Noaman G Ali

Noaman G Ali is a Lecturer in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath, affiliated with the Centre for Development Studies and Centre for Climate Adaptation & Environment Research (CAER). He joined Bath in 2023 after holding academic positions at Lahore University of Management Sciences and Forman Christian College in Pakistan.

His research centers on the politics of underdevelopment and dependency, with a regional focus on Pakistan and South Asia. Key areas include:

• Agrarian political economies and ecologies
• Social bases of politics among working classes/marginalized groups
• Political ecology and social movements
• Radical liberation theories (Marxism and decolonization)
• Colonial land allocation legacies

Current projects involve investigating Pakistan's rice value chain (funded by Association of Asian Studies) and colonial land allocation's developmental implications. His publications reveal strong trends in Marxist political economy, agrarian class struggle, and decolonial approaches to Global South development, frequently analyzing power relations through historical materialist frameworks.

Ali actively supervises doctoral students in political economy/ecology of agrarian change, rural politics, and critical development histories. His academic service includes conference presentations at Bocconi-Columbia Political Science events, European Political Science Association meetings, and Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshops.

Based at Wessex House 8.61, he contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals through work on poverty reduction and sustainable development in Global South contexts.