Profile
Shray is a a Teaching Fellow at School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London where he co-leads and teachs three foundational and elective modules on various aspects of Business & Political Economy, including Global Business and Democracy, Business and Society and Current Challenges in Business. Shray is a sociologist with expertise in qualitative methods working in the fields of political economy, populism and social movements with a focus on the Global South. Shray was awarded a PhD in Sociology from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in January 2025.
Teaching
Undergraduate:
- BUS 352 Global Business and Democracy
- BUS 107 Business and Society
- BUS 156 Current Challenges in Business
Research
Research Interests:
- Economic, Political and Intellectual genealogies of Populism
Centre and Group Membership
- CLASP Member: Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production
Publications
Book
- Mehta, S. and Kumar, R. (2022) (ed) The New Republic: Populism, Power and the Trajectories of Indian Democracy. Aakar Books, New Delhi.
Journal articles
- Mehta, S (2025) ‘Decolonizing the Hindu Mind’: Authoritarian Populism and the Political life of Decolonial Theory in India’, Sociology
- Mehta, S. and Sinha, S. (2022) ‘The Rise and Fall of Agrarian Populism in Post-colonial India: Farmers’ Movements and Electoral Politics at Crossroads’, Sociological Bulletin, 71(4),
601-618. - Mehta, S. ‘Kanhaiya Kumar In Begusarai: Old Fault Lines and New Struggles for Radical Political Change’, Economic and Political Weekly, 54(20).
- Mehta, S. ‘Can We Talk About Populism Without Calling It Fascist: A Conversation with Nancy Fraser’, Economic and Political Weekly, 53(22). (Translated into Spanish)