Sarah E. Sharma is an Assistant Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Queen’s University. Before joining the University of Victoria, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Scarborough; prior to her Ph.D., she worked at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in New York City. In 2022, she was the Chair of the Women & Inclusivity in Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) Network. Her research examines the global political economy of environmental governance, focusing on climate mitigation and adaptation governance and geopolitical relations between the global North and global South. She has published in outlets such as Review of International Political Economy, International Affairs, New Political Economy, Urban Geography, amongst others.
Expertise
- International Political Economy
- Global Governance
- Global North-global South Relations
Selected Publications
2023 Babić, M. and Sharma, S. E. ‘Mobilizing Critical Global Political Economy for the Age of Climate Breakdown.’ New Political Economy. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2023.2184468
2022 Sharma, S. E. ‘Governing Urban Flood Resilience in Amsterdam: Conflicting Urbanism and Climate Action,’ Review of International Political Economy. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2022.2100449
2022 Martel, S., Mustapha, J., and Sharma, S. E. ‘The WPS Agenda in East and Southeast Asia: Understanding an Emerging Field of Discourse and Practice,’ International Affairs, 98(2), 727–746. (my contribution 33%)
2021 Sharma, S. E. ‘Down and Out in Dhaka: Understanding land financialization and displacement in austerity urbanism,’ Urban Geography, 42(5), 681-700. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2021.1949845
2020 Sharma, S., and Soederberg, S. ‘Redesigning the Business of Development: The case of the World Economic Forum and global risk management,’ Review of International Political Economy, 27(4), 828-854. (my contribution 50%)
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