Members
Cluster Convenor
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
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
Giovanni Cozzi
Research Cluster Member
Financial globalization and free-cross border capital mobility, capital controls, financial and currency crises, and financial and real sector linkages. Political Economy of Development, Development Finance and Economics.
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
Jens Lerche
Research Cluster Member
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
Thomas Marois
Research Cluster Convenor
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
Leandro Vergara-Camus
Political economy of Latin America, social and peasant movements, alter-globalisation movements and social change, alternative development, agrarian issues, and bio-fuels and energy politics.
- Tel: 020 7898 4228
- Email: l.vergara-camus@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 260
- Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5pm
Research Students
Ali Fathollah-Nejad
Research Cluster Member
International relations; 21st-century world order; diplomacy; peace and conflict studies.
- Email: afn@soas.ac.uk
Sonia Languille
Research Cluster Member
Education economics and education aid interventions (Fast Track Initiative, education sector budget support). Political economy of development in Africa; Public finances, institutional reforms, decentralisation; The “New Aid Agenda” and aid effectiveness
- Email: 451960@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)
Veli Yadirgi
Research Cluster Member
Economy, History and Politics of Turkey and the Middle East with special reference to the Kurdish question in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria; Kurds and the European Union; Capitalist Development; Social change and social theory
- Email: 168480@soas.ac.uk
Ahmet Zaifer
Research Cluster Member
Political economy, neoliberalism, privatization, Turkey, Cyprus
- Email: a_zaifer@soas.ac.uk
