Research Supervision
My general expertise is in the areas of International Political Economy (IPE) and International Relations (IR) and their relevance to themes of historical sociology, development studies, geography studies, and Latin American studies. Research students in any of these respective areas would be welcome. More specifically, I would welcome PhD applicants interested in working in the following main areas:
- the political economy and historical sociology of modern state formation in Mexico and Latin America;
- counter-spaces of social movements’ resistance in Mexico and Latin America;
- the historical sociology of the states-system and uneven development in the modern world;
- new approaches to modernity, revolution, and hegemony in the thought and action of Antonio Gramsci; and
- issues of crisis, state restructuring and responses to neoliberalism within the contemporary global political economy.
I have been centrally involved in the principal/second supervision of the following Ph.D. students:
- Chi Zhang (2006-2009) ‘The Domestic Dynamics of China’s Energy Diplomacy: The Interaction of National and Corporate Interests’.
- Chris Hesketh (2006-2010) ‘Spaces of Capital / Spaces of Resistance: Mexico and the Global Political Economy’. ESRC funded. Nominated for the Political Studies Association (PSA) Sir Ernest Barker Prize in Political Theory (2011).
- Chris Wood (2006-2010) ‘Social Capital and the Third Way in Britain and Australia’. ESRC funded. Winner of the Political Studies Association (PSA) Sir Walter Bagehot Prize in Government and Public Administration (2011).
- Jennifer Martinez (2007-2011) ‘The Comités de Tierra Urbana (CTUs) and the “Right to the City”: New Views on the Venezuelan Socialist State’. Winner of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize (2011).
- Adam Novák (2008-2012), ‘Development Aid in Struggles for World Order: Czechoslovak Foreign Aid during the Cold War’. ESRC funded.
- Ertan Erol (2008-2012) ‘Capitalist Spatiality in the Periphery: Regional Integration Projects in Mexico and Turkey’. Turkish government scholarship.
- Carolina Cepeda (Universidad de los Andes/Colombia) ‘¿Qué tan Alternativo es el Movimiento Alterglobalización? Análisis y Balance entre 1994 y 2012’ [How Alternative is the Alterglobalisation Movement? Analysis and Balance between 1994 and 2012] (Jan-June 2012 visiting researcher).
- Philip Roberts (2010-present) ‘The MST Beyond Agrarian Reform: Class Struggle and Ideological Formation’. Faculty funded.
- Max Crook (2010-present) ‘Gramsci, Hegemony and the Move to the Centre by the Western European Mainstream Left’.
- Cemal Burak Tansel (2011-present) ‘Rethinking State Formation in Turkey: A Historical Materialist Analysis’. Faculty funded.