Dr Serena Natile

Early Career Fellow 2024-25

Transnational social security law in the digital age: towards a grassroots politics of redistribution

This project argues for and provides a framework for transnational social security law, paying particular attention to recent processes of digitalisation. Transnational social security, not as yet an established disciplinary field, is intended here as the global responsibility to guarantee decent living standards and access to essential services for All. The entry point for the analysis is the urgency to address the increasing global inequality and maldistribution of wealth and power enabled by the international legal order and enhanced by the apparent inclusivity of digitalisation. This has moved attention away from international law’s responsibility for redistributive interventions while creating new avenues for value extraction via fees and data.

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Research outcomes

Natile, S. (2024, June 30).

Reconciling Human Rights and Anti-Colonial Struggles: Towards a Redistributive Regulation of Digital Social Security Programs. Tech Policy Press; Tech Policy Press. https://www.techpolicy.press/reconciling-human-rights-and-anticolonial-struggles-towards-a-redistributive-regulation-of-digital-social-security-programs/

Areas of interest

Gender Studies Law Development Studies Political Economy Finance Digital Technology Decolonisation Coloniality Social Reproduction

Cohort

ECF7

Biography

Serena Natile is Associate Professor Associate Professor at Warwick Law School, University of Warwick.

Serena’s research interests lie in the areas of gender studies, law & development, global political economy, finance and digital technologies. In her research, Serena brings together socio-legal enquiry, critical political economy analysis and feminist and decolonial methods to examine issues relating to coloniality, social reproduction and (mal)distribution and, more generally, the relationship between law and social (in)justice. Serena has published on gender equality in international law, law and development, feminist political economy and social reproduction theory, financial inclusion and the governance of digital technologies. Her book The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion: Mobile Money, Gendered Wall (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy, Routledge 2020) provides a socio-legal critique of the narratives, institutions and governance of digital financial inclusion as a development strategy for gender equality, arguing for a decolonial politics of redistribution to guide future digital financial projects.

Biographical details correct as of 14.01.25