Kira Brenner
@kirabrenner.bsky.social
Political economist exploring state-working class dynamics in the global South. Cat enthusiast.
Too on the nose for my seminar about climate change and imperialism?
October 29, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Too on the nose for my seminar about climate change and imperialism?
🧵My new paper "State Strategies and Gendered Labour: Neoliberalism's Impact on Tunisia's Working Class Composition" is now out in Third World Quarterly. It builds on my earlier state theory work, adding a crucial dimension: how dependency shapes state action in the South
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
State strategies and gendered labour: neoliberalism’s impact on Tunisia’s working class composition
This paper examines the role of the state in shaping the technical composition of the working class in Tunisia. Drawing on dependency theory and autonomist Marxism, it argues that states in the Sou...
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August 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
🧵My new paper "State Strategies and Gendered Labour: Neoliberalism's Impact on Tunisia's Working Class Composition" is now out in Third World Quarterly. It builds on my earlier state theory work, adding a crucial dimension: how dependency shapes state action in the South
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
Excited that my first academic paper has been published in Critical Sociology. It contributes to some of the current discussions in Marxist state theory and attempts to revive the workerist tradition as its own clear and distinct version of state theory. You can read it here: doi.org/10.1177/0896...
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June 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Excited that my first academic paper has been published in Critical Sociology. It contributes to some of the current discussions in Marxist state theory and attempts to revive the workerist tradition as its own clear and distinct version of state theory. You can read it here: doi.org/10.1177/0896...