THE POLITICAL ECONOMY PROJECT


​The Political Economy Project is the culmination of several years' worth of networking and planning by the Arab Studies Institute and its affiliate scholars. PEP aims to develop and encourage critical approaches to political economy, interrogating the dominant paradigms and providing insights for alternatives. 

PEP is intellectual and political at once. Our activities involve not only research, pedagogy, and training, but networking and advocacy toward organic alternatives to existing dominant notions of “development,” growth, redistribution, power relations, and social justice.
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From Workshop 1-The Arab Uprisings: Class Formation and Class Dynamics at SOAS London, June 2015

Research Workshops

Workshop 1: 
Development and the Uprisings (Apr. 2015, Fairfax)

Workshop 2: 
The Arab Uprisings, Class Formation and Dynamics (Jun. 2015, London)

Workshop 3:
The Palestinian Economy: Fragmentation & Colonization (Sep. 2015, Ramallah)

Workshop 4:
Tunisia: The Economy in Times of Change (Sep. 2015, Tunis)

Political Economy Book Prize

Aims to recognize and disseminate exceptional critical work on the political economy of the Middle East

2016 submission deadline was February 26, 2016.
Stay tuned for results!

PEP Blog

Check here for PEP updates as well as recent written and audio material from the Arab Studies Institute
Workshop 5:
Migrant States, Mobile Economies: Rethinking the Political in Contemporary Turkey (Oct. 2015, Fairfax) 

Workshop 6:
Political Economy of the Middle East: Continuities and Discontinuities in Teaching and Research (Nov. 2015, Fairfax) 

Workshop 7:
New Directions in Political Economy (Feb. 2016, Stanford) 

Summer Political Economy Institute

The Summer Institute aims to help foster critical political economy approaches to the study of the region by bringing together select faculty leaders and student participants for three days of intensive discussion of key texts in critical political economy. 

2016 Selections have been made! For interested Faculty and Students, and for information about the Summer Institute or the Pedagogy Working Group, please contact: pedagogy@politicaleconomyproject.org.