
- Location
- Kortenaerkade 12, 's - Gravenhage
- Room
- I4-06
- gerber@iss.nl
Profile
Julien-François Gerber is Assistant Professor of Environment and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague.
I am broadly interested in the political economy of development and in its ecological, anthropological, and psychoanalytic dimensions. My research has explored some of the obstacles to human and nonhuman flourishing, and the role of collective mobilisations in overcoming such obstacles. This concern led me to the following three main lines of research, with a particular geographical focus on Western Europe and South Asia:
– Debt as a central mechanism giving shape to capitalist societies, from the self to the state. My work on debt, credit and ownership systems was carried out in the tradition of agrarian political economy, economic anthropology and critical institutional economics. From 2018 to 2019, I was granted an ISRF Fellowship to work on debt at the Department of Anthropology of the London School for Economics and Political Science.
– Degrowth as an emerging alternative paradigm of flourishing. I work on the relationship between (de)growth and the debt economy, the global South, and agrarian studies. I am also currently interested in how psychoanalysis can shed light on capitalist modernity and offer tools for healing and transformation. I am a founding member of the Dutch Degrowth Platform and a co-organiser of the 8th International Degrowth Conference that took place in The Hague in 2021.
– Social movements as forces for sustainability and justice. I work on/with anti-debt and environmental movements and initiatives. Besides compiling global databases on such mobilisations, I also carried out fieldwork on the plantation economies of Indonesia, Cameroon and Ecuador, and on the conflicts they generate.
Prior to joining the ISS, I was at the Royal University of Bhutan (2015-16), Jawaharlal Nehru University and TERI School of Advanced Studies (2012-14), and Harvard University (2010-12). I have a PhD in political ecology and ecological economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. I am in the Editorial Team of the Journal of World-Systems Research (USA) and Ecology, Economy and Society (India).
I am currently co-supervising five PhD students: Yukari Sekine, Amod Shah, Anna Voss, Mohsen Yazdanpanah and Haris Zargar. I welcome applications for PhD topics related to any of my research interests.
- Shivani Kaul, Bengi Akbulut, Federico Demaria & Julien François Gerber (2022) - Alternatives to sustainable development: what can we learn from the pluriverse in practice? - Sustainability Science, 17 (4), 1149–1158 - doi: 10.1007/s11625-022-01210-2 - [link]
- Julien-Francois Gerber (2022) - The psychoanalytic critique of capitalism: Elements for an overview - Psychotherapy and Politics International, 20 (1-2), 1-23 - doi: 10.24135/ppi.v20i1and2.05 - [link]
- JF (Julien-Francois) Gerber (2021) - Karl with Carl: Marxism and the Jungian path to the soul - International Journal of Jungian Studies, 1-22 - doi: 10.1163/19409060-bja10021
- Daniela Pessoa de Goes Calmon, JF (Julien-Francois) Gerber, S (Shivani) Kaul, Thomas Kiggell, Corinne Lamain, Oona Morrow, Yukari Sekine & Winne van Woerden (2021) - Embodying degrowth and turning the movement inside out - DevISSues, 23 (2) - [link]
- Julien François Gerber, Tsegaye Moreda & C. Sathyamala (2021) - The awkward struggle: A global overview of social conflicts against private debts - Journal of Rural Studies, 86, 651-662 - doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.08.012 - [link]
- Bram Büscher, Giuseppe Feola, Andrew Fischer, Robert Fletcher, Julien François Gerber, Wendy Harcourt, Martijn Koster, Mindi Schneider, Joeri Scholtens, Marja Spierenburg, Vincent Walstra & Han Wiskerke (2021) - Planning for a world beyond COVID-19: Five pillars for post-neoliberal development - World Development, 140, 1-4 - doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105357 - [link]
- Sebastian Berger & Julien-Francois Gerber (2021) - Re-envisioning economics with substantive meaning:: A paradigm shift from economic growth to the good life - [link]
- Julien-Francois Gerber (2021) - Rural indebtedness
- Julien-Francois Gerber & J Alegado (2020) - A degrowth economy in a post-pandemic world - Unknown - [link]
- Julien-Francois Gerber (2020) - Anti-mining conflicts and degrowth - Commodity Frontiers, 1, 28-31 - doi: 10.18174/cf.2020a17968 - [link]
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
4229 Global Political Ecology
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-4229-21-22
4240 Politics of Agrarian Transformation
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-4240-21-22
4150 Political Economy
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- ISS-4150-21-22
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