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Lucia Pradella is a Reader in International Political Economy at King’s College London, affiliated with the Department of European & International Studies. She holds a PhD from the University of Naples Federico II and Paris X Nanterre, and collaborated on the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA²) project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on overcoming methodological nationalism/Eurocentrism through Marxist frameworks, examining imperialism, migration, labor conditions, and postcolonial theory in global capitalism.
- Affiliations: Research Associate at SOAS Development Studies, Sussex Global Political Economy Centre, and Ca’ Foscari’s Laboratory for Social Research.
Key research areas include:
- Globalization’s impact on labor and poverty
- Postcolonial critiques of Marxist theory
- EU migration policies and border imperialism
- Alternatives to neoliberalism
Recent articles analyze Libya-Italy labor dynamics, Fiat-Chrysler strikes, and immigrant struggles in logistics. She co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism (2021) and contributes to public discourse via venues like Guardian and International Socialism. Active in academic governance, she serves on editorial boards and professional associations like IIPPE.
Teaching includes IPE theories, welfare state political economy, and critical research methods. Supervises PhDs on her research themes. Current projects explore metalworking labor in Europe/China and anti-colonial thought compilation for Edinburgh University Press.
