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Gender, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Approaches to Food Systems (2025)
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Stevano, S. (2025). Gender, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Approaches to Food Systems. Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780197764381-0044

The study of food systems through a gender lens highlights gender roles and relations in the production, processing, and consumption of food. The concept of “food system” has a long history, but its uses have increased significantly in recent decades... Read More about Gender, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Approaches to Food Systems.

Pluralizing social reproduction approaches (2025)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A., Rai, S., Stevano, S., Alessandrini, D., Bargawi, H., Elias, J., Hassim, S., Kesar, S., Thiyaga Lingham, J., Natile, S., N., N., Ossome, L., Raghuram, P., Tsikata, D., & Wöhl, S. (2025). Pluralizing social reproduction approaches. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 27(1), 6-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2024.2447594

The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism... Read More about Pluralizing social reproduction approaches.

The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction (2024)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A., Stevano, S., Ossome, L., & Bargawi, H. (2024). The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction. Journal of Agrarian Change, 24(3), e12595. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12595

The last decade has seen a renaissance of feminist political economy studies centred on the concept of ‘social reproduction’. These aim at studying global capitalism from the vantage‐point of what produces and sustains life, expanding the social boun... Read More about The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction.

Ultra‐Processed Food, Depletion, and Social Reproduction: A Conceptual Intervention (2024)
Journal Article
Stevano, S. (2025). Ultra‐Processed Food, Depletion, and Social Reproduction: A Conceptual Intervention. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 57(2), 515-535. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13046

What we eat and how we think about food and nutrition are undergoing a momentous change, driven by the rise of ultra‐processed food. There is a growing body of evidence linking the consumption of ultra‐processed food to poor health outcomes. However,... Read More about Ultra‐Processed Food, Depletion, and Social Reproduction: A Conceptual Intervention.

Food systems thinking unpacked: a scoping review on industrial diets among adolescents in Ghana (2023)
Journal Article
Sambu, W. C., Picchioni, F., Stevano, S., Codjoe, E. A., Nkegbe, P. K., & Turner, C. (2024). Food systems thinking unpacked: a scoping review on industrial diets among adolescents in Ghana. Food Security, 16, 79-114. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-023-01408-x

Unhealthy diets are among the main risk factors associated with non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In Sub Saharan Africa, NCDs were responsible for 37% of deaths in 2019, rising from 24% in 2000. There is an increasing emphasis on health-harming indus... Read More about Food systems thinking unpacked: a scoping review on industrial diets among adolescents in Ghana.

Feminist Political Economy. A Global Perspective (2023)
Book
Cantillon, S., Mackett, O., & Stevano, S. (2023). Feminist Political Economy. A Global Perspective. Agenda Publishing. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.6737820

Feminist political economy is essential to understanding the power relations and hierarchies that shape and sustain contemporary capitalism. Motivated by the rejection of gender-blind approaches in economics feminist political economy provides compel... Read More about Feminist Political Economy. A Global Perspective.

Common challenges for all? A critical engagement with the emerging vision for post-pandemic development studies (2023)
Journal Article
Wiegratz, J., Behuria, P., Laskaridis, C., Pheko, L. L., Radley, B., & Stevano, S. (2023). Common challenges for all? A critical engagement with the emerging vision for post-pandemic development studies. Development and Change, 54(5), 921-953. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12785

The COVID-19 pandemic motivated calls for the field of development studies to be recast. This article analyses two prominent, future-gazing ‘pandemic papers’ to illustrate salient features of the ascendant trend towards a new ‘global development’ par... Read More about Common challenges for all? A critical engagement with the emerging vision for post-pandemic development studies.

Reconfiguring African Studies, reconfiguring economics: centring intersectionality and social stratification (2023)
Journal Article
Ouma, S., Vogt-William, C., Obeng-Odoom, F., Oduro, A. D., Lewis, T. J., Pheko, L. L., Stevano, S., & Kvangraven, I. (2023). Reconfiguring African Studies, reconfiguring economics: centring intersectionality and social stratification. Critical African Studies, 15(3), 239-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2023.2226774

African and African diaspora scholars have made key contributions to contemporary understandings of inequality, intersectionality, institutions and ‘development'. A recent major contribution to this debate is offered by Franklin Obeng-Odoom’s Propert... Read More about Reconfiguring African Studies, reconfiguring economics: centring intersectionality and social stratification.

Application of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to planning and prioritization of rural roads in Nigeria (2022)
Thesis
Akpan, U. S. (2022). Application of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to planning and prioritization of rural roads in Nigeria [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00037861

Good quality rural road infrastructure seems to contribute substantially to improvements in several socio-economic indicators in rural areas: increases accessibility to markets, educational and health facilities, and stimulates economic activities. H... Read More about Application of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to planning and prioritization of rural roads in Nigeria.

Work in agro-industry and the social reproduction of labour in Mozambique: contradictions in the current accumulation system (2021)
Journal Article
Ali, R., & Stevano, S. (2021). Work in agro-industry and the social reproduction of labour in Mozambique: contradictions in the current accumulation system. Review of African Political Economy, 49(171), 67-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2022.1990624

This article discusses the tensions between job creation and employment quality in the system of accumulation in Mozambique. Addressing job quality is central because Mozambique’s economic structure has mostly failed to generate stable work and pay a... Read More about Work in agro-industry and the social reproduction of labour in Mozambique: contradictions in the current accumulation system.

The Workplace at the Bottom of Global Supply Chains as a Site of Reproduction of Colonial Relations: Reflections on the Cashew-Processing Industry in Mozambique (2021)
Journal Article
Stevano, S. (2023). The Workplace at the Bottom of Global Supply Chains as a Site of Reproduction of Colonial Relations: Reflections on the Cashew-Processing Industry in Mozambique. Gender, Work and Organization, 30(2), 496-509. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12757

In the context of global supply chains, the workplace is a site of realization of global–local interrelations and materialization of class, gender and race exploitation. This paper explores these relations in the Mozambican cashew-processing factory,... Read More about The Workplace at the Bottom of Global Supply Chains as a Site of Reproduction of Colonial Relations: Reflections on the Cashew-Processing Industry in Mozambique.

Feminist global political economies of work and social reproduction (2021)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A., Newman, S., & Stevano, S. (2022). Feminist global political economies of work and social reproduction. Review of International Political Economy, 29(6), 1783-1803. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2021.1957977

The COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed the relevance of social reproduction as a key analytical lens to interrogate contemporary capitalist processes. Building on insights from distinct theoretical traditions, in this introductory contribution to the sp... Read More about Feminist global political economies of work and social reproduction.

Insurgency in Cabo Delgado: capitalist penetration in the periphery of the periphery (2021)
Digital Artefact
Stevano, S., & Pérez Niño, H. (2021, May 4). Insurgency in Cabo Delgado: capitalist penetration in the periphery of the periphery. Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) blog. https://roape.net/2021/05/04/insurgency-in-cabo-delgado-capitalist-penetration-in-the-periphery-of-the-periphery/

The insurgency in northern Mozambique is threatening a multi-billion investment in natural gas production. Sara Stevano and Helena Pérez Niño explain how the violence in northern Cabo Delgado is part of a longer script of capitalist penetration into... Read More about Insurgency in Cabo Delgado: capitalist penetration in the periphery of the periphery.

Essential Work: Using A Social Reproduction Lens to Investigate the Re-Organisation of Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Stevano, S., Ali, R., & Jamieson, M. (2021). Essential Work: Using A Social Reproduction Lens to Investigate the Re-Organisation of Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic. SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper, 241, 1-42. https://www.soas.ac.uk/economics/research/workingpapers/file152922.pdf

COVID-19 has shaken a foundational pillar of global capitalism: the organisation of work. Whilst workers have commonly been categorised based on skills, during the pandemic the ‘essential worker’ categorisation has taken prominence. This paper explor... Read More about Essential Work: Using A Social Reproduction Lens to Investigate the Re-Organisation of Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

COVID-19 and Crises of Capitalism: Intensifying Inequalities and Global Responses (2021)
Journal Article
Stevano, S., Franz, T., Dafermos, Y., & Van Waeyenberge, E. (2021). COVID-19 and Crises of Capitalism: Intensifying Inequalities and Global Responses. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 42(1/2), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2021.1892606

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed multiple structural flaws of global capitalism. These have been reproduced through the intensification of inequalities and reinforced through policy responses that have failed to protect the most vulnerable from the... Read More about COVID-19 and Crises of Capitalism: Intensifying Inequalities and Global Responses.

Classes of Working Women in Mozambique: An Integrated Framework to Understand Working Lives (2021)
Journal Article
Stevano, S. (2022). Classes of Working Women in Mozambique: An Integrated Framework to Understand Working Lives. Review of International Political Economy, 29(6), 1847-1869. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2021.1892797

Feminist political economy has illuminated the gendered dimensions of the globalisation of production. Whilst this literature provides essential insights on gendered exploitation in export-oriented industries, women’s work in localised labour markets... Read More about Classes of Working Women in Mozambique: An Integrated Framework to Understand Working Lives.