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The Global Studies in Feminist Political Economy series publishes cutting-edge scholarship on feminist political economy theories, approaches, and methods from a global perspective. It highlights the diversity of socio-economic realities worldwide and draws on multiple traditions of feminist thought in and around political economy, with a strong emphasis on Global South perspectives, and Global North contributions in dialogue with global feminist debates.
The series positions feminist political economy as central to understanding contemporary planetary capitalism and its crises, the rise of intersectional inequalities, and their entanglement with ecological breakdown, migration, displacement, and emerging technologies and artificial intelligence (AI). It welcomes work analysing how global capitalism reproduces inequalities of gender, race, caste, ethnicity, and geography, and examines connections between production, life, work, land, survival, technology and resistance. Contributions may challenge and reimagine core categories of political economy, offer new readings of global socio-economic processes, and explore alternatives.
Committed to decolonising knowledge production, the series encourages original theoretical syntheses alongside empirically grounded research using diverse feminist political economy frameworks. It publishes Elements featuring comparative analyses and case studies, and welcomes work offering theoretical reviews, empirical research - including labour and community organising - and new methodological approaches to explore our shared planetary economy and its many challenges.
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Professor Alessandra Mezzadri is Professor in Global Development and Political Economy at SOAS, University of London. She is a feminist global political economist, and her research focuses on global supply chain capitalism, labour, work, and social reproduction. She studied Economics, Political Economy, and Global Business Studies at La Sapienza University in Rome, and Development, Gender, and Labour Studies at SOAS. She is the author of The Sweatshop Regime (Cambridge University Press, 2017/2021), lead author of the ILO report The Social Life of Industrial Disputes, editor of Marx in the Field (Anthem, 2021/2023), and co-editor of the Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (Edward Elgar, 2023). Her work has significantly contributed to feminist political economy, including analyses of social reproduction and the COVID-19 pandemic. Mezzadri has collaborated with organisations such as the ILO, UNIDO, ActionAid, SEWA, and UNU-WIDER. She is also co-founder of the Labour Transfer summer school.
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Contact: am99@soas.ac.uk
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Dr Sara Stevano is a development and feminist political economist whose work focuses on labour, social reproduction, food systems, and inequality. She is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at SOAS University of London and previously held teaching and research positions at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and King’s College London. Her research focuses primarily on Africa, particularly Mozambique and Ghana, where she has conducted fieldwork on work, food, and livelihoods. Stevano’s scholarship is informed by feminist political economy and challenges conventional economic approaches by emphasising the social relations underpinning economic processes. A key contribution of her work is the analysis of social reproduction and the often-invisible forms of labour that sustain households and economies. She is committed to methodological pluralism, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches while building bridges between micro-level experiences and broader political-economic structures. Her work has become influential in contemporary debates on development, gender, labour, and economic justice.
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Contact: ss129@soas.ac.uk
Dr Lyn Ossome is Associate Professor and Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University. She has previously held academic positions as Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), Senior Research Fellow at MISR, and Visiting Presidential Professor at Yale University. Her research and teaching specialise in feminist political economy and feminist political theory, with a strong focus on gendered labour relations, land and agrarian questions, the modern state, and the political economy of gendered violence. Her work critically examines how power, gender, and economic structures shape inequality and social transformation in African and global contexts. She is currently the President of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), where she contributes to advancing collaborative social science research and intellectual exchange across the continent. She also promotes pan-African research collaboration.
Contact: lyn.ossome@gmail.com