Donatella Alessandrini
Biographic Data
| ID | 4344966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donatella Alessandrini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donatella |
| FAMILY NAME | Alessandrini |
| SIGNATURE | ALESSANDRINI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4198-3958 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rethinking the socio-economic nexus: Judicial sense-making at the intersection of international economic law and the Colombian constitution
This paper reframes Latin American debates about the limited potential of constitutions to redistribute resources and power more equitably throughout society. It does so by exploring how the Colombian Constitutional Court has made sense of the role that constitutional law, interacting with international economic law, plays in the promotion of wealth and well-being. We argue that this sense-making constrains the radical potential of the constituti…
Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism and its contemporary dynamics through the work and practices of “life making.” Yet, it is undeniable that much of the “old” and “new” theorizing around SR comes predominantly from the Global North. He…
The Global Economic Order and Development
This chapter focuses on how international economic law (IEL) and institutions have shaped and continue to shape the post/colonial relationship between the world economic order and ‘development’, a relationship which is neither fixed nor immutable but whose nexus IEL and institutions are able to sustain in powerful ways, thereby precluding different political economic imaginaries and arrangements. The authors argument is that IEL (and in particula…
A Not So ‘New Dawn’ for International Economic Law and Development: Towards a Social Reproduction Approach to GVCs
This article has three aims. First, it takes issue with the argument of international economic institutions according to which states need to adopt deeper trade and investment commitments to sustain value chain trade if they wish to either ‘develop’ or continue being competitive in the global economy. It scrutinizes the evidence on the basis of which this argument is formulated and finds it to be tenuous at best. It also finds that current data i…
Global value chains, development and the long duree of trade and investment law
This article takes issue with the assumption the policy research literature, specifically that produced by the World Trade Organization (WTO), makes about the role of law as one which is mainly reactive to an exogenous economic reality, that of value chain trade. It argues instead that law has played a much more active role, shaping the so-called fragmentation and fractionalization of production that has led to the proliferation of Global Value C…
Of value, measurement and social reproduction
This article is an extended version of a plenary talk given at the 2016 Critical Legal Conference. ‘The present is notoriously difficult to diagnose’, the call reminded us, and yet we constantly hear claims about paradigmatic shifts and turning points. One recurrent theme concerns the shift that the post-Fordist economy seems to have entailed in terms of production - both production of goods and services and that of subjectivity. This argument is…
Conceptualising the Economy-Society Nexus in Well-Being and Happiness Initiatives: Gross National Happiness in Business in Bhutan and Social Impact Bonds in the United Kingdom
This article explores how well-being and happiness (WBH) is conceptualised in different geographical contexts, and how this understanding is able to affect policymaking and engender socio-economic and legal change. Whilst WBH initiatives seemingly stem from a critique of gross domestic product as a measure of societal “progress,” we show how, in itself, such critique cannot be the basis for understanding WBH as a unitary transnational phenomenon …
Value making in international economic law and regulation alternative possibilities: Alternative Possibilities
This book examines the contemporary production of economic value in today’s financial economies. Much of the regulatory response to the global financial crisis has been based on the assumption that curbing the speculative ‘excesses’ of the financial sphere is a necessary and sufficient condition for restoring a healthy economic system, endowed with real values, as distinct from those produced by financial markets. How, though, can the ‘intrinsic’…
Value Making in International Economic Law and Regulation: Alternative Possibilities
This book examines the contemporary production of economic value in today’s financial economies. Much of the regulatory response to the global financial crisis has been based on the assumption that curbing the speculative ‘excesses’ of the financial sphere is a necessary and sufficient condition for restoring a healthy economic system, endowed with real values, as distinct from those produced by financial markets. How, though, can the ‘intrinsic’…
Latin America and the Trans/National Debate: A Conversation Piece
This paper is the result of a conversation, started in 2008, about the significance of the struggles for gender and sexual justice taking place in Latin America and more broadly of the challenges global justice and solidarity movements (GJ&SM) are articulating at various national and international levels. Two themes are explored throughout: the extent to which the current Latin American experiments with diversity, plurality, connectivity and mutu…
Regulating Financial Derivatives? Risks, Contested Values, and Uncertain Futures
This article engages with debates concerning the regulation of financial derivatives and, in particular, with the assumption according to which their speculative ‘excesses’ can be effectively curbed so to restore an otherwise healthy system of production, usually the industrial/manufacturing one, endowed with a ‘real’ value separate from that produced by financial markets. Arguing that derivatives complicate such an assumption, the article asks t…
GMOs and the Crisis of Objectivity: Nature, Science and the Challenge of Uncertainty
This article contributes to the current debate on the meaning and regulation of biotechnology by focusing on the role that the concepts of nature and sound science play in framing struggles against agricultural biotechnology in India. It contends that the political work of these concepts consists of limiting democratic deliberation by neatly separating facts from values and scientific certainty from politics. In particular, it aims to show that b…
Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism and its contemporary dynamics through the work and practices of “life making.” Yet, it is undeniable that much of the “old” and “new” theorizing around SR comes predominantly from the Global North. He…
GMOs and the Crisis of Objectivity: Nature, Science and the Challenge of Uncertainty
This article contributes to the current debate on the meaning and regulation of biotechnology by focusing on the role that the concepts of nature and sound science play in framing struggles against agricultural biotechnology in India. It contends that the political work of these concepts consists of limiting democratic deliberation by neatly separating facts from values and scientific certainty from politics. In particular, it aims to show that b…
Global value chains, development and the long duree of trade and investment law
This article takes issue with the assumption the policy research literature, specifically that produced by the World Trade Organization (WTO), makes about the role of law as one which is mainly reactive to an exogenous economic reality, that of value chain trade. It argues instead that law has played a much more active role, shaping the so-called fragmentation and fractionalization of production that has led to the proliferation of Global Value C…
Value Making in International Economic Law and Regulation: Alternative Possibilities
This book examines the contemporary production of economic value in today’s financial economies. Much of the regulatory response to the global financial crisis has been based on the assumption that curbing the speculative ‘excesses’ of the financial sphere is a necessary and sufficient condition for restoring a healthy economic system, endowed with real values, as distinct from those produced by financial markets. How, though, can the ‘intrinsic’…
Regulating Financial Derivatives? Risks, Contested Values, and Uncertain Futures
This article engages with debates concerning the regulation of financial derivatives and, in particular, with the assumption according to which their speculative ‘excesses’ can be effectively curbed so to restore an otherwise healthy system of production, usually the industrial/manufacturing one, endowed with a ‘real’ value separate from that produced by financial markets. Arguing that derivatives complicate such an assumption, the article asks t…
GMOs and the Crisis of Objectivity: Nature, Science and the Challenge of Uncertainty
This article contributes to the current debate on the meaning and regulation of biotechnology by focusing on the role that the concepts of nature and sound science play in framing struggles against agricultural biotechnology in India. It contends that the political work of these concepts consists of limiting democratic deliberation by neatly separating facts from values and scientific certainty from politics. In particular, it aims to show that b…
Latin America and the Trans/National Debate: A Conversation Piece
This paper is the result of a conversation, started in 2008, about the significance of the struggles for gender and sexual justice taking place in Latin America and more broadly of the challenges global justice and solidarity movements (GJ&SM) are articulating at various national and international levels. Two themes are explored throughout: the extent to which the current Latin American experiments with diversity, plurality, connectivity and mutu…
Regulating Financial Derivatives? Risks, Contested Values, and Uncertain Futures
This article engages with debates concerning the regulation of financial derivatives and, in particular, with the assumption according to which their speculative ‘excesses’ can be effectively curbed so to restore an otherwise healthy system of production, usually the industrial/manufacturing one, endowed with a ‘real’ value separate from that produced by financial markets. Arguing that derivatives complicate such an assumption, the article asks t…
Value making in international economic law and regulation alternative possibilities: Alternative Possibilities
This book examines the contemporary production of economic value in today’s financial economies. Much of the regulatory response to the global financial crisis has been based on the assumption that curbing the speculative ‘excesses’ of the financial sphere is a necessary and sufficient condition for restoring a healthy economic system, endowed with real values, as distinct from those produced by financial markets. How, though, can the ‘intrinsic’…
Value Making in International Economic Law and Regulation: Alternative Possibilities
This book examines the contemporary production of economic value in today’s financial economies. Much of the regulatory response to the global financial crisis has been based on the assumption that curbing the speculative ‘excesses’ of the financial sphere is a necessary and sufficient condition for restoring a healthy economic system, endowed with real values, as distinct from those produced by financial markets. How, though, can the ‘intrinsic’…
Conceptualising the Economy-Society Nexus in Well-Being and Happiness Initiatives: Gross National Happiness in Business in Bhutan and Social Impact Bonds in the United Kingdom
This article explores how well-being and happiness (WBH) is conceptualised in different geographical contexts, and how this understanding is able to affect policymaking and engender socio-economic and legal change. Whilst WBH initiatives seemingly stem from a critique of gross domestic product as a measure of societal “progress,” we show how, in itself, such critique cannot be the basis for understanding WBH as a unitary transnational phenomenon …
Of value, measurement and social reproduction
This article is an extended version of a plenary talk given at the 2016 Critical Legal Conference. ‘The present is notoriously difficult to diagnose’, the call reminded us, and yet we constantly hear claims about paradigmatic shifts and turning points. One recurrent theme concerns the shift that the post-Fordist economy seems to have entailed in terms of production - both production of goods and services and that of subjectivity. This argument is…
A Not So ‘New Dawn’ for International Economic Law and Development: Towards a Social Reproduction Approach to GVCs
This article has three aims. First, it takes issue with the argument of international economic institutions according to which states need to adopt deeper trade and investment commitments to sustain value chain trade if they wish to either ‘develop’ or continue being competitive in the global economy. It scrutinizes the evidence on the basis of which this argument is formulated and finds it to be tenuous at best. It also finds that current data i…
Global value chains, development and the long duree of trade and investment law
This article takes issue with the assumption the policy research literature, specifically that produced by the World Trade Organization (WTO), makes about the role of law as one which is mainly reactive to an exogenous economic reality, that of value chain trade. It argues instead that law has played a much more active role, shaping the so-called fragmentation and fractionalization of production that has led to the proliferation of Global Value C…
The Global Economic Order and Development
This chapter focuses on how international economic law (IEL) and institutions have shaped and continue to shape the post/colonial relationship between the world economic order and ‘development’, a relationship which is neither fixed nor immutable but whose nexus IEL and institutions are able to sustain in powerful ways, thereby precluding different political economic imaginaries and arrangements. The authors argument is that IEL (and in particula…
Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism and its contemporary dynamics through the work and practices of “life making.” Yet, it is undeniable that much of the “old” and “new” theorizing around SR comes predominantly from the Global North. He…
Rethinking the socio-economic nexus: Judicial sense-making at the intersection of international economic law and the Colombian constitution
This paper reframes Latin American debates about the limited potential of constitutions to redistribute resources and power more equitably throughout society. It does so by exploring how the Colombian Constitutional Court has made sense of the role that constitutional law, interacting with international economic law, plays in the promotion of wealth and well-being. We argue that this sense-making constrains the radical potential of the constituti…
Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Reproduction (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Value (mathematics (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works)