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 2024

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. 

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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 2024

This series, inspired by a SPERI workshop in June 2024, explores the intersections between economy and the exercise of organised violence.

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Selling war: commodifying the (in)security of Afghan women

Joanna Tidy - 15 January 2020

Examining the commodification of an everyday object, an Afghan rug, reveals a complex interconnection of economy and security.

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Beyond Political Economy and Security Studies: Introduction to blog series

Liam Stanley & Joanna Tidy - 13 January 2020

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.

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