Political Economy, Social Theory, Capitalism and nature/society, Natural resource management, Sustainable Development
Professor Murat Arsel is Lecturer in Environment and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. His research interests lie broadly in the areas of political economy and social theory, particularly regarding the interface between capitalism and nature-society relationships in rapidly developing societies. In this perspective, his work focuses on natural resource management and sustainable rural development in rapidly industrializing nations in the Middle East (especially Turkey) and Central Asia. Murat Arsel is the author of Water, Environmental Security and Sustainable Rural Development: Conflict and Cooperation in Central Eurasia (Routledge, 2009), Environmentalism in Turkey: Between Democracy and Development? (Ashgate, 2005), Reflexive developmentalism? Toward an environmental critique of modernization (Adaman & Arsel, 2005). The demise of the Yasuni-ITT initiative (Murat Arsel & Lorenzo Pelligrini, November 5, 2013)
– Infrastructure and Latin American Environmental Geographies: An Introduction to our Special Issue, Hope, J. C. & Arsel, M., 20 Jan 2023, In: Journal of Latin American Geography. 21, 3, p. 8-21
– Climate change and class conflict in the Anthropocene: sink or swim together?, Arsel, M., 25 Aug 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Peasant Studies. 50, 1, p. 67-95 29 p.
– Global Extractive Imperative: from local resistance to unburnable fuels, Arsel, M. & Pellegrini, L., 2022, In: International Development Planning Review. 44, 1, p. 1-12 12 p.
– Indigenous People, Extractive Imperative and Covid-19 in the Amazon, Arsel, M. & Pellegrini, L., 1 Jan 2022, COVID-19 and International Development. Papyrakis, E. (ed.). Springer-Verlag, p. 137-146
– The Supply Side of Climate Policies: Keeping Unburnable Fossil Fuels in the Ground, Pellegrini, L. & Arsel, M., 10 Nov 2022, In: Global Environmental Politics. 22, 4, p. 1-14 14 p.
– Unburnable Fossil Fuels and Climate Finance: Compensation for Rights Holders, Orta-Martínez, M., Pellegrini, L., Arsel, M., Mena, C. & Muñoa, G., 10 Nov 2022, In: Global Environmental Politics. 22, 4, p. 15-27 13 p.
– Authoritarian developmentalism: The latest stage of neoliberalism?, Arsel, M., Adaman, F. & Saad-Filho, A., 6 Jun 2021, In: Geoforum. 124, p. 261-266 6 p.
– Introduction: The Why and How of Reclaiming Development Studies, Arsel, M., Dasgupta, A. & Storm, S., 2021, Reclaiming Development Studies: Essays for Ashwani Saith.
– Reclaiming Development Studies: Essays for Ashwani Saith, Arsel, M., Dasgupta, A. & Storm, S., 2021, (Anthem Frontiers in Global Political EConomy).
– The Myth of Global Sustainability: Environmental Limits and (De)Growth in the Time of SDGs, Arsel, M., 2021, Reclaiming Development Studies: Essays for Ashwani Saith.
– Institutional mechanisms to keep unburnable fossil fuel reserves in the soil, Pellegrini, L., Arsel, M., Orta-Martinez, M., Mena, CF. & Muñoa, G., 20 Nov 2020, In: Energy Policy. 5 p., 112029.
– International Investment Agreements, Human Rights, and Environmental Justice: The Texaco/Chevron Case From the Ecuadorian Amazon, Pellegrini, L., Arsel, M., Orta-Martinez, M. & Mena, CF., 2020, In: Journal of International Economic Law. 23, 2, p. 455-46814 p.
– The myth of global sustainability : Environmental limits and (de)growth in the time of SDGs, Arsel, M., 2020, The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), 22 p. (ISS working papers. General series, Vol. 662).
– The Political Economy of Environmental Policymaking in Turkey: A Vicious Cycle, Adaman, F., Akbulut, B. & Arsel, M., 2020, The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics. Tezcür, G. M. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 22 p.
– Turkey’s Authoritarian Regime of Accumulation: Development by Dislocation, Akbulut, B., Adaman, F. & Arsel, M., 2020, In: Journal of Australian Political Economy. 86, p. 280-303 24 p.
– Community-Based Monitoring of Oil Extraction: Lessons Learned in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Mena, CF., Arsel, M., Pellegrini, L., Orta-Martinez, M., Fajardo, P., Chavez, E., Guevara, A. & Espin, P., 8 Nov 2019, In: Society & Natural Resources: an international journal. 12 p.
– Maria’s Paradox: Oil Extraction and the Misery of Missing Development Alternatives in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Arsel, M., Pellegrini, L. & Mena, CF., 2019, Immiserizing Growth: When Growth Fails the Poor. Shaffer, P., Kanbur, R. & Sandbrook, R. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 24 p.
– Neoliberal developmentalism, authoritarian populism, and extractivism in the countryside: the Soma mining disaster in Turkey, Adaman, F., Arsel, M. & Akbulut, B., 24 Oct 2018, In: Journal of Peasant Studies.
– Oil and Conflict in the Ecuadorian Amazon: An Exploration of Motives and Objectives, Pellegrini, L. & Arsel, M., 19 Dec 2018, In: European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 106, July-December, p. 209-218 9 p.
– Troubled Waters of Hegemony: Consent and Contestation in Turkey’s Hydropower Landscapes, Akbulut, B., Adaman, F. & Arsel, M., 2018, Water, Technology and the Nation-State. Menga, F. & Swyngedouw, E. (eds.). Abington, UK: Routledge, p. 96-114 19 p. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management).
– “The squeaky wheel gets the grease”? The conflict imperative and the slow fight against environmental injustice in northern Peruvian Amazon, Orta-Martínez, M., Pellegrini, L. & Arsel, M., Oct 2018, In: Ecology and Society. 23, 3, p. 7 13 p., 7.
– ‘A Few Environmentalists?’ Interrogating the ‘Political’ in the Gezi Park, Arsel, M., Adaman, F. & Akbulut, B., 2017, Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment under Erdogan. Adaman, F., Akbulut, B. & Arsel, M. (eds.). London, p. 191-206 16 p.
– Conclusion: Neoliberal Modernisation Cast in Concrete, Adaman, F., Arsel, M. & Akbulut, B., 2017, Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment under Erdogan. Adaman, F., Akbulut, B. & Arsel, M. (eds.). London, p. 246-253 8 p.
– Introduction: Neoliberal Developmentalism in Turkey: Continuity, Rupture, Consolidation, Adaman, F., Arsel, M. & Akbulut, B., 2017, Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment under Erdogan. Adaman, F., Akbulut, B. & Arsel, M. (eds.). London, p. 1-17 17 p.
– Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment Under Erdogan, Adaman, F., Akbulut, B. & Arsel, M., 2017, London.
– The Radioactive Inertia: Deciphering Turkey’s Anti-Nuclear Movement, Akbulut, B., Adaman, F. & Arsel, M., 2017, Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment under Erdogan. Adaman, F., Akbulut, B. & Arsel, M. (eds.). London, p. 175-190 16 p.
– The extractive imperative and the boom in environmental conflicts at the end of the progressive cycle in Latin America, Arsel, M., Hogenboom, B. & Pellegrini, L., 11 Nov 2016, In: The Extractive Industries and Society: an International Journal (print). 3, 4, p. 877-879 3 p.
– The extractive imperative in Latin America, Arsel, M., Hogenboom, B. & Pellegrini, L., 11 Nov 2016, In: The Extractive Industries and Society: an International Journal (print). 3, 4, p. 880-887 8 p.
– Critique, Rediscovery and Revival in Development Studies, Arsel, M. & Dasgupta, A., 14 Jul 2015, In: Development and Change. 46, 4, p. 644-665 22 p.
– Environmentalism of the malcontent: anatomy of an anti-coal power plant struggle in Turkey, Arsel, M., Akbulut, B. & Adaman, F., 13 Jan 2015, In: Journal of Peasant Studies.
– Property rights, nationalization and extractive industries in Bolivia and Ecuador, Arsel, M., Mena, C., Pellegrini, L. & Radhuber, I., 2014, Conflicts over Natural Resources in the Global South – Conceptual Approaches. Bavinck, M., Pellegrini, L. & Mostert, E. (eds.). Leiden, p. 109-128 20 p.
– Payments for ecosystem services and the fatal attraction of win-win solutions, Muradian, R., Pellegrini, L., Arsel, M. & et, AL., 23 Jan 2013, In: Conservation Letters. 6, 4, p. 274-279 6 p.
– Structural Change, Land Use and the State in China: Making Sense of Three Divergent Processes, Arsel, M. & Dasgupta, A., 6 Sep 2013, In: European Journal of Development Research. 25, 1, p. 92-111 19 p.
– Between ‘Marx and Markets’? The State, the ‘Left Turn’ and Nature in Ecuador, Arsel, M., 20 Mar 2012, In: Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 103, 2, p. 150-163 14 p.
– Environment, Adaman, F. & Arsel, M., 2012, The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkey. Sayari, S. & Heper, M. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 317-327 11 p.
– Introduction: neoliberal conservation, uneven geographical development and the dynamics of contemporary capitalism, Buscher, B. & Arsel, M., 20 Mar 2012, In: Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 103, 2, p. 129-135 7 p.
– Local Climate Change and Water Distribution in Xinjiang, Spoor, M., Arsel, M. & JIang, P., 2012, Local Climate Change and Society. Salih, M. (ed.). London and New York: Routledge, p. 74-89 16 p.
– Mining conflicts around the world: Common grounds from an Environmental Justice perspective, Özkaynak, B., Rodriguez-Labajos, B., Arsel, M., Avci, D., Carbonell, MH., Chareyron, B., Chicaiza, G., Conde, M., Demaria, F., Finamore, R., Kohrs, B., Krishna, VV., Mahongnao, M., Raeva, D., Singh, AA., Slavov, T., Tkalec, T. & Yánez, I., 2012, EJOLT Report 7 ed. 198 p. (EJOLT Report, Vol. 7).
– Nature™ Inc: Changes and Continuities in Neoliberal Conservation and Environmental Markets, Arsel, M. & Buscher, B., 21 Feb 2012, In: Development and Change. 43, 1, p. 53-78 26 p.
– Opposition to Gold Mining at Bergama, Turkey (EJOLT Factsheet), Arsel, M., 2012, Mining Conflicts around the World: Common Grounds from Environmental Justice Perspective.Özkaynak, B. & Rodriguez-Labajos, B. (eds.). p. 124-129 6 p. (EJOLT Report, Vol. 7).
– ”Stating” Nature’s Role in Ecuadorian Development : Civil Society and the Yasuní-ITT Initiative, Arsel, M. & Avila Angel, N., 29 Jun 2012, In: Journal of Developing Societies. 28, 2, p. 203-227 25 p.
– Ecología Política de las Industrias Extractivas y el Desarrollo Dirigido por el Estado en Ecuador: Conflicto y Cooperación, Pellegrini, L., Arsel, M. & Mena, CF., 2011, In: Ventana a la Cooperacion. 7, p. 4-11 8 p.
– Fuelling misconceptions: UNEP, natural resources, the environment and conflict, Arsel, M., 10 Mar 2011, In: Development and Change. 42, 1, p. 448-457 10 p.
– ¿Una verdad cómoda?: el espectro de la catástrofe ambiental global y el desarrollo sostenible en China, Arsel, M., 31 May 2010, In: Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals. 89-90, p. 85-101 16 p.
– E. Fuat Keyman, Remaking Turkey: Globalization, Alternative and Modernities, Arsel, M., 2010, In: International Journal of Turkish Studies. 16
– Follow the water, Arsel, M. & Spoor, M., 2010, Water, environmental security and sustainable rural development : conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia. Arsel, M. & Spoor, M. (eds.). London and New York: Routledge, p. 3-17 14 p. (Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods, Vol. 5).
– Globalization, Development and Environmental Policies in Turkey, Adaman, F. & Arsel, M., 2010, Understanding the process of economic change in Turkey : an institutional approach. C?etin, T. & Yilmaz, F. (eds.). New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., p. 319-335 369 p. (Economic issues, problems and perspectives series).
– Political ecology of marshland restoration in Iraq, Josh, E. & Arsel, M., 2010, Water, environmental security and sustainable rural development : conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia. Arsel, M. & Spoor, M. N. (eds.). London and New York: Routledge, p. 49-74 14 p.
– Preface, Arsel, M. & Spoor, M., 2010, Water, environmental security and sustainable rural development : conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia. Arsel, M. & Spoor, M. (eds.). London and New York: Routledge, p. xiv-xv 2 p.
– Securing the future, democratizing development : the role of water, Arsel, M. & Spoor, M., 2010, Water, environmental security and sustainable rural development : conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia. Arsel, M. & Spoor, M. (eds.). London and New York: Routledge, p. 269-284 14 p. (Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods, Vol. 5).
– State Power, Nature and Development under ‘Socialism of the 21st Century’ in Ecuador: From Tragedy to Farce?, Arsel, M., 18 Nov 2010.
– Structural change, land use and the state in China: making sense of three divergent processes, Arsel, M. & Dasgupta, A., Oct 2010, The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), 25 p. (ISS working papers series. General series, Vol. 509).
– Water, environmental security and sustainable rural development : conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia, Arsel, M. & Spoor, M., 2010, Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods 5 ed. London and New York: Routledge. 284 p. (Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods, Vol. 5).
– An Introduction to Sustainable Development by Peter P. Rogers, Kazi F. Jalal and John A. Boyd, Arsel, M., 2009, In: Development and Change. 40, p. 399-401 3 p.
– Ekologi politik: dimanya ekonomiya, Arsel, M., 2009, In: Jurnal Tanah Air. 2009, Oktober-Desember, p. 10-17 8 p.
– Michael Watts, Arsel, M., 2009, In: Development and Change. 40, 6, p. 1191-1214 24 p.
– Political ecology of marshland restoration in Iraq, Arsel, M. & Ellis, J., 2009, Water, Environmental Security and Sustainable Rural Development. Arsel, M. & Spoor, M. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 49-74 26 p.
– Irrigation agriculture and sustainable development in Xinjiang, Arsel, M., 29 Oct 2008.
– Kuresellesme ve Kalkinma Surecinde Turkiye’de Cevre Politikalari: Aktorler ve Faktorler, Adaman, F. & Arsel, M., 2008, Türkiye’nin küreselle?mesi : f?rsatlar ve tehditler : ekonominin küreselle?mesi ve sürdürülebilir kalk?nma. Öztürk, I. (ed.). Istanbul
– The end of sustainable development: capitalism, economic growth, and global inequality, Arsel, M., 9 May 2008.
– The European Union and Turkey: Who defines environmental progress?, Adaman, F. & Arsel, M., 2008, In: International Journal of Middle East Studies. 40, 4, p. 541-543 3 p.
– Environmental narratives, national imaginaries, and transformation of nature in the Middle East, Arsel, M. & Sowers, J., 17 Nov 2007.
– Environmental human rights in the risk society. Conflict and human security, Arsel, M., 3 Jun 2006.
– Is there a fixed trajectory to societal transformation: A critique of totalizing environmental sociology, Arsel, M., 9 Mar 2006.
– Restoration as liberation? Political ecology of the reconstruction of Iraqi marshes, Arsel, M., 1 Dec 2006.
– ‘We will not become Africa’ : Turkish environmentalism at the gates of European civilization, Arsel, M., 30 Aug 2006.
– Development and democratization in an era of environmental crisis, Adaman, F. & Arsel, M., 2005, Environmentalism in Turkey : between democracy and development?. Dr. Arsel, M. & Adaman, F. (eds.). Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, p. 293-298 6 p. (Ashgate studies in environmental policy and practice).
– Energy politics and policy, Kaygusuz, K. & Arsel, M., 2005, Environmentalism in Turkey : Between democracy and development?. Adaman, F. & Arsel, M. (eds.). Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, p. 149-165 17 p. (Ashgate studies in environmental policy and practice).
– Environmentalism in Turkey: Between Democracy and Development?, Adaman, F. & Arsel, M., 2005, Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate Publishing. 322 p. (Ashgate studies in environmental policy and practice).
– Introduction, Adaman, F. & Arsel, M., 2005, Environmentalism in Turkey : Between democracy and development?. Adaman, F. & Arsel, M. (eds.). Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, p. 1-11 12 p.
– Reflexive developmentalism? Toward an environmental critique of modernization, Arsel, M., 2005, Environmentalism in Turkey : Between democracy and development?. Adaman, F. & Arsel, M. (eds.). Aldershot/Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing, p. 15-34 20 p.
– Risking Development or Development Risks? Probing the Environmental dilemmas of Turkish Modernisation, Arsel, M., 2005, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 321 p.
– The Bergama Imbroglio, Arsel, M., 2005, Environmentalism in Turkey : Between democracy and development?, Adaman, F. & Arsel, M. (eds.). Aldershot/Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, p. 263-275 13 p.
– German Espionage or ANZAC Revenge. Environmental Nationalism and Risk Politics in Turkey, Arsel, M., 30 Apr 2004.
– Some states are greener than others: Can we explain why?, Arsel, M., 2004, In: Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 6, 3, p. 305-311 7 p.
– German Espionage or ANZAC Revenge? Environmental Nationalism and Risk Politics in Turkey, Arsel, M., 9 May 2003.
– Risk society at Europe’s periphery? Reflections on the Bergama resistance in Turkey, Arsel, M., 2003, Integrating and articulating environments : a challenge for Northern and Southern Europe. Gök?en, F. (ed.). Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger, p. 29-50 22 p. (Integrated assessment studies, Vol. 3).
– Risk society at Europe’s periphery? the case of the bergama resistance in turkey, Arsel, M., 1 Jan 2003, Integrating and Articulating Environments: A Challenge for Northern and Southern Europe. 1st ed. London: CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), p. 29-49 21 p.
– Book Review of “Political Ecology: Science, Myth and Policy” (Stott, P and Sullivan eds), Arsel, M., 2002, In: Government and Policy. 20, p. 933-934 2 p.
– Mining for change: The triple transformation of state, society and business in Turkey, Arsel, M., 2000.
– Book Review of “The Global Politics of the Environment -L Elliott”, Arsel, M., 1999, In: Cambridge Review of International Affairs. XII, p. 2
– Ecological modernization in Turkey? A case study of Ovacik gold mine, Arsel, M., 1999.
– Book Review of “Dependency Theory: Scholarship and Politics in Latin American Studies” (R. Packenham ed.), Arsel, M., 1998, In: Journal of International Studies. 27, 2, p. 404-406 3 p.
