On December 1st 6-8pm the research centre I co-direct will be hosting @rafeefz.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh and Robert Knox for the launch of their brilliant new book, Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resisting-....

My new book is out States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society published by @universitypress.cambridge.org With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements

Our final post in the Cultivating Socialism symposium comes from Aiko Ikemura Amaral. A very thoughtful reflection on food sovereignty that goes beyond upstream productivism, prompting us to consider the quotidian practices of food, consumption and everyday life. www.ppesydney.net/rethinking-e...

Another stunning addition to the Cultivating Socialism symposium at the @ppesydney.bsky.social site. Angus McNelly offers some sharp insights into the intricacies of Marxist theory in Latin American scholarship, and the necessary determinations of race and gender. www.ppesydney.net/regionalism-...

The third installment of the Cultivating Socialism symposium at @ppesydney.bsky.social is here! Armando van Rankin Anaya digs into the edifice of sovereignty and its place in the historical sociology of state-formation. www.ppesydney.net/the-scaffold...

Where is the money? @qmul.bsky.social haven't paid many cleaners their overtime since August; unions haven’t had their Facilities Time paid since August; many Teaching Associates & Teaching Fellows have not had any pay in September. All since the new financial year.

So excited to share this symposium on my book, Cultivating Socialism, at the @ppesydney.bsky.social . Check out our first two posts from @chrishesketh.bsky.social and Kyla Sankey. More to come each Tuesday! www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...

A brilliant piece in the FT about the human and institutional cost of overreliance on international student fees. Managers are making our most vulnerable students pay the price of a failing funding model and are skewing the purposes of university in their pursuit of fees. www.ft.com/content/3f49...

Thanks so much Naomi! (and here's the link www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... )

QMUL cut 200 roles in the past two years: qmucu.org/2025/06/26/s... #SaveHE #UKHE

A food system hooked on fossil fuels is especially vulnerable to disruption. In the Mid East, output's halted, and urea prices are up. Expect speculators and food price spikes to follow. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

So happy to finally see my review of "Now We Are In Power", by Angus McNelly, out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social. A truly exhilarating read, prompting new insights and many questions over one of Latin America's most enigmatic examples of popular power and its contradictory path.

I'll be speaking along side some great discussants on the intersections between food, identity and sustainability at the Social Science Festival at Birkbeck College this Thursday, 5th June, 6-7pm. Come down for a nourishing conversation! 🌱🌾🍄 www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Great to see my article out in the new issue of @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social How did the soil under our feet shape the infrastructures of global food governance? Find out here 👇 Open Access!

Come join us this saturday, to fight for a more just and sustainable food system 🍏🥬🌿

The stages in MAGA responding to a negative story: 1: It's all lies 2: Most of it is lies 3: Some of it's true, but it doesn't matter 4. It's all true, but it's fine when we do it 5. F**k you

"We've burned down buildings for no reasons, which is violating the international law, of course," he told CBS News. "…And we used human shields as protection." www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli...

I wrote up some provisional reflections on the changing character of US empire for @histmat.bsky.social www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/empi...

Great piece on the unequal exchange of labour in the world economy. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another energising march against Israel's genocide/apartheid regime. 🍉🕊️

Cannot wait to get stuck into this!!

No conferencing as usual during genocide! #EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress

“'I sure miss George W. Bush:' Deconstruction, Post-Truth and Trump” inaugural professorial lecture @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk #trump #posttruth #deconstruction #derrida 📅 26 March, 18:00-19:30 📍 QMUL, Mile End 🎟️ Register at the link below www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/i-sure-mis...

How might food self-provisioning communities form part of a wider movement for a degrowth society? Find out here!

Jennifer Clapp's latest uncovers the long history of corporate power in agriculture and shows why we’ll need to undo the sins of the nineteenth century if we are all to survive in the twenty-first. Titans of Industrial Agriculture is out now and well worth your time!

Very happy to share this exploratory analysis on the role of Food Self-Provisioning networks as an emergent property of a degrowth mode of living. 🌱🌿🌳🌴 @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social

"'Failing': A Story of UK Higher Education Workplace Struggles"

Very happy to announce the inaugural Call for Papers for our new Regular Section for the upcoming EISA 2025 (Bologna), "Hungry for Change: Repairing a Broken Global Food System". If you'd like to submit an abstact for the Section, follow the link here: eisa-net.org/abstract-sub... Please circulate!

So excited for @stoffelalex.bsky.social 's book launch for Eros and Empire. Sign up below! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eros-and-e... Find the book here: www.sup.org/books/politi...

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

An important intervention from Aaron Kappeler: "Venezuelans had hope for the future, and the global Left rallied around a political process that allowed socialists to do everything they always believe they could, if only given the chance. All that has now come to an end."

This excellent (and angering all over again) piece debunks the arguments the pharma industry has “historically been very good at formulating… [to] justify its greed” newrepublic.com/article/1887...

"From the river to the sea", except it's not antisemitic when a Zionist says it. And unlike the vision for one democratic state, this Zionist formulation is predicated on an already unfolding Palestinian genocide.

Orisanmi Burton, author of the incredible Tip of the Spear on Black Radicalism & Prison Repression (shorturl.at/8PUNo), will be speaking @qmul.bsky.social 10th December, 5-6:30pm GMT. Details: shorturl.at/QduCT Incredibly the book was banned from prisons by several states: shorturl.at/Rv2cO

It was such a pleasure reviewing Mariya Ivancheva's excellent recent book, The Alternative University: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela. Thanks to Alternautas for publishing the review. Open access!

There's already been a lot of commentary on the recent US election. But this conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is refreshingly, brutally on point. This wasn't a Trump victory. This was a catastrophic implosion of the Democratic Party.