Research

How do everyday actors shape the politics of globalisation? My research agenda is marked by a recurring interest in how we come to know, imagine, perform and therefore potentially challenge the politics of globalisation. Focusing on certain prevailing narratives of globalisation - for example, cosmopolitanism, neoliberal resilience, or even popular narratives of resistance and critique like humour and anti-populism - my research asks: what do such narratives permit? What do they create? What limits do they construct and who do they exclude? In this way, everyday narratives of global politics are taken as a lens through which to address older questions of IPE: who gets what, why and how might it be changed? Using discourse analysis and case studies, I show how everyday market subjects—consumers, civil society activists, film makers, even social media users— can construct, challenge or sometimes reinforce global hierarchies, in the process offering new insights on agency, power and justice in global context.