About My Work
My work focuses on the history and politics of social infrastructure in cities across North America and Western Europe. I have taught a wide variety of courses in Canada and Germany on topics including welfare state restructuring, immigration and settlement, city politics, community-based research, and urban planning. In my research and teaching practice, I centre community-engaged approaches and participatory methods, linking academic knowledge production with social action and public scholarship.
Citations
Ahmed Allahwala, (2024). The struggle to preserve Hanlan’s Point Beach as queer social infrastructure”, Metropolitics, 28 May 2024. https://metropolitics.org/The-Struggle-to-Preserve-Hanlan-s-Point-Beach-...
Allahwala, A., & Bhatia, A. (2022) Supporting youth-led community geography on the impacts of neighbourhood social infrastructure on young people’s lives: a case study from East Scarborough, Canada. GeoJournal 87, 329–342. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-021-10473-8
Allahwala, A., & Keil, R. (2021). The political economy of COVID-19: Canadian and comparative perspectives — an introduction. Studies in Political Economy, 102(3), 233–247. https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2021.2000210
Allahwala, A., Mustachi, J., Bellaire, K. & Yuyitung, K. L. (2015). Empowering communities or reproducing stereotypes: Negotiating power/knowledge in service-learning involving youth, Currents in Teaching and Learning 7(1): 6-22.
Allahwala, A. & Bunce, S. (2013). Building and Sustaining Community-University Partnerships in Marginalized Urban Areas. Journal of Geography. 112:2, 43-57, DOI: 10.1080/00221341.2012.692702
Allahwala, A., Keil, R. & Boudreau, J.-A, (2010). Neo-liberal Governance: Entrepreneurial Municipal Regimes, in: T. Bunting and P. Filion (Eds.). Canadian Cities in Transition: Local through Global Perspectives (4th Edition), Oxford University Press.