Ian Bruff
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Critical political economist, University of Manchester.
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The recording of my
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talk from November 2025, entitled 'All That Has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism', is now online here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJE-...
It was an enjoyable event, with great questions!
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Ian Bruff - All that has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism.
YouTube video by CSSGJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJE-p3PKIe4
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CPERN
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New online workshop: Towards a radical highway geography - Berlin and the remaking of city logistics in global capitalism When: 26 February, 6pm CEST Where:
bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
With author
@soederberg1.bsky.social
and discussants Darragh Golden and Laura Stegemann See you there!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN monthly meeting - February 2026. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Towards a radical highway geography: Berlin and the remaking of city logistics in global capitalism Speaker: Susanne Soederberg, Professor at Queen's University, Canada Discussants: Darragh Golden, ...
https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/I8sRvKTiRrudhD7oyq8pNA
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Joseph Ward
2 days ago
Returning to work this week after 3 weeks of lockout has been stressful to say the least! Please support us
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
to challenge Sheffield Uni's punitive approach before it becomes more widespread across the sector. Link here:
linktr.ee/SheffieldUCU
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Sheffield UCU | Linktree
Linktree. Make your link do more.
https://linktr.ee/SheffieldUCU
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Joseph Ward
2 days ago
The wonderful
@maltelaub.bsky.social
and I are hosting a workshop on the theme of Austerity Militarism at EWIS 2026 in Izmir! If you are working on these themes then please consider submitting an abstract! We'd love to see you there. The link to submit is here:
eisa-net.org/ewis-2026/ab...
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Jeremy Gilbert
3 days ago
They want you to believe Starmer's going because of Mandelson. He isn't. He's been on the way out since summer because the polls are disastrous because half the Labour base have gone to the Greens for entirely political reasons. This is why Starmer will go:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Why is Keir Starmer so unpopular?
Britain needs a leader willing to break with the legacy of Thatcherism
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/12/why-is-keir-starmer-so-unpopular?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1766489025-1
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Kim Kelly
4 days ago
âIâm mad I canât understand Bad Bunnyâs lyrics because theyâre not in Englishâ my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, youâre just boring and racist
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Joost Vervoort
7 days ago
PAPER ALERT! đ„How can we use theories of care to understand how games can help us care more for the future in the face of climate change? Carien Moossdorff and I investigated 287 climate-related games on they engage with care for the future. Now in FUTURES! Link below!
#games
#climate
#futures
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George Monbiot
7 days ago
By the time Starmer is replaced this summer, we'll have had two wasted years, in which a country crying out for transformation instead got more of the same, or even worse where environmental legislation is concerned, and a high possibility of Farage running the next government. Thanks Keir.
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Ben Rosamond
8 days ago
Two points. 1. There was Epstein merch? 2. This seems to have been taken in 2009. Epstein was first convicted in 2008, meaning that Mandelson is sporting convicted paedophile merch.
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Vincenzo Maccarrone
8 days ago
I'm happy to share this article, which is now out in open access in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, and seeks to contribute to the debate on neoliberalisation & europeanisation of industrial relations
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Common Pressures, Uneven Trajectories: The Variegated Europeanisation of Wage Regulation Institutions
The debate on whether national industrial relations (IR) are experiencing convergence is a long-standing one. Recently, scholars argue that we are witnessing a neoliberal convergence of national IR, ...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjir.70038
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Tom Cowan
8 days ago
New publication! In this paper I draw on heterodox marxist engagements with subsumption to revise core approaches within marxist geography. Subsumption provides us with a dynamic tool to rethink capitalist property, uneven development and difference. Do reach out for access!
doi.org/10.1177/2043...
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Geographies of subsumption - Thomas Cowan, 2026
This article draws on heterodox scholarship on capitalist subsumption to revise core approaches within Marxist and critical geography. The article argues that a...
https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206261418283
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Gaby Hinsliff
8 days ago
Wes Streeting saying on Today that Mandelson is ânot the man we thought he wasâ but the trouble is, he is exactly the man we thought, just on a much worse scale than almost anyone thought. And there is an alternative world where none of this is this govtâs problem, because they never gave him a job
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Sam Freedman
9 days ago
Imagine Mandelson is under a lot of stress right now so just as well his husband is a trained osteopath.
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Josh Shepperd
9 days ago
âGramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.â - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932
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George Monbiot
9 days ago
The thing is, you didn't have to be Nostradamus to see it. You just had to be independent of the ultra-rich. Unfortunately, the great majority of the media is in the plutocrats' pockets. So the people pointing it out are shunned. In 2009 I tried and tried to get the BBC to pick this up. But ...âđ€
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Gareth
9 days ago
đ§Final episode for
@urbanpolitical.bsky.social
in our series on authoritarian urbanism w/
@jluger.bsky.social
, MiklĂłs DĂŒrr, AyĆegĂŒl Can & Oksana Zaporozhets We discuss whether contemporary urbanism continues to be 'neoliberal', and how the leading tendency is towards something more autocratic:
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103 â Beyond Neoliberal Urbanism?
Are we seeing the emergence of a new conjuncture for urbanism? The final part of our mini series asks whether authoritarian neoliberalism has created the conditions for a more illiberal and distinct t...
https://urbanpolitical.podigee.io/103-beyond-neoliberal-urbanism
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Brett Christophers
10 days ago
We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology. Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.
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2 PhD student positions in Human Geography - Uppsala University
2 PhD student positions in Human Geography, Department of Human Geography, Uppsala University
https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=891697
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Malte Laub
10 days ago
CfP for
#EWIS2026
is open until 11 February and
@jward232.bsky.social
and I are looking forward to submissions from across politics, political economy, sociology, and beyond. We are especially interested in papers from ECRs. Get in touch if you have any questions!
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New Formations journal
13 days ago
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW #114 Race, Racialisation and Racisms Feat.
@jemgilbert.bsky.social
(free to download) Inna Arzumanova Brenna Bhandar (free to download) Erik Borda Sarah Bufkin (free to download) Basuli Deb Anamik Saha
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
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Very interesting new article by Geoff Goodwin
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Understanding the roles of decommodification in socioecological transformations: a new theoretical approach
Decommodification is widely considered a central pillar of progressive socioecological transformations, like the green new deal, degrowth and ecosocialism. Yet it is inadequately problematised and ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2025.2601107
14 days ago
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Gemma Gasseau
14 days ago
On the 22nd of January (incidentally, the date of Gramsci's birthday) my article came out in
@gpejournal.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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An excellent skewering
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James Walker
16 days ago
*Not so fun fact. Matt Goodwin was my dissertation supervisor. Only briefly mind. I swapped after he said that my idea - a study and survey on the politics of the homeless (less than 1% vote) - was of "no academic interest". I got a 1st đ
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The recording of my
@cssgj.bsky.social
talk from November 2025, entitled 'All That Has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism', is now online here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJE-...
It was an enjoyable event, with great questions!
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Ian Bruff - All that has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism.
YouTube video by CSSGJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJE-p3PKIe4
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CPERN
16 days ago
Remember to submit your abstracts for our track (RN06) at the European Sociological Conference! âŹïžâŹïžâŹïž Deadline this Friday!
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Jeremy Gilbert
17 days ago
Free online seminars this year feature Michael Hardt on multitudes, a 4-session dive into John Clarke's superb work of PROPER conjunctural analysis of modern Britain co-hosted with
@autonomy-institute.bsky.social
, the Politics of Feeling, Katja Diefenbach's Spinoza
culturepowerpolitics.org/upcoming/
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Upcoming Sessions
See below for details of a number of online and in-person seminars coming up From Marx to Spinoza Our irregular online seminar series From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality, hosted by âŠ
https://culturepowerpolitics.org/upcoming/
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Prof Rob Dover
21 days ago
Notes on a speech made yesterday:
theconversation.com/trump-at-dav...
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Trump at Davos marks the start of a new era in world affairs
Delegates at the World Economic Forum at Davos have been confronted with starkly opposing visions of the future of world affairs.
https://theconversation.com/trump-at-davos-marks-the-start-of-a-new-era-in-world-affairs-274007
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Kayhan Valadbaygi
21 days ago
đŁ My new article on Iranâs latest unrest for
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ira...
Iran has witnessed another wave of unrest beginning on 28 Decemberâthe fourth major uprising since 2017. (1/5)
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Iran in Revolt | Kayhan Valadbaygi
Deep political-economic transformations are causing recurrent waves of unrest, with no long-term solution in sight.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/iran-in-revolt/
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Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
21 days ago
Happy Birthday, Antonio Gramsci.
#OnThisDay
in 1891, the Sardinian Marxist was born. From Turinâs workersâ councils to founding the Communist Party of Italy, his Prison Notebooks - written under fascist imprisonment - reshaped Marxist thought on power and hegemony.
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Paul Langley
22 days ago
Now available for pre-order and we're open for book talks to students, workshops and conferences, organisations etc.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Margaret Killjoy
22 days ago
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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This is such a good read!
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Marisa Kabas
23 days ago
Newâ An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
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Charlotte Weatherill
22 days ago
A response to many of the replies I'm getting - people comparing AI to the emergence of useful technologies are getting it wrong. AI is not the wheel or computers. It is asbestos, it is leaf blowers. It is a more harmful version of something we can already do.
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Bernd Bonfert
23 days ago
Belgian PM Bart De Wever quoting Gramsci's 'time of monsters' line against Trump was definitely not on my Geopolitics Bingo card
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CPERN
23 days ago
New CPERN online workshop: Finance and the Far Right (29 Jan) Join us to discuss how asset-manager capitalism has shaped financial-nationalist politics With author
@ingarade.bsky.social
and discussants Owen Worth and
@alentop.bsky.social
On zoom:
bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
See you there!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN monthly workshop - January. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Inga Rademacher (City) presents her working paper: 'Finance and the far right: financial-nationalist politics in an asset-manager world' Discussants: Owen Worth (University of Limerick) and Alen Topl...
https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/YmrAaK3XSEuerl8IPC242w
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Joseph Ward
23 days ago
Lockout at University of Sheffield! Yesterday,
@sheffielduni.bsky.social
members were told we'll lose 100% pay for the foreseeable as we refuse to replace teaching scheduled during strike action. They've docked pay once for this, now they're at it again! Donate here support us!
gofund.me/ac2b3adcb
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Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton
I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and⊠Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!
https://gofund.me/ac2b3adcb
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An essential collection
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23 days ago
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Gareth
23 days ago
đđ Episode 2 of our mini-series on authoritarian urbanism is out with
@urbanpolitical.bsky.social
. I discuss emergent and intensifying authoritarian practices w/
@nitin-bathla.bsky.social
@alkejenss.bsky.social
@sdwolfe.bsky.social
@ebrukurtozman.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/show/5PaTdRP...
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102 - Authoritarian Practices in Urban Government
https://open.spotify.com/show/5PaTdRPhonblOXeUPDDL0z
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Adam David Morton
24 days ago
Drawing on his recent
@risjnl.bsky.social
article, Oliver Dodd explains why framing Colombiaâs civil war as a narco problem fundamentally misunderstands how and why the conflict escalated
@abieler.bsky.social
@chrishesketh.bsky.social
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Narco-Myths and Neoliberal War: Why Colombiaâs Conflict Escalated - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Rather than a deviation from capitalist modernisation, how has political violence in Colombia been a constitutive outcome of a project of "passive revolution" through which capitalist modernisation wa...
https://www.ppesydney.net/narco-myths-and-neoliberal-war-why-colombias-conflict-escalated/
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Malte Laub
24 days ago
Join
@jward232.bsky.social
and me in Izmir at
#EWIS2026
to discuss the causes and effects of we have tentatively called 'austerity militarism' - the end of austerity for (European) militaries, but continued restraint and new cuts for welfare/social care. CfP here
eisa-net.org/wp-content/u...
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Kayhan Valadbaygi
24 days ago
The paper edition of my book "Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics" will be released this month and is included in Manchester University Pressâs January Sale. (1/8)
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Insa Koch's new book is now out, a worthy follow-up to the outstanding Personalising the State
www.insaleekoch.com/modernslaver...
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Drugs, Race, and the Politics of Modern Slavery Law â INSA LEE KOCH
https://www.insaleekoch.com/modernslaveryproject
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This is a really excellent and timely paper
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Rune MĂžller Stahl
25 days ago
I'm really proud to have been one of the lead authors of Oxfamâs global inequality report this year. And honestly a bit overwhelmed by the impact itâs having this morning. When youâre used to your writing being read by a couple hundred fellow nerds, this is something else.
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Looks to be an important, and politicised, contribution on conjunctural analysis. Very necessary at the moment!
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Jakub Krupa
28 days ago
Jenrick the latest conservative voice to use Poland & Bulgaria as rhetoric vehicles to advance the 'broken Britain' narrative, it's SO BAD that EVEN EASTERN EUROPEANS are (close to) doing better than us. But Poland's success isn't UK's failure. Two different stories, mixed up.
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Stephen Bush
28 days ago
The single biggest thing (in cost terms) Iâve changed my mind about is UK tuition fees. Dreadful system, need to scrap it.
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Chris Hesketh
28 days ago
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Jennifer Williams
29 days ago
Thought Iâd do a mega hread on NPR, partly because Iâve seen some London based commentary that doesnât really get the bigger picture quite right imho
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I think I'll be sharing this paper with quite a few people!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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How AI Destroys Institutions
Civic institutionsâthe rule of law, universities, and a free pressâare the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5870623
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