Profile
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher concerned with social justice, currently working at the Gender Centre on the project Gendering Survival from the Margins. My PhD, awarded summa cum laude in International Relations and Political Science from the Geneva Graduate Institute, examined the politics of life and labour in the context of transnational cotton production and post-war transitions.
I have worked in international organizations, including the ILO and UNRISD, as well as NGOs such as Oxfam Italy, and as a teaching assistant for interdisciplinary master’s courses. I hold an MA in Development Studies from the Geneva Graduate Institute and a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
My research focuses on feminist international political economy, the intersections of development and security, and the politics of labour and corporate power.
Research interests
- Feminist international political economy and social reproduction
- Labor standards, collective organization, and corporations
- Violence, post-war transitions, and displacement
Publications
Articles
- From home to farm: Household and labour brokerage practices in Turkey’s commercial agriculture, with Saniye Dedeoğlu. Journal of Rural Studies, 2026.
- Displaced lives: rethinking survival, social reproduction, and (in)security with refugees, with Raksha Gopal. International Feminist Journal of Politics (online 12 February 2025): 1–25.
- Do workplace unions and collective bargaining matter for labor standards compliance? The role of local industrial relations in global supply chains, with Anil Verma. International Labour Review, 2025.
- Do promises of support from distant buyers bolster or undermine local demands for reform? Evidence from the Indonesian apparel industry during the pandemic, with Tim Bartley, Journal of Industrial Relations (online 19 December 2024): 1-26.
- Social reproduction, women’s labour and systems of life: A conversation, with Marianna Fernandes, Asanda Benya, Saniye Dedeoğlu, Alessandra Mezzadri and Elisabeth Prügl. Dialogues in Human Geography. 1-11.
Book chapters
- Remapping gendered circuits of violence: A social reproduction perspective, with Elisabeth Prügl and Raksha Gopal. In War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital. (Eds.) Aida A Hozić and Jacqui True, Routledge, 2025.
- ‘Le fléau de la soude caustique’: bauxite refining, social reproduction, and the role of women’s promotion groups. In The Lives of Extraction. Identities, Communities and the Politics of Place, International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement, 15.1 (online 22 May 2023). (Eds.) Filipe Calvão, Matthew Archer and Asanda Benya. Geneva, Boston: Graduate Institute Publications, Brill-Nijhoff.
Opinion Pieces / Blogs
- Cotton wars: Labour precariousness and geopolitics in the cotton fields of Southeast Turkey, February 2026.
- Forced displacement, gender and the reproduction of life: Insights from a study day bridging academia and practice, June 2024.
- Gendering Survival from the Margins, November 2023.