Mazen Labban, Ph.D.

(Clark University, 2005)

Assistant Professor

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Professor Labban has research interests in critical social theory, political economy, space/nature/society, petroleum, geopolitics and development. He is currently conducting research on international law and the political economy of the oil industry; financialization and the restructuring of the oil industry in the US; the relations between oil, geopolitics and finance in the global south. Labban teaches courses in geopolitics, theory and history of international development, economic geography, resource geography, geographical thought and the geopolitical economy of petroleum.

Specialties/interests:

• Space, nature, society
• Political economy
• Development theory and history
• Politics and economics of oil

Courses taught:

• FSS 193 Oil, geopolitics and the global economy
  GEG 301 Political economy of international development
  GEG 304 World economic geography
  GEG 420 Geopolitics
  GEG 501 Place, Region, Nature
  GEG 530 Resources and society
  GEG 637 Development studies

Representatives Publications:

• Labban, M. "Oil in parallax: Scarcity, markets, and the financialization of accumulation". Geoforum 41 (4) 2010. pp. 541-552.
• Labban, M. "The struggle for the Heartland: hybrid geopolitics in the Transcaspian". Geopolitics 14 (1). 2009. pp. 1-25.
• Labban, M. Space, Oil and Capital. London: Routledge. 2008.