Dr Yousaf Nishat-Botero

Department of Management
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Address
University House
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Yousaf Nishat-Botero’s (He/Him) research sits at the intersections of critical theory, organization studies, and political ecology, and his work has been published in journals including Organization, Competition & Change, Environment and Planning D, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations.

Qualifications

PhD, Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London, 2024

MA, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, 2018

BS, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2012

Biography

Yousaf Nishat-Botero (he/him) is Assistant Professor at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. He completed his PhD at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London, and holds an MA from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University.

His research sits at the intersections of critical theory, organization studies, and political ecology, with particular interests in organizational and eco-geographical questions of land, urbanization, colonialism, and social reproduction. These concerns inform his work on fossil capitalism, new municipalism, alternative forms of organizing, and economic planning, published in peer-reviewed academic journals including Organization, Competition & Change, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations.

His teaching addresses issues of ethics, sustainability, and political responsibility in organizations and society, drawing on critical and reflexive pedagogical traditions.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Nishat-Botero, Y & Thompson, M 2025, 'Planning in nature's metropolis: Metabolic municipalism and ecological planning in Barcelona', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758251364061

Thompson, M & Nishat-Botero, Y 2025, 'Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution', Competition and Change, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 101-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/1024529423121098

Nishat-Botero, Y 2024, 'Planning's ecologies: Democratic planning in the age of planetary crises', Organization, vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 1035-1057. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231186749

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Nishat-Botero, Y & Willmott, H 2025, Fossil governance: Oil companies, climate emergency, and the consequences of a complicit architecture of soft regulation. in TT Barnow, BA Popp-Madsen & MH Jessen (eds), The Corporation, Corporate Governance and the Sustainable Transition. 1 edn, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vol. 98, Emerald, pp. 133-158. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20250000098007

Chapter

Nishat-Botero, Y & Thompson, M 2025, The land question and postcapitalist countrysides: towards a town-country synthesis. in N Gallent, M Gkartzios, M Scott & A Purves (eds), Postcapitalist Countrysides: From Commoning to Community Wealth Building. UCL Press, pp. 393-415. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087675

Editorial

Elidrissi, Y, Alakavuklar, O, Chertkovskaya, E & Nishat-Botero, Y 2024, 'Activist organising: A world in the making for the new to be born', ephemera: theory and politics in organization, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 1-20. <https://ephemerajournal.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/24%282%29%20editorial_0.pdf>

Other contribution

Nishat-Botero, Y, Barber, S, Burchiellaro, O, Mantzari, E & Watson, D 2026, Special Issue CfP — The (Re)turn to Marx: New Readings of Marx and the Future of Organization. Organization. <https://journals.sagepub.com/page/org/call-for-papers/the-return-to-marx>

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