Sara Stevano

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....

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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.

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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...

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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.
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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.
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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💫

Only politics can end world hunger - IPES-Food "Hunger persists because we allow injustice to endure. Food isn’t scarce but many people can’t access it.” To give people access to food, we must confront power & inequality.

The world produces more than enough #food to feed everyone.

Yet it is shamefully misallocated.

BigAg firms make more profit by exporting food for animal feed, biofuels, or ultra-processed foods, than selling it to poor people. 1/3 of all food is simply wasted.
ipes-food.org/only-politic...

🎬 The much-anticipated film screening is TOMORROW at 5.15pm, SOAS KLT!

More information ➡️: shorturl.at/NhThq

@carlosoya.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @lindacalab.bsky.social @yunnanchen.bsky.social @sarastevano.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social

UK takes legal advice over pulling out of $20bn Total LNG project in Mozambique Britain has pledged to halt new export finance to oil and gas developments in wake of COP26 in 2023

UK government official: “It’s a bloody nightmare, it’s very challenging on the ground there to figure out what’s going on. [...] It’s not the environmental concerns that are the problem, it’s the volatile situation.”😳
www.ft.com/content/cacd...

Bridging the international political economy of water: social reproduction, governance and non-state actors Water governance has recently gained increasing political and academic attention. However, in many of these debates, it is often narrowly understood as a set of institutional arrangements, rather t...

During my PhD I often had to explain how I am a 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭 and at the same time researching 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫, so I ended up writing a piece about it! Reviewing five excellent books, I trace the (porous) contours of an IPE of water, and argue that it should be feminist, critical and relational.

📢 For those working on social reproduction: the CfP for the next IIPPE Annual Conference in Ankara is now open! Submit your paper/panel by 1st February here: iippe.org/2025-iippe-a... @lenagempke.bsky.social

📢 Join us for a talk by Shiping Tang, Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai, chaired by Elisa Van Waeyenberge!

📍SOAS, KLT & Zoom
📅 Jan 22 @ 5pm GMT

Register➡️: shorturl.at/qQJCD
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Making feminist economics count - Workshop @ SOAS (13th & 14th of Feb)

Come join us for a two day workshop dedicated to learning & advancing quantitative methods in feminist economics.

Limited spaces. Apply! ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/making...