Remi Edwards
Research & Impact Associate, SPERI, Department of Politics & IR, University of Sheffield
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.
La represión sindical en la bananera costarricense
Remi Edwards - 6 August 2024A pesar de los compromisos nacionales y de la industria para proteger la libertad de asociación en el sector bananero costarricense, un trabajo de campo reciente sugiere que los derechos colectivos siguen siendo precarios debido a las presiones por reducción de costes de la cadena de suministro global, que, a su vez, están combinadas con las conflictivas relaciones laborales locales.
Trade union repression in the Costa Rican bananera
Remi Edwards - 6 August 2024Despite industry and national commitments to protect Freedom of Association in the Costa Rican banana sector, recent fieldwork suggests collective rights remain precarious due to cost-cutting pressures of the global supply chain combined with conflictual local industrial relations.
Social media as a site of social conflict
Winnie Lam & Remi Edwards - 15 August 2023Online spaces are designed for fast content consumption, rather than meaningful political debate, which can fuel social conflict. This blog is the second in the series The Political Economy of Conflict by members of SPERI's Doctoral Researcher Network.
Remi Edwards & James Jackson - 10 May 2022
Veganism offers a deep critique of contemporary food systems, but is susceptible to corporate co-optation that may reduce its transformative potential.
James Jackson & Remi Edwards - 26 April 2022
This new blog series by members of SPERI’s Doctoral Researcher Network explores how a political economy analysis can help to explain experiences in our everyday lives.
Remi Edwards & Frank Maracchione - 8 September 2021
While activist coalitions have forced the end of state-sanctioned forced labour in Uzbekistan, the rise of the private sector and continued undermining of political and social rights may mean exploitation in the cotton sector persists.
Care and clothes: reimagining the value of labour
Remi Edwards - 6 July 2020We need to extend critiques of undervalued labour beyond those that we see as having ‘social value’ in order to engender improvements in the material value of labour globally. This blog is Part 3 of the series ‘Studying an uncertain future‘ written by members of SPERI’s Doctoral Researcher Network.
Studying an uncertain future: Researching political economy in a time of COVID-19, crisis and climate change
SPERI's Doctoral Researcher Network - 15 June 2020A new generation of political economists, drawn from SPERI’s Doctoral Researcher Network reflect on what their work tells us about where the world may be going in the next ten years.
Knowing commodities through corporate narratives: the poor prospects for ethical consumption
Remi Edwards - 12 February 2019Commodities are often represented to consumers based on corporate promises of social responsibility. But with little evidence of positive impact on the ground for workers, is ethical consumption really a move in the right direction?