Globalizing Political Economy: Uneven Topographies of Capitalism

Globalizing Political Economy: Uneven Topographies of Capitalism

This workshop brings together historical and theoretical studies in global political economy which focus on histories of empire and its racializing logics in structuring global capitalism. Our goal is to examine how these historical structures endure, evolve, and are contested in the contemporary context. Through historical and analytical engagement with particular regions (expanding on and beyond Atlantic-centered approaches), problematics (development, debt, migration, social reproduction), and actors (imperial state, racialized proletariat, transnational corporations, anti-colonial movements) we seek to develop better conceptual handles on the political economic dynamics of the present. We aim for this exploration to illuminate our moment of far-right resurgence, immigration policing, intensified extractionism, new forms of dependency, and crises of ecological sustainability, among others.

Panelists

• Ilias Alami, University of Cambridge
• Matthew Eagleton-Pierce, SOAS, University of London
• Sarah El Kazaz, SOAS, University of London
• Juanita Elias, University of Warwick
• Onur Ulas Ince, SOAS, University of London
• Ingrid Kvangraven, King’s College London
• Meera Sabaratnam, University of Oxford
• Robbie Shilliam, Johns Hopkins University
• Lisa Tilley, SOAS, University of London
• Inés Valdez, Johns Hopkins University
• Heloise Weber, University of Queensland

Host or Publisher SOAS Politics, University of London