Participant Info
- First Name
- Maia
- Last Name
- Pal
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- mpal@brookes.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- Oxford Brookes University
- Website URL
- https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/maia-pal/
- Keywords
- early modern overseas consuls, early modern extraterritoriality, Mediterranean, transition to capitalism, origins of capitalism, mercantilism, French empire, English empire, Spanish empire, Dutch empire, imperialism, digital capitalism
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I am an International Relations scholar focused on developing the approaches of historical sociology and historical materialism. I research early modern empires in terms of their extraterritorial strategies of expansion, which I’ve termed as processes of jurisdictional accumulation. I am interested in historicising processes of jurisdiction and their role in shaping international order.
I specifically focus on French overseas consuls in the early modern (16th-18th centuries) Mediterranean, the influence of French mercantilism and Marseille’s Chambre de commerce, and how they related to English and Dutch consuls and competing mercantilisms in the region.
More broadly, I research the transition to and origins of capitalism in England and its colonies, its significance for the development of political and legal institutions worldwide, essential to the development of modern international relations and international law.
More recently, I have started working on contemporary aspects of digital capitalism, and have previously also published on critical pedagogy, student protests, and student employability in UK higher education.
- Recent Publications
Pal M, Jurisdictional Accumulation: an early modern history of law, empires, and capital, Cambridge University Press (2020)
Margolies DS, Özsu U, Pal M, Tzouvala N, (ed.), The Extraterritoriality of Law: History, Theory, Politics, Routledge (2019)
Odysseos L, Pal M, ‘Towards Critical Pedagogies of the International? Student Resistance, Other-regardedness and Self-formation in the Neoliberal University’ International Studies Perspectives 19 (1) (2018)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @maia_pal
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- England, France, Mediterranean, Spain, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, Early Modern, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Capitalism, Colonialism, Diplomacy, Law, Pedagogy, Politics, Technology
