https://www.mattlacouture.com/about daily 1.0 2025-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611e56a63b0e7c6c9164ebb4/578a23c0-c9d6-451d-a66d-5ff97379dd6c/MatthewLacouture.jpeg About - I am an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Irvin D. Reid Honors College at Wayne State University. I research and teach about social movements, labor politics, and authoritarianism, with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa. My current research project focuses on the intersection of neoliberalism, authoritarianism, and social movements in Jordan and the Middle East. In my ongoing book project, “From Hegemony to Mobilization: Activism under Authoritarianism in Neoliberal Jordan” (under advance contract with Syracuse University Press, Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East series), I explain how marginalized insider groups—particularly public sector workers—become motivated and empowered to mobilize under politically repressive conditions. My research has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the International Review of Social History, Interventions, The Middle East Report Online, and the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS). https://www.mattlacouture.com/teaching daily 0.75 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Teaching https://www.mattlacouture.com/book-project daily 0.75 2025-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611e56a63b0e7c6c9164ebb4/42718abd-2e4d-408a-96cb-0db18cb43308/IMG_4743.jpeg Book Project The bustling Port of Aqaba, where a 2009 labor strike by port workers brought international attention to the regime's repression of workers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611e56a63b0e7c6c9164ebb4/0a842dd6-aa2e-486c-9d6b-836ae8a1e4f0/IMG_4740.jpeg Book Project The gates of a public school on the outskirts of Tafila, where teachers gathered in protest (as did teachers across Jordan) in 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611e56a63b0e7c6c9164ebb4/24d2fc47-8384-4d76-a0ad-a28cbefbeb89/IMG_3533.jpeg Book Project The "new downtown" mega development Abdali, in Amman. The all-too visible centerpiece of neoliberalism in Jordan. https://www.mattlacouture.com/publications-research daily 0.75 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611e56a63b0e7c6c9164ebb4/1629725605637-23A8EBBSI3J5INQNED5W/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-08-23%2Bat%2B8.23.08%2BAM.jpg Publications + Research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611e56a63b0e7c6c9164ebb4/1660399074991-X99WGW8SDX7R3W73F1GU/labor%2Bprotests.jpg Publications + Research https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611e56a63b0e7c6c9164ebb4/1660399100740-AWVV6G8PWSUHJ09ZQEBV/RTR33NLE-768x512.jpg Publications + Research https://www.mattlacouture.com/pagecv daily 0.75 2021-09-08