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Poverty, Income Inequalities and Migration in the Global South (2023)
Book Chapter
Casentini, G., Hammond, L., & Bakewell, O. (2023). Poverty, Income Inequalities and Migration in the Global South. In H. Crawley, & J. K. Teye (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality (371-392). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39814-8_17

In this chapter, we critically engage with the existing literature to explore how the condition of countries of origin, the situation in countries of destination and the role of remittances relate to the key analytical instruments of poverty and inco... Read More about Poverty, Income Inequalities and Migration in the Global South.

Hydropower, climate change and sustainable energy transitions (2023)
Book Chapter
Siciliano, G. (2023). Hydropower, climate change and sustainable energy transitions. In F. Urban, & J. Nordensvärd (Eds.), Handbook on Climate Change and Technology (82-101). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800882119.00013

This chapter explores hydropower development at the global level and its role regarding climate change. Hydropower is generally considered a renewable and clean energy source. It represents one of the main energy sources for sustainable energy transi... Read More about Hydropower, climate change and sustainable energy transitions.

Relational Marginalisation: Comparing Scheduled Tribe Gaddi in Himachal Pradesh and Bhils in Maharashtra, India (2023)
Journal Article
Axelby, R., & Thakur, V. (2024). Relational Marginalisation: Comparing Scheduled Tribe Gaddi in Himachal Pradesh and Bhils in Maharashtra, India. Sociological Bulletin, 73(1), 24-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380229231212886

The socio-economic condition of Scheduled Tribe (ST) groups of India has been a key academic concern since the administrative category was established by Constitutional Order in 1950. This article explores the integration of ST groups into the presen... Read More about Relational Marginalisation: Comparing Scheduled Tribe Gaddi in Himachal Pradesh and Bhils in Maharashtra, India.

The Social Reproduction of Value, Body Depletion, and Wages for the Wageless across the Global Social Factory (2023)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A. (2023). The Social Reproduction of Value, Body Depletion, and Wages for the Wageless across the Global Social Factory. feminists@law, 12(2), https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.1217

In this article, I reflect on the entanglements between production and social reproduction in structuring the process of value generation and exploitation, and how one can scale-up classic debates on domestic work to capture trends more broadly at wo... Read More about The Social Reproduction of Value, Body Depletion, and Wages for the Wageless across the Global Social Factory.

Building forward better: A pathway to climate-resilient development in fragile and conflict-affected situations (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Opitz-Stapleton, S., Gulati, M., Laville, C., Vazquez, M., & Tanner, T. Building forward better: A pathway to climate-resilient development in fragile and conflict-affected situations. London

People living in places affected by fragility and/or violent conflict are among the most vulnerable in the world to climate change. In these situations, a natural hazard – such as a flood or a drought – can quickly trigger disasters and exacerbate pr... Read More about Building forward better: A pathway to climate-resilient development in fragile and conflict-affected situations.

Pathways towards power shifts: state-society synergy (2023)
Journal Article
Fox, J., Robinson, R. S., & Hossain, N. (2023). Pathways towards power shifts: state-society synergy. World Development, 172, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106346

Policy reformers often make bold promises to improve government responsiveness to citizen demands. Yet such proclaimed openings from above often fall short, get diverted, or are blocked. This study uses the state-society synergy approach to analyze e... Read More about Pathways towards power shifts: state-society synergy.

Drugs and extractivism: opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands (2023)
Journal Article
Meehan, P., & Dan, S. L. (2024). Drugs and extractivism: opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 51(4), 922-959. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2271403

This paper explores the intersections between two phenomena that have shaped eastern Kachin State in Myanmar’s northern borderlands with China since the late 1980s: the transformation of once-remote spaces into resource frontiers shaped by overlappin... Read More about Drugs and extractivism: opium cultivation and drug use in the Myanmar-China borderlands.

Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (2023)
Book
Atzeni, M., Azzellini, D., Mezzadri, A., Moore, P., & Apitzsch, U. (Eds.). (2023). Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work. Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106583

This ground-breaking Handbook broadens empirical and theoretical understandings of work, work relations, and workers. It advances a global, intersectional labour studies agenda, laying the foundations for the politically emancipatory project of decol... Read More about Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work.

Exploitation and Global Value Chains (2023)
Book Chapter
Selwyn, B., Campling, L., Mezzadri, A., Baglioni, E., Miyamura, S., & Pattenden, J. (2023). Exploitation and Global Value Chains. In M. Atzeni, D. Azzellini, A. Mezzadri, P. Moore, & U. Apitzsch (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (125-135). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106583.00018

Concerns about exploitation in global supply chains are increasingly central to public and academic agendas. These issues have been investigated over the last 15 years from global value chain and global production network perspectives (henceforth 'ch... Read More about Exploitation and Global Value Chains.

Social reproduction, labour exploitation and reproductive struggles for a global political economy of work (2023)
Book Chapter
Mezzadri, A. (2023). Social reproduction, labour exploitation and reproductive struggles for a global political economy of work. In M. Atzeni, D. Azzellini, A. Mezzadri, P. Moore, & U. Apitzsch (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (64-73). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106583.00012

Orthodox Marxist analyses have generally excluded social reproduction activities and realms from the study of labour exploitation and value generation. This exclusion has implied that the contributions and hardship of reproductive workers has gone un... Read More about Social reproduction, labour exploitation and reproductive struggles for a global political economy of work.

Introduction: what is work and what is the political economy of work (2023)
Book Chapter
Atzeni, M., Azzellini, D., Mezzadri, A., Moore, P., & Apitzsch, U. (2023). Introduction: what is work and what is the political economy of work. In Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (1-32). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106583.00007

The exploitation of work and workers within capitalism continues to be reproduced according to the political economy of capital: profitability. This drive for profitability produces different forms of domination and control within the employment rela... Read More about Introduction: what is work and what is the political economy of work.

Women construction workers in Nepal: Collectivities under precarious conditions (2023)
Journal Article
Wilson, K., Ismail, F., Kharel, S., & Dahal, S. (2024). Women construction workers in Nepal: Collectivities under precarious conditions. Gender, Work and Organization, 31(2), 419-434. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13078

In this article, we explore the experiences of women construction workers in Nepal and the strategies that these workers have adopted to challenge the exploitation and inequalities they confront. We firstly argue that the experiences of women constru... Read More about Women construction workers in Nepal: Collectivities under precarious conditions.