Sara Stevano
@sarastevano.bsky.social
Development & feminist political economist @SOAS Economics | into social reproduction, food, work and inequalities | African political economy, Mozambique, Ghana
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📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with Jennifer Olmstead, Ibrahim Shikaki and Shir Hever on:
🎤 Symposium on Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in #Palestine 🇵🇸
🗓️ 8 October, 5PM
📍 SOAS, B103
info and livestream🔗 tinyurl.com/3vyrcymn
🎤 Symposium on Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in #Palestine 🇵🇸
🗓️ 8 October, 5PM
📍 SOAS, B103
info and livestream🔗 tinyurl.com/3vyrcymn
September 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with Jennifer Olmstead, Ibrahim Shikaki and Shir Hever on:
🎤 Symposium on Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in #Palestine 🇵🇸
🗓️ 8 October, 5PM
📍 SOAS, B103
info and livestream🔗 tinyurl.com/3vyrcymn
🎤 Symposium on Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in #Palestine 🇵🇸
🗓️ 8 October, 5PM
📍 SOAS, B103
info and livestream🔗 tinyurl.com/3vyrcymn
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🚨Junk food alert! For the first time ever, more kids are obese than underweight globally.
A new UNICEF report warns ultra-processed foods #UPFs are overwhelming kids’ diets: cheap, adictive & deeply harmful.💔
Action on UPFs is overdue.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
#Health #Malnutrition
A new UNICEF report warns ultra-processed foods #UPFs are overwhelming kids’ diets: cheap, adictive & deeply harmful.💔
Action on UPFs is overdue.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
#Health #Malnutrition
Junk food leads to more children being obese than underweight for first time
Cheap ultra-processed food behind rise in overweight children, with one in 10 now obese globally, says Unicef
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🚨Junk food alert! For the first time ever, more kids are obese than underweight globally.
A new UNICEF report warns ultra-processed foods #UPFs are overwhelming kids’ diets: cheap, adictive & deeply harmful.💔
Action on UPFs is overdue.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
#Health #Malnutrition
A new UNICEF report warns ultra-processed foods #UPFs are overwhelming kids’ diets: cheap, adictive & deeply harmful.💔
Action on UPFs is overdue.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
#Health #Malnutrition
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Gaza
West Bank
Lebanon
Yemen
Syria
Iran
Iraq
Tunisia
Qatar
All attacked and bombed by Israel in the past year.
Insane.
Rogue state.
West Bank
Lebanon
Yemen
Syria
Iran
Iraq
Tunisia
Qatar
All attacked and bombed by Israel in the past year.
Insane.
Rogue state.
September 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Gaza
West Bank
Lebanon
Yemen
Syria
Iran
Iraq
Tunisia
Qatar
All attacked and bombed by Israel in the past year.
Insane.
Rogue state.
West Bank
Lebanon
Yemen
Syria
Iran
Iraq
Tunisia
Qatar
All attacked and bombed by Israel in the past year.
Insane.
Rogue state.
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"Brilliant... the authors demonstrate how adopting a feminist political economy approach could prove liberating for students and scholars."
Yazgi Genç reviews 'Feminist Political Economy' by Sara Cantillon, Odile Mackett, and @sarastevano.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#IAFFE
Yazgi Genç reviews 'Feminist Political Economy' by Sara Cantillon, Odile Mackett, and @sarastevano.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#IAFFE
Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective
Published in Feminist Economics (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
June 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"Brilliant... the authors demonstrate how adopting a feminist political economy approach could prove liberating for students and scholars."
Yazgi Genç reviews 'Feminist Political Economy' by Sara Cantillon, Odile Mackett, and @sarastevano.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#IAFFE
Yazgi Genç reviews 'Feminist Political Economy' by Sara Cantillon, Odile Mackett, and @sarastevano.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#IAFFE
Today the photo exhibition curated by Efo Sela and based on our project on ultra-processed food in Ghana opens in Tamale. The expansion of UPFs is seen through the eyes of adolescents in northern Ghana. Soon available digitally too!
www.gringhana.com/grin-blog/sw...
www.gringhana.com/grin-blog/sw...
PRESS RELEASE — Sweet Is Always the “Best Choice” Photo Exhibition TO Open at Nuku Studio, Tamale — grin ghana
New photographic exhibition by Efo Sela in partnership with pupils from four Junior Highs in Tamale opens June 2, 2025, spotlighting ultra-processed food environments in Ghanaian schools. Tama...
www.gringhana.com
June 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Today the photo exhibition curated by Efo Sela and based on our project on ultra-processed food in Ghana opens in Tamale. The expansion of UPFs is seen through the eyes of adolescents in northern Ghana. Soon available digitally too!
www.gringhana.com/grin-blog/sw...
www.gringhana.com/grin-blog/sw...
I was gifted a copy of this book, which is hot off the press, by my friend & colleague @surbhikesar.bsky.social It looks great and I look forward to delving into it. Many congratulations @devikadutt.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I was gifted a copy of this book, which is hot off the press, by my friend & colleague @surbhikesar.bsky.social It looks great and I look forward to delving into it. Many congratulations @devikadutt.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social
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Our book is now available to order! We will be organising some book talks in the upcoming academic year to discuss these embryonic ideas on decolonising economics.
@ingridhk.bsky.social
@cacrisalves.bsky.social @devikadutt.bsky.social
@ingridhk.bsky.social
@cacrisalves.bsky.social @devikadutt.bsky.social
Our book is *finally* available for pre-order! It'll ship next week on May 30th 😱 Been a long time coming, very curious about what you all will think.
@devikadutt.bsky.social
@cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social
@devikadutt.bsky.social
@cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Our book is now available to order! We will be organising some book talks in the upcoming academic year to discuss these embryonic ideas on decolonising economics.
@ingridhk.bsky.social
@cacrisalves.bsky.social @devikadutt.bsky.social
@ingridhk.bsky.social
@cacrisalves.bsky.social @devikadutt.bsky.social
FYI the companies that are members of the Food and Drink Federation that lobbied the UK government to change the guidance on junk food promotion are listed here: fdf.org.uk/fdf/about-fd...
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals guidance for retailers in England changed after campaign by global food firms
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
FYI the companies that are members of the Food and Drink Federation that lobbied the UK government to change the guidance on junk food promotion are listed here: fdf.org.uk/fdf/about-fd...
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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Food insecurity fuels terrorism in Africa, creating a vicious cycle of hunger and conflict.
theconversation.com/terrorists-u...
#Politics
theconversation.com/terrorists-u...
#Politics
Terrorists use food as a weapon: how Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab exploit hunger
Terror groups use food as a tool to fight, govern and survive.
theconversation.com
May 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Food insecurity fuels terrorism in Africa, creating a vicious cycle of hunger and conflict.
theconversation.com/terrorists-u...
#Politics
theconversation.com/terrorists-u...
#Politics
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London now. End the Genocide. #FreePalestine
May 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
London now. End the Genocide. #FreePalestine
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📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social for the Annual conference of the Progressive Economic Forum !
🚀 Progressive economics 2025: UK economic policy in the age of Trump 🇺🇸
Info and registration 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
🚀 Progressive economics 2025: UK economic policy in the age of Trump 🇺🇸
Info and registration 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
April 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social for the Annual conference of the Progressive Economic Forum !
🚀 Progressive economics 2025: UK economic policy in the age of Trump 🇺🇸
Info and registration 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
🚀 Progressive economics 2025: UK economic policy in the age of Trump 🇺🇸
Info and registration 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
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📢 WE ARE HIRING !!! 📢
The Department of Economics of @soasuni.bsky.social is recruiting a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in #Economics
Join our prestigious academic community!
Info 🔗 vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/684866
The Department of Economics of @soasuni.bsky.social is recruiting a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in #Economics
Join our prestigious academic community!
Info 🔗 vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/684866
April 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
📢 WE ARE HIRING !!! 📢
The Department of Economics of @soasuni.bsky.social is recruiting a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in #Economics
Join our prestigious academic community!
Info 🔗 vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/684866
The Department of Economics of @soasuni.bsky.social is recruiting a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in #Economics
Join our prestigious academic community!
Info 🔗 vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/684866
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@adamtooze.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com on the self-defeating logic of western aid cuts on.ft.com/4ckO1a3
Aid’s grim counter-revolution will prove self-defeating
[FREE TO READ] Arguments for slashing overseas development assistance in favour of defence fail on their own terms
on.ft.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
@adamtooze.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com on the self-defeating logic of western aid cuts on.ft.com/4ckO1a3
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I had the pleasure to interview the brilliant @sarastevano.bsky.social about her fantastic work on approaches to social reproduction. Listen to her speak about her work here 👇🏽
🎙️ New podcast episode on social reproduction, unpaid labor, and feminist political economy, featuring @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @sarastevano.bsky.social as they explore economic structures in the Global South!
🎧 Listen to the full discussion here!
🔗 🔊 shorturl.at/lFyJJ
🎧 Listen to the full discussion here!
🔗 🔊 shorturl.at/lFyJJ
March 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I had the pleasure to interview the brilliant @sarastevano.bsky.social about her fantastic work on approaches to social reproduction. Listen to her speak about her work here 👇🏽
Reposted by Sara Stevano
🎙️ New podcast episode on social reproduction, unpaid labor, and feminist political economy, featuring @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @sarastevano.bsky.social as they explore economic structures in the Global South!
🎧 Listen to the full discussion here!
🔗 🔊 shorturl.at/lFyJJ
🎧 Listen to the full discussion here!
🔗 🔊 shorturl.at/lFyJJ
March 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🎙️ New podcast episode on social reproduction, unpaid labor, and feminist political economy, featuring @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @sarastevano.bsky.social as they explore economic structures in the Global South!
🎧 Listen to the full discussion here!
🔗 🔊 shorturl.at/lFyJJ
🎧 Listen to the full discussion here!
🔗 🔊 shorturl.at/lFyJJ
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🎙️New Podcast on Social Reproduction!
What counts as “work,” and what gets overlooked?
@sarastevano.bsky.social joins @surbhikesar.bsky.social to discuss the unpaid & paid labour that sustains life.
🎧Listen here: shorturl.at/lFyJJ
@devcomms.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social
What counts as “work,” and what gets overlooked?
@sarastevano.bsky.social joins @surbhikesar.bsky.social to discuss the unpaid & paid labour that sustains life.
🎧Listen here: shorturl.at/lFyJJ
@devcomms.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🎙️New Podcast on Social Reproduction!
What counts as “work,” and what gets overlooked?
@sarastevano.bsky.social joins @surbhikesar.bsky.social to discuss the unpaid & paid labour that sustains life.
🎧Listen here: shorturl.at/lFyJJ
@devcomms.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social
What counts as “work,” and what gets overlooked?
@sarastevano.bsky.social joins @surbhikesar.bsky.social to discuss the unpaid & paid labour that sustains life.
🎧Listen here: shorturl.at/lFyJJ
@devcomms.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social
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📌Join Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin Rai & @sarastevano.bsky.social for a discussion on pluralising feminist readings of the world economy and social reproduction
📅 20 March 5.15pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom
Register➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
@surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social
@carlosoya.bsky.social
📅 20 March 5.15pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom
Register➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
@surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social
@carlosoya.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
📌Join Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin Rai & @sarastevano.bsky.social for a discussion on pluralising feminist readings of the world economy and social reproduction
📅 20 March 5.15pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom
Register➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
@surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social
@carlosoya.bsky.social
📅 20 March 5.15pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom
Register➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
@surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social
@carlosoya.bsky.social
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NEW from me in the FT today... The UK's university 'system' is now in freefall. How on Earth did the disaster unfold? Read all about it: www.ft.com/content/0ec7...
The UK’s academic recession is in full swing
This university crisis is a grim scrabble for numbers
www.ft.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
NEW from me in the FT today... The UK's university 'system' is now in freefall. How on Earth did the disaster unfold? Read all about it: www.ft.com/content/0ec7...
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📢Update: Please note this event has now been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances and rescheduled to 20 March 2025 at 5.15pm. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
@sarastevano.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
@sarastevano.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
📌Join Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin Rai & @sarastevano.bsky.social for a discussion on pluralising feminist readings of the world economy and social reproduction
📅 March 6, 5pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom
Registration ➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
@surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
📅 March 6, 5pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom
Registration ➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
@surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
📢Update: Please note this event has now been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances and rescheduled to 20 March 2025 at 5.15pm. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
@sarastevano.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
@sarastevano.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
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If you have not seem "No Other Land," which just won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, there is currently a link to watch the film. Watch soon as the link is time bound and will only last for the next 48 hours.
The password is AF24.
vimeo.com/video/991587...
The password is AF24.
vimeo.com/video/991587...
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March 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
If you have not seem "No Other Land," which just won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, there is currently a link to watch the film. Watch soon as the link is time bound and will only last for the next 48 hours.
The password is AF24.
vimeo.com/video/991587...
The password is AF24.
vimeo.com/video/991587...
Reposted by Sara Stevano
📌Join Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin Rai & @sarastevano.bsky.social for a discussion on pluralising feminist readings of the world economy and social reproduction
📅 March 6, 5pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom
Registration ➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
@surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
📅 March 6, 5pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom
Registration ➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
@surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
📌Join Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin Rai & @sarastevano.bsky.social for a discussion on pluralising feminist readings of the world economy and social reproduction
📅 March 6, 5pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom
Registration ➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
@surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
📅 March 6, 5pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom
Registration ➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
@surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
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"When Fortunati was working on The Arcana of Reproduction, her approach was iconoclastic – for, as the title of the book suggests, few social realities have been so manipulated as the sphere of reproduction, especially in Italy where years of Fascism had turned maternity into a religion."
Silvia Federici on The Arcana of Reproduction
The Arcana of Reproduction is a unique book in the world of Marxist feminism. Generally, Marxist feminists have elaborated on the methodological significance of Marx’s work for understanding the speci...
www.versobooks.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"When Fortunati was working on The Arcana of Reproduction, her approach was iconoclastic – for, as the title of the book suggests, few social realities have been so manipulated as the sphere of reproduction, especially in Italy where years of Fascism had turned maternity into a religion."
Reposted by Sara Stevano
@soaseconomics.bsky.social has joined us here! You need to follow them because they are easily the most exciting and innovative economics department you will find anywhere.
@soasdevelopment.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social @sarastevano.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social
@soasdevelopment.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social @sarastevano.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social
📌 Join us TODAY at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with Jonathan Jenner on:
Policing the ‘Reserve’ Wage: The Spatial Control of Unemployment, Carceral Labor Discipline, and Colonial Profitability in Depression-Era #Kenya 🌍
Info 🔗 tinyurl.com/36sas9z2
Policing the ‘Reserve’ Wage: The Spatial Control of Unemployment, Carceral Labor Discipline, and Colonial Profitability in Depression-Era #Kenya 🌍
Info 🔗 tinyurl.com/36sas9z2
February 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
@soaseconomics.bsky.social has joined us here! You need to follow them because they are easily the most exciting and innovative economics department you will find anywhere.
@soasdevelopment.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social @sarastevano.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social
@soasdevelopment.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social @sarastevano.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social
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🌟New Publication!
Raksha Gopal and I examine how Rohingya and Syrian refugees negotiate survival amid multiple forms of violence in India and Turkey. We introduce a new concept—the (in)securitization of social reproductive capacities—drawing on our PhDs @gvagrad.bsky.social.
📖Displaced Lives⤵️
Raksha Gopal and I examine how Rohingya and Syrian refugees negotiate survival amid multiple forms of violence in India and Turkey. We introduce a new concept—the (in)securitization of social reproductive capacities—drawing on our PhDs @gvagrad.bsky.social.
📖Displaced Lives⤵️
Displaced lives: rethinking survival, social reproduction, and (in)security with refugees
In this article, we examine the practices of survival that Rohingya and Syrian refugees perform as they confront multiple forms of violence resulting from their forced displacement in India and Tur...
doi.org
February 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
🌟New Publication!
Raksha Gopal and I examine how Rohingya and Syrian refugees negotiate survival amid multiple forms of violence in India and Turkey. We introduce a new concept—the (in)securitization of social reproductive capacities—drawing on our PhDs @gvagrad.bsky.social.
📖Displaced Lives⤵️
Raksha Gopal and I examine how Rohingya and Syrian refugees negotiate survival amid multiple forms of violence in India and Turkey. We introduce a new concept—the (in)securitization of social reproductive capacities—drawing on our PhDs @gvagrad.bsky.social.
📖Displaced Lives⤵️