhD
- Visiting Lecturer at City, University of London
Yousaf Nishat-Botero
- PhD
- Visiting Lecturer at City, University of London
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Introduction
Yousaf Nishat-Botero holds a PhD in Organization Studies from Bayes Business School, City, University of London and an MA in Philosophy & Contemporary Critical Theory from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. His research interests are at the intersections of critical theory, organization studies, and (urban) political ecology. Yousaf is also a visiting lecturer at City, University of London.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
September 2019 - November 2024
September 2020 - January 2025
Editor roles
Ephemera
Position
- Member of Editorial Collective
Education
September 2019 - November 2024
October 2017 - November 2018
Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy - Kingston University
Field of study
- Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory
September 2008 - May 2012
Publications
Publications (6)
This chapter identifies what urban-rural struggles and transformations in social relations might move us beyond a capitalist to a postcapitalist mode of production, or mode of life (Moore, 2015). In this transition from one mode of life to another, the question of land – the question of the urban and the rural – is of fundamental importance (Foster...
Link: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/34178/
The idea of planning has reappeared as an object of interest for critical research on post-capitalist organizational futures. This article offers a critical review of the emerging scholarship on planning, with reference to historical and contemporary precursors to democratic planning. Building on this review, the article develops a critical politic...
ephemera: theory & politics in organization
Special Issue Editorial on 'Activist Organising: A post-pandemic world in the making'
Through what kind of spaces might postcapitalist planning emerge? How will the process of wresting collective control over the relations of production and reproduction, and over our metabolic exchange with the rest of nature, unfold through struggle? In seeking answers to such questions, this article reviews the literature on democratic economic pl...
This dissertation engages in a close reading of Jacques Lacan’s ‘The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis’ (1953). My interpretation of this text aims to show that there is an implicit affirmation of freedom in this foundational period of Lacanian theory. I begin by outlining Lacan’s ‘return to Freud’ to show the simultaneous...
