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Alessandra Mezzadri

Reader in Global Development and Political Economy, SOAS University of London
Alessandra Mezzadri

Alessandra Mezzadri is Reader in Global Development and Political Economy, SOAS, University of London.

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Circularity Issues / EPR Schemes Report
Producer responsibility schemes are generating revenue across dozens of markets, but the recycling infrastructure that revenue was intended to build remains largely absent from the system it funds.

Fashion's Circular Economy Promise Collects the Money but Skips the System

  • Subir Ghosh

3 July 2026
Going Circular / Nature of Fashion Interview
Natural systems demonstrate working models of resilience and regeneration that industrial design has only recently begun to study with any rigour.

Circularity Without Decay Is Fashion Pretending Nature Doesn't Matter

  • Subir Ghosh

26 June 2026
 
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Going Circular / Waste Flows Report
Waste accumulates faster than the mechanisms built to convert it into something usable again, leaving each year's surplus to compound against a system still catching up.

Textile Circularity Stalls Where Education, Community and Business Fail to Connect

  • Special Correspondent

10 July 2026
Knitwear Designs / India Market Interview
Knitwear built from fibre behaviour rather than trend cycles reflects a design philosophy where the yarn itself becomes the starting point for every creative and structural decision in the garment.

Indian Knitwear Gets a Design Overhaul as One Label Rejects Seasonal Limits

  • Richa Bansal

9 July 2026
 
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State of Industry / City of Prospects Feature
Determination shapes everyday progress in a city where enterprise grows through accumulated experience, steady adaptation and the quiet confidence of people who build livelihoods within demanding industrial rhythms.

Enterprise Reshapes Surat’s Identity Through Unceasing Effort and Expanding Opportunities

  • Richa Bansal

19 November 2025
Ghana View / Politics of Waste / IV Interview
Ghana’s used clothing traders argue that UNEP’s evolving definition of textile waste overlooks the realities of existing circular economies, threatening livelihoods and distorting how reuse markets are understood globally.

UNEP Textile Waste Definitions Risk Overlooking Ghana’s Role in Circular Economy

  • Subir Ghosh

13 November 2025