Dr Kerem Nisancioglu

Kerem Nisancioglu is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations. 

He has researched and published on the relationship between Eurocentrism, capitalism, colonialism and race. His co-authored book (with Alexander Anievas) How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (Pluto Press, 2015) explored these themes through an examination of the origins of capitalism. His more recent research has sought to develop an understanding of these same themes in relation to the emergence of modern sovereignty. 

Kerem received his DPhil from the University of Sussex in 2014 for his thesis The Ottomans in Europe: Uneven and Combined Development and Eurocentrism

Kerem’s current research has three strands:

1. How contemporary social commentary is narrating the current conjuncture, especially through the ideas of ‘crisis’ and ‘rupture’.
2. How the political defeat of revolutionary movements have structured contemporary political thought, especially in the conceptualisation of time and subjectivity.
3. How contemporary changes in capitalist temporalities are recasting geopolitical and sovereign space.  

As part of these projects, Kerem is interested in Marxist and anticolonial theory, and materialist approaches to the study colonialism, the state and capitalism.

He is available for PhD supervision on any of the above topics.