Outputs (88)

Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan: Everyday Stories of Intervention (2020)
Book
Rivas, A.-M. (2020). Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan: Everyday Stories of Intervention. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315306438

Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan provides a unique insight into the lived realities of the international intervention in Afghanistan and highlights the diversity, relationships, and interdependence of various groups including both e... Read More about Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan: Everyday Stories of Intervention.

"A Strange Industrial Order:" Indonesia’s Racialized Plantation Ecologies and Anticolonial Estate Worker Rebellions (2020)
Journal Article
Tilley, L. (2020). "A Strange Industrial Order:" Indonesia’s Racialized Plantation Ecologies and Anticolonial Estate Worker Rebellions. History of the Present, 10(1), 67-83. https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-8221425

The plantation continues to expand across contemporary frontiers, remaking social orders and ravaging ecologies in the service of value extraction through commodity production. This article revisits the “strange industrial order” of the plantation in... Read More about "A Strange Industrial Order:" Indonesia’s Racialized Plantation Ecologies and Anticolonial Estate Worker Rebellions.

Can self-sufficiency policy improve food security? An inter-temporal assessment of the wheat value-chain in Uzbekistan. (2020)
Journal Article
Lombardozzi, L., & Djanibekov, N. (2021). Can self-sufficiency policy improve food security? An inter-temporal assessment of the wheat value-chain in Uzbekistan. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 62(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2020.1744462

There is a controversial debate about what is the best public policy a government should adopt to achieve an affordable and stable supply of staple food for its citizens so to ensure food security. This paper contributes to the debate on the socio-ec... Read More about Can self-sufficiency policy improve food security? An inter-temporal assessment of the wheat value-chain in Uzbekistan..

The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation and Garments Made in India (paperback) (2020)
Book
Mezzadri, A. (2020). The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation and Garments Made in India (paperback). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316337912

This book explores the processes producing and reproducing the garment sweatshop in India. Drawing from Marxian and feminist insights, the book theorises the garment sweatshop in India as a complex 'regime' of exploitation and oppression, jointly cra... Read More about The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation and Garments Made in India (paperback).

Literature review : Drugs and (Dis)order in Afghanistan (2020)
Report
Bhatia, J. Literature review : Drugs and (Dis)order in Afghanistan

For nearly two decades, Afghanistan has been at the forefront of the War on Terror and the War on Drugs. What has been learned about the intersection of conflict and the illicit drug economy over this period, and how does the history of the drug econ... Read More about Literature review : Drugs and (Dis)order in Afghanistan.

Unpacking state-led upgrading: empirical evidencefrom Uzbek horticulture value chain governance (2020)
Journal Article
Lombardozzi, L. (2021). Unpacking state-led upgrading: empirical evidencefrom Uzbek horticulture value chain governance. Review of International Political Economy, 28(4), 947-973. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1737563

This paper brings together the Global Value Chain/Global Production Network (GVC/GPNs) and the Developmental State (DS) literature to analyze state-led upgrading. By triangulating primary and secondary data on Uzbekistan’s horticulture value chain, i... Read More about Unpacking state-led upgrading: empirical evidencefrom Uzbek horticulture value chain governance.

On the ‘Arab Inequality Puzzle': The Case of Egypt (2020)
Journal Article
Achcar, G. (2020). On the ‘Arab Inequality Puzzle': The Case of Egypt. Development and Change, 51(3), 746-770. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12585

This article surveys and discusses prominent protagonists of the debate on socio‐economic inequality in the Arab region, with a special focus on the World Bank and Egypt. According to official data, the region holds remarkably low Gini coefficients i... Read More about On the ‘Arab Inequality Puzzle': The Case of Egypt.

Regime shifts occur disproportionately faster in larger ecosystems (2020)
Journal Article
Cooper, G. S. (2020). Regime shifts occur disproportionately faster in larger ecosystems. Nature Communications, 11, Article 1175. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15029-x

Regime shifts can abruptly affect hydrological, climatic and terrestrial systems, leading to degraded ecosystems and impoverished societies. While the frequency of regime shifts is predicted to increase, the fundamental relationships between the spat... Read More about Regime shifts occur disproportionately faster in larger ecosystems.

Cultural Resistance and Security from Below. Power and escape through capoeira (vlog) (2020)
Digital Artefact
Marriage, Z. Cultural Resistance and Security from Below. Power and escape through capoeira (vlog)

Theory for a Global Age: Coloniality, Power, and Critique (2020)
Other
(2020). Theory for a Global Age: Coloniality, Power, and Critique. New York