Dr. Spencer Potiker
About
Education
B.A. Economics and Sociology - CSU Long Beach
M.A. Sociology - UC Irvine
PhD Global Studies - UC Irvine
Teaching and Research Interests:
Political Economy; Globalization; Racial Capitalism; Labor and Social Movements; Border Studies; Urban and Regional Studies; World-Systems Analysis; Social Theory; Racialized Labor; Immigration; Community Engaged Research.
Courses:
Ethnic Studies 5 - Race and Ethnicity in America
Ethnic Studies 15 - Native People of North America
Sociology 1 - Introduction to Sociology
Book Project:
Cross-Border Mobility Regimes: Migration, Labor, and Supply Chain Urbanization in San Diego-Tijuana
Selected Publications:
Potiker, Spencer Louis, David A. Smith, Paul Ciccantell, Elizabeth Sower, and Luc McKenzie. 2024. "Labor organizing at chokepoints along Amazon's supply chain: Locating geo-strategic nodes." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space (https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X241228991).
Potiker, Spencer Louis. 2023. "Exit-With-Autonomy or Autonomy-Without-Exit? Divergent Political Trajectories in Rojava and the Kurdish Regional Government." Critical Sociology 49(1):115-132.
Potiker, Spencer Louis, Dana Williams, and Jake Alimahomed-Wilson. 2022. "Anarchist and Anarchistic Anti-Systemic Movements in World-Systems Perspective: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Non-State Spaces." Journal of World-Systems Research 28(2):188-218.
Chua, Charmaine, Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, and Spencer Louis Potiker. 2021. "Amazon's Investment in Israel Reveal Comlicity in Settlements and Military Operations." The Nation, June 21, (https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/amazon-prime-day-israel/).
Potiker, Spencer Louis. 2019. "Obstacles to Insurrection: Militarised Border Crossings Hindering the Rojava Liberation Struggle." Anarchist Studies 27(2):77-102.
Alimahomed-Wilson Jake and Spencer Louis Potiker. 2017. "The Logistics of Occupation: Israel's Colonial Suppression of Palestine's Goods Movement Infrastructure." Journal of Labor and Society 20(4): 427-447.
Selected Honors and Awards:
Eric Olin Wright Distinguished Article Award--Critical Sociology. 2024. "Exit-With-Autonomy or Autonomy-Without-Exit? Divergent Political Trajectories in Rojava and the Kurdish Regional Government."
Terrence K. Hopkins Student Paper Award--Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association. 2020. "Obstacles to Insurrection: Militarised Border Crossings Hindering the Rojava Liberation Struggle."