Alyssa Battistoni
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My research addresses issues of environmental politics in relation to political economy, feminist theory, and the history of political thought. From this perspective I write on a range of topics including, recently, the concept of the externality, the history of basic income, and the idea of natural capital. My book manuscript in progress, Free Gifts: Nature, Feminism, and the Politics of Capitalism, theorizes the place of nature in capitalism and offers a novel reading of twentieth century political economic thought informed by feminist and ecological perspectives.

​I hold a BA in political science from Stanford, an MSc in Nature, Society, and Environmental Policy from Oxford, and a PhD in political science from Yale.

Select publications are listed below. You can download my CV here. 

​​Publications

“Disrupting the future," Nature Sustainability 2, 651 (2019) (review of Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism​)

“Review: Connected by Commitment, by Mara Marin" Contemporary Political Theory (2019) 18 (supplement 3): 175.

“Bringing in the Work of Nature: From Natural Capital to Hybrid Labor.” Political Theory Vol. 45(1) 5–31: 2017. (proof—published paper here.)

“Kata and/or Streiphen: Climate Change and the Politics of Catastrophe.” In Catastrophes: A History and Theory of an Operative Concept. Eds. Nitzan Lebovic and Andreas Killen. De Gruyter, 2014.