Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations & SPERI Associate Fellow, University of Sheffield
We 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.
This series, inspired by a SPERI workshop in June 2024, explores the intersections between economy and the exercise of organised violence.
Examining the commodification of an everyday object, an Afghan rug, reveals a complex interconnection of economy and security.
This 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.