So many thanks to @brismes.bsky.social for the award and countless folks who have been part of my PhD journey!

So honoured and overjoyed to receive the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD thesis on the Middle East for my PhD thesis, "Towards a Feminist International Political Economy of Sanctions: Social Reproduction, Labour and Survival in Iran" at the @brismes.bsky.social BRISMES conference!

So many thanks to all who have been part of this journey, especially my supervisors @nicolapratt.bsky.social & @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social!!! ❤️

I won a prize this week in the PSA conference 😍

Feeling so honoured to be awarded the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Political science Association (PSA) Elizabeth Wiskemann Prize for the best PhD dissertation in the field of (in)equality and social justice!! @hass-cornwall.bsky.social

🌟New Publication!

Raksha Gopal and I examine how Rohingya and Syrian refugees negotiate survival amid multiple forms of violence in India and Turkey. We introduce a new concept—the (in)securitization of social reproductive capacities—drawing on our PhDs @gvagrad.bsky.social.

📖Displaced Lives⤵️

Thank you so much, Columba, for sharing!! ❤️

Thanks to many individuals who provided feedback alongside the writing of the paper and on the earlier drafts of the paper including my former PhD supervisors @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social and @nicolapratt.bsky.social. @hass-cornwall.bsky.social

5- The combined direct effects of sanctions and the state’s gendered governance responses to them, I argue, have resulted in a feminisation of survival on an everyday level, where feminised informality has increasingly emerged as a survival strategy for middle-class urban households in Iran.

4- This includes key interventions in women’s productive and reproductive roles, with significant implications for gendered regimes of labour and survival in everyday life.

3- At the policy level, the paper traces shifts in the gendered policies of the Iranian state over the last decade to analyse the patterns through which the state has sought to build resilience against sanctions-induced crises since 2012.

2- In this paper, I build upon the insights of feminist IPE scholarship on economic crises and social reproduction to provide a multi-scalar analysis of the gendered effects of sanctions on Iran since 2012.

Pleased to share my paper, “A Feminist International Political Economy of Sanctions: Crises and the Shifting Gendered Regimes of Labour and Survival in Iran", published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics. The paper is open access and available here 👇

So many thanks, Juanita, for all the help in the PhD and your comments on the earlier drafts of this paper!🙏

In the last 24 hours, four babies have died from the freezing cold in Gaza. This harsh period, known locally as "Arabiniya," brings 40 days of relentless cold. As you sit in warmth, take a moment to think of others enduring unimaginable suffering and remember: Israel is a genocidal state.

If you are working in UK HE, consider donating to
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🎉 We're in the final stretch of celebrating 50 volumes! 🎉

Check out the 2019 most-cited article: "Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence" by Juanita Elias & Shirin M. Rai.

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feminist/queer political economy starter pack is here - let me know who else I need to add

Ethnic cleansing in Northern Gaza.

My first single-authored paper is out in @Peasant_Journal
w/ #OpenAccess.

It explores how land shapes women's agency across intersecting identities after the genocide in #Rwanda, and theorises the nexus between land dispossession and gendered violence👇https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167