Faculty Member, Politics and International Studies
Lecturer in Comparative Politics
Patrick McGowan
Hendrik Spruyt
About
I am a Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast and received my PhD from the Department of Political Science at Arizona State University.
At Queen’s, I lecture and give tutorials in the areas of African and postcolonial politics, comparative and American politics, the political economy of development and the philosophy of social science.
I currently convene two undergraduate modules: Politics of Development in Africa and Comparative Politics of America and Europe. I also contribute to the Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) degree programme.
My primary research interests are Southern African politics, postcolonial politics and the political economy of development.
Specific research interest include: the legacy of settler colonialism; state-business relations and their impact on development and democratisation; the history of capitalism in Southern Africa; relations between North and South in the global economy.
More abstractly, I am interested in the philosophical and political origins of development as a concept and the theoretical debates on what constitutes development as defined by orthodox and post-development approaches to the subject.
Current research projects:
- settler colonialism and indigeneity in Southern Africa;
- conservatism and postcolonial politics.
Contact Information
http://www.qub.ac.uk/pisp/Staff/Andreasson/
