Labour, Movements and Development Members
Cluster Convenor
Jens Lerche
Research Cluster Convenor
India; labour, social movements and globalisation; labour and the ILO; labour and caste in India; agrarian political economy. - Tel: 020 7898 4505
- Email: jl2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 295
- Office Hours: Monday 10-12
- On Sabbatical:Term 3 2012-13
Gilbert Achcar
Research Cluster Member
Political economy and sociology of globalisation; global power structure and grand strategy; empire theory and US hegemony; politics and development of the Middle East and North Africa; sociology of religion; Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism; social change and social theory.
- Tel: 020 7898 4557
- Email: ga3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 292b
- Office Hours: Monday 2-4pm
Henry Bernstein
Research Cluster Member
East Africa and South Africa; sociology of development; agrarian political economy; social and political theory; food commodity chains; governance and development. - Email: hb4@soas.ac.uk
Dae-oup Chang
Research Cluster Member
East Asia, capital-labour relations, state-society relations, labour and social movement in globalising East Asia, TNCs and division of labour in East Asia
- Tel: 0207 898 4531
- Email: dc13@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4412
- Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5
- On Sabbatical:Terms 2 and 3 2012/2013
Christopher Cramer
Research Cluster Member
Africa: economics of Africa, political economy of development, political economy of war and peace in southern Africa, and the economics of cashew production, processing and trade - Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4492
- Email: cc10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 288
- Office Hours: Thursday 11-1
Adam Hanieh
Research Cluster Member
Political economy; labour migration; Middle East politics; Gulf Cooperation Council; migration development and remittances class and state formation internationalisation Palestine.
- Tel: 020 7898 4784
- Email: ah92@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4413
- Office Hours: Thursday 3-5
Naila Kabeer
Research Cluster Member
Gender; Work and Labour; Livelihoods; Social Protection; Microfinance; Specialising in the following regions: Central and South Asia; South East Asia.
- Tel: 020 7898 4488
- Email: nk34@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 291
- Office Hours: Wednesday 11-1
Thomas Marois
Research Cluster Member
Political Economy; Emerging finance capitalism; Privatization; Alternative development; Banking, finance, and development; Mexico, Turkey, other emerging capitalisms; State-capital-labour relations; State theory; Internationalization.
- Tel: 0207 898 4503
- Email: tm47@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 293
- Office Hours: Term 1 by appointment only, please email
- On Sabbatical:Terms 2 and 3 2012/2013
Alessandra Mezzadri
Research Cluster Member
International trade, global commodity chains, industrial development and labour markets in developing countries, social structures and inequality; structures of production and labour in the Indian export-oriented garment industry - Tel: 0207 898 4533
- Email: am99@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4414
- Office Hours: Tuesday 11am-1pm
- On Sabbatical:Term 3 2012-13
Paolo Novak
Research Cluster Member
Trans-nationality with particular reference to migration; refugee regime; borders and NGOs.
- Tel: 020 7898 4214
- Email: pn4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 368
- Office Hours: Tuesday 11am-1pm (terms 1 & 2)
Carlos Oya
Research Cluster Member
West Africa, Southern Africa, agrarian political economy; poverty; rural labour; development aid; research methods - Tel: 020 7898 4566
- Email: co2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 292a
- Office Hours: Tuesday 11-1
Alfredo Saad Filho
Research Cluster Member
Latin America; political economy of development; industrial policy; pro-poor economic policy; neoliberalism; value theory - Tel: 020 7898 4504
- Email: as59@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 294
- On Sabbatical:On leave in term 1
Subir Sinha
Research Cluster Member
South Asia: institutions of development, NGOs, social movements; the environment, common property institutions and resource use - Tel: 020 7898 4495
- Email: ss61@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 287
- Office Hours: Wednesday 11-1
- On Sabbatical:Terms 2 and 3 2012/2013
Research Students
Mark McQuinn
Research Cluster Member
Lecturer in Development Studies. Researching the role of civil society groups in development processes, governance and the provision of aid. Book publication in 2012 – Civil Society as a Conflictual Sphere in Post-liberalization Tanzania. Worked in Tanzania, the Sudan and Bulgaria.
- Tel: 020 7898 4848
- Email: mm22@soas.ac.uk
Lorenza Monaco
Research Cluster Member
Neoliberalism; Globalisation; Industrial Development; Labour; Political Economy; India; Automotive Sector
- Email: lm47@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 289
- Office Hours: Tuesday 11.30am-1pm (Term 2)
Karin Wedig
Research Cluster Member
Rural labour markets; provision, finance and governance of technical and vocational training; agricultural education; institutional development; sub-Saharan Africa;
- Email: Karin.wedig@soas.ac.uk
