My current research centers on the uses of public banks in the global South amid the Covid-19 pandemic and post-pandemic recovery.
Ali Rıza Güngen
Ali Rıza Güngen is a political scientist working as a visiting assistant professor at York University. His research focuses on dependent financialization, state transformations, and public banks in the global South. His articles have appeared in The Journal of Peasant Studies and New Political Economy, and he has published extensively on the political economy of the emerging economies. Dr. Güngen co-edited the 2019 book The Political Economy of Financial Transformation in Turkey, published by Routledge, and is the co-author of Financialization, Debt Crisis and Collapse: The Future of Global Capitalism (in Turkish). His new book, Politics of Debt: Financial Inclusion in Turkey, was published in 2021 (in Turkish).
Dr Güngen has served as a member of the executive board of the Turkish Social Sciences Association. In addition, he sits at the editorial board of social sciences journal Praksis and is currently Middle East Studies Association Global Academy Fellow. His recent research inquires the limits and possibilities of the uses of public banks for an equity-oriented post-pandemic recovery in the global South.