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What a thoughtful and intellectually provocative review of my book, "Decolonizing African Agriculture," by fellow West African scholar Jessie Luna www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @agendapub.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social @macalestercollege.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
What a thoughtful and intellectually provocative review of my book, "Decolonizing African Agriculture," by fellow West African scholar Jessie Luna www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @agendapub.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social @macalestercollege.bsky.social
“A sophisticated analysis of the current geopolitical crises and the prospects for a new twenty-first-century global order... essential reading for policymakers focused on revitalizing internationalism.”
Fiona Hill on 'The Disorderly Society' by Bobo Lo - out now 👇
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#geopolitics
Fiona Hill on 'The Disorderly Society' by Bobo Lo - out now 👇
bit.ly/4r2NIYA
#geopolitics
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
“A sophisticated analysis of the current geopolitical crises and the prospects for a new twenty-first-century global order... essential reading for policymakers focused on revitalizing internationalism.”
Fiona Hill on 'The Disorderly Society' by Bobo Lo - out now 👇
bit.ly/4r2NIYA
#geopolitics
Fiona Hill on 'The Disorderly Society' by Bobo Lo - out now 👇
bit.ly/4r2NIYA
#geopolitics
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Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State
www.torch.ox.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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New episode (1173), with Dr. David Cooper. We talk about his great new book, Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge. #Philosophy
YouTube: youtu.be/eSOYoYVmWLM
Podcast: bit.ly/3WMlTWt
YouTube: youtu.be/eSOYoYVmWLM
Podcast: bit.ly/3WMlTWt
#1173 David Cooper: Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge
YouTube video by The Dissenter
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November 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
New episode (1173), with Dr. David Cooper. We talk about his great new book, Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge. #Philosophy
YouTube: youtu.be/eSOYoYVmWLM
Podcast: bit.ly/3WMlTWt
YouTube: youtu.be/eSOYoYVmWLM
Podcast: bit.ly/3WMlTWt
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Tomorrow my new book 'Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State' will land in the dreaming spires of Oxford.
A city home to 269 homeless children+ 18 households with children in hotels + B&Bs above 6 week limit.
Here's the Rent Cultures Network event:
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...
A city home to 269 homeless children+ 18 households with children in hotels + B&Bs above 6 week limit.
Here's the Rent Cultures Network event:
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...
Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State
torch.ox.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Tomorrow my new book 'Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State' will land in the dreaming spires of Oxford.
A city home to 269 homeless children+ 18 households with children in hotels + B&Bs above 6 week limit.
Here's the Rent Cultures Network event:
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...
A city home to 269 homeless children+ 18 households with children in hotels + B&Bs above 6 week limit.
Here's the Rent Cultures Network event:
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...
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I had a really fun, dorky, SciFi-inflected conversation with Matthew Ying Yeung Metz about #GaiaWakes on the Kroc School at the University of San Diego's #KrocPod podcast. Please check it out!!
open.spotify.com/episode/3McT...
open.spotify.com/episode/3McT...
Gaia Wakes: When Earth Grows a Brain
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October 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I had a really fun, dorky, SciFi-inflected conversation with Matthew Ying Yeung Metz about #GaiaWakes on the Kroc School at the University of San Diego's #KrocPod podcast. Please check it out!!
open.spotify.com/episode/3McT...
open.spotify.com/episode/3McT...
“Offers crucial insights into the practices that shape financial centres... an important book for prompting us to think about what kind of finance we want.”
@karenpylai.bsky.social on 'Future Finance' by @curiousfinance.bsky.social - out now!
#OpenAccess eBook available👇
bit.ly/3Lw7BHa
#FinGeo
@karenpylai.bsky.social on 'Future Finance' by @curiousfinance.bsky.social - out now!
#OpenAccess eBook available👇
bit.ly/3Lw7BHa
#FinGeo
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
“Offers crucial insights into the practices that shape financial centres... an important book for prompting us to think about what kind of finance we want.”
@karenpylai.bsky.social on 'Future Finance' by @curiousfinance.bsky.social - out now!
#OpenAccess eBook available👇
bit.ly/3Lw7BHa
#FinGeo
@karenpylai.bsky.social on 'Future Finance' by @curiousfinance.bsky.social - out now!
#OpenAccess eBook available👇
bit.ly/3Lw7BHa
#FinGeo
“In a time of deep divisiveness, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan offers an elegant and compelling meditation on an idea more essential than ever, the very notion of a collective we.”
@anandian.bsky.social on 'What is We?' by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan - out now!
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@anandian.bsky.social on 'What is We?' by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan - out now!
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November 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
“In a time of deep divisiveness, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan offers an elegant and compelling meditation on an idea more essential than ever, the very notion of a collective we.”
@anandian.bsky.social on 'What is We?' by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan - out now!
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@anandian.bsky.social on 'What is We?' by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan - out now!
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Join the Rent Cultures Network at TORCH on 13 Nov, 5 pm for a book presentation of Debt Trap Nation with @kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki. They show how debt and housing insecurity shape everyday life in England and call for urgent structural change.
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...
Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State
torch.ox.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Join the Rent Cultures Network at TORCH on 13 Nov, 5 pm for a book presentation of Debt Trap Nation with @kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki. They show how debt and housing insecurity shape everyday life in England and call for urgent structural change.
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...
Just arrived (out 20th Nov):
Downing Street Downfalls
The Misadventures of Britain’s Prime Ministers Since Thatcher
by Mark Garnett
“Few people know more about postwar British politics than Mark Garnett.” - @iaindale.bsky.social
Now available for pre-order👇
www.politicos.co.uk/products/dow...
Downing Street Downfalls
The Misadventures of Britain’s Prime Ministers Since Thatcher
by Mark Garnett
“Few people know more about postwar British politics than Mark Garnett.” - @iaindale.bsky.social
Now available for pre-order👇
www.politicos.co.uk/products/dow...
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Just arrived (out 20th Nov):
Downing Street Downfalls
The Misadventures of Britain’s Prime Ministers Since Thatcher
by Mark Garnett
“Few people know more about postwar British politics than Mark Garnett.” - @iaindale.bsky.social
Now available for pre-order👇
www.politicos.co.uk/products/dow...
Downing Street Downfalls
The Misadventures of Britain’s Prime Ministers Since Thatcher
by Mark Garnett
“Few people know more about postwar British politics than Mark Garnett.” - @iaindale.bsky.social
Now available for pre-order👇
www.politicos.co.uk/products/dow...
Just arrived (out 27th November):
Heterodox Economics
by Andrew Twigg
“This is for all readers unconvinced by standard economics, who are seeking alternative and new ways to think about, practice, and represent economics.” - Danielle Guizzo
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#heterodoxeconomics
Heterodox Economics
by Andrew Twigg
“This is for all readers unconvinced by standard economics, who are seeking alternative and new ways to think about, practice, and represent economics.” - Danielle Guizzo
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
#heterodoxeconomics
October 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Just arrived (out 27th November):
Heterodox Economics
by Andrew Twigg
“This is for all readers unconvinced by standard economics, who are seeking alternative and new ways to think about, practice, and represent economics.” - Danielle Guizzo
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
#heterodoxeconomics
Heterodox Economics
by Andrew Twigg
“This is for all readers unconvinced by standard economics, who are seeking alternative and new ways to think about, practice, and represent economics.” - Danielle Guizzo
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
#heterodoxeconomics
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Copies of *The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza* have arrived!
Full details, with 30 per cent discount offer, here: tinyurl.com/mry8864j.
Many thanks to @franceskalbs.bsky.social and @dirkmoses.bsky.social for their generous comments (see linked page).
Full details, with 30 per cent discount offer, here: tinyurl.com/mry8864j.
Many thanks to @franceskalbs.bsky.social and @dirkmoses.bsky.social for their generous comments (see linked page).
The New Age of Genocide
With recent events in Gaza, Martin Shaw seeks to restore the idea of genocide to its central place in thinking about mass atrocities, to apply it to neglected cases, and ultimately to settle the quest...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Copies of *The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza* have arrived!
Full details, with 30 per cent discount offer, here: tinyurl.com/mry8864j.
Many thanks to @franceskalbs.bsky.social and @dirkmoses.bsky.social for their generous comments (see linked page).
Full details, with 30 per cent discount offer, here: tinyurl.com/mry8864j.
Many thanks to @franceskalbs.bsky.social and @dirkmoses.bsky.social for their generous comments (see linked page).
“Martin Shaw was one of the first to recognise genocide in Gaza... His book charts new pathways for understanding genocide – an endeavour urgent now more than ever.”
Francesca Albanese on 'The New Age of Genocide' by @martinshaw.bsky.social - out this week.
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
Francesca Albanese on 'The New Age of Genocide' by @martinshaw.bsky.social - out this week.
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
October 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
“Martin Shaw was one of the first to recognise genocide in Gaza... His book charts new pathways for understanding genocide – an endeavour urgent now more than ever.”
Francesca Albanese on 'The New Age of Genocide' by @martinshaw.bsky.social - out this week.
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
Francesca Albanese on 'The New Age of Genocide' by @martinshaw.bsky.social - out this week.
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
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Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State: @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes) as part of the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas 2025 Seminar Series on the 22nd October, 16:00-17:30 in the Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
October 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State: @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes) as part of the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas 2025 Seminar Series on the 22nd October, 16:00-17:30 in the Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
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“Debt trap nation is a chilling and eye-opening expose on how the British state keeps some of the most vulnerable women in society trapped in a cycle of debt, homelessness, and domestic violence."
My endorsement for this brilliant book, which you can order here: www.waterstones.com/book/debt-tr...
My endorsement for this brilliant book, which you can order here: www.waterstones.com/book/debt-tr...
Debt Trap Nation by Katherine Brickell, Mel Nowicki | Waterstones
Buy Debt Trap Nation by Katherine Brickell, Mel Nowicki from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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October 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
“Debt trap nation is a chilling and eye-opening expose on how the British state keeps some of the most vulnerable women in society trapped in a cycle of debt, homelessness, and domestic violence."
My endorsement for this brilliant book, which you can order here: www.waterstones.com/book/debt-tr...
My endorsement for this brilliant book, which you can order here: www.waterstones.com/book/debt-tr...
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New @bigissue.com op-ed just landed.
We owe it to mothers + children to shift national conversation around family homelessness + debt.
Want to learn more? Read our book ‘Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State’ www.waterstones.com/book/debt-tr...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/debt...
We owe it to mothers + children to shift national conversation around family homelessness + debt.
Want to learn more? Read our book ‘Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State’ www.waterstones.com/book/debt-tr...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/debt...
Debt trap nation: How England is failing homeless mothers and children
We owe it to women and mothers to shift the national conversation on homelessness and debt, say academics Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki.
www.bigissue.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
New @bigissue.com op-ed just landed.
We owe it to mothers + children to shift national conversation around family homelessness + debt.
Want to learn more? Read our book ‘Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State’ www.waterstones.com/book/debt-tr...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/debt...
We owe it to mothers + children to shift national conversation around family homelessness + debt.
Want to learn more? Read our book ‘Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State’ www.waterstones.com/book/debt-tr...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/debt...
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Mark your calendars for the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series! @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social
Four exciting talks, starting with @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes University).
Four exciting talks, starting with @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes University).
October 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Mark your calendars for the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series! @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social
Four exciting talks, starting with @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes University).
Four exciting talks, starting with @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes University).
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"Want to reduce the costs of temporary accommodation? Then get to grips with male violence".
Check out our OpEd in Inside Housing:
www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/want...
Check out our OpEd in Inside Housing:
www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/want...
Want to reduce the costs of temporary accommodation? Then get to grips with male violence
Long-seeded failures to invest enough in domestic abuse prevention are playing out poorly for local authorities and dangerously for survivors themselves, write Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki
www.insidehousing.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"Want to reduce the costs of temporary accommodation? Then get to grips with male violence".
Check out our OpEd in Inside Housing:
www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/want...
Check out our OpEd in Inside Housing:
www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/want...
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Gaza and the New Age of Genocide
Martin Shaw introduces his new book, published this month. As readers of Labour Hub will be aware, Labour Party Conference passed a resolution recognising that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. As a genocide scholar, I have been arguing this since October…
Martin Shaw introduces his new book, published this month. As readers of Labour Hub will be aware, Labour Party Conference passed a resolution recognising that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. As a genocide scholar, I have been arguing this since October…
Gaza and the New Age of Genocide
Martin Shaw introduces his new book, published this month. As readers of Labour Hub will be aware, Labour Party Conference passed a resolution recognising that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. As a genocide scholar, I have been arguing this since October 2023. As genocidal statements by Israeli leaders were followed by huge bombardments of civilian areas and hospitals, it was already becoming clear that Israel intended to destroy Palestinian society in Gaza.
labourhub.org.uk
October 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Gaza and the New Age of Genocide
Martin Shaw introduces his new book, published this month. As readers of Labour Hub will be aware, Labour Party Conference passed a resolution recognising that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. As a genocide scholar, I have been arguing this since October…
Martin Shaw introduces his new book, published this month. As readers of Labour Hub will be aware, Labour Party Conference passed a resolution recognising that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. As a genocide scholar, I have been arguing this since October…
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Debt Trap Nation -- a very powerful book.
Come and see @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki discuss the book on the 22nd of October (4-6pm)
Dept of Geography, Cambridge
Come and see @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki discuss the book on the 22nd of October (4-6pm)
Dept of Geography, Cambridge
“A chilling and eye-opening exposé... gives voice to those living at the sharpest edge of austerity and makes an irrefutable case for change.”
@graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by
@kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week).
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt...
#housing #debt
@graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by
@kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week).
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt...
#housing #debt
October 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Debt Trap Nation -- a very powerful book.
Come and see @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki discuss the book on the 22nd of October (4-6pm)
Dept of Geography, Cambridge
Come and see @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki discuss the book on the 22nd of October (4-6pm)
Dept of Geography, Cambridge
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Published today on #WorldHomelessDay: my book Debt Trap Nation – a deep dive into how government policy is driving families into homelessness & debt.
All royalties to @seacharity.bsky.social 💜
Families aren't failing. They're being failed.
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#DebtTrapNation
All royalties to @seacharity.bsky.social 💜
Families aren't failing. They're being failed.
📖 www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
#DebtTrapNation
October 10, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Published today on #WorldHomelessDay: my book Debt Trap Nation – a deep dive into how government policy is driving families into homelessness & debt.
All royalties to @seacharity.bsky.social 💜
Families aren't failing. They're being failed.
📖 www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
#DebtTrapNation
All royalties to @seacharity.bsky.social 💜
Families aren't failing. They're being failed.
📖 www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
#DebtTrapNation
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Join us for the BEARR Trust Annual Lecture 2025 on “Is it all over for the rules-based international order?” with Bobo Lo and @kadriliik.bsky.social moderated by Sir Roderic Lyne.
📅 Tue 14 Oct, 6pm (arrival from 5.30pm)
📍 EBRD HQ, Canary Wharf, London
Register and donate👉 bearr.org/2025/08/21/t...
📅 Tue 14 Oct, 6pm (arrival from 5.30pm)
📍 EBRD HQ, Canary Wharf, London
Register and donate👉 bearr.org/2025/08/21/t...
September 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Join us for the BEARR Trust Annual Lecture 2025 on “Is it all over for the rules-based international order?” with Bobo Lo and @kadriliik.bsky.social moderated by Sir Roderic Lyne.
📅 Tue 14 Oct, 6pm (arrival from 5.30pm)
📍 EBRD HQ, Canary Wharf, London
Register and donate👉 bearr.org/2025/08/21/t...
📅 Tue 14 Oct, 6pm (arrival from 5.30pm)
📍 EBRD HQ, Canary Wharf, London
Register and donate👉 bearr.org/2025/08/21/t...
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Important read!
“A chilling and eye-opening exposé... gives voice to those living at the sharpest edge of austerity and makes an irrefutable case for change.”
@graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by
@kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week).
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt...
#housing #debt
@graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by
@kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week).
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt...
#housing #debt
October 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Important read!
“A chilling and eye-opening exposé... gives voice to those living at the sharpest edge of austerity and makes an irrefutable case for change.”
@graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by
@kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week).
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt...
#housing #debt
@graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by
@kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week).
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt...
#housing #debt
October 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
“A chilling and eye-opening exposé... gives voice to those living at the sharpest edge of austerity and makes an irrefutable case for change.”
@graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by
@kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week).
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt...
#housing #debt
@graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by
@kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week).
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt...
#housing #debt
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What an honour to see Diane Elson launch her book at the WiSE Centre for Economic Justice @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social tonight. Her seminal work highlights the need to recognise unpaid work as part of the economy, including care, household labour and volunteering.
We are proud to publish THE DIANE ELSON READER this month
“One of the most important voices in demonstrating male bias in economic thinking and policy making.” - @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social
More info & #OpenAccess ebook here👇
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
@iaffe.bsky.social #FeministEconomics
“One of the most important voices in demonstrating male bias in economic thinking and policy making.” - @ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social
More info & #OpenAccess ebook here👇
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
@iaffe.bsky.social #FeministEconomics
October 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
What an honour to see Diane Elson launch her book at the WiSE Centre for Economic Justice @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social tonight. Her seminal work highlights the need to recognise unpaid work as part of the economy, including care, household labour and volunteering.