Vicki Reif-Breitwieser
Doctoral Researcher, Department of Politics & IR, University of Sheffield
Co-Convenor, SPERI's Doctoral Researcher Network
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.
The political economy of managing conflict: the state-corporate nexus and 'greening' extractivism
Vicki Reif-Breitwieser - 21 November 2023Resistance and activism against extractivism is prompting repression by state and corporate actors. This blog is the third in the series The Political Economy of Conflict by members of SPERI's Doctoral Researcher Network.