Aleksandra joined the Department of European and International Studies in September 2023. Prior to this, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the ERC-funded Platform Labor project at the University of Amsterdam, where she conducted research on the political economy of platformization. Her research is interested in the changing features of contemporary global capitalism, with a particular focus on continuities and changes within neoliberal accumulation, authoritarian politics and practices, and crisis-driven state restructuring.

Her research spans the Global North and South, and she has conducted research on authoritarian politics in Serbia and the Balkans, platform capitalism in the EU, and comparatively on the emergence of neoliberal projects in the United States, South Africa and Sweden. Methodologically, she deploys scale and space as a lens for understanding the global political economy and is particularly interested in what processes of urban restructuring tell us about the global political economy.

Aleksandra has published her research in the Review of International Political Economy, Globalizations, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space and other journals, and her book is forthcoming with Routledge.

Research interests

• Capitalist variety
• Post-2008 crisis neoliberalism
• Changing role and spatiality of the state
• Platform capitalism and Big Tech
• Renewable energy promotion

Latest publications

Piletić, A. (2023). Continuity or change? Platforms and the hybridization of neoliberal institutional contexts. Review of International Political Economy, online first.

Piletić, A. (2023). Renewable energy and EU-led authoritarian neoliberalization: small hydropower in Rakita, Serbia and the upscaling of environmental struggles. Globalizations, online first.