Amanda Zadorian is a critical political economist who studies the role of ideas and identities in capitalist development. Her book project is about the oil industry and political legitimacy in Russia and Brazil. Before coming to Oberlin, Amanda lived in Russia as a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow. She earned her PhD (2018) in politics at The New School for Social Research in New York.
Comparative and international political economy, political legitimacy, the oil industry, business-state relations, state capitalism, urban politics under autocracy, corporate responses to climate change.
Comparative politics, international political economy, capitalism studies, political ecology, Russian and post-Soviet politics, transnational queer experience, oil and climate change, identity and performance, qualitative research methods.
Zadorian, Amanda. 2021. “Practicing (State) Capitalism at Petrobras and Rosneft.” In Amanda Zadorian and Miklós Szanyi, eds., Special Issue on The Rise of State Capitalism, International Journal of Public Administration 44, no. 14 (October): 1241-1252. DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2021.1964082.
Zupan, Daniela, Vera Smirnova, and Amanda Zadorian. 2021. “Governing through stolichnaya praktika: Housing renovation from Moscow to the regions.” Geoforum 120 (March): 155-164. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.01.008.
