Office hours:

Thursday, 11-12 a.m. by prior appointment via email.

My research focuses on structural violence and inequality in the global political economy, particularly in the following fields:

 - Microcredit/financial inclusion

- Social reproduction, racism, and capitalism

- Perspectives of a postcolonial political economy

- Social-ecological conflicts and transformation

- Precarious work at German universities

 

a) Monographs & Edited Volumes

(2025): The Violence of Financial Inclusion. Chronic Indebtedness as Class Oppression in Modern India. Bielefeld: transcript.

(2025): Racism & Capitalism. Special issue of PERIPHERIE, No. 176 (with Steffen Haag, Franziska Müller, Reinhart Kößler, and Nina Baghery).

(2021): Financialization and Development Policy. Special issue of PERIPHERIE, No. 162/163 (with Franziska Müller, Frauke Banse, and Aram Ziai).

(2017): At the Expense of Others. How the Imperial Way of Life Prevents a Good Life for All. Munich: oekom (as part of the I.L.A. Collective), also translated into English since 2019 .

 

b) Articles in Journals

(2026): As If Imperialism Had Never Existed. Critical Remarks on the Debate Surrounding the New Geoeconomy. In: PROKLA 56(223), pp. 333–343.

(2025): The Violence of Reproductive Debt. On the Complexity of Class Domination and Exploitation in Postcolonial Capitalism, in: PROKLA 55(218), pp. 55–74. https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v55i218.2155

(2025): Settler Colonialism in Palestine, in: PROKLA 55(218), pp. 199–209. https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v55i218.2177

(2025): Racial Capitalism, in: PERIPHERIE, No. 176, pp. 532–535. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v44i3.08

(2024): The Exhausted University: On the Causes of Precarious Work and Prospects for Organizing, in: Bürger & Staat 2/2024, 153–160 (with Alexander Gallas)

(2021): Can the Subaltern Pay? The Colonial Roots of the Financialization of Social Reproduction, in: PERIPHERIE, No. 162/163, pp. 179–200. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v41i2-3.02

(2019): Luxemburg Meets Schumpeter: Understanding Contemporary Socio-Ecological Conflicts as Processes of Destructive Creation, in: Journal for Development Policy, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, pp. 41–64. doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-35-1-41

(2017): The Political Economy of Prison Labor: From Penal Welfarism to the Penal State, in: Global Labor Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 32–48 (with Christoph Scherrer). https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v8i1.2774

(2016): The Return of Commercial Prison Labor in the United States, in: Leviathan. Berlin Journal of Social Science, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 536–557 (with Christoph Scherrer). https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-0425-2016-4-536

 

c) Articles in anthologies

(2026): What Is Globalization? In: Lukas Bäuerle et al. (eds.): Fundamental Questions of Economics. Plural – Reflexive – Real-Life Relevance. Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel, pp. 303–316

(2025): “Enforcing Permanent Contracts at the Workplace. University of Kassel: Permanent Contracts—A Campaign Against Precarious Work in Academia,” in: A.-K. Hoffmann/M. Hopp (eds.): Labor Struggles at Universities! Employment Conditions and Strategies of Union Counterpower, Hamburg: VSA, pp. 148–151 (with Simone Claar and Alexander Gallas).

(2024): “Challenging the Fixed-Term Contract: The Difficulties and Prospects of Organizing Germany’s Academic Precariat” (with Alexander Gallas), in: G. Strachan (ed.): Research Handbook on Academic Labor Markets, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 130–143.

(2023): “Unpayable: On the Coloniality of Debt in Capitalism.” In: BER (ed.): Mainstreaming Decolonize! Colonial Continuities in Development Policy, Berlin, pp. 76–78.

(2023): “The Coloniality of Everyday Life: The Concept of Imperial Way of Life from a Postcolonial Perspective” (with Tobias Kalt and Jonas Lage). In: S. Bauriedl, I. Carstensen-Eguwom (eds.): Geographies of Coloniality. Stories of Contemporary Global Inequalities. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 433–450.

(2019): “A Brief History of the Imperial Way of Life: From Colonialism to Digitalization” (with Thomas Kopp, Jannis Eicker, Maximilian Becker, Katharina van Treeck, and Severin Caspari), in: M. Christ, B. Sommer and K. Stumpf (eds.): Societies in Transition: On the Transformation of Societal Relations with Nature (Yearbook of Economy and Society, Vol. 30), Marburg: Metropolis Verlag, pp. 67–90.

(2017): Life in Times of Multiple Crises. Three Narratives of the Financial and Euro Crisis, in: Andreas Eis and Claire Moulin-Doos (eds.): Critical Political Education on Europe. Is Europe’s Multiple Crisis a Matter of Collective Learning? Immenhausen: Prolog Verlag (with Jannis Eicker, Anne Engelhardt, Carolin Müller, and Norma Tiedemann), pp. 24–40.

(2016): “Everyone Can Be an Intellectual—Really? The Students’ Perspectives on the M.A. in Global Political Economy” (as part of the GPE Collective), in: Ulrich Brand/Helen Schwenken/Joscha Wullweber: Analyzing, Criticizing, and Changing Globalization. The Critical Science Project, Hamburg: VSA Verlag, pp. 266–271.

 

d) Blogs, online articles, and other journals

(2024): “German Academic Workers Are Breaking Ground in the Fight for Permanent Positions,” in: Global Labor Column, No. 471.

(2024): “Israel-Related Antisemitism? The Problem Is Settlement and Occupation Policy,” in: HLZ 12/2024–01/2025, pp. 36–37 (with Aram Ziai).

(2022): Toward a New Higher Education Strategy. Why the Code for Good Work Will Not Change Anything, in: HLZ 3/2022, p. 23.

(2021): The Geopolitics of Financialization and Development Policy. Interview with Ilias Alami, in: PERIPHERIE, No. 162/163, 298–317. (Interview and translation from English in collaboration with Frauke Banse)

(2019): Rediscovering the Political in the Economic, in: Makronom, online, November 14, 2019.

(2018): On Digital Empires and Imperial Digitalization. Living at the Expense of Others Is the Norm, Even in the Age of Digital Interconnection and Industry 4.0, in: analyse&kritik – Journal for Left Debate and Practice, No. 634, p. 15.

(2017): “The Return of Commercial Prison Labor,” in: Global Labour Column, No. 269, April 2017 (with Christoph Scherrer).

(2016): Marxist Political Economy, in: Exploring Economics, online, December 18, 2016 (with Andreas Dimmelmeier and Andrea Pürckhauer).

(2015): Europe’s Imperial Raw Materials and Free Trade Policy, in: Climate of Justice Blog, June 29, 2015.

M.A. Global Political Economy and Development (GPED)

 

  • Foundations of Global Political Economy and Development
  • From Colonialism to Globalisation
  • Theories of Development and International Political Economy
  • Postcolonial Political Economy
  • Racial Capitalism
  • Political Economy of Money, Debt, and Finance
  • The Politics of Finance and Development
  • Global Political Ecologies – Theories, Struggles, Transformations
  • MA Thesis Colloquium

 

I am happy to supervise theses that fit my research and teaching priorities. Please express your interest by email, including a brief description of which courses you attended and your research interest. We can discuss further details in my office hours.