Max Ajl
Expected Graduation - May '19
Research Interests:
Agrarian political economy, rural sociology, geographies of development, world food systems, Middle East – North Africa history and society, southern theory
Teaching Interests:
Theories of Development, Human Geography, Sociological Theory, Sociology of the Middle East and North Africa
Dissertation Topic:
Farmers, Fellaga, and Frenchmen: National Liberation and Post-Colonial Development in Tunisia
Dissertation Committee:
Phil McMichael (Development Sociology), Wendy Wolford (Development Sociology), & Fouad Makki (Development Sociology)
Recent Publications:
- Ajl, Max. (2018). “Auto-centered development and indigenous technics: Slaheddine el-Amami and Tunisian delinking". Journal of Peasant Studies.
- Ajl, Max. (2018). “Delinking, food sovereignty, and populist agronomy: notes on an intellectual history of the peasant path in the global South.” Review of African Political Economy.
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