Sara Stevano

📣 CfP | Social Reproduction @ IIPPE 2026
🗓️ Deadline: 15 February 2026

Come join us! The IIPPE Social Reproduction Working Group invites paper and panel submissions to the IIPPE 16th Annual Conference. 📍 Lisbon | 🗓️ 9–12 September 2026

👉 CfP in link below or by scanning the QR code

I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YouTube video by Novara Media The Case For Decolonizing Economics

Enjoyed this conversation with Michael Walker @novaramedia.com on what the recent Nobel prizes in economics miss out about dynamics of development and what a decolonized lens helps mend that.

@soaseconomics.bsky.social @soasdevelopment.bsky.social

youtu.be/II7U4UlGaIA?...

📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with Jennifer Olmstead, Ibrahim Shikaki and Shir Hever on:

🎤 Symposium on Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in #Palestine 🇵🇸

🗓️ 8 October, 5PM
📍 SOAS, B103

info and livestream🔗 tinyurl.com/3vyrcymn

Junk food leads to more children being obese than underweight for first time Cheap ultra-processed food behind rise in overweight children, with one in 10 now obese globally, says Unicef

🚨Junk food alert! For the first time ever, more kids are obese than underweight globally.

A new UNICEF report warns ultra-processed foods #UPFs are overwhelming kids’ diets: cheap, adictive & deeply harmful.💔

Action on UPFs is overdue.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

#Health #Malnutrition

Gaza
West Bank
Lebanon
Yemen
Syria
Iran
Iraq
Tunisia
Qatar

All attacked and bombed by Israel in the past year.

Insane.

Rogue state.

Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective Published in Feminist Economics (Ahead of Print, 2025)

"Brilliant... the authors demonstrate how adopting a feminist political economy approach could prove liberating for students and scholars."

Yazgi Genç reviews 'Feminist Political Economy' by Sara Cantillon, Odile Mackett, and @sarastevano.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#IAFFE

PRESS RELEASE — Sweet Is Always the “Best Choice” Photo Exhibition TO Open at Nuku Studio, Tamale — grin ghana New photographic exhibition by Efo Sela in partnership with pupils from four Junior Highs in Tamale opens June 2, 2025, spotlighting ultra-processed food environments in Ghanaian schools. Tama...

Today the photo exhibition curated by Efo Sela and based on our project on ultra-processed food in Ghana opens in Tamale. The expansion of UPFs is seen through the eyes of adolescents in northern Ghana. Soon available digitally too!

www.gringhana.com/grin-blog/sw...

I was gifted a copy of this book, which is hot off the press, by my friend & colleague @surbhikesar.bsky.social It looks great and I look forward to delving into it. Many congratulations @devikadutt.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social

Our book is now available to order! We will be organising some book talks in the upcoming academic year to discuss these embryonic ideas on decolonising economics.

@ingridhk.bsky.social
@cacrisalves.bsky.social @devikadutt.bsky.social

UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals guidance for retailers in England changed after campaign by global food firms

FYI the companies that are members of the Food and Drink Federation that lobbied the UK government to change the guidance on junk food promotion are listed here: fdf.org.uk/fdf/about-fd...

www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Terrorists use food as a weapon: how Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab exploit hunger Terror groups use food as a tool to fight, govern and survive.

Food insecurity fuels terrorism in Africa, creating a vicious cycle of hunger and conflict.

theconversation.com/terrorists-u...

#Politics

London now. End the Genocide. #FreePalestine

📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social for the Annual conference of the Progressive Economic Forum !

🚀 Progressive economics 2025: UK economic policy in the age of Trump 🇺🇸

Info and registration 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

📢 WE ARE HIRING !!! 📢

The Department of Economics of @soasuni.bsky.social is recruiting a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in #Economics

Join our prestigious academic community!

Info 🔗 vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/684866

Aid’s grim counter-revolution will prove self-defeating [FREE TO READ] Arguments for slashing overseas development assistance in favour of defence fail on their own terms

@adamtooze.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com on the self-defeating logic of western aid cuts on.ft.com/4ckO1a3

It was fun, thank you! 💚

I had the pleasure to interview the brilliant @sarastevano.bsky.social about her fantastic work on approaches to social reproduction. Listen to her speak about her work here 👇🏽

🎙️ New podcast episode on social reproduction, unpaid labor, and feminist political economy, featuring @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @sarastevano.bsky.social as they explore economic structures in the Global South!

🎧 Listen to the full discussion here!
🔗 🔊 shorturl.at/lFyJJ

🎙️New Podcast on Social Reproduction!

What counts as “work,” and what gets overlooked?

@sarastevano.bsky.social joins @surbhikesar.bsky.social to discuss the unpaid & paid labour that sustains life.

🎧Listen here: shorturl.at/lFyJJ
@devcomms.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social

📌Join Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin Rai & @sarastevano.bsky.social for a discussion on pluralising feminist readings of the world economy and social reproduction

📅 20 March 5.15pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom

Register➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
@surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social
@carlosoya.bsky.social

The UK’s academic recession is in full swing This university crisis is a grim scrabble for numbers

NEW from me in the FT today... The UK's university 'system' is now in freefall. How on Earth did the disaster unfold? Read all about it: www.ft.com/content/0ec7...

📢Update: Please note this event has now been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances and rescheduled to 20 March 2025 at 5.15pm. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
@sarastevano.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social

If you have not seem "No Other Land," which just won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, there is currently a link to watch the film. Watch soon as the link is time bound and will only last for the next 48 hours.

The password is AF24.

vimeo.com/video/991587...

📌Join Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin Rai & @sarastevano.bsky.social for a discussion on pluralising feminist readings of the world economy and social reproduction

📅 March 6, 5pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom

Registration ➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
@surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social

Silvia Federici on The Arcana of Reproduction The Arcana of Reproduction is a unique book in the world of Marxist feminism. Generally, Marxist feminists have elaborated on the methodological significance of Marx’s work for understanding the speci...

"When Fortunati was working on The Arcana of Reproduction, her approach was iconoclastic – for, as the title of the book suggests, few social realities have been so manipulated as the sphere of reproduction, especially in Italy where years of Fascism had turned maternity into a religion."

@soaseconomics.bsky.social has joined us here! You need to follow them because they are easily the most exciting and innovative economics department you will find anywhere.
@soasdevelopment.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social @sarastevano.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social

Displaced lives: rethinking survival, social reproduction, and (in)security with refugees In this article, we examine the practices of survival that Rohingya and Syrian refugees perform as they confront multiple forms of violence resulting from their forced displacement in India and Tur...

🌟New Publication!

Raksha Gopal and I examine how Rohingya and Syrian refugees negotiate survival amid multiple forms of violence in India and Turkey. We introduce a new concept—the (in)securitization of social reproductive capacities—drawing on our PhDs @gvagrad.bsky.social.

📖Displaced Lives⤵️

Very excited to have our paper included in this issue alongside scholars who profoundly influenced our thinking, including @feministonmarx.bsky.social @shirinmrai.bsky.social @sarastevano.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social and many others💫