My research examines the configurations of global capitalism and the international economic order in Iran and the broader Middle East, emphasising the constitutive roles of ethnicity, gender, and geopolitics in shaping class structures and state formations. It aims to challenge methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism, while avoiding the pitfalls of methodological globalism, which tends to overemphasise international factors and global trends at the expense of national and local agency. To this end, my work adopts a relational methodology grounded in the social ontology of the philosophy of internal relations.

Currently, I am involved in one individual and two collective projects, all centred around the themes of international political economy. The individual project aims to investigate the relationship between ethnic and class oppression in Iran within the context of neoliberal global capitalism. Drawing on theories of racial capitalism and social reproduction feminism, the project argues that ethnicity, like race and gender, is embedded within the mechanisms of capital accumulation and exploitation, structuring who works, where, for how much, and under what conditions. For the first collective project, I am co-editing a book that critically evaluates the applicability of the concept of ‘modes of production’ in addressing questions of gender, race, and Eurocentrism in the historiography of global capitalism. The second collective project focuses on contemporary issues of capitalism in the Middle East and North Africa, examining four key themes of ‘intersectionality’, ‘surveillance and the gig economy’, ‘geopolitics and capitalism’, and ‘environmental crises’.

If you’re interested in learning more about these projects, you can access additional details through the links provided below.