🚨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.

Our book « Feminism for the World » was published by Pluto Press (UK) this Wednesday 20 August. www.plutobooks.com/978074535033...

"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

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

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...

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

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

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

📢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

"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

🌟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💫

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 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...

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 @soasuni.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social

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...

🎙️ New podcast episode unravels informal economy with Surbhi Kesar, in a thought-provoking conversation with Sara Stevano, focusing on the Indian economy Tune in for key insights! Listen here 🔊 www.soas.ac.uk/research/res... @naomihossain.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social #IndianEconomy

📢 SOAS Global Development Seminar Series - 2025! Join us at #SOAS for seminars on global challenges, featuring experts in development economy, migration, social reproduction and more! 📅 Next date: Jan 22 at 5pm 🔗 shorturl.at/Q8b34 @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social

‘Tiny broken bodies, rotting babies, flattened corpses, mass graves, levelled neighbourhoods. It is a spectacle of slaughter. All unfolding in plain sight, livestreamed and posted by Palestinian citizens and journalists, witnessed by outsiders, and described by Israelis themselves.’

Very excited about Martinez vs Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, Post, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, General Mills,Nestle, Kellanova, WK Kellogg, Mars and ConAgra. A teenager is suing the food industry for ultraprocessed food, engineered for addiction, harming kids like him. www.forthepeople.com/sites/defaul...

‘I have lost everything’: southern Africa battles hunger amid historic drought #Climate

In awe of Gisèle Pelicot. Thinking of her and all survivors today.

Ghana has problems, but regular, no-fuss democratic alternation is not one of them. www.cnn.com/2024/12/08/a...

"Amnesty International has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israeli authorities committed, and continue to commit prohibited acts under the Genocide Convention". www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

Thanks for sharing Kanishka! I've also just published some background on today's events jacobin.com/2024/12/yoon...

feminist/queer political economy starter pack is here - let me know who else I need to add

Let's make this a thing! Folks researching the political economy of food and agriculture. Let me know if you should be added to this list! go.bsky.app/GykU1LD

Here we go!! go.bsky.app/HGJz3QR

New symposium out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on Depletion through/of Social Reproduction. It builds on Shirin Rai's foundational work on depletion to replenish geographical thinking on depletion through/of social reproduction. 1/7 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....