Sven Beckert in the NYT missing the point about neoliberalism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

We need to combat the Big Lie about neoliberalism. It was not about the free market, it's about redistributing income upward cepr.net/publications...

Reading about how one motivation for younger people to get involved in the Mamdani campaign was loneliness and a desire to find community brought me back to thinking about alchemizing the loneliness pandemic into social action. Wrote about that a few years ago: anticiplay.medium.com/heart-conste...

Seeing Kerbdog live this evening >>>>>>>>> Celebrity Traitors

Another essential paper by Carla. I scribbled lots of sweary notes when going through Becker's stuff on suicide, so it's good to see someone has properly held this nonsense to account

Unsurprised to hear any politics that looks to address inequalities, looks to centre the poorest in our societies, anything that challenges the unsustainable status quo, dismissed as 'radical socialism'. Political analysis/commentary is pretty poor globally but in the UK it is in the sewer.

Enjoying the irony of Norway's oil investment fund having "ethics rules". An oil fund! It's like a serial killer having ethics rules about where he can and can't bury the bodies.

Happy to have been part of this collective endeavour to understand what's happening in the EU's political economy - check out our chapter: "A lasting legacy? A critical political economy perspective on Berlusconism and its afterlives"

New CPERN online workshop: Coloniality dressed in green Join us on 27 November to discuss how climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule With author @stefanzylinski.bsky.social and discussants Johannes Jaeger and Ewa Dziwok Register on zoom: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social

I am pleased to announce the book Capitalism at the Limit. A Political Ecology of a World in Crisis by Markus Wissen and myself has been published with @politybooks.bsky.social. 🙏🏾 order copies for libraries, review the book, use it in teaching, and disseminate. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

A good article on what is going on in Serbia, feat. your favourite sociology and philosophy professor explaining why there has, historically, been only one way for a true system change ;) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Looks like an excellent and important collection!

Our gratitude & appreciation for the work the editors from Rowman & Littlefield did to create the serie 'Transforming Capitalism' and to @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social for publishing 'The Limits to Capitalist Nature'. Thank you. You can order the book here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/limits-to...

Looking forward to reading this! Very timely

Was vom „Linkskonservatismus“ Wagenknechts übrig bleibt.

Ich habe kürzlich in der Jour Fixe-Reihe der AkG mein Buch "Exiting the Factory: Strikes and Class Formation beyond the Industrial Sector" vorgestellt, das 2024 bei @brisunipress.bsky.social erschienen ist. Der @mosaikblog.bsky.social hat einen Mitschnitt der Veranstaltung veröffentlicht.

We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

In der neuen Podcast-Folge hört ihr einen Beitrag von und mit Alexander Gallas. Im Rahmen der Reihe „Kritische Gesellschaftsforschung“ hat er sein zweiteiliges Buch „Jenseits der Fabrik. Streiks und Klassenbildung über den industrielles Sektor hinaus“ vorgestellt. mosaik-blog.at/jenseits-der...

It's quite clear that Lisa Nandy sought to misrepresent police intelligence if not outright mislead the House of Commons on this issue. Will she correct the record? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Nvidia invests in OpenAI, OpenAI rents compute from Oracle, Oracle buys Nvidia’s hardware, and Nvidia records huge sales. Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-cir...

Rowman & Littlefield was recently taken over by Bloomsbury. I am very pleased to see that the 'Transforming Capitalism' book series, of which I was Managing Editor from 2014-23, now has a webpage again: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/tr...

New post just out: "On the edge" On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...

Latest blog post Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised by @lcornelissen.bsky.social In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised. isrf.org/blog/neolibe...

It's publication day for Neoliberalism and Race!

We have a new online workshop coming! Join us on 30 October to discuss the book 'Thirst: the global quest to solve the water crisis' With author @filippomenga.bsky.social and discussants @gemmagasseau.bsky.social and Alexander Dunlap Register at bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you there!

PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

'Self' was fantastic, 'In One of These...' raised the bar even higher, but this is T.H.E. M.A.S.T.E.R.P.I.E.C.E. Which means that the next TdH album will be even better 😄

Two big changes to the precarity of the AI industry in the last year: (1) more and more companies are turning to debt to finance AI capex (see Meta, xAI, Oracle), and (2) OpenAI's flurry of deals in the past month are tying major companies to the fate of this startup

Special economic zones aren’t just trade infrastructure - they’re tools of imperial power & authoritarian control. 🚨New paper from @invisibleworkers.bsky.social Read on to learn how global production sustains empire & violence. 🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629825001635

The Starmer Disaster - The recording of our seminar with @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social, Mark Perryman , @profafinlayson.bsky.social and me is now online and in every podcast app: culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/10/13/t....

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The environment is woven into the rise of the right-wing movement," Alex Loftus tells me in our interview to launch Season 5 of the Conjuncture podcast. Episode produced w/ support of Trinity Social Justice Institute & @antipodeonline.bsky.social: trinitysocialjustice.com/alex-loftus-...

If profits shape the energy transition we need to understand the biggest profit event this century: the 2022 oil and gas price spike. Very happy our paper is now out in Energy Research & Social Science. Thread by lead-author @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social 👇

Excellent stuff, as always from Joost. Makes me think of a recent article by @cibled.bsky.social as well: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

against Labour's plan to ban repeat protests theconversation.com/labour-wants...

🧵Once the beating heart of #UK manufacturing, #Leicester's garment industry is now on the brink of collapse ❓What went wrong? 👟On the ground, our new Invisible Workers colleague, Dr Evie Gilbert, uncovers a story of systemic neglect 🔗 Read on: www.invisibleworkers.org.uk/journal/leic...

Join us for 'Imagining our Working Lives: A Creative Exploration' 💭🖍🪛🧤🥄🖱 1st Nov, Central Manchester. Part of ESRC Festival of Social Science 2025. Free to attend, places limited. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-... P.s. There'll be cake!🍰 With @amycbarron.bsky.social + @clarecourtney

After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. 🧵

“A chilling and eye-opening exposé... gives voice to those living at the sharpest edge of austerity and makes an irrefutable case for change.” @graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by @kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week). uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt... #housing #debt

Please join us to discuss our book on Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance (thread below). One launch on the 8th Oct, 10am EST, one on the 16th Oct, 4pm EST. See flyer for details and to register. The book is open access so you can quiz us. See you there! @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social

Special Section in The GJ: 'Legacies of Austerity', edited by @smhall.bsky.social & @sanvanlan.bsky.social This #OpenAccess collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

👀 Check out our new events page for our book "Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State" www.debt-trap-nation.org/events 🌹 First up is a Labour Party Conference fringe event on Tuesday – Mel Nowicki will be in conversation with MP Siobhain McDonagh and Francesca Albanese from Crisis

My first single-authored paper is out in @Peasant_Journal w/ #OpenAccess. It explores how land shapes women's agency across intersecting identities after the genocide in #Rwanda, and theorises the nexus between land dispossession and gendered violence👇https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167

Look who came with

In Britain, every time you... — turn on a tap — flip a light switch — board a train or bus — post a letter — drop your child at nursery ... you take part in a system designed to extract wealth & concentrate power. 🧵 From cradle to grave, this is how a failed experiment has shaped your life.

This is an excellent collection