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Cement

Cement

What social relations does cement make concrete?

Wildlife

Wildlife

What separates the legal wildlife trade from the illegal?

Café

Café

How can personal consumption affirm civilizational politics?

Scarcity

Scarcity

How has a nativist politics of population growth enabled coercive solutions to resource scarcity?

Textbook

Textbook

What is the racial politics of seemingly neutral knowledge?

Payday loan

Payday loan

What is it like to use high-cost short-term credit?

Graffiti

Graffiti

When does street art speak truth to power?

Medicine

Medicine

How do property rights affect people’s health?

Dieting

Dieting

Why is weight loss seen as an individual responsibility?

Housework

Housework

What is globalized social reproduction?

Container

Container

How is global trade made physically possible?

Solar panel

Solar panel

Why is renewable energy dying of success?

Abortion

Abortion

How does economic planning affect reproductive rights?

Humanitarianism

Humanitarianism

What does ‘doing good’ mean today?

Phone

Phone

Who has power in global value chains?

Grime

Grime

How does music escape the market?

Handicraft

Handicraft

How do cultural traditions become marketable commodities?

Clothing

Clothing

Do women really benefit from globalisation?

Borrowing

Borrowing

What do the markets for debt depend on?

Security

Security

How is the financial system kept safe from breakdown?

Grain

Grain

Why think of grain farmers as ‘the globally governed’?

Place branding

Place branding

Why are countries given marketing campaigns?

HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS

What is it like to live with illness?

Protest

Protest

Can protest protect the welfare state?

Travel guide

Travel guide

How can holidays become colonial?

Beer

Beer

How can everyday acts of drinking enact global politics?

Tracking

Tracking

What does workplace quantification mean for labour?

Coffee

Coffee

Can the rural poor trade their way out of poverty?

Street harassment

Street harassment

How does harassment cause economic disempowerment?

Knotweed

Knotweed

How can nature gain economic value?

Evictions

Evictions

Are houses a place to live or a financial asset?

Saving

Saving

How has financialisation changed saving?

Garbage

Garbage

How do household things become international flows?

Web search

Web search

How do technological ‘black boxes’ shape our digital experiences?

Laughter

Laughter

What’s so funny about global development?

Car

Car

Can the car explain the evolution of capitalism?

Commuting

Commuting

What makes travelling to work a liminal form of labour?

Sisterhood

Sisterhood

What does intersectionality mean for feminist solidarity?

Wine

Wine

What lies behind the product label?

Care

Care

Is it right to put a market price on care?

Meat

Meat

Can we eat our way to sustainability?

Failure

Failure

When does economic failure become a problem?

Resistance

Resistance

What should be resisted in the global economy, and how?

Benchmarks

Benchmarks

Who measures progress, and how?

Money

Money

Why do we treat money in different ways?

Sugar

Sugar

How are inequalities reproduced through food?

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