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Ground Level: The International and the Everyday w/ Juanita Elias & Frank Maracchione
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- Mar 5, 2026
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Summary
Across factory floors, family kitchens, neighbourhoods, and informal markets, the international economy is lived and negotiated in ordinary places. This episode introduces the theoretical concepts behind Ground Level, SPERI’s podcast series on Everyday Political Economy. Ground Level’s host, Dr Frank Maracchione , speaks with Professor Juanita Elias about why everyday life matters for studying and understanding global political economy. Together, they trace the emergence of everyday political economy, highlighting feminist and social reproduction approaches that have reshaped the field, before turning to the relationship between the everyday and the international. The episode sets the conceptual foundations for the series and asks a simple but powerful question: What does the global economy look like when we start from everyday life? Concepts discussed: commodification, social reproduction, agency, violence, and resistance. Speakers: Juanita Elias is Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Warwick. Juanita has held significant leadership roles within Politics and International Studies. She has been editor of Review of International Political Economy, until recently, and is one of the editors of the innovative IPE teaching and learning website I-PEEL, international political economy of everyday life. She currently serves as chair of the British International Studies Association (BISA). Dr Frank Maracchione, host of the Ground Level series, is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS University of London. Frank is a political economist studying Global China, specialising in how local sociocultural norms shape global political and economic processes. Reading list: Bras…