Theodora Vetta
Biographic Data
| ID | 659652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theodora Vetta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theodora |
| FAMILY NAME | Vetta |
| SIGNATURE | VETTA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4163-9890 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Agricultural Extractivism in the Mediterranean Region: A Socioecological View
Credit labour: Navigating household debt in Southern Europe
In dialogue with scholarship on social reproduction and debt, this article discusses the financialization of domestic economies through the concept of credit labour. Based on comparative research in Southern Europe (Greece and Spain), we analyse the ways in which labour is mobilized along different trajectories of indebted kinship networks. Alongside their similarities – including their familist welfare regimes and the importance of homeownership…
People without history in financial capitalism: A Wolfian approach to recent debates in the anthropology of debt
In Wolf's EPWH, the importance of debt for scaffolding the expansion of the capitalist mode of production was shown repeatedly, despite not being treated as a distinct phenomenon. In the forty years that have gone by since the publication of the book, financial debt has gained centrality in global accumulation processes. The advancing frontier of financialization, reminiscent of that of earlier capitalist expansion, as well as its effects on part…
Decarbonized Futures: Struggles Over Ecological Distribution in Greece
The energy sector in Greece has been undergoing multiple processes of diversification, privatization and neoliberal restructuring, following EU imperatives for common energy market and metabolized by fast-track policies of the indebted state. Based on long ethnographic fieldwork in the main coal-mining region of Greece, this article discusses the energopolitics of austerity linking the state-backed logics of accumulation to the lived experience o…
Concrete Stories in Southern Europe: Financialisation and Inequality in the Construction Chain
This article seeks to tackle less researched areas of financialisation, namely class relations within the sphere of production. We ethnographically explore the trajectories of two small construction family‐firms in Greece and Spain, traditionally perceived as the backbone of the Mediterranean economy but also lying at the very heart of the last financial bubble. Looking at the boom and bust of such ventures, we argue that the penetration of credi…
Democracy Struggles: NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia
Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of aid, current trends of neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, this book explores the “associational revolution” in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia. Looking into the country’s “transition” through a global and relational analytical prism, the ethnography unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality enta…
Democracy Struggles: NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia
Moral economy: Rethinking a radical concept
This article argues that the original thrust of the moral economy concept has been understated and attempts to cast it in a new light by bringing class and capital back into the equation. First, it reviews the seminal works of Thompson and Scott, tracing the origins of the term. It deals with the common conflation of moral economy with Polanyi's notion of embeddedness, differentiating the two concepts and scrutinizing the ways in which these pers…
La fabrique de la démocratie: ONG, fondations, think tanks et organisations internationales en action
Depuis la chute du mur de Berlin, les discours politiques et les valeurs qu'ils véhiculent n'ont plus le monopole de la promotion de la démocratie et de la bonne gouvernance. Des agences de coopération, des ONG, des fondations et des organisations internationales coproduisent des politiques publiques dans un certain nombre de pays en transition et qui sont en train de réformer leur système politique. Cet ouvrage réunit des études de cas concernan…
Democracy Building' in Serbia: The NGO Effect
This article analyzes the construction of 'civil society' in Serbia as a development project in itself within the wider democracy assistance frame targeting post-communist countries. The goal is to problematize universal templates used for the creation of a politically neutral NGO sector and to document the new social realities created locally by their direct intervention in everyday life. The introduction of the 'NGO model' of civic engagement h…
Revived nationalism versus European democracy
Following the Belgrade riots after Kosovo's proclamation of independence in February 2008 and the rise of the nationalist Serbian Radical Party in elections since 2001, several analysts have portrayed Serbia as a highly divided and confused nation unable to choose between a European, urban, and cosmopolitan democrat identity and a patriarchal, peasant, and collectivists nationalist one. This article historicizes this widespread culture-talk by et…
Moral economy: Rethinking a radical concept
This article argues that the original thrust of the moral economy concept has been understated and attempts to cast it in a new light by bringing class and capital back into the equation. First, it reviews the seminal works of Thompson and Scott, tracing the origins of the term. It deals with the common conflation of moral economy with Polanyi's notion of embeddedness, differentiating the two concepts and scrutinizing the ways in which these pers…
Decarbonized Futures: Struggles Over Ecological Distribution in Greece
The energy sector in Greece has been undergoing multiple processes of diversification, privatization and neoliberal restructuring, following EU imperatives for common energy market and metabolized by fast-track policies of the indebted state. Based on long ethnographic fieldwork in the main coal-mining region of Greece, this article discusses the energopolitics of austerity linking the state-backed logics of accumulation to the lived experience o…
Concrete Stories in Southern Europe: Financialisation and Inequality in the Construction Chain
This article seeks to tackle less researched areas of financialisation, namely class relations within the sphere of production. We ethnographically explore the trajectories of two small construction family‐firms in Greece and Spain, traditionally perceived as the backbone of the Mediterranean economy but also lying at the very heart of the last financial bubble. Looking at the boom and bust of such ventures, we argue that the penetration of credi…
Democracy Building' in Serbia: The NGO Effect
This article analyzes the construction of 'civil society' in Serbia as a development project in itself within the wider democracy assistance frame targeting post-communist countries. The goal is to problematize universal templates used for the creation of a politically neutral NGO sector and to document the new social realities created locally by their direct intervention in everyday life. The introduction of the 'NGO model' of civic engagement h…
Revived nationalism versus European democracy
Following the Belgrade riots after Kosovo's proclamation of independence in February 2008 and the rise of the nationalist Serbian Radical Party in elections since 2001, several analysts have portrayed Serbia as a highly divided and confused nation unable to choose between a European, urban, and cosmopolitan democrat identity and a patriarchal, peasant, and collectivists nationalist one. This article historicizes this widespread culture-talk by et…
Democracy Building' in Serbia: The NGO Effect
This article analyzes the construction of 'civil society' in Serbia as a development project in itself within the wider democracy assistance frame targeting post-communist countries. The goal is to problematize universal templates used for the creation of a politically neutral NGO sector and to document the new social realities created locally by their direct intervention in everyday life. The introduction of the 'NGO model' of civic engagement h…
Revived nationalism versus European democracy
Following the Belgrade riots after Kosovo's proclamation of independence in February 2008 and the rise of the nationalist Serbian Radical Party in elections since 2001, several analysts have portrayed Serbia as a highly divided and confused nation unable to choose between a European, urban, and cosmopolitan democrat identity and a patriarchal, peasant, and collectivists nationalist one. This article historicizes this widespread culture-talk by et…
La fabrique de la démocratie: ONG, fondations, think tanks et organisations internationales en action
Depuis la chute du mur de Berlin, les discours politiques et les valeurs qu'ils véhiculent n'ont plus le monopole de la promotion de la démocratie et de la bonne gouvernance. Des agences de coopération, des ONG, des fondations et des organisations internationales coproduisent des politiques publiques dans un certain nombre de pays en transition et qui sont en train de réformer leur système politique. Cet ouvrage réunit des études de cas concernan…
Moral economy: Rethinking a radical concept
This article argues that the original thrust of the moral economy concept has been understated and attempts to cast it in a new light by bringing class and capital back into the equation. First, it reviews the seminal works of Thompson and Scott, tracing the origins of the term. It deals with the common conflation of moral economy with Polanyi's notion of embeddedness, differentiating the two concepts and scrutinizing the ways in which these pers…
Democracy Struggles: NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia
Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of aid, current trends of neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, this book explores the “associational revolution” in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia. Looking into the country’s “transition” through a global and relational analytical prism, the ethnography unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality enta…
Democracy Struggles: NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia
Concrete Stories in Southern Europe: Financialisation and Inequality in the Construction Chain
This article seeks to tackle less researched areas of financialisation, namely class relations within the sphere of production. We ethnographically explore the trajectories of two small construction family‐firms in Greece and Spain, traditionally perceived as the backbone of the Mediterranean economy but also lying at the very heart of the last financial bubble. Looking at the boom and bust of such ventures, we argue that the penetration of credi…
Decarbonized Futures: Struggles Over Ecological Distribution in Greece
The energy sector in Greece has been undergoing multiple processes of diversification, privatization and neoliberal restructuring, following EU imperatives for common energy market and metabolized by fast-track policies of the indebted state. Based on long ethnographic fieldwork in the main coal-mining region of Greece, this article discusses the energopolitics of austerity linking the state-backed logics of accumulation to the lived experience o…
People without history in financial capitalism: A Wolfian approach to recent debates in the anthropology of debt
In Wolf's EPWH, the importance of debt for scaffolding the expansion of the capitalist mode of production was shown repeatedly, despite not being treated as a distinct phenomenon. In the forty years that have gone by since the publication of the book, financial debt has gained centrality in global accumulation processes. The advancing frontier of financialization, reminiscent of that of earlier capitalist expansion, as well as its effects on part…
Agricultural Extractivism in the Mediterranean Region: A Socioecological View
Credit labour: Navigating household debt in Southern Europe
In dialogue with scholarship on social reproduction and debt, this article discusses the financialization of domestic economies through the concept of credit labour. Based on comparative research in Southern Europe (Greece and Spain), we analyse the ways in which labour is mobilized along different trajectories of indebted kinship networks. Alongside their similarities – including their familist welfare regimes and the importance of homeownership…
Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 works)