{"podcast":{"title":"SPERI Presents...","slug":"speri-presents-7048864","podcast_index_feed_id":7048864,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/speri-presents","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/speri-presents","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1719924975597-bd72a918010408ee53547beb7fb5091a.jpeg","author":"SPERI","episode_count":48,"summary":"'SPERI Presents…' is a podcast taking on the big questions in political economy for scholars, students and publics within and beyond the discipline. We also host 'New Thinking in Political Economy', an ongoing series with monthly episodes. Dr Remi Edwards is joined by authors of new research to explore the motivations behind, contributions and implications of their work for understanding power and politics in the global economy. The first limited series was 'Lessons in Power'. Professor Michael Jacobs and Mems Ayinla interview ministers and advisors from the New Labour administration (1997-2010) to tease out lessons on a range of issues for Keir Starmer’s newly formed Labour government. Coming soon: Crisis Point hosted by Chris Saltmarsh and Dr Dillon Wamsley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-11T16:20:02.139333+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/speri-presents-7048864"},"episode":{"title":"Ground Level: Food and War w/ Nadine Bahour","slug":"ground-level-food-and-war-w-nadine-bahour","published_at":"2026-03-12T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/speri-presents-7048864/ground-level-food-and-war-w-nadine-bahour","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/speri-presents-7048864","url":"https://shows.acast.com/speri-presents/episodes/ground-level-food-and-war","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6683f98604b201dd34f20976/e/69a6e4070493c185053ee5c5/media.mp3","summary":"Everyday life is often described as common, usual, uneventful, slow, and mundane, yet it can easily become unpredictable, anxious, and traumatic. This episode explores contexts in which war and political violence closely interact with everyday life.  To discuss the everyday political economy of state-mandated violence, we focus on survival. Where critical political economy frames survival as part of everyday resistance connected to labour agency, we move to discuss the political economy of actual survival as represented by gathering food when supply chains become instruments for violence and repression.  We discuss the political economy of survival by exploring the sources of food insecurity in Palestine and the food-related abuses employed by the Israeli state, first as part of its colonial project and after October 2023 as part of the genocide of the Palestinian people.  Concepts discussed: survival, social reproduction, genocide, violence, resistance, starvation, humanitarianism.  Hosts: Dr Frank Maracchione , SOAS University of London. Gwilym Evans , University of Sheffield. Speakers: Nadine Bahour is the Research Program Coordinator for the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. Nadine is originally from Ramallah, Palestine, and her work studies the impact of settler colonialism on healthcare access and quality.  Material discussed in the episode:  Bahour, N., Anabtawi, O., Muhareb, R., Wispelwey, B., Asi, Y., Hammoudeh, W., Bassett, M. T., Mills, D., & Tanous, O. (2025). Food insecurity, starvation and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 31(4), 281–284. https://doi.org/10.26719/2025.31.4.281 Gisha. (2012). Reader: \"Food Consumption in the Gaza Strip - Red Lines\" . Gi…","meta_description":"Everyday life is often described as common, usual, uneventful, slow, and mundane, yet it can easily become unpredictable, anxious, and traumatic. This epi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2309,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/speri-presents-7048864/episodes/ground-level-food-and-war-w-nadine-bahour/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/speri-presents-7048864/ground-level-food-and-war-w-nadine-bahour.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}