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Zaynab El Bernoussi

Moroccan professor

Jul 31, 2026

14:46
Could you talk through a bit the history that you trace here in this chapter? And again, why it's so revealing about the need to decentralize IP, maybe if Zee you want to talk through this one?
14:57
So, yeah, I agree.
14:58
It's one of my favorite chapters and it was led by our colleague Giuliano.
15:05
I think there what was really interesting in that tracing of the history of food systems is the making of those interdependencies between different spaces.
15:18
And it is a way of decentralizing IPE because we are actually also challenging that state-centric view, right? So it's more than that, right? It's not just the states that are deciding, but it's something bigger.
15:37
So systems, and mostly here, productive systems, capitalist systems.
15:42
So...

5 MINS LATER

20:57
Yeah, to stick with perhaps agency and that movement then, I wonder if, Zee, you could talk a bit about the chapter on labour and union politics and what you feel Centering the Global South helps us understand about the position and, I guess, agency as well of workers within global capitalism today.

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