
Full professor International Institute of Social Studies Academic staff unit
- Location
- Kortenaerkade 12, 's - Gravenhage
- Room
- I4-24
- arsel@iss.nl
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I am Professor of Political Economy of Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam. My doctoral education was at the University of Cambridge. I was a post-doctoral lecturer at the University of Chicago. I have held the Keyman Family Visiting Professorship at Northwestern University and I am Adjunct Professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito. I am the Chair of the Editorial Board of Development and Change.
Situated firmly within development studies and informed by political ecology, heterodox economics, social theory, and agrarian political economy, my work focuses on the tensions between nature, capitalism, and emancipatory socio-economic change.
- Murat Arsel & L (Lorenzo) Pellegrini (2022) - Global Extractive Imperative: from local resistance to unburnable fuels - International Development Planning Review, 44 (1), 1-12 - doi: 10.3828/idpr.2021.25
- Murat Arsel, Fikret Adaman & Alfredo Saad-Filho (2021) - Authoritarian developmentalism: The latest stage of neoliberalism? - Geoforum, 124, 261-266 - doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.05.003 - [link]
- Lorenzo Pellegrini, Murat Arsel, M Orta-Martinez, CF Mena & G Muñoa (2020) - Institutional mechanisms to keep unburnable fossil fuel reserves in the soil - Energy Policy - doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2020.112029
- Lorenzo Pellegrini, Murat Arsel, M Orta-Martinez & CF Mena (2020) - International Investment Agreements, Human Rights, and Environmental Justice: The Texaco/Chevron Case From the Ecuadorian Amazon - Journal of International Economic Law, 23 (2), 455-468 - doi: 10.1093/jiel/jgaa016 - [link]
- B Akbulut, F Adaman & Murat Arsel (2020) - Turkey’s Authoritarian Regime of Accumulation: Development by Dislocation - Journal of Australian Political Economy, 86, 280-303 - [link]
- CF Mena, Murat Arsel, Lorenzo Pellegrini, M Orta-Martinez, P Fajardo, E Chavez, A Guevara & P Espin (2019) - Community-Based Monitoring of Oil Extraction: Lessons Learned in the Ecuadorian Amazon - Society & Natural Resources: an international journal - doi: 10.1080/08941920.2019.1688441 - [link]
- Lorenzo Pellegrini & Murat Arsel (2018) - Oil and Conflict in the Ecuadorian Amazon: An Exploration of Motives and Objectives - European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 106 (July-December), 209-218 - doi: 10.32992/erlacs.10413 - [link]
- F Adaman, Murat Arsel & B Akbulut (2018) - Neoliberal developmentalism, authoritarian populism, and extractivism in the countryside: the Soma mining disaster in Turkey - Journal of Peasant Studies - doi: 10.1080/03066150.2018.1515737 - [link]
- M Orta-Martínez, Lorenzo Pellegrini & Murat Arsel (2018) - The squeaky wheel gets the grease”? The conflict imperative and the slow fight against environmental injustice in northern Peruvian Amazon - Ecology and Society, 23 (3), 7 - doi: 10.5751/ES-10098-230307 - [link]
- Murat Arsel, B Hogenboom & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2016) - The extractive imperative and the boom in environmental conflicts at the end of the progressive cycle in Latin America - The Extractive Industries and Society: an International Journal (print), 3 (4), 877-879 - doi: 10.1016/j.exis.2016.10.013 - [link]
- Murat Arsel, B Hogenboom & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2016) - The extractive imperative in Latin America - The Extractive Industries and Society: an International Journal (print), 3 (4), 880-887 - doi: 10.1016/j.exis.2016.10.014 - [link]
- Murat Arsel & Anirban Dasgupta (2015) - Critique, Rediscovery and Revival in Development Studies - Development and Change, 46 (4), 644-665 - doi: 10.1111/dech.12183 - [link]
- Murat Arsel, B Akbulut & F Adaman (2015) - Environmentalism of the malcontent: anatomy of an anti-coal power plant struggle in Turkey - Journal of Peasant Studies - doi: 10.1080/03066150.2014.971766 - [link]
- Lorenzo Pellegrini, Murat Arsel, F Falconi & R Muradian (2014) - The Demise of a New Conservation and Development Policy? Exploring the Tensions of the Yasuní ITT Initiative - The Extractive Industries and Society: an International Journal (print), 1 (2), 284-291 - doi: 10.1016/j.exis.2014.05.001
- Murat Arsel & Anirban Dasgupta (2013) - Structural Change, Land Use and the State in China: Making Sense of Three Divergent Processes - European Journal of Development Research, 25 (1), 92-111 - doi: 10.1057/ejdr.2012.26 - [link]
- R Muradian, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Murat Arsel & AL et (2013) - Payments for ecosystem services and the fatal attraction of win-win solutions - Conservation Letters, 6 (4), 274-279 - doi: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00309.x - [link]
- Murat Arsel & N Avila Angel (2012) - ''Stating'' Nature's Role in Ecuadorian Development : Civil Society and the Yasuní-ITT Initiative - Journal of Developing Societies, 28 (2), 203-227 - doi: 10.1177/0169796X12448758 - [link]
- Murat Arsel (2012) - Between 'Marx and Markets'? The State, the 'Left Turn' and Nature in Ecuador - Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 103 (2), 150-163 - doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2012.00709.x - [link]
- Bram Buscher & Murat Arsel (2012) - Introduction: neoliberal conservation, uneven geographical development and the dynamics of contemporary capitalism - Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 103 (2), 129-135 - doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2012.00712.x - [link]
- Murat Arsel & Bram Buscher (2012) - Nature¿ Inc: Changes and Continuities in Neoliberal Conservation and Environmental Markets - Development and Change, 43 (1), 53-78 - doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01752.x - [link]
- Murat Arsel (2011) - Fuelling misconceptions: UNEP, natural resources, the environment and conflict - Development and Change, 42 (1), 448-457 - doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01684.x - [link]
- Lorenzo Pellegrini, Murat Arsel & CF Mena (2011) - Ecología Política de las Industrias Extractivas y el Desarrollo Dirigido por el Estado en Ecuador: Conflicto y Cooperación - Ventana a la Cooperacion, (7), 4-11
- Murat Arsel (2010) - ¿Una verdad cómoda?: el espectro de la catástrofe ambiental global y el desarrollo sostenible en China - Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 89-90, 85-101 - [link]
- Murat Arsel (2009) - Michael Watts - Development and Change, 40 (6), 1191-1214 - [link]
- Murat Arsel (2009) - Ekologi politik: dimanya ekonomiya - Jurnal Tanah Air, 2009 (Oktober-Desember), 10-17 - [link]
- F Adaman & Murat Arsel (2008) - The European Union and Turkey: Who defines environmental progress? - International Journal of Middle East Studies, 40 (4), 541-543 - doi: 10.1017/S0020743808081427 - [link]
- Murat Arsel (2004) - Some states are greener than others: Can we explain why? - Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 6 (3), 305-311 - doi: 10.1080/1523908042000344104 - [link]
- Murat Arsel & Max Spoor (2010) - Water, environmental security and sustainable rural development : conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia - Routledge
- Murat Arsel (2005) - Risking Development or Development Risks? Probing the Environmental dilemmas of Turkish Modernisation - [link] - Cambridge University Press
- Murat Arsel, Anirban Dasgupta & Servaas Storm (2021) - Reclaiming Development Studies: Essays for Ashwani Saith - Anthem Press
- F Adaman, B Akbulut & Murat Arsel (2017) - Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment Under Erdogan - [link] - IB Tauris
- F Adaman & Murat Arsel (2005) - Environmentalism in Turkey: Between Democracy and Development? - Ashgate
- Murat Arsel (2010) - E. Fuat Keyman, Remaking Turkey: Globalization, Alternative Modernities and - International Journal of Turkish Studies, 16
- Murat Arsel (2009) - An Introduction to Sustainable Development by Peter P. Rogers, Kazi F. Jalal and John A. Boyd - Development and Change, 40, 399-401 - [link]
- Murat Arsel (2002) - Book Review of "Political Ecology: Science, Myth and Policy" (Stott, P and Sullivan eds) - Government and Policy, 20, 933-934
- Murat Arsel (1999) - Book Review of "The Global Politics of the Environment -L Elliott" - Cambridge Review of International Affairs, XII, 2
- Murat Arsel (1998) - Book Review of "Dependency Theory: Scholarship and Politics in Latin American Studies" (R. Packenham ed.) - Journal of International Studies, 27 (2), 404-406
- Murat Arsel & L (Lorenzo) Pellegrini (2022) - Indigenous People, Extractive Imperative and Covid-19 in the Amazon - In Elissaios Papyrakis, COVID-19 and International Development (pp. 137-146) - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-82339-9_10 - Springer
- Murat Arsel (2021) - The Myth of Global Sustainability: Environmental Limits and (De)Growth in the Time of SDGs - In Reclaiming Development Studies - Anthem Press
- F Adaman, B Akbulut & Murat Arsel (2020) - The Political Economy of Environmental Policymaking in Turkey: A Vicious Cycle - In G.M. Tezcür, The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics - doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190064891.013.24 - [link] - Oxford University Press
- Murat Arsel, Lorenzo Pellegrini & CF Mena (2019) - Maria’s Paradox: Oil Extraction and the Misery of Missing Development Alternatives in the Ecuadorian Amazon - In P. Shaffer, R. Kanbur & R. Sandbrook, Immiserizing Growth: When Growth Fails the Poor - doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198832317.003.0009 - [link] - Oxford University Press
- B Akbulut, F Adaman & Murat Arsel (2018) - Troubled Waters of Hegemony: Consent and Contestation in Turkey’s Hydropower Landscapes - In F. Menga & E. Swyngedouw, Water, Technology and the Nation-State (pp. 96-114) - [link] - Routledge
- Murat Arsel, F Adaman & B Akbulut (2017) - 'A Few Environmentalists?' Interrogating the 'Political' in the Gezi Park - In F. Adaman, B. Akbulut & M. Arsel, Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment under Erdogan (pp. 191-206) - IB Tauris
- F Adaman, Murat Arsel & B Akbulut (2017) - Conclusion: Neoliberal Modernisation Cast in Concrete - In F. Adaman, B. Akbulut & M. Arsel, Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment under Erdogan (pp. 246-253) - IB Tauris
- F Adaman, Murat Arsel & B Akbulut (2017) - Introduction: Neoliberal Developmentalism in Turkey: Continuity, Rupture, Consolidation - In F. Adaman, B. Akbulut & M. Arsel, Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment under Erdogan (pp. 1-17) - IB Tauris
- B Akbulut, F Adaman & Murat Arsel (2017) - The Radioactive Inertia: Deciphering Turkey’s Anti-Nuclear Movement - In F. Adaman, B. Akbulut & M. Arsel, Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment under Erdogan (pp. 175-190) - IB Tauris
- Murat Arsel, C Mena, Lorenzo Pellegrini & I Radhuber (2014) - Property rights, nationalization and extractive industries in Bolivia and Ecuador - In M. Bavinck, L. Pellegrini & E. Mostert, Conflicts over Natural Resources in the Global South – Conceptual Approaches (pp. 109-128) - [link] - CRC Press/Balkema
- F Adaman & Murat Arsel (2012) - Environment - In S. Sayari & M. Heper, The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkey (pp. 317-327) - [link] - Routledge
- Max Spoor, Murat Arsel & P JIang (2012) - Local Climate Change and Water Distribution in Xinjiang - In M. Salih, Local Climate Change and Society (pp. 74-89) - Routledge
- Murat Arsel & Max Spoor (2010) - Follow the water - In M. Arsel & M. Spoor, Water, environmental security and sustainable rural development : conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia (pp. 3-17) - Routledge
- E Josh & Murat Arsel (2010) - Political ecology of marshland restoration in Iraq - In M. Arsel & M.N. Spoor, Water, environmental security and sustainable rural development : conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia (pp. 49-74) - Routledge
- Murat Arsel & Max Spoor (2010) - Preface - In M. Arsel & M. Spoor, Water, environmental security and sustainable rural development : conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia (pp. xiv-xv) - Routledge
- Murat Arsel & Max Spoor (2010) - Securing the future, democratizing development : the role of water - In M. Arsel & M. Spoor, Water, environmental security and sustainable rural development : conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia (pp. 269-284) - Routledge
- F Adaman & Murat Arsel (2010) - Globalization, Development and Environmental Policies in Turkey - In T. C?etin & F. Yilmaz, Understanding the process of economic change in Turkey : an institutional approach (pp. 319-335) - [link] - Nova Science Publishers
- Murat Arsel & J Ellis (2009) - Political ecology of marshland restoration in Iraq - In M. Arsel & M. Spoor, Water, Environmental Security and Sustainable Rural Development (pp. 49-74) - [link] - Routledge
- F Adaman & Murat Arsel (2008) - Kuresellesme ve Kalkinma Surecinde Turkiye'de Cevre Politikalari: Aktorler ve Faktorler - In Ibrahim Öztürk, Türkiye’nin küreselle?mesi : f?rsatlar ve tehditler : ekonominin küreselle?mesi ve sürdürülebilir kalk?nma - Istanbul Ticaret Odas? Yayinlari
- K Kaygusuz & Murat Arsel (2005) - Energy politics and policy - In F. Adaman & M. Arsel, Environmentalism in Turkey : Between democracy and development? (pp. 149-165) - Ashgate
- Murat Arsel (2005) - The Bergama Imbroglio - In F. Adaman & M. Arsel, Environmentalism in Turkey : Between democracy and development? (pp. 263-275) - Ashgate
- F Adaman & Murat Arsel (2005) - Development and democratization in an era of environmental crisis - In M. Dr. Arsel & F. Adaman, Environmentalism in Turkey : between democracy and development? (pp. 293-298) - Ashgate
- Murat Arsel (2005) - Reflexive developmentalism? Toward an environmental critique of modernization - In F. Adaman & M. Arsel, Environmentalism in Turkey : Between democracy and development? (pp. 15-34) - Ashgate
- F Adaman & Murat Arsel (2005) - Introduction - In F. Adaman & M. Arsel, Environmentalism in Turkey : Between democracy and development? (pp. 1-11) - Ashgate
- Murat Arsel (2003) - Risk society at Europe's periphery? Reflections on the Bergama resistance in Turkey - In Fato? Gök?en, Integrating and articulating environments : a challenge for Northern and Southern Europe (pp. 29-50) - Swets and Zeitlinger
- Murat Arsel (2003) - Risk society at Europe’s periphery?: the case of the bergama resistance in turkey1 - In Integrating and Articulating Environments (pp. 29-49) - [link] - CRC Press
- Murat Arsel (2012) - Opposition to Gold Mining at Bergama, Turkey (EJOLT Factsheet) - In B. Özkaynak & B. Rodriguez-Labajos, Mining Conflicts around the World: Common Grounds from Environmental Justice Perspective (pp. 124-129) - [link]
- Murat Arsel (2010) - State Power, Nature and Development under ‘Socialism of the 21st Century’ in Ecuador: From Tragedy to Farce? - [link] - International Conference
- Murat Arsel (2008) - Irrigation agriculture and sustainable development in Xinjiang - [link] - Greening Asian Growth. Economic Transition and Sustainable Agricultural Development in East and Southeast Asia
- Murat Arsel (2008) - The end of sustainable development: capitalism, economic growth, and global inequality - [link] - Is Development Sustainable? A conference in honor of Ted Steck’s retirement
- Murat Arsel & J Sowers (2007) - Environmental narratives, national imaginaries, and transformation of nature in the Middle East - Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference
- Murat Arsel (2006) - Restoration as liberation? Political ecology of the reconstruction of Iraqi marshes - The Last Drop? Water, Security and Sustainable Development in Central Eurasia
- Murat Arsel (2006) - 'We will not become Africa' : Turkish environmentalism at the gates of European civilization - RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
- Murat Arsel (2006) - Environmental human rights in the risk society. Conflict and human security - Development Studies Association Workshop, St. Edmunds College, Cambridge
- Murat Arsel (2006) - Is there a fixed trajectory to societal transformation: A critique of totalizing environmental sociology - Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
- Murat Arsel (2004) - German Espionage or ANZAC Revenge. Environmental Nationalism and Risk Politics in Turkey - 19th Middle East History and Theory Conference, University of Chicago
- Murat Arsel (2003) - German Espionage or ANZAC Revenge? Environmental Nationalism and Risk Politics in Turkey - 18th Middle East History and Theory Conference, University of Chicago
- Murat Arsel (2000) - Mining for change: The triple transformation of state, society and business in Turkey - International Society for Ecological Economics Conference
- Murat Arsel (1999) - Ecological modernization in Turkey? A case study of Ovacik gold mine - International Sociological Association Annual Conference
- B Özkaynak, B Rodriguez-Labajos, Murat Arsel, Duygu Avci, MH Carbonell, B Chareyron, G Chicaiza, M Conde, F Demaria, R Finamore, B Kohrs, VV Krishna, M Mahongnao, D Raeva, AA Singh, T Slavov, T Tkalec & I Yánez (2012) - Mining conflicts around the world: Common grounds from an Environmental Justice perspective - [link] - Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) (FP7-Science in Society-2010-1)
- Murat Arsel (2020) - The myth of global sustainability : Environmental limits and (de)growth in the time of SDGs - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
- Murat Arsel & Anirban Dasgupta (2010) - Structural change, land use and the state in China: making sense of three divergent processes - International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
- Murat Arsel (2012) - Building Interdisciplinarity in Middle East Studies.3rd Annual Mediterranean Program Summer School, European University Institute - Building Interdisciplinarity in Middle East Studies.3rd Annual Mediterranean Program Summer School, European University Institute
- Murat Arsel (2004) - Human Rights Program, University of Chicago - Human Rights Program, University of Chicago
- Murat Arsel (2003) - Environmental Workshop, University of Chicago - Environmental Workshop, University of Chicago
- Murat Arsel (2001) - Modern Turkish Studies Lecture Series, London School of Economcis - Modern Turkish Studies Lecture Series, London School of Economcis
- Murat Arsel (2000) - ESF Envrionmental workshop, Bogazici University - ESF Envrionmental workshop, Bogazici University
- Bram Buscher, Murat Arsel, Lorenzo Pellegrini & Wendy Harcourt (2012) - A series of three colloquia and a conference organized (March, June, October and November) - A series of three colloquia and a conference organized (March, June, October and November)
- Murat Arsel (2012) - Regional Perspectives on Globalization and Human Rights, Workshop for Educators, University of Chigaco - Regional Perspectives on Globalization and Human Rights, Workshop for Educators, University of Chigaco
- Murat Arsel, B Hogenboom & Lorenzo Pellegrini (2016) - The Extractive Industries and Society: an International Journal (print) (Journal)
- Murat Arsel & Anirban Dasgupta (2015) - Development and Change (Journal)
- Bram Buscher & Murat Arsel (2012) - Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (Journal)
- Murat Arsel & Bram Buscher (2012) - Development and Change (Journal)
- Ben White, Murat Arsel & S Afiff (2009) - Jurnal Tanah Air (Journal)
2101 The Making of Development
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-2101-21-22
2102 The Making of Development (GMD)
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-2102-21-22
3105 Research Paper Preparation
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-3105-21-22
4150 Political Economy
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-4150-21-22
2203 Reading Development
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-2203-21-22
4229 Global Political Ecology
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-4229-21-22
5401 Research Paper
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-5401-21-22
General Information
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISSGENERAL-21-22
Board of Examiners
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-BOE-21-22
Major AFES
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-AFES-21-22
4212 Contemporary Capitalism, Governance
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-4212-21-22