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luisalupo.bsky.social
@luisalupo.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at @gvagrad.bsky.social
I research social reproduction, labor, and displacement in 🇹🇷 and also write about rights and organizing in global supply chains
Very excited to have defended my PhD thesis last November!🎉

In this interview, I talk about what motivated the research and share some of the key findings and lessons along the way
#PhDThesis
Luisa Lupo examines the lives of people working in the cotton fields of Southeast #Turkey and within the supply chains that connect them to international markets.
She finds that precarious labour and violences of state security measures produce veritable “cotton wars”.

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March 13, 2026 at 3:18 PM
🌱 Excited to share my new article with Saniye Dedeoglu!

We look at how #farmworkers’ inclusion in commercial #agriculture in 🇹🇷 works through patriarchal family relations and labor brokerage practices that connect home and farm, reproducing inequalities @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagrad-gc.bsky.social
From home to farm: Household and labour brokerage practices in Turkey's commercial agriculture
This article advances understandings of labour exploitation at the lower end of commercialized agricultural markets, focusing on the experiences of se…
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March 10, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Reposted
Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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✊ “The presence of workplace unions is linked to better compliance even where activity is restricted.”

📢 @luisalupo.bsky.social from @gvagrad.bsky.social shows how unions make a difference when it matters most.

#UnionsMatter #LabourStandards #WorkersRights
August 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Reposted
This study from Indonesia’s garment sector during 🦠 explores what workers and managers think re global brands and labor conditions. Are they for improve it or holding off? #laborreform
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Thrilled to share my latest article with Tim Bartley, open access in the Journal of Industrial Relations

📖 🌏 Through a unique survey of workers in #Indonesia’s #garment-exporting factories, we find that workers and managers share similar views on necessary reforms in times of crisis
April 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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“Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.” - Ghassan Kanafani
April 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Reposted
In her thesis, Shalaka Thakur looks at how non-state armed groups in Northeast India tax ordinary people, businesses, and sometimes even the Indian state. She is using her research to understand how power, authority and order are shaped in conflict zones.
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March 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
this reminds me of the Euphrates River in southeast Turkey
February 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Very excited to have our paper included in this issue alongside scholars who profoundly influenced our thinking, including @feministonmarx.bsky.social @shirinmrai.bsky.social @sarastevano.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social and many others💫
February 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🌟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⤵️
Displaced lives: rethinking survival, social reproduction, and (in)security with refugees
In this article, we examine the practices of survival that Rohingya and Syrian refugees perform as they confront multiple forms of violence resulting from their forced displacement in India and Tur...
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February 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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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 👇
A feminist international political economy of sanctions: crises and the shifting gendered regimes of labor and survival in Iran: International Feminist Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No 0
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February 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Thrilled to share my latest article with Tim Bartley, open access in the Journal of Industrial Relations

📖 🌏 Through a unique survey of workers in #Indonesia’s #garment-exporting factories, we find that workers and managers share similar views on necessary reforms in times of crisis
January 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM