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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 years

When your theory asks you to choose between two imperial powers, scrap the theory. And choose the people.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

6 months

And here it is! The mammoth finally arrived ♥️✊🏼! Labour of love edited with Dario Azzellini, Maurizio Atzeni, Phoebe Moore and Ursula Apitzsch. With great chapters by a huge dream team! Please academic friends, order it for your library! 1/2

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

3 months

Congratulations @ShirinMRai for this wonderful achievement! 💚💥can’t wait to read, and celebrate appropriately too! @FemEconSoas @SOASDevelopment take note👇🏼

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

Heartbroken to hear Maria Mies passed away. She was a giant, a wonderful activist, generous woman, and committed eco-socialist. And we WILL make sure, one way or the other, that her legacy lives on. Thanks Maria for everything, I promise to try my best to live 'the good life'.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

5 months

Folks, get prepared as this is happening on January 10th 5.00pm. Great book launch of 'Feminist Political Economy:a Global Perspective' by Sara Cantillon, @OdileMackett & @SaraStevano ! Honoured to act as discussant with @DzodziTsikata @ShirinMRai - chaired by @N_Kabeer 👇🔥💚

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

7 months

My intellectual obituary for Maria Mies is now out in Radical Philosophy. I was deeply honoured to write it. We need to celebrate who struggled before us. Rest in Power, Maria Mies.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

Now out in print! It was great to work together @SaraStevano and @susanamynewman , with thanks to all our wonderful contributors - including @floretta_voice @hannahbargawi @lux_barbagallo @michalnahman and so many others -and to @RIPEJournal for great editorial work & support!

Review of International Political Economy

@RIPEJournal

1 year

OUT NOW: Vol. 29 No 6! @FeministOnMarx @susanamynewman & @SaraStevano introduce the special issue by making the case for combining insights from Feminist IPE, Feminist Economics, and Feminist Political Economy of Development.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 years

Tonight soas evicted our wonderful students’ occupiers. I want to thank each and every one of them for occupying in solidarity with the massive wage-theft and life-theft we suffered last week. Thank you for teaching the teachers what a collective culture of resistance looks like.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

10 months

Our ILO report on Social Life of Industrial Disputes is out! Great to work with Rakhi Sehgal & dream advisory team. Disputes available in digitised repository at V.V.Giri Institute of Labour History,Delhi @SOASDevelopment

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

8 months

What a treat to find this in the post! Nothing is more satisfying that the success of our former PhD students! Congratulations again ⁦ @arslan_ayse_ ⁩ for the marvellous achievement! My read these coming weeks ♥️👇🏼get it, folks!

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

7 months

Whenever I feel the strain of my job, then I think of our students and I get this uplifting feeling of purpose and pride. #FreePalestine

Lisa Tilley

@Tilley101

7 months

SOAS students!

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

8 months

What a great honour to interview the formidably inspiring Silvia Federici for the Deutscher Prize podcasts!👇🔥🩷 - I feel incredibly privileged. The link to all podcasts can be found here

Podcast Interviews with Shortlisted Authors

Below you can listen to interviews with all the great authors whose books were shortlisted for the Deutscher Prize in 2021 and 2022. You can subscribe on iTunes here, and on Spotify here.

www.deutscherprize.org.uk

The Deutscher Prize

@DeutscherPrize

8 months

🚨 New season of our podcast: Marxism in our Time In each episode, an author of a book that made it to our shortlist will be interviewed by fellow comrades or committee members. Our first episode sees Silvia Federici join @FeministOnMarx . Check it out!

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

11 months

Marx in the Field (Anthem 2021,23) is now paperback! So, far cheaper Marx! 👇🔥 great chapters by @SaraStevano @floretta_voice @TaniaToffanin @bencous67245641 @PoMoGandhi @susanamynewman , B.Harriss-White,Ali Jan,H.Berstein, Adam Hanieh and many others!

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

3 months

My latest article in @envplanf , concluding a sort of ‘trilogy’ on value and social reproduction💥✊🏼💚 Thanks Adam Morton for pushing me to write this and to marvellous sources of inspiration like Silvia Federici, Leopoldina Fortunati and Jairus Banaji.

Value theories in motion: Circular labour migration, unfinished land dispossession and reproductive...

This analysis theorises the central role of the urban–rural divide in the making of value relations and exploitation in contemporary labour regimes. Inspired by...

journals.sagepub.com

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

All sessions from FESS 2023 on Social Reproduction and the Changing World of Work are online and available at the IEJ website. Marvellous experience to be in South Africa with this great crowd - I look forward to catch up with sessions I missed.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

New book co-edited by the formidable @carolinehossein - grounding racial capitalism. Congrats! Proud to have endorsed it, get it, folks

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

3 months

My last piece in @ConversationUK - as debt and wage-theft continue across garment supply chains our @ilo report on industrial grievances shows that the only answer is collective action 👇

Debt, wage theft and coercion drive the global garment industry – the only answer is collective...

Garment workers around the world experience unacceptable forms of exploitation.

theconversation.com

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

For my birthday this year, I want you to vote ‘Yes’ at the next UCU ballot! Are you mad strike has been suspended? Vote Yes! Are you glad it was? Vote Yes! This way, we will make sure we go back to the picket lines immediately if needed! We must win! @ucu @UCUSOAS

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

6 months

Presenting at the HM conference at SOAS, tomorrow Friday 10, on the session on the mode of production debate - 2.15 pm, SOAS main building R201. Stellar line-up @Andreas_Bieler @Hesketh1981 @maia_pal , chaired by Demet Dinler. Come along if you are around.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 years

On why we strike next week: because we reclaim our life spaces! It will be an honour as always to stand on the picket with you all, folks!

Neoliberal capitalism and the commodification of social reproduction, from our home to our classroom

It is official: we are getting ready for another round of industrial action in the UK higher education sector. For those who may be wondering what the current UCU national strike 2021-22 is all abo…

developingeconomics.org

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 years

Today Italy votes. Thin hopes not to have a fascist government elected. Fellow Italian passport holders voting: remember what our great-grandfathers died for. And if we are to lose today, let’s make it the shortest government in Italian history. ✊🏼 Antifascist forever

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

7 months

New blog out - engaging with the debate on international versus global development (whilst promoting Marx in the Field!) - kindly commissioned and hosted by MarxSociologyBlog 👇🏼

So, Global or International Development: Why Not Both? Marx in the Field, Planetary Immanent...

Marx in the Field editor Alessandra Mezzadri writes about the collection’s emphasis on the global reach and potential of Marxian global political economy, reclaiming its relevance for the study of…

marxistsociology.org

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

13 days

Never forget Rana Plaza. Darkest day in the history of modern fast fashion manufacturing (the history of textiles has so many more).To commemorate, read my friend and colleague @nomhossain blog below. Never forget. Memory is political. @SOASDevelopment

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

3 months

If you do not know what to read this month ;) 👇

The Sociological Review Foundation

@TheSocReview

3 months

Works on works: #TSRWork editor @asiyaislam and Alessandra Messadri @FeministOnMarx collaborate on a #readinglist of key texts on work as seen through a feminist lens, including Angela Davis, Silvia Federici, Maria Mies, bell hooks and many more.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

5 months

la nuova strategie pro-patriarcale in Italia e' cercare di rappresentare Non Una Di Meno come anti-semita, visto il support al ceasefire e al popolo Palestinese. Ma per favore. Nessun@ sta conn Hamas. Non diciamo stronzate, e non ci si faccia ingannare, please.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 years

My article on COVID-19 & social reproduction is out, tracing planetary crises of life work and death waged by pandemic neoliberalism and calling for reproductive politics to take centre stage in our post-pandemic future. Celebrating plural SR approaches!

Social reproduction and pandemic neoliberalism: Planetary crises and the reorganisation of life,...

This article portrays the COVID-19 pandemic as a planetary crisis of capitalist life and analyses it through the feminist political economy lens of social repro...

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 years

Today, we know our employers don’t care at all about our life beyond work. They strip us of our savings and cash their fat salaries whilst giving us sermons about affordability. It ain’t finish, and they will loose. And by the way folks, now it is all about the wages! ✊🏼

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 months

Honoured to give this lecture in Toronto next week at McMasters for International Women's Day👇 it will be an occasion to meet old & new friends, including @Thomas_Marois @AngiePesarini and @AHAkramLodhi @KatjaPraznik - @carolinehossein will miss you tons.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 years

Valentine on the SOAS picket: comrades and chocolates for pensions and 4 fights! ❤️✊🏼🍫

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

I find it increasingly really hard to post on death at sea. This time we had descriptions of bodies - tiny ones, an unacceptable image - but so many others remain formless, as the sea swallows them far away from the shore. 1/4

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

7 months

Very happy I will take part in the SOAS X New School lecture series ( @SOASxNSSR ) this academic year with many colleagues from @SOASEconomics ! 👇🏼🔥 @SOASDevelopment

SOAS X New School

@SOASxNSSR

7 months

We are excited to announce the launch of our 2nd lecture series 🚨Crises of Capitalism🚨. Based on last year's theoretical analyses, we bring even more relevant topics to our everyday life. Register at 📪📪 to receive reading lists and Zoom link.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

Listening to Jens Lerche presenting on 100 years of accumulation and exploitation in India - seminars at SOAS, we are back! ⁦⁩ ♥️⁦ @SOASDevelopment ⁩ ⁦ @AgrarianChange ⁩

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

4 months

Doing this soon @SOASxNSSR , watch this space 👇🏼 @SOASDevelopment

SOAS X New School

@SOASxNSSR

4 months

Lecture 5 - Life in Crises: Social Reproduction Readings of COVID-19 and Caring Struggles for the Future by @FeministOnMarx is coming up in 2 weeks! 📖 Reading list below 📍Monday 29 Jan 2024 📍5-7pm (UK) / 12-2pm (NY)

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 months

Nice to know my last D&C piece 2022 was among the top dowloaded articles! thanks @DevandChg for the recognition

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

My plenary talk ‘Unbounding exploitation’ for the HM conference 2022 is now published on their website - with much love to Demet Dinler for organising and @Camila_Vergara and @Mai_Taha_ for being the best Co-panellists.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

4 months

starting soon at soas! take note

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

Excellent piece by Aabid Firdausi in @CriticalDev

The evolution of mainstream economics in five political-economic questions

The trajectory of mainstream economics can be understood in terms of how the discipline historically responded to moments of crises by attempting to “theoretically fix” the understandings related t…

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

SOASians are under the threat of 100% deductions since April 20th for MAB. The school has declared it won't even pay pension contributions, pushing deductions to 120% of monthly pay. Help us sustain our legitimate industrial action

SOAS UCU Hardship Fund, organized by Kerem Nisancioglu

Workers at SOAS urgently need your support in carrying forward their industrial action in the… Kerem Nisancioglu needs your support for SOAS UCU Hardship Fund

www.gofundme.com

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

Buon 25 Aprile compagn*!Antifascist* sempre! ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 E ricordiamoci che per la liberazione si combatte ogni giorno. Non passeranno.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 years

This is OUR surplus as it really is wage theft. We are claiming it back! ⁦⁦⁦ @ucu ⁩ ⁦ @UCUSOAS ⁩ ✊🏼

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

7 months

In the thousands, in the millions, we are all Palestinians! Londoner, SOAS-UCU, and proud! ✊🏼🇵🇸

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Alessandra Mezzadri

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2 years

Apparently Giorgia Meloni includes Pier Paolo Pasolini in the list of names of ‘her’ Rome. Here is Pasolini punching a fascist outside the cinema premiering his movie ‘Mamma Roma’. So, Giorgia, your Rome ain’t the same, luv

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

7 months

Truly honoured that 'On the Value of Social Reproduction' has been translated into Chinese.Thanks to Jinmin Yan for organising the translation,with support by Xuehong Dai at Nanjing University.The piece is in 'Foreign Theoretical Trends'.May feminist ideas always travel worldly🩷

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

The one place where united we stand - on the picket! Let's remember this, folks.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

5 months

So proud 2be in special section in @feministsatlaw on social repro by Enrica Rigo,Dona Alessandrini @pkotiswaran !With SilviaFederici, @veronica_gago Liz Mason-Deese, @ShirinMRai LeopoldinaFortunati, @Serena_Natile FionaMcMillan,KerryRittich RosariaMarella

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

Happy International Women's Day folks. I dedicate it to the memory of Mahsa Amini and Brianna Ghey. I celebrate our common, collective fight, which is the road to liberation. May we walk it together. (Graffiti below by Graffiti Girls Kenya ❤)

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

5 months

Rest in Power, Toni Negri.

il manifesto

@ilmanifesto

5 months

È morto stanotte a Parigi Toni Negri. Filosofo, politologo, attivista, accademico, politico. Negri è stato tantissime cose, contemporaneamente. In occasione dei suoi 90 anni, lo scorso 1 agosto si è raccontato su @ilmanifesto in una lunga intervista:

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

6 months

Great. One reason more not to read Habermas.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 years

I will be part of an exciting roundtable on social reproduction in global supply chains tomorrow 29 June @IAFFE ! With @luisa_lupo (organiser) Asanda Benya Saniye Dedeoglu and Isabella Bakker. Check it out!

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 years

Solidarity to all Bangladeshi tea workers striking for a higher wage! ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 @Hasan__Ashraf

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 years

Get this, folks! Our framework chapter is in part 2 ❤️

Ilias Alami

@IliasAlami

2 years

A fantastic collection. I'm particularly enjoying the more theory oriented chapters in part 2.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

11 months

Folks, ay day is coming again. Despite us winning against 100%MAB deductions from June 9th onwards, many @UCUSOAS members will still face zero pay this month, as fully included in past deductions. Please donate to our strike fund! Solidarity, @ucu rising!

SOAS UCU Hardship Fund, organized by Kerem Nisancioglu

Workers at SOAS urgently need your support in carrying forward their industrial action in the… Kerem Nisancioglu needs your support for SOAS UCU Hardship Fund

www.gofundme.com

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@FeministOnMarx

1 year

‘In failing to historicise land grabs, we fail to disaggregate dynamics of accumulation, establish the genealogy of racial capitalism, and document resistance beyond dispossession.’ Well said ⁦ @drsaalajeng1 ⁩

The labor of land

In order to better resist contemporary, neocolonial accumulation, we need to historicize land grabs in Africa.

africasacountry.com

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

10 months

I wonder: when we win this dispute, are those who did not stand a minute in solidarity forfait their totally undeserved wage and pension rises, right? asking for 700,000 friends

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

6 months

@GeorgeMonbiot @subwayrage you are so mistaken this time, with use of language betraying racial bias.Brown people (occupied) ‘inevitable’ casualties; white deaths (occupier) ‘deliberate’ killings.We don’t even need this to mourn all innocent.Check your privilege-driven vision. Someone like u must do better

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

7 months

There is no state called ‘Hamas’. There is a nation denied, whose scattered territory is occupied and partially caged, with a mighty state now bombing civilians into that cage as the world’s powerful cheer on or help. It is not a dystopian horror movie, it is Palestine now.

Lisa Tilley

@Tilley101

7 months

Deep into a genocide of Palestinians with the Israeli war crimes stacking up & this woman is still urging them on. Truly the Europe of Fanon's words "where they're never done talking of Man yet murder men everywhere they find them.. in all the corners of the globe"

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28 days

Woah! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 congrats to @parisyeros archana prasad and @DzodziTsikata !

Agrarian South Network

@Agrarian_South

28 days

New book from ASN GENDER IN AGRARIAN TRANSITIONS: LIBERATION PERSPECTIVES FROM THE SOUTH - edited by Dzodzi Tsikata, Archana Prasad & Paris Yeros - published by Tulika Books (New Delhi)

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

Happy to report that our EE Handbook on the Global Political Economy of Work is in production!Great to work with Maurizio Atzeni (lead,CONICET Argentina),Phoebe Moore (Essex),Dario Azzellini (Cornell) & Ursula Apitzsch (Strasbourg).Watch this space 4 future info @SOASDevelopment

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@FeministOnMarx

1 year

I will be giving a seminar at NTU Singapore soon - from the comfort of my own lounge! Please register and circulate, folks! Thanks to @Stephen_Soe for the kind invitation @SOAS @SOASDevelopment @SOASEconomics @SOASpolitics

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@FeministOnMarx

5 months

Very proud of my long-time friend and SOAS MSc PED classmate (2002-3) @SNavatar who just published a great book praised by everyone which I cannot wait to read! Get it folks! 🎉

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@FeministOnMarx

4 months

@stanzaselvaggia mi trovi d'accordo con te su molto,ma qui penso tu abbia preso una cantonata,contro un ragazzino che ha perso 1 gamba in modo orribile.e certo che si possono fare raccolte fondi per chiunque per protesi future.e costa una sorbola il rimpatrio.ammetere errori e' importante, fallo.

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1 year

In pickets we trust! @UCUSOAS ✊🏼🫶🏼

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@FeministOnMarx

2 years

The fight between good and evil exists, and it is fought daily on the streets of Palestine. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸✊🏼

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@FeministOnMarx

1 month

We are on today! Presenting our ILO report on industrial grievances in India's garment industry in Hyderabad,with @wneha5 (ILO),Indrani Mazumdar (CWDS),Manimekalai (CWDS),Ravi Srivastava (IHD/ISLE), Sujata Mody (NTUI),Supriya RoyChowdhury (NIAS). @SOASDevelopment @SOASEconomics

Indian Society of Labour Economics

@isle_india

1 month

Day 1 features engaging Parallel Panel: 'Exploring Workers-centred Industrial Relations in India’s Garment Sector' by @SOAS & @ilo . Join us for an in-depth discussion on improving working conditions, rights, & relations in one of India's most vital sectors. #64ISLEConference

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Best quote of the week -possibly the year: “We want to thank Jeff Bezos for going to space,” (Chris) Smalls said, “because when he was up there, we were signing people up.” Welcome, and power to you, Amazon Labour Union. ✊🏼

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@FeministOnMarx

2 years

They are not acting against our students. These ARE our students. Solidarity.

SOAS Palestine Society

@SOAS_Palestine

2 years

🚨 SOAS campus union, staff & members of the SOAS community have come together in an open statement of solidarity voicing their concern at the SOAS Directors Group to criminalise, demonise, and harm peaceful student protestors 🚨 Read below & sign ⬇️

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Alessandra Mezzadri

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Good read on the limits of linear structural transformations narratives for the Global South

Structural Transformation: Then and Now

by C.R.Yadu and Sahil Mehra A major theme that dominates the literature on development economics is the narrative of ‘Structural Transformation’, which, based on the experience of developed economi…

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

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I am so honoured to be a discussant for @alpashah001 important book next week, with friends and colleagues @PoMoGandhi and @JensLerche ! mark the date @SOAS_SAI @SOASDevelopment @SOASEconomics @SOASpolitics @SOASanthro @SoasAmbedkarSoc !

SouthAsia Solidarity

@SAsiaSolidarity

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This is next week! With author @alpashah001 and discussion with @PoMoGandhi @FeministOnMarx @JensLerche . #BhimaKoregaon #BK16 #UAPA #FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners

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My global commodity chains students do great work - here a blog based on course assignment! We curated & published it: assessment is care & cannot be replaced randomly ;) Well done Livia Capparelli! With thanks to Alex Parini, @estariade and @Tilley101

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@FeministOnMarx

1 year

@BrankoMilan Shows the inaccuracies in calculation of what constitutes ‘happiness’- generally in these exercises it entirely excludes social relations and focuses on commodified aspects. We miss a political economy of happiness.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

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I repost Jodi Dean's essay here,as it's beautiful. Read it. On resistance, love, hope, compassion, and revolution. Incredibly, she is paying dear for it- sign the petition. Geez, all universities are under attack, but air in the US is unbreathable.

Palestine speaks for everyone

Since the initial publication of this essay, Jodi Dean has been publicly condemned by the president of her institution and “relieved of classroom duties.” This clear violation of basic academic...

www.versobooks.com

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

6 months

if you can, join us! starting now

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

So here is the deal: SOAS development studies second in the world for the second consecutive year! Apply to study with us, folks! See below info on our signature MSc Development Studies and the new MSc Development Studies (Gender) 1/3

SOAS 2nd in the world for Development Studies in QS World University Rankings

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023 ranks 11 of SOAS's subjects in the top 100 globally

www.soas.ac.uk

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

Very much looking forward to take part in this stellar summer school as instructor in Joburg at the end of Jan - with great colleagues and students! @lyn_ossome @IEJ_SA

Institute for Economic Justice

@IEJ_SA

1 year

The IEJ's third annual Feminist Economics Summer School is planned for 29 January to 3 February 2023, in-person in Johannesburg. The theme for FESS 2023 will be: Social reproduction and the changing world of work. Applications are still open. -

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 years

Delighted to start my residency as Visiting Professor @LabSapienza in Rome next Monday! ❤️

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 years

Truly wonderful final plenary @IAFFE on post-COVID recovery, with Abena Oduro, James Heintz, Corina Rodriguez, Crystal Simeoni, Paul Ladd. And with fiery questions, on commons, the right to humanity, and revolution! Pic of the panel from my kitchen, with thumb up 👍🏼

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

22 days

Let's hold our Universities - and us all - accountable

A feminist praxis for academic freedom in the context of genocide in Gaza

The Palestinian Feminist Collective condemns sophicide and scholasticide in Gaza - the deliberate annihilation of Indigenous knowledge traditions and the physical destruction of centers of knowledge.

mondoweiss.net

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

11 months

What a wonderful gig last week - talking alongside Leopoldina Fortunati about housework, informal labour, value, and solidarity with NonUnaDiMenoTreviso

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

7 months

Decolonisation is not on is not discourse,nor a managerial is not kind,nor it asks oppressors for rises like a wave, screaming for freedom.Against all apartheid regimes.Comdemn the violence but stand with 🇵🇸

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

8 months

I had missed this great blog by @KalpanaWilson , Giti Chandra & Lata Narayanaswamy on Hindutva and the cooptation of the decolonising agenda. Indeed, the project of decolonisation risks hijacking by right-wing and nationalist forces.

Contested development imaginaries: Hindutva and the co-optation of ‘decolonisation’

By Kalpana Wilson, Giti Chandra and Lata Narayanaswamy We live in a time where deeply embedded, historically entangled perceptions persist of a bifurcated world, made up of a civilised ‘developed’ …

www.developmentresearch.eu

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

8 months

Nice review of Marx in the Field in @PIDSjournal ! thanks @knr21_cam for the attentive reading!Authors on twitter take note! @floretta_voice @SaraStevano @BARBARAHARRISSW @Terminalias @PoMoGandhi @FaraiMtero @BunceBrittany @DonnaHornby @susanamynewman

Book review: Mezzadri, A. (ed.), Marx in the Field - Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, 2023

Mezzadri, A. (ed.), Marx in the Field (London: Anthem Press, 2021), 246 pp. £80, $125, ISBN 9781785274497.

journals.sagepub.com

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

6 months

I must say, I looked at myUSS a few days ago, and immediately contacted one of our UCU pension negotiators to thank him so very much. This victory is simply immense. @UCUSOAS and proud.

Jo Grady

@DrJoGrady

6 months

If you backed every ballot. If you stood on a picket line. If you supported UCU throughout. If you never gave up, even when you were exhausted. Then you did this 🔥

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 months

I have been listening to the wonderful podcast series ‘Witch’ on @BBCSounds . Sharing with all my students in Feminist Political Economy -Thanks @IndiaRakusen for this great labour of love ❤️ @SOASDevelopment @FemEconSoas take note, & celebrate the Witch!

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

8 months

Great work on social reproduction showcased @IIPPE_ 2023 organised by @SaraStevano and @hannahbargawi ! So glad to have taken part and have listened to fantastic presentations! @SOASEconomics @SOASDevelopment let’s continue our wonderful work on feminist political economy 👇🏼💪💚

Sara Stevano

@SaraStevano

8 months

A small 🧵of appreciation for & celebration of all the speakers in the social reproduction panels. The talks + discussions were incredibly enriching & organising these panels has become a highlight of my job ✨ We started with a discussion of the theorisation of SR 👇

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

7 months

We stand with Arundhati Roy! 👇🏼 ‘Delhi LG approves prosecution of Arundhati Roy, Kashmir professor in 2010 ‘provocative speeches’ case’ - The Hindu

Delhi LG approves prosecution of Arundhati Roy, Kashmir professor in 2010 ‘provocative speeches’...

LG Saxena grants sanction to prosecute Arundhati Roy and former Kashmiri professor for alleged provocative speeches in 2010. FIR registered following Court of Metropolitan Magistrate orders. Offences...

www.thehindu.com

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

9 months

My reflections on India below, for the 10th anniversary of Rana Plaza, in conversation with @CMihika who I thank for all her labour

Jamhoor

@jamhoormedia

9 months

Guest editor @CMihika and feminist labour scholar @FeministOnMarx engage in a wide-ranging conversation, examining changing garment ‘labour regimes’ across India, along with changing forms of workers’ struggles and the growing impact of right-wing trade unions.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

3 months

Hands off our students! Solidarity to each and every one of them, and Not-One-Less! Fellow feminists, please share your solidarity

How Women Work!

@how_women_work

3 months

I’m sorry to announce that our event today will not be moving forward, as our chair, a SOAS student, was raided and arrested at 7 am for giving a speech at the SOAS Palestine protest. I strongly ask everyone to show solidarity & help spread the word.

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

2 years

And Lula it is! ✊🏼✊🏼🇧🇷

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

Striking...is an act of solidarity with all feminine & feminised professions... an insistence that the kinds of work that women do–& that people of colour and from minoritized groups do even more of–are valuable. The cost of loving is going up.

The Rising Cost of Loving

How can we understand the current wave of strikes as part of a longer struggle around the value of care work? Emily Baughan reflects from the picket line.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

26 days

Great to meet new feminist political economists and fellow feminist theorists at SPERI today! Thanks for having me 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

SPERI

@SPERIshefuni

26 days

An energising, supportive and intellectually stimulating day at SPERI🌱 Thanks so much to all our guest speakers, participants and the Doctoral Research Network co-convenors for organising such a fantastic event 🎉

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

What I am up to next week!

Gender Institute

@UBGenderIn

1 year

Join us on Thur., April 20th,3:30 PM(EDT) at 509 O’Brian or Zoom for a panel discussion on “Social Reproduction from MajorityWorldPerspectives” with @FeministOnMarx ; @yige_dong ; & @gab_riell_a . Moderator: @MWerner2010 Register Here: Funded by @baldycenter

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

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Happy MayDay to all workers, and a special thought for my fellow SOAS UCUites and our wonderful exec @UCUSOAS who continues inspiring us in hard times so that we don’t give up - we will win! ✊🏼🫶🏼🔥

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

5 months

Mind-blowing lecture by Orlando Patterson today ⁦ @SOAS ⁩ -great if chilling,providing an accurate figure for life lost to slavery in Jamaica compared to the US. Great discussant notes by ⁦ @OlivetteOtele ⁩ and Wayne Dooling. I left my cave for an excellent reason 2day 👇🏼

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

6 months

Very happy my tribute to Maria Mies has been translated into Spanish - muchas gracias por el trabajo de traduccion @Traficantes_Ed

Traficantes Ed

@Traficantes_Ed

6 months

Combatir la domestificación y recuperar nuestro planeta Compartimos este texto de homenaje escrito por @FeministOnMarx Maria Mies, 1931-2023 / Rest in power

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

29 days

Folks, it is finally coming to @SOAS on April 24 ! #Theincarcerations by @alpashah001 . Organised by @SOAS_SAI by @PoMoGandhi @SOASDevelopment @SOASEconomics take note and circulate! This is the book of the year. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Alpa Shah

@alpashah001

29 days

Next #TheIncarcerations event in Bloomsbury, London @SOAS_SAI @SOASDevelopment on 24th April, 5pm w @PoMoGandhi FREE but after a full house @LSEpublicevents @LSEInequalities and @britishlibrary please register to avoid disappointment👇

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

3 months

Get lost in learning thanks to this wonderful new February issue on Work of @TheSocReview edited by @asiyaislam where I had the privilege to converse with her about key feminist readings on the subject. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

The Sociological Review Foundation

@TheSocReview

3 months

Work, work, work: where do we start? In our #TSRWork issue, we look at disability in the workplace, ask if informal labour offers freedom as well as precarity, and weigh how gig work is gendered & shaped by inequalities – and much more. Get stuck in:

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Alessandra Mezzadri

@FeministOnMarx

1 year

Truly honoured to have a piece in the top posts of 2022 for Developing Economics - a great platform indeed, and run by great folks. Check out the other blogs, they rock. Onto 2023! ⁦ @CriticalDev ⁩