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A B O U T

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INTRODUCTION
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​The Political Economy Project (PEP) is an evolving focus of the Arab Studies Institute, with research, pedagogic, and advocacy objectives. Our founding workshop took place in April 2015 at the Arab Studies Institute in Virginia and was followed by several workshops, conferences, research projects, resource building efforts, and other activities. The workshop and preparations for it spawned an initial membership of more than sixty researchers and scholars of political economy from the Middle East and beyond.
 
PEP’s evolving cluster of activities revolve around research, pedagogy, training, network-building, and advocacy. Our network grows through nominations by existing members. A cornerstone of PEP is to provide opportunities and training for students and emerging researchers both from the region and beyond.
 
If you are interested in learning more about PEP, or if you or your institution wish to collaborate with PEP on a given activity (workshop, panel, conference, lecture, training camp), email us at: Info@PoliticalEconomyProject.com
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
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Political Economy Project

 
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1) The Great Recession of 2007-08, the uprisings which swept the Middle East and North Africa, the revolts against austerity in Spain and Greece, and the rebellions in Ferguson and Baltimore all demonstrate the need for a critical political economy that transcends static analytical categories and traditional disciplinary boundaries. We do not, in their place, offer a unified intellectual or political program. We are committed to seeking radical alternatives that challenge conventional intellectual frameworks and structures of power and wealth.
 
2) We take as our point of reference the intellectual tradition of political economy from Karl Marx to the present, embracing both its methodological pluralism and its fundamental critique of capital and empire.
 
3) Political economy addresses the mutual constitution of states, markets, and classes, the co-constitution of class, race, gender, and other forms of identity, varying modes of capital accumulation and the legal, political, and cultural forms of their regulation, relations among local, national, and global forms of capital, class, and culture, the construction of forms of knowledge and hegemony; techno-politics; water and the environment as resources and fields of contestation; the role of war in the constitution of states and classes; and practices and cultures of domination and resistance.
 
4) Political economy is not simply the intersection of previously existing disciplinary boundaries (politics and economics). Our political economy is based on a critique of disciplinary, geographical, ethnic, and religious boundaries. Those disciplines and boundaries, constructed from the late 19th through the mid-20th centuries, obscure imperial interests and social hierarchies, the unity of society as an object of investigation, and the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production. They direct our attention to limited problems and partial solutions, divide the world into units conducive to imperial rule, construct mythologized national and communal histories, and establish standards of common sense and normality that criminalize or marginalize ideas and behaviors that challenge the existing order. Against the widespread current mystification of “globalization” we assert that capitalism has always been global. Its historical development is inextricably intertwined with genocides, slavery and other forms of unfree labor, racism, patriarchy, and empire commonly justified by ideologies of advancing “civilization” and exceptionalism.
 
5) We deeply believe in our common humanity and in the potential for a common language, through which we can share our experiences, study our histories, and establish bonds of solidarity. We reject the view that the strength of so-called primordial identities of the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa makes this any less possible than in any other global region.
STEERING COMMITTEE

Adam Hanieh, Bassam Haddad, Ahmad Shokr, Shana Marshall, Joel Beinin,  Sherene Seikaly, Rafeef Ziadah, Tariq Dana, Samer Abboud


POLITICAL ECONOMY PROJECT ADMIN TEAM

Bassam Haddad
Email: bassam@ArabStudiesInstitute.org

Adam Hanieh
Email: ah92@soas.ac.uk

Sherene Seikaly
Email: 
sseikaly@history.ucsb.edu

Ziad Abu-Rish
Email: ziadaburish@gmail.com


Rafeef Ziadeh
Email: rafeef@rocketmail.com

Shana Marshall
Email: marshall.shana@gmail.com

Layla Hashemi
Email: laymay.19@gmail.com

Michael Ernst
Email: Michaele@ArabStudiesInstitute.org
CO-FOUNDERS
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Bassam Haddad
Email: bassam@ArabStudiesInstitute.org

Adam Hanieh
Email: ah92@soas.ac.uk
 
MEMBERS

Adam Hanieh
Bassam Haddad
Sherene Seikaly
Omar Dahi
Laleh Khalili
Joel Beinin
Toby Jones
Melani Camett
Ziad Abu-Rish
Max Ajl
Pete Moore
Ahmad Shokr
Paul E. Amar
Aaron Jakes
Wael Gamal
Rafeef Ziadah
Charles Anderson
Firat Bozcali
Toufic Haddad
Mandy Turner
Shana Marshall
John Warner
Kareem Rabie
Ray Bush
Maha Abdelrahman
Raymond Hinnebusch
Tariq Dana
Leila Farsakh
Zack Lockman
Gilbert Achcar
Julia Elyachar
Arang Keshavarzian
Omar Shehabi
Nicola Pratt
Firat Demir
Tim Mitchell
Sara Roy
Samer Abboud
AbdelAziz EzzelArab
Roger Owen
Darryl Li
Anne Alexander
Rabab El Mahdi
Iyad Riyahi
Kiren Chaudhry
Sami Zemni
Habib Ayeb
Firas Jaber
Shir Hever
Linda Tabar
Alaa Tartir
Sobhi Samour
Omar Jabary Salamanca
Brenna Bhandar
Joseph Daher
Samia Botmeh
Raja Khalidi
Jamil Hilal
Kristen Alff
Rebecca Gruskin
Mélisande Genat
Basma Fahoum
Caroline Abadeer
Emrah Yildiz
Robert Vitalis
​Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
Sayres Rudy
Karen Pfeifer
Paul Kohlbry
Kaveh Ehsani
Roberto Roccu
Sahar Taghisi Rad
​Hannes Baumann
Miriam Lowi

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info@PoliticalEconomyProject.org  -  info@ArabStudiesInstitute.org

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