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Angela Joya's research focuses on  neoliberal globalization and the ways this phenomenon shapes the relationships among various social classes, the institutions and practices of the state and the nature of social conflicts.  She has researched the impact of economic liberalization and privatization on workers' and peasants' livelihoods in the post 1990 period. She has written about the struggles against neoliberalism by workers, peasants and other social groups, which culminated into the popular uprisings that swept across the Middle East and North Africa. Since the Arab uprisings of 2010-2011, she has focused on the popular contestations of the economic and political systems in the MENA region and the role of international financial institutions in the region. Dr. Joya is currently working on a second book project, where she studies anti-extractivist movements in North Africa (Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria) in the context of climate crisis and a general crisis of neoliberal development in the region. She will be doing fieldwork in North Africa on this new project in the fall of 2019. She has previously conducted fieldwork in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, Jordan and Turkey, Greece and France.

Dr. Joya's new book titled The Roots of Revolt: A Political Economy of Egypt From Nasser to Mubarak is forthcoming with Cambridge University press:

Broader Research interests: https://vimeo.com/160959737

Globalization, Islam and the Middle East: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYyv0TCTAFg

Connecting Resistances:Emancipatory Activism in West Asia, North Africa and Germany:Roundtable in Berlin, Fall 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqhqimvF8gE

Canada's War in Afghanistan (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HJxKVW4qHo