I am currently writing a monograph on the coloniality of the European Union’s preferential trade relations with the global souths, thanks to a First Book Fellowship awarded by the Independent Social Research Foundation. While working on this book project, I am a Visiting Fellow affiliated with the Department of International Development at King’s College London and the Department of Economic History, Institutions, Policy and World Economy at the University of Barcelona.
A political ethnographer by training, I hold a PhD in politics from Central European University (2024). Anchored in epistemologies from and for the global souths, my work interrogates the EU’s entanglements as a global (trade) power. More broadly, I am interested in the politics of knowledge, decolonial/anticolonial thought and praxis, and interpretive methodologies, and how these forces trouble colonial/modern discourses and practices around norms, development, and hierarchies in world politics. I have published in Journal of Contemporary European Research, Politics and Governance, and European Foreign Affairs Review, among others.
I have gained teaching experience at universities in Latin America, Central Europe, and Southeast Asia. Most recently, I served as a Global Teaching Fellow funded by the Open Society University Network at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia and contributed to distance teaching and learning at Parami University in Yangon, Myanmar. I also stayed as a Visiting Research Fellow at Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals in Catalunya from 2021 to 2025.
In a past life outside academia, I spent six years doing policy advocacy at the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines and working as EU outreach consultant for a European Commission-funded project on the internationalisation of small and medium enterprises.
Beyond the ivory tower, I co-organise for South/South Movement and dabble in film photography.
Caveat: I write as a Buhi’nən (Buhi’non) from the Bikol region in what has been colonially constructed as ‘the Philippines’.
Email: antonio.alcazar_iii@kcl.ac.uk
Twitter: @antonioalcazr