About Dhouha Djerbi

I am a PhD candidate at the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the Geneva Graduate Institute. I am affiliated with the Institute's Gender Center and a non-resident fellow with the Center for Maghreb Studies in Tunis. My work is at the intersection of contentious politics, peasant mobilizations, and social reproduction. I examine how gendered labor regimes influence processes of contention in the Tunisian countryside. My methods are primarily ethnographic and feminist, involving long stays in the Tunisian countryside as well as participation in work rituals, labor processes, and 'everyday politics'. Beyond my dissertation work, I am interested in politics of indebtedness, household dynamics, and gendered forms of claim-making.

Dhouha Djerbi is a PhD candidate at the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Dhouha:

Nancy Folbre, "The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy" (Verso, 2021)

March 18, 2024

The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems

Nancy Folbre
Hosted by Dhouha Djerbi

Nancy Folbre’s The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy (Verso, 2021) asks the questions of why and under what…

Calla Hummel, "Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State" (Oxford UP, 2022)

February 25, 2024

Why Informal Workers Organize

Calla Hummel
Hosted by Dhouha Djerbi

Informal workers make up over two billion workers or about 50 percent of the global workforce, and yet scholarly understandings of informal workers’ p…

Youjin B. Chung, "Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape: Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania's New Enclosures" (Cornell UP, 2024)

February 6, 2024

Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape

Youjin B. Chung
Hosted by Dhouha Djerbi

During the “global land grab” of the early twenty-first century, legions of investors rushed to Africa to acquire land to produce and speculate on agr…