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Dalia Gebrial is a Lecturer at King's College London, focusing on Geography and Social Justice. Her research centers on themes of empire, race, labor, digital economies, globalization, and political economy. Dalia obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics, and her scholarly work has been published in journals such as Economy Space and Identities Journal and Historical Materialism. In addition to her academic pursuits, she is a political cultural commentator, contributing to various media outlets including The Guardian, The Telegraph, Vice, BBC Radio 4, Sky News, and BBC Politics Live. Dalia has also been an organizer and consultant for multiple anti-racism and anti-imperialism initiatives concerning workers' rights. Her work explores racial capitalism while developing theoretical and methodological tools to analyze the geographies of capitalism that are historically and spatially specific. She takes a broad approach to labor, examining formal employment, informal economies, and social reproduction, aiming to understand capitalism as a socio-economic order comprised of diverse and heterogeneous sites such as homes, nation-states, and prisons. Currently, her research addresses issues of race and labor within the platform economy, focusing on the racial geographies of platform labor in London.
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