Political Economy
Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy
One of the key figures developing the Open Marxism school, Werner Bonefeld, wrote a sort of introductory level textbook “Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy – On Subversion and Negative Reason” (2014). The book generally builds on and critiques Marxist thought. It might be useful for an introduction, but a decade later this […]
Tags: #Critical Theory #Marxism #Marxist #Political Economy #Werner Bonefeld
Political Economy of Tanzania
Edwards wrote about Tanzania in 2014, providing an external perspective, largely from purview of the World Bank. For an alternative perspective, readers can pick up Andrew Coulson’s “Tanzania: A Political Economy” (1982), which he wrote from within, as a civil servant and academic in Tanzania. Coulson provides an introduction to Tanzania from the colonial period until […]
Tags: #Africa Socialism #Development Studies #Nyerere #Political Economy #Tanzania
Research Fellows: Makerere Institute of Social Research (Uganda)
Makerere University invites applications for One (1) Senior Research Fellow and Two (2) Research Fellow positions in the fields of: Political Economy: Agrarian studies; Economic Theory and History; Late Industrialization and International Political Economy. History, with a specialization in Pre-Colonial African and Indian Ocean History and/or Historiography and Historical Methods. Political Theory: Modern and pre-modern, Western and […]
Tags: #Agrarian studies #History #Political Economy #Research Fellow #Social science
Doctoral Fellowship – Politics of Data (Norway)
The Department hereby invites proposals for PhD projects that are aimed at developing new research on International Political Economy in the interface between International Environment and Development Studies. Priority will be given to creative and innovative proposals addressing “the politics of numbers” within or across the following thematic and theoretical foci: 1) Global Political Economy […]
Tags: #PhD Fellowship #Political Economy #Politics of Data #Politics of Development #Politics of Numbers
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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