Ilias Alami
May, 2022
Visiting post-doctoral fellow
Ilias Alami is a political economist and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Uppsala University (2022-2024). Prior to joining Uppsala University, he held a postdoctoral research position at Maastricht University (where he works on the ERC-funded SWFsEUROPE project) and a lectureship in International Politics at the University of Manchester. He also held visiting positions at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo and the University of Johannesburg. He has published in a range of journals including New Political Economy, Review of African Political Economy, Review of Radical Political Economics, Geoforum, Development and Change, Human Geography, Competition and Change, Political Geography, Science and Society, Antipode, Geopolitics, Environment and Planning A, and Contemporary Politics. He is the author of Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets (Routledge, 2019), which was shortlisted for the British International Studies Association 2019 best book in international political economy award, and The Specter of State Capitalism (forthcoming with OUP, co-authored with Adam Dixon).
research interests
Ilias Alami’s research and teaching interests are in the areas of global political economy, money and finance, state capitalism, North-South relations, theories of the state, and the articulations between race/class/coloniality.
Research project you intend to pursue at cee
Ilias Alami will work on the project ‘Transformations of state capitalism in a post-coronavirus Europe’ (funded by the European Research Council Horizon 2020) to investigate the role of the regulation of foreign state-supported capital in the construction of new regimes of competition, profitability and growth in post-pandemic Europe.
to know more
ilias.alami@kultgeog.uu.se, i.alami@tbs-education.org
