Dr Angus McNelly
Lecturer in International Development (Politics)
Research interests
- International development
- Politics
Contact details
Biography
Angus is an interdisciplinary scholar interested the politics of transformative change and twenty-first century capitalism.
He joined the Department of International Development at King’s College London from the University of Greenwich in 2024. His research examines the Left in Power, state-social movement relations, the political economy of development in Latin America, natural resource-led development and extraction and energy transitions.
His first monograph, Now We Are in Power: The Politics of Passive Revolution in Twenty-First Century Bolivia, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2023. He is currently writing a book on the economic history of Bolivia and has three research projects addressing meat planes in Bolivia, finance, extraction and the green transition and the politics of knowledge production across postcolonial spaces respectively.
Research
- Politics of Transformative Change
- Political Economy of Development
- Latin American Politics
- Natural Resource-Led Development
- Extractivism
- Global Finance
- Energy Transitions
Angus' research has contributed significantly to the international scholarly debates on energy transitions, climate change mitigation, and the politics of development in twenty-first century Latin America. On the one hand, he has created a novel methodological approach to studying the green transition, collaborating with scholars both sides of the Atlantic to tease out the sinews of trade and finance that connect the City of London to extractive and financial frontiers in the Global South. His approach adds to ongoing attempts to decolonise energy transitions by interrogating how green extractivism and global finance shape the transition from fossil fuels to the green economy. On the other hand, his work intervenes in debates over natural resource-led development and the politics of development in Latin America.
Teaching
- 7YYDN040 Introduction to Qualitative Methods
PhD supervision
Angus is open to supervise PhD students on below topics:
- Latin American Politics
- Natural Resource-Led Development
- Extractivism
- Global Finance
- Energy Transitions
Research
Global Capitalism, Power & Uneven Development research group
We study the many ways in which the world-system unevenly constrains and drives development everywhere, with its persistent structural hierarchies, dependencies, contradictions, and unequal power relations between classes, ethnicities, genders, races, and states.
Climate, Environment, and Uneven Development research group
This group focuses on the critical study of the processes that drive and link social and ecological change in the contemporary world, with special attention to the climate crisis and its multiple social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions.
Research
Global Capitalism, Power & Uneven Development research group
We study the many ways in which the world-system unevenly constrains and drives development everywhere, with its persistent structural hierarchies, dependencies, contradictions, and unequal power relations between classes, ethnicities, genders, races, and states.
Climate, Environment, and Uneven Development research group
This group focuses on the critical study of the processes that drive and link social and ecological change in the contemporary world, with special attention to the climate crisis and its multiple social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions.