Asma Abdi
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Advice and Feedback Hours:
Wednesdays 5-7 pm (via Teams)
Fridays 4-6 pm
Dr Asma Abdi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) at the University of Warwick. Her research and teaching interests revolve around the intersections of global political economy, feminist theory, and post/decolonial approaches. She specialises in exploring the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality concerning questions of labour, social reproduction, informal economies, the everyday and women’s movements in the Global South, with a specific focus, so far, on the Middle East/Iran.
Prior to her current position, she was an International Chancellor’s PhD Scholar in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, where she explored the shifting gendered dimensions of labour, social reproduction, and survival in Iran following the intensification of the sanctions regime on the country since the early 2010s. Bringing together insights from both feminist International Political Economy (IPE) and feminist post/decolonial scholars, Asma's thesis develops a decolonial and feminist understanding of economic sanctions as an under-explored economic tool of international conflict and coercion often imposed on countries in the Global South. At PAIS, her PhD thesis was supervised by Prof. Nicola Pratt and Prof. Juanita Elias.
Research Interests
Feminist international political economy (IPE) theory
Social reproduction, Informality and gendered labour relations, in particular in the Global South
The political economy of intimacy/intimate geopolitics
Critical race theory
Decolonisation of knowledge
Authoritarianism and Women’s movements in the Middle East
Economic/Financial Sanctions
Teaching
2023-2024: Senior Seminar Tutor for the BA core module Introduction to Politics (PO107)
2022-2023: Senior Seminar Tutor for BA third-year module Gender and Development (PO353)
2021-2022: Senior Seminar Tutor for the BA core module World Politics (PO131)
Paper Awards
Asma's paper "Towards a Feminist Geopolitics of Economic Sanctions and Gendered Insecurity: The case of Iran" was the winner of the Honorable mention (runner-up paper) for the 2022 BISA Colonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial (CPD) Early Career Researcher Paper Prize.