Gemma Gasseau
@gemmagasseau.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Researcher @Scuola Normale Superiore, Firenze, Italy | Political Economy & Ecology | Water Governance
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Hello #academicsky! I am a political economist working as post-doc at Scuola Normale Superiore (Firenze, Italy), currently researching eco-social policies in the EU.
You can find my publications in the institutional repository ricerca.sns.it/cris/rp/rp37... or DM if interested! Here a short thread🧵
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This is visible also in the most recent developments, with the renewed obsession with competitiveness that is leading to a new wave of deregulation, and the increase in EU-backed military spending (2)
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With @gemmagasseau.bsky.social we have a new short piece in Capital & Class, where we analyse continuties and changes in European economic governance. We argue that, despite the changes since the pandemic, EU integration remains centered on neoliberalism (1)
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What's changing and what's not in European Economic Governance in the current conjuncture? With @bigmacca.bsky.social we address the question in this short piece just published journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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What's changing and what's not in European Economic Governance in the current conjuncture? With @bigmacca.bsky.social we address the question in this short piece just published journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
DM if interested but don't have access!
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I had some fun writing an accessible text for learners seeking resources to problematize mainstream economics. This is especially meaningful to me because since my bachelor's in economics, I have spent much of the past decade thinking about how to study politically the economy shorturl.at/lohRl
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Our Midterm Workshop 'Critical Political Economy at the Time of Monsters' has come to a close

Many thanks to all our amazing participants for the great time together!

And a special thanks to @teivo.bsky.social and Silke Trommer for welcoming us in beautiful Helsinki!

See you all again next year!
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Without Water, We Have Nothing
Blue Community Ambassador Gemma Gasseau is organizing an online workshop with Blue Community Ambassador Caitling Schroering.
Online workshop on the 29th May at 18.00 CEST
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Webinar Alert!!

Do we need a Global Commission on the Economics of Water to Value Water?


Join @JustWaterFutures on May 16, 2025 (14-15.00 CEST) for a critical discussion on water governance.

📌 Register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/1337178188...

#WaterJustice #WaterGovernance #EnvironmentalJustice
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bigmacca.bsky.social
🚀 Call for Papers – Countervailing Platform Power: Regulation, Organizing & Intersectional Solidarities
📌 June 26-27 in Florence
📌 Topics:
🔹 Migration, Gender & Digital Platforms
🔹 Platform Work Directive, Unions, Co-ops
📅 Submit by April 1
CfP: www.sns.it/it/evento/co...
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I had some fun writing an accessible text for learners seeking resources to problematize mainstream economics. This is especially meaningful to me because since my bachelor's in economics, I have spent much of the past decade thinking about how to study politically the economy shorturl.at/lohRl
gemmagasseau.bsky.social
Thanks to editors and reviewers of RIPE! @ripejournal.bsky.social
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The books reviewed 2/2:

“Transnational corporations in urban water governance” Joyce Valdovinos
“Facing the challenges of water governance” edited by Simon Porcher and Stephane Saussier
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The books reviewed 1/2:

“Fighting for water” Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social
“Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism” Madelaine Moore
“Water Politics: Governance, Justice and the Right to Water” edited by Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus @farhanasultana.com
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During my PhD I often had to explain how I am a 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭 and at the same time researching 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫, so I ended up writing a piece about it! Reviewing five excellent books, I trace the (porous) contours of an IPE of water, and argue that it should be feminist, critical and relational.
Bridging the international political economy of water: social reproduction, governance and non-state actors
Water governance has recently gained increasing political and academic attention. However, in many of these debates, it is often narrowly understood as a set of institutional arrangements, rather t...
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