🎙️ New podcast episode unravels informal economy with Surbhi Kesar, sharing her expertise in a thought-provoking conversation with Sara Stevano. · What is the informal economy? · How does it relate to economic development? · What does it reveal about postcolonial

Another piece out on Reproductive labour, Decent Work and SDGs - based on lecture I no longer teach but love. And doing some Feminist Economics ;) Grateful for massive work by editors, Madelaine Moore, Christoph Scherrer, and Marcel van der Linden. Link in thread. 1/2

📢For those working on social reproduction: the IIPPE CfP is now open! Submit your abstract/panel by 1st February here: iippe.org/2025-iippe-ann…

Bourdieu’s insight into social class isn’t just about money or jobs—it’s about capital in many forms. Each type (economic, cultural, social, symbolic) can reinforce the others, shaping who holds power in a society… 🧵(1/n)

Your first draft doesn't need to be perfect, it needs to be a complete pile of garbage that makes you question your worth as a person

⁦LSE International Development⁩ ⁦LSE Inequalities⁩ ⁦LSE Press⁩ ⁦Development Studies Association⁩ ⁦Institute of Development Studies⁩ @iaffe ⁦LSE Gender⁩

Rest in power Michael Burawoy, legend.

My keynote for ILPC 2025 in Santiago is now published in an amended version in GLJ 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/a… SOAS Development Studies SOAS Economics SOAS Development for Transformation Centre Development Studies Association International Association for Feminist Economics

Parnia Abbasi,young poet,was killed with her family-all civilians- by Israeli strikes in Sattarkhan,Tehran.I weep for the loss of humanity we are witnessing. But I keep my eyes open & continue looking into the abyss.We are all key witnesses now; our call is to bear testimony.

Kika Hendry reviews the new translation of Leopoldina Fortunati’s The Arcana of Reproduction, a key text that, fifty years on, still exposes how domestic life sustains capitalism and speaks urgently to our experiences of labour, care and survival. revsoc21.uk/2025/08/18/rev…

Folks, we are up to no good again very soon! Really looking forward to the whole series, and honoured to be part. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Refaat Alareer would have been 46 today.

金曜日です！

David McNally in conversation w/ Gerald Horne about his new book "Slavery and Capitalism" "We need to rethink & rewrite labor history by way of centering the chattel proletariat...these workers on plantations regularly used strike action & forms of collective organizing... 1/4

A webinar on destalinization as decolonization: what does it mean to recognise the Soviet ‘Union’ and post-Soviet Russia as a colonial project and why is it essential to confront and overcome an imperial and not only an authoritarian legacy Registration: forms.gle/rjtUGpCYpa81PV…

We are accepting applications for our four-month long Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers. The Fellowship involves one-on-one mentorship by an experienced editor on the KR team. Application guidelines and previous fellows at the link: kenyonreview.org/fellowship/dev…

"Radical Histories of Decolonization," a new special issue of Radical History Review (153) is now available. View the TOC and read "Decolonization Now," the editors' introduction, made freely available: buff.ly/TipOXAq Buy this issue: buff.ly/UMGEDEr

We did wind up recording this event, so you can watch it here: youtu.be/9QnHoi3GwLA