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When your theory asks you to choose between two imperial powers, scrap the theory. And choose the people.
Alessandra Mezzadri
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Alessandra Mezzadri
@FeministOnMarx
Feminist on Marx. Aspiring to joyful life/justice militancy. Professor of Global Development and Political Economy at SOAS.
Joined December 2020
- Piketty has just discovered dependency theory ;)Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with @gatonievas [1/9] 🔗 wid.world/news-article/u…
- Just finish writing a piece comparing Jairus Banaji & Silvia Federici’s work and why we need their complementary to develop an alternative unitary theory of capitalism centred on the wageless as key revolutionary subject. 🫶🏼❤️ 👇🏽
- 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
- Congratulations @ShirinMRai for this wonderful achievement! 💚💥can’t wait to read, and celebrate appropriately too! @FemEconSoas @SOASDevelopment take note👇🏼
- 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'.
- 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 👇🔥💚
- Launch of SI on Social Reproduction of Agrarian Change in @AgrarianChange just before @histmat conference kicks off. With @SaraStevano & me as editors (with Lyn Ossome & @hannahbargawi), & @floretta_voice @cosku_clk @sthaYeni, China Sajadian as authors. All authors in🧵
- 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. radicalphilosophy.com/obituary/maria…
- 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!Replying to @RIPEJournalOUT 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. doi.org/10.1080/096922…
- 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.
- Wonderful to hear @FranceskAlbs speaking at @SOAS ! Our campus stands with you and with the Palestinian people. 🍉 🇵🇸 thanks @soasLAW for organising this and Nimer Sultany for inspiring the seminars series of which this talk is part.
- ilo.org/.../docum.../p… 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
