The International Political Economy research group was established in October 2022. The group seeks to support and strengthen the study and teaching of themes related to international/global political economy at Tampere University.
The group understands International Political Economy (IPE) in a permissive and pluralist way. Broadly understood, IPE analyzes the interaction between the economy and political actors and institutions beyond national settings.
Permissiveness and pluralism are visible in the group's theoretical as well as methodological approaches. Members of the research group work with various IPE theories as well as with interdisciplinary approaches and seek to cultivate methodological inventiveness in the study of international political economy.
Examples of research topics
- Social reproduction of labour
- International political economy of higher education and academic capitalism
- Trade, development, and international society
- Care and care labour, global health and social policies, health technologies
- Climate action and post-fossil futures
- Geoeconomics, power politics by economic means
- China and its Foreign Direct Investment
- International political economy of art
Examples of on-going, externally funded research projects
- Assembling postcapitalist international political economy (PI Anni Kangas)
- Emergent un/sustainabilities: The global political economy of the adult incontinence pad (Pad Project) (PI Tiina Vaittinen)
- Politics of faeces in urban spaces, art, and bioethics (PI Anna Rajala)
- Post-capitalist choreographies of climate crisis (PI Henna-Elise Ventovirta)
Members of the group
Julia Bethwaite, Iuliia Gataulina, Anni Kangas, Eero Palmujoki, Mikko Poutanen, Anna Rajala, Svetlana Shenderova, Tiina Vaittinen, Henna-Elise Ventovirta, Valtteri Vuorisalo, Yue Wang, Mikael Wigell.
The group welcomes new members from or associated with Tampere University. Please, get in touch with Anni Kangas, anni.kangas [at] tuni.fi, if you would like to join the research group and its activities, of if you have questions about our group.