Ilan’s research is in critical development studies, focusing on global politics, political ecology, and comparative critical theory (democracy, postcoloniality, psychoanalysis).
Rethinking Development Politics
Edward Elgar, 2024 (with Gavin Fridell)
Global Libidinal Economy
SUNY Press, 2023 (Co-author, with Gavin Fridell, Maureen Sioh and Pieter de Vries)
Universal Politics
Oxford University Press, 2022 (Co-author, with Zahi Zalloua)
Confronting Desire: Psychoanalysis and International Development
Cornell University Press, 2020
Psychoanalysis and the Global
University of Nebraska Press, 2018 (Editor)
Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity
Routledge, 2013
The Postcolonial Politics of Development
Routledge, 2008
