The Global Political Economy of Sex: Desire, Violence, and Insecurity in Mediterranean Nation States
At the intersection of the warmth of hearth and home and the dangers of the street lies the tenuous position of women engaged in reproductive labour, those involved in the sex trade and those in domestic positions.
📖 Ricardo Noronha published a paper on the political economy of the Portuguese Revolution, where he analyses “the plans and strategies devised to ensure a socialist transition in the semiperiphery of the capitalist world-system during the 1970s.”
Tomorrow, I will play around with the notion of stand-ins, a project that might become my habilitation and a book. But I still feel it's a risky bet. Well, let's see. 👇
> I will draw on multi-sited ethnographic research to explore what it means to stay in limbo or move forward to becoming more or less relevant in global economies, amid energy transitions.
If you are a critical political economist of any persuasion then let me recommend my old friend Paul Cammack's archive of long-form reviews of books on #IPE & related subjects - all with handy ratings & buy/don't but headline recommendations.
Its easily navigable & Paul's judgement is pretty sound. Even if you don't agree with him (it happens) his discussion will be thought provoking & often send you back to the book(s)
New! Essay Review of Joshua DÁVILA (aka The Blockchain Socialist) new book
Blockchain Radicals, & launch to further discussion of blockchain left, higher ed. etc. In my Blockchain and Society