Joanna Tidy
Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations & SPERI Associate Fellow, University of Sheffield
Extraction, infrastructure, and the coloniality of violence: Why land matters
Vicki Reif-Breitwieser and Joanna Tidy - 28 November 2024We explore the relationship between land and violence in extractive and infrastructure projects. In doing so, we highlight the centrality of land in the (re)production of the many tangible, as well as unseen, forms of violence that underlie past and present capitalist development.
Introduction: The production of organised violence
Elena Simon, Remi Edwards, Vicki Reif-Breitwieser, Joanna Tidy, Sandra Barragan Contreras, James Jackson, Baris Celik and David Yates - 25 November 2024This series, inspired by a SPERI workshop in June 2024, explores the intersections between economy and the exercise of organised violence.
Selling war: commodifying the (in)security of Afghan women
Joanna Tidy - 15 January 2020Examining the commodification of an everyday object, an Afghan rug, reveals a complex interconnection of economy and security.
Beyond Political Economy and Security Studies: Introduction to blog series
Liam Stanley & Joanna Tidy - 13 January 2020This blog series presents research from SPERI’s 2019 PREPPE programme. This year’s PREPPE team asks: What sorts of analyses might we be able to generate if we move beyond treating ‘economy’ and ‘security’ as separate? The blogs in this series each question how helpful this distinction is by focusing on four cases: community safety, war, neoliberalism, and populism.