Dr  Japhy Wilson - Research

My research explores the relationship between space, power and ideology in the global political economy, with a particular focus on the politics of social engineering. My PhD thesis and initial publications address the contested production of space in southern Mexico. My current research concerns philanthrocapitalism and the politics of development in sub-Saharan Africa. Theoretically, I draw on historical materialism and the psychoanalytic critique of ideology, in order to critically engage with the power relations though which social space is imagined, produced, and transformed.