Dr Paolo Novak

Overview

Department of Development Studies

Senior Lecturer in Development Studies

SOAS Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus

Academic Staff, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus

SOAS South Asia Institute

Academic Staff, SOAS South Asia Institute

Centre for the Study of Pakistan

Academic Staff, Centre for the Study of Pakistan

Labour, Movements and Development

Research Cluster Member

Neoliberalism, Globalisation, and States

Research Cluster Member

Name:: Dr Paolo Novak
Email address:: pn4@soas.ac.uk
Telephone:: 020 7898 4214
Address:: SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Building:: Russell Square: College Buildings
Office No:: 368
Academic Support Hours:: Mondays 2.30pm - 4.30pm

Biography

Paolo has degrees in Business and International Finance (Bocconi, Milan) and Development Studies
(SOAS) and has worked for brokerage firms, investment banks, NGOs and UNHCR, before joining
SOAS.

Teaching

Programmes Convened

Modules Taught

PhD Students supervised

Christian Sowa, The Accommodation of Migrants in Berlin: Exploring the City and Urban Transformations (Working Title)
Hassan Ould Moctar, EU Border Externalisation and the Postcolonial Conditioning of Contemporary Capitalism in Mauritania
Karen Schouw Iversen, Navigating humanitarian biopolitics: housing policies and desplazado protests in Bogotá (working title)

Research

Paolo’s research is concerned with the conceptual and contextual relation between borders,
migration and development, and focuses on the contested geographies produced by such relation
(territoriality, scale; spatialities and temporalities of borders and migration; legal/policy labels and
political subjectivities); and on processes of legal and institutional change associated to it (refugee
law and refugee regime; asylum reception systems; humanitarianism). Paolo has conducted field
research in Peshawar (Pakistan), Macerata (Italy), Meghalaya (India), Cairo (Egypt). His current
research project is titled: “Asylum seeker’s reception: taxonomies and location”.

Expertise

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Available for

Regional Expertise

South Asia

Country Expertise

India

Languages

Publications

Articles

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Novak, Paolo (2021) 'Deservingness and uneven geographies of asylum accommodation'. Social Policy and Society. [Forthcoming]

Novak, Paolo (2019) 'The neoliberal location of asylum'. Political Geography, (70), pp 1-13.

Novak, Paolo (2017) 'Back to Borders'. Critical Sociology, (43) 6, pp 847-864.

Novak, Paolo (2017) 'Placing Borders in Development'. Geopolitics, (21) 3, pp 483-512.

Novak, Paolo (2015) 'Refugee Status as a Productive Tension'. Transnational Legal Theory, (6) 2, pp 287-311.

Paolo, Novak (2013) 'The Success of NGOs'. Development in Practice, (23) 7, pp 872-888.

Novak, Paolo (2011) 'The Flexible Territoriality of Borders'. Geopolitics, (16) 4, pp 741-767.

Novak, Paolo (2011) 'The Institutional Incompleteness of Empire'. Central Asian Survey, (30) 3-4, pp 389-406.

Novak, Paolo (2007) 'Accountability to Whom?'. Economic and Political Weekly, (42) 30, pp 3172-77.

Novak, Paolo (2007) 'Place and Afghan Refugees: a Contribution to Turton'. Journal of Refugee Studies, (20) 4, pp 551-578.

Book Chapters

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Novak, Paolo (2018) 'Borders, distance, politics'. In: Paasi, Anssi and Prokkola, Eeva-Kaisa and Saarinen, Jarko and Zimmerbauer, Kaj, (eds.), Borderless Worlds for Whom?: Ethics, Moralities and Mobilities. London: Routledge, pp 49-62.

Novak, Paolo (2017) 'Border rhythms'. In: Mavroudi, Elizabeth and Page, Ben and Christou, Anastasia, (eds.), Timespace and International Migration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp 61-76.

Novak, Paolo (2015) 'Refugees and Empire'. In: Ness, Immanuel and Cope, Zak, (eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Houndsmills: Palgrave MacMillan.

Novak, Paolo (2014) 'Tracing connections and its politics'. In: Alff, Henryk and Benz, Andreas, (eds.), Tracing Connections: Explorations of Spaces and Places in Asian Contexts. Berlin: VWB.

Novak, Paolo (2013) 'Political economy of refugees'. In: Ness, Immanuel, (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Novak, Paolo (2007) 'Chromatic Boundaries'. In: Narula, M. and Sengupta, S. and Bagchi, J. and Sundaram, R., (eds.), SARAI Reader 07: Frontiers. Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.