Biography
I am Professor of Political Economy of Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam. My doctoral education was at the University of Cambridge. I was a post-doctoral lecturer at the University of Chicago. I have held the Keyman Family Visiting Professorship at Northwestern University and I am Adjunct Professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito. I am the Chair of the Editorial Board of Development and Change.
Situated firmly within development studies and informed by political ecology, heterodox economics, social theory, and agrarian political economy, my work focuses on the tensions between nature, capitalism, and emancipatory socio-economic change.
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Work
- Murat Arsel & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2024) - Structural limits to effective environmental activism: Post-neoliberal development, extractive imperative and authoritarianism in Ecuador - Geo: Geography and Environment, 11 (2) - doi: 10.1002/geo2.150 - [link]
- Lorenzo Pellegrini, Murat Arsel, Gorka Muñoa, Guillem Rius-Taberner, Carlos Mena & Martí Orta-Martínez (2024) - The atlas of unburnable oil for supply-side climate policies - Nature Communications, 15 (1) - doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-46340-6 - [link]
- Jessica C. Hope & Murat Arsel (2023) - Infrastructure and Latin American Environmental Geographies: An Introduction to our Special Issue - Journal of Latin American Geography, 21 (3), 8-21 - doi: 10.1353/lag.2022.0037
- M Arsel, BA Demena, A Floridi, GM Gomez, G Haile, A Kalfagianni, F Mukhtarov, SM Murshed, E Papyrakis, L Pellegrini, M Rieger, Z Shigute, GJA Uzin, R van der Hoeven, R Vos & N Wagner (2023) - International Collaboration in Times of Pandemics: An Urgent Need for Reforming our Global Financial System - Progress in Development Studies, 23 (3), 338-343 - doi: 10.1177/14649934231157238 - [link]
- Lorenzo Pellegrini & Murat Arsel (2022) - The Supply Side of Climate Policies: Keeping Unburnable Fossil Fuels in the Ground - Global Environmental Politics, 22 (4), 1-14 - doi: 10.1162/glep_a_00691 - [link]
- Martí Orta-Martínez, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Murat Arsel, Carlos Mena & Gorka Muñoa (2022) - Unburnable Fossil Fuels and Climate Finance: Compensation for Rights Holders - Global Environmental Politics, 22 (4), 15-27 - doi: 10.1162/glep_a_00688 - [link]
- Murat Arsel & L (Lorenzo) Pellegrini (2022) - Global Extractive Imperative: from local resistance to unburnable fuels - International Development Planning Review, 44 (1), 1-12 - doi: 10.3828/idpr.2021.25 - [link]
- Murat Arsel & L (Lorenzo) Pellegrini (2022) - Indigenous People, Extractive Imperative and Covid-19 in the Amazon - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-82339-9_10
- Murat Arsel (2022) - Climate change and class conflict in the Anthropocene: sink or swim together? - Journal of Peasant Studies, 50 (1), 67-95 - doi: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2113390 - [link]
- Murat Arsel, Fikret Adaman & Bengi Akbulut (2021) - Political economy of environmental conflicts in Turkey: From the Bergama resistance to the Gezi protests and beyond - [link]
- Murat Arsel & Jessica Hope (2022) - Journal of Latin American Geography (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Murat Arsel & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2022) - Global Environmental Politics (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Murat Arsel, B Hogenboom & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2016) - The Extractive Industries and Society: an International Journal (print) (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Murat Arsel & Anirban Dasgupta (2015) - Development and Change (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Bram Buscher, Murat Arsel, Lorenzo Pellegrini & Wendy Harcourt (2012) - A series of three colloquia and a conference organized (March, June, October and November) (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Professional - Murat Arsel (2012) - Building Interdisciplinarity in Middle East Studies.3rd Annual Mediterranean Program Summer School, European University Institute (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Academic - Murat Arsel & Bram Buscher (2012) - Development and Change (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Murat Arsel (2012) - Regional Perspectives on Globalization and Human Rights, Workshop for Educators, University of Chigaco (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Professional - Bram Buscher & Murat Arsel (2012) - Tijdschrift Voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Ben White, Murat Arsel & S Afiff (2009) - Jurnal Tanah Air (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic
