Dr Asma Abdi

I am a lecturer in Middle East Politics and International Relations. My research interests and experience revolve around the intersection of global political economy, feminist theory and post/decolonial approaches. I specialise in exploring the overlapping of gender and race concerning questions of labour, social reproduction, informal economies, neo-liberal capitalism, and women’s movements in the Global South, with a specific focus, so far, on the Middle East/Iran. Prior to my current position, I was an international Chancellor’s PhD scholar at the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, where I explored the shifting gendered dimensions of labour, social reproduction and survival in Iran following the intensification of the sanction regime on the country since the early 2010s.