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 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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The political economy of managing conflict: the state-corporate nexus and 'greening' extractivism

Vicki Reif-Breitwieser - 21 November 2023

Resistance 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.

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