Sara Stevano

Dr Sara Stevano

Small Group Project 2024-25

The Origins of Commodity Dependence: Legacies of Empire in Lusophone Africa

With Victoria Stadheim & Helena Pérez Niño & Sophie Van Huellen

The proposed research uses a critical political economy and combines insights from economics, history, politics, international relations, development studies, business, and sociology to characterise continuities and ruptures in structures of production and exports in the former Portuguese colonies in Africa.

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Areas of interest

Development Economics Feminist Political Economy Political Economy Feminist Economics Economics Work Food Inequality Social Reproduction Africa Mozambique Ghana

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FG10

Biography

Sara Stevano is a development and feminist political economist. She is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at SOAS University of London, after holding teaching and research positions at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and King’s College London.

Her areas of study are the political economy of work, food and nutrition, inequalities and social reproduction. Her work focuses on Africa, with primary research experience in Mozambique and Ghana. Sara is committed to expanding the boundaries of economic research and teaching through interdisciplinary approaches, qualitative methods and micro-macro bridges.

Biographical details correct as of 12.02.25