Moizza Salahuddin
Core Skills
- Ethnography
- Cross-cultural Communication Skills
- Academic Research, Academic Writing
- Critical Thinking
- Microsoft Office
- Workshops
- Research Design
- Qualitative Research
- Community Engagement
- User Experience (UX)
- Public Relations
Academic Awards / Achievements
- Stanford Summer International Honor's Program, June 2016 - Aug 2016
- United States Undergraduate Exchange Program, Jan 2017 - May 2017
- President’s List, Fall 2016
Experience
Leadership / Meta-curricular
- Chair, Society for Sustainability, Nov 2014 - Aug 2017
Internship / Volunteer Work
- Intern, Monitoring, Evaluations, and Research, Jhpiego- A Johns Hopkins Affiliate, June 2017 - Aug 2017
- Research Intern, Urban Resource Centre, July 2015 - Aug 2015
Final Year Project
Project Title
Sharing Economy Disrupted: Studying the (Un)doing of Platforms in Karachi’s Urban Political Economy
Description
With much literature focusing on the emergence of the sharing economy in the global north, this thesis is an attempt to understand the development of two platforms – Uber and Careem – in a previously understudied economy of the global south, Karachi. Through qualitative interviews with various stakeholders, Uber and Careem providers, vendors, and riders, the essential questions of income, access, and power are brought to light. Research findings indicate an assimilation, as opposed to disruption, of conventional business models, suggestive of the contextual distinctiveness of Karachi’s political economy and society. Results indicate that in Pakistan, unlike the global north, the underlying characteristics of Industry 4.0 are reversed as Uber/Careem map on to the model of prevailing capitalism. The research is significant in outlining the vast implications for future forms of exchange and livelihoods in Pakistan as they are altered by the urban political economy and its overarching determining ability.