Staff profile

Carla Ibled’s research emerges from a critical engagement with contemporary discourses of neoliberalism. She examines economic theories as simultaneously economic doctrines and mobilising affective infrastructures, showing how economics is practiced and imagined today, in the work of economists, economic thinkers, in popular culture and in everyday life. Carla’s work is interdisciplinary, drawing on insights from neoliberalism studies, critical political theory, cultural political economy and cultural studies.

Her future agenda include inter alia articles on the connections between the neoliberal and eugenics movements, on the neoliberal philosophy of pregnancy and parenting, on neoliberal space policies and their intersection with promotions of climate change scepticism, as well as a monograph on the affective infrastructures of neoliberalism based on the close and critical analysis of the key texts of neoliberal economic thought.

Carla joined the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University in 2025. Prior to that, she was SeNSS/ESRC post-doctoral research fellow at the University of East Anglia, as well as Lecturer in political theory and international relations at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she earned her PhD in 2021.

Research Interest

• Neoliberalism
• Eugenics
• Economisation of life
• Space policies
• Climate change
• Cultural economy
• Psychoanalysis

• •Neoliberalism
• •Eugenics
• •Economisation of life
• •Space policies
• •Climate Change
• •Cultural economy
• •Psychoanalysis