Simin Fadaee

I have been educated in Iran (University of Tehran), India (Jawaharlal Nehru University), South Africa (University of KwaZulu-Natal) and Germany (University of Freiburg). I worked at Humboldt University of Berlin for several years before moving to the UK.

My books include: Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics (Manchester University Press 2024); Marxism, Religion and Emancipatory Politics (Palgrave Macmillan 2022); Contemporary Mega Projects: Organisaion, Vision and Resistance in 21st Century (Berghan 2021); Understanding Southern Social Movements (Routledge 2016) and Social Movements in Iran: Environmentalism and Civil Society (Routledge 2012). 

I was previously an editor and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Sociology the flagship journal of the British Sociological Association. I am currently an editorial board member and Associate Editor of Critical Sociology. 

I am president of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Classes and Social Movements.  In Manchester I am a member of the organising committe for the research group movements@manchester which among other activities organises the annual Alternative Futures and Popular Protest Conference. I am an affiliate of the Sustainable Consumption Institute and a member of the Manchester University Press Editorial Committee. 

Theorethically my research is situated in debates surrounding the Northern-centric essence of sociology, and the extent to which theories, concepts and practices can travel across the North-South divide. My empirical focus is broadly on social movements, revolutions and social justice. I have conducted research in a number of places but mostly in Iran, India and Germany. Most of my research is informed by response to contemporary world politics.

I am keen to supervise research students in the above mentioned areas. 

PhD students supervised to completion 

2025

Madiha Khan, Education and identity dynamics in a conflict zone 

2023

Steven Speed, Crofting in Scottland 

2021

Anh-Susann Pham Thi, Activism in Vietnam 

Current PhD students

Alice Swift, Environmental protest camps as strategy 

Lucie Slamova, Challenges of radical left in East Europe 

Lidia YaNez, 2019-2022 Chilean protests and repression 

Ekin Ozturk, Seafarers and capital-labour relations