Shehzad Nadeem

Faculty Fellow

Shehzad Nadeem is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lehman College, where he teaches courses on urban and global sociology. Over the years, Nadeem’s research has focused on the intersection of labor, culture, and globalization. His book, Dead Ringers: How Outsourcing is Changing the Way Indians Understand Themselves (Princeton University Press, 2011), examines the effects of global outsourcing on Indian employees paid to mimic Americans’ accents, habits, and customs.

Participating Years

2011–2012

How to Fight: Transformational Politics and Culture

In response to contemporary crises of economics and politics one often sees polemics caught between reform and revolution but this division may be false from the position of radical politics and thought. As many have shown, reform has a more radical potential, one that takes social forms seriously enough to push their limits, to create new relations, to pose, as it were, non-reformist reform. Are there philosophical, literary, and aesthetic expressions of possibility that give us some purchase on rethinking how we do what we do?