Political Economy Summer Institute Network
2019 SUMMER INSTITUTE PARTICIPANT PROPOSALS
Student Proposal Topics
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STUDENTS AND AFFILIATIONS
- Camille Cole (Yale University): Bandit Capitalism: Nineteenth Century Basra between Empires
- Zachary Smith (University of Pennsylvania): Colonial Accumulation: Institutions and Ideologies in Settler Societies
- Sari Madi (University of Montreal / CRIMT): The political economy of legal changes in the MENA region: evidence from Tunisia and Lebanon
- Patrick Higgins (The University of Houston): In the Shadow of Dual Power: Palestinian Revolutionary Perceptions of the US Empire
- Lucy Garbett (UC Irvine): Social Reproduction, Neoliberalism, and Resistance: the Politics of Care in Palestine
- Jonathan Viger (York University): Historicizing the Political Geography of the post-Ottoman Middle East: Social Conflicts, Competing Sovereignties, and Changing Territoriality
- Gabriel Young (NYU): Between and Beyond the Country and the City: Basra, Iraq, and Urbanization in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf
- Gabi Kirk (UC Davis): Cultivating and Claiming Indigeneity: Agriculture, Capitalism, and Settler-Colonialism in Palestine-Israel
- Brittany Cook (University of Kentucky): Geopolitical Ecologies of Agricultural Development: A Comparison of Olive Oil Production in Jordan and Palestine
- Arash Davari (Whitman College): The Politics of Disavowal: Revolutionary Iran in the Wake of 68
- Aras Koksal (University of Minnesota): Farmers to Engineers? Higher Education and Social Change in Neoliberal Turkey
- Layla Hashemi (George Mason University): Media and Resistance in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI)
