What is Political Economy from the Global South?

Ingy Higazy

Research Manager, Pathways Beyond Neoliberalism, AUC

Ingy Higazy is the Research Manager for Pathways Beyond Neoliberalism: Voices from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), based at the American University in Cairo (AUC). She holds a PhD in Politics from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), where she specialized in political economy, political theory, and urban geography. Driven by a deep interest in the complex dynamics of space, power, and mobility, Higazy’s research explores how and why the spaces and infrastructures that facilitate movement for certain people and goods, systematically preclude it for others. Her academic writing has been published by Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Politics, The Metropole, and Égypte/Monde Arabe, among others.

Amr Adly

Associate Professor, Political Science Department,AUC

Amr Adly is Assistant Professor in the department of political science at The American University in Cairo (AUC). He worked as a researcher at the Middle East directions program at the European University Institute. He worked as a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research centered on political economy, development studies, and economic sociology of the Middle East, with a focus on Egypt.

Adly has taught political economy at AUC and Stanford University. He has also worked as a project manager at the center of democracy, development, and the rule of law at Stanford University, where he was a postdoctoral fellow.Adly is the author of cleft capitalism: the social origins of failed market-making in Egypt(Stanford University Press, 2020) and state reform and development in the Middle East: the cases of Turkey and Egypt (Routledge, 2012). He has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including Geoforum, Business and Politics, the journal of TurkishStudies, and Middle Eastern Studies. Adly is also a frequent contributor to print and online news sources, including Bloomberg, Jadaliyya, and Al-Shorouk.

Seth Schindler

Professor of Urban Politics and Development at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester

Seth Schindler is Professor of Urban Politics and Development at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. His research examines large-scale urban and regional transformation initiatives and how cities are integrated into global production networks amid shifting geopolitical dynamics. He is co-founder of the Second Cold War Observatory (SCWO). Seth’s research has been funded by the Regional Studies Association, the British Academy, the Newton Fund and the Economic & Social Research Council. It has appeared in leading journals including Urban Studies, Geopolitics, New Political Economy, and City. He was awarded best paper by the editors of Territory, Politics, Governance (2019), Environment and Planning A (2021), and Regional Studies (2022).

Sean Starrs

Lecturer

Sean Kenji Starrs is a Lecturer in International Development at King’s College London. His research interests include the capitalist rise of China, US hegemony and world order, techno-nationalism, and East Asian political economy. He previously was at the Department of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong and was also a visiting assistant professor at the Center for International Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his PhD at York University, Toronto. He has written for and/or been cited/interviewed by Bloomberg News, CNN, The Financial Times, Politico, South China Morning Post, local Hong Kong radio and TV, Voice of America, Jacobin, The Real News, Washington Post, among others, on many topics ranging from Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests to Oxfam’s report on inequality, Marxism in China to Brexit, US hegemony to the capitalist rise of China.