Description
This panel examines how power and inequality are reconfigured within global political economy, tracing the mechanisms through which financial systems, digital infrastructures, and political discourse produce and sustain exclusion. Bringing together perspectives from international studies, the papers interrogate how international financial institutions construct vulnerability and subordination within emerging economies, and how global financial standards encode and reinforce hierarchies between states. The panel also considers how digital and media platforms shape geopolitical narratives, particularly around race, power, and Western responses to global crisis. Further attention is given to how theories of risk and wealth help explain shifting patterns of global inequality, and how data driven extraction in ocean governance extends colonial logics into new domains. Together, these contributions reveal how justice and exclusion are embedded within the structures of global capitalism and governance. The panel offers a critical, interdisciplinary contribution to debates on power, inequality, and the political economy of injustice.