At the #aspirelaunch of @aspirenetwork.bsky.social happening today at KCL. Feels great for us, teaching-focused folks, to finally have a space to take Teaching & Scholarship seriously and flourish in this track, and work with our T&S and T&R colleagues to value & improve teaching.

I am super happy to announce a workshop I will be hosting at the University of Leeds on 15 May 2025, entitled 'The Capitalism to Come? Oligarchy, Violence and New Imperialisms', with an amazing lineup. Come in person or online! Register on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/1307925874...

In Salomé Ietter's article in @jpolideologies.bsky.social, she argues that the "Gilets jaunes represented a space of ingenuity and creativity [...] fostering the reconstitution of the antagonisms suppressed by the neoliberal discourse" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My recent article on the state and climate policy now has a home in the new issue of @environmentalpol.bsky.social In the paper, I look at the constraints on climate policy posed by the role of capitalist state managers. You can find it it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Geoff Goodwin, Lecturer in Global Political Economy, has written a new article on Karl Polanyi's concept of the 'countermovement' for Globalizations: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dr Jörg Wiegratz, Associate Professor of Global Political Economy and Development, has his say on Kenya's football crisis in 'People Daily': peopledaily.digital/sports/kenya...

Find out more about Dr Jörg Wiegratz's new edited collection, 'Working People Speak: Oral Histories of Neoliberal Africa': roape.net/2024/11/27/a...