I spoke to Ben Selwyn about the class relations of value chains, and the role of superpowers in their rise and maintenance A great teaching resource for anyone teaching GVCs!

You wouldn't know from the editing but a few laughs were had in the making of this podcast

India’s farming sector is facing deep crisis. Falling productivity, debt and mass protests have drawn global attention. Dr Shreya Sinha joins Dr Remi Edwards to discuss who gains, who loses and how women are affected most. Listen here: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/how-d...

“I hope, as a result of our report, that the minds of states will also be opened” says Navi Pillay, the head of the commission of inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory and a former international criminal court judge www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I spoke to Natalie about her expertly crafted new paper on unstable production, the impact on workers and the structural and contextual challenges in protecting those expelled from capitalist social relations Link below

@sperishefuni.bsky.social Presents: Live: Is organised violence central to capitalism? @ BISA2025 w/ Joanna Tidy, Elena Simon, Vick Reif-Breitwieser Beryl Pong @frankmaracchione.bsky.social & @remiedwards.bsky.social 🎉 Recorded @ipegbisa.bsky.social roundtable #BISA2025 🌟 listen

My technoanxiety did not get the better of me and we pulled off a live recorded roundtable at @mybisa.bsky.social in Belfast To hear about the production and labour behind the means of violence, defence spending, corporate harm, everyday resistance to violence etc etc- listen here shorturl.at/GF3re

Shreya's work brilliantly sheds light on the interactions between gender, class, caste, ecology and crisis in shaping women's experience of agricultural labour in Punjab I'm a big fan of Shreya's work so I was excited to discuss this with her on New Thinking - link below

📚 I reviewed Ellie Gore's book Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana for Journal of Development Studies - available now! Eprint: shorturl.at/bZeCq

students: capitalism is the problem!!! me: what about these actually existing examples of struggles to challenge capitalist social relations, are they a good idea? students: how unrealistic

Banana producer Chiquita has announced mass layoffs in Panama amid an ongoing strike. The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday it was letting “all” daily labourers go for the “unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations”. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

Thanks to @remiedwards.bsky.social for the invite to the @sperishefuni.bsky.social podcast New Thinking in their SPERI presents series This time on cities and technocapitalist power ... An interesting chat with Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi Loads of other great eps too - inc a series on "crisis"

New episode!

We're back with a new episode of New Thinking, exploring the the power of big pharma and its implications for vaccine distribution and the governance of global health

Though I'm not pictured bc I took the photo, it was an honour to be involved in this!

🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️ In the final episode of Crisis Point, Dillon and Chris review the series and propose a theory of crisis in capitalism In the post-2008 era, crises of accumulation and legitimation entangle and intensify absent a popular social force able to break the deadlock shorturl.at/hMG7e

🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️ Rising prices have dominated social and political life in recent years. High inflation has been called the cost-of-living crisis, but does this constitute a crisis of capitalism or the system working as normal? Martijn Konings discusses with Chris and Dillon shorturl.at/GWVk8

This series take a deep dive in the histories and contemporary forms of crisis within capitalism - episode 1-8 are available now on Spotify, Apple, Acast and other podcast platforms.

🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️ Crisis Point In episode 2, Chris and Dillon interview Gareth Dale about how the ideas of Karl Polanyi can help understand the Great Depression in the 1930s Liste now: shorturl.at/M8ovx

🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️ CRISIS POINT In the first episode, co-hosts Chris and Dillon discuss crisis as a core feature of capitalism, the role crisis plays in capitalism’s history, and whether polycrisis is the right way to understand politics today Listen now: shorturl.at/4di4P

Our Research & Impact Associate @remiedwards.bsky.social presented her research to industry stakeholders at Fruit Logistica 2025 She argued that certification programmes in the banana industry fail to incorporate workers and protect them from abuse, along with recommendations shorturl.at/aBIM1

Check out this podcast from @sperishefuni.bsky.social! Experts discuss how queer men in Ghana navigate HIV, rights and the ties between politics and change. Listen here: bit.ly/41nbrHP

If you work in UK Higher Education and aren't already in a trade union, now is the time to join! bsky.app/profile/shef...

This hit hard today www.lexacademic.com/blog/living-...

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

Labour's gleeful, unprincipled, swing even further right is something to behold but are we to understand from this quote that until only a few weeks ago, Sir Keir Starmer believed himself to be a man of the people?

Want to get involved with a new series of SPERI Presents...? We welcome expressions of interest to lead on all or part of a new series on the Political Economy of everyday life, with support from the SPERI podcast committee More here: shorturl.at/nC4pN

Nine months after my viva, I finally got to celebrate receiving my PhD with friends and family I am grateful to so many for making this possible, especially my participants who shared their experiences and struggles with inspirational candour I hope I can do some justice to that

3 PhD opportunities to work with the awesome Dr Caroline Hambloch on labour control and agency in agricultural GVCs at the University of Bonn. Deadline 2nd March. Pls share with interested folks! shorturl.at/6kwyS

On Thursday, I'll be presenting my research on workers' experience of ethical certification on Costa Rican banana plantations at #FruitLogistica trade fair in Berlin Industry folks with an interest in social sustainability, please get in touch!

New from SPERI Presents... We chat about Shirin's new book and Jayanthi's related work, exploring the 'depletion' and harm caused by the labour of care, and how it can be reversed in diverse geographical sites - from New Delhi to South Africa's Wild Coast, Sri Lanka to the UK shorturl.at/lIsqF

Postdoc application szn is frying my brain

we've never needed a Big Green State more, and we've never been furthest away from it on the terrain of the politically possible.

apologies to all the folks for whom me getting stuff of my desk before xmas means them having more stuff on their desk when they return to work next year

@maharafiatal.bsky.social and I discuss Adam Smith's diverse political and economic thought, and whether and how his views on labour, empire, equality and the social form of the corporation can help us to understand today's liberalised global economy [spoiler: in some ways more than others]

Re-posting this blog from September. Based on my PhD research, I examine anti-union practices in Costa Rican banana plantations at the interface of local systems of labour control and the shifting power dynamics of the global banana supply chain www.bananalink.org.uk/blog/blog-tr...

Ellie masterfully moves between levels of analysis to expose the relationship between neoliberal development and queer lives in Ghana in their book 'Between HIV Prevention & LGBTI Rights: the political economy of queer activism in Ghana'. Listen: tinyurl.com/3b4sucwa Read: tinyurl.com/mw9r7n7a

Last night Turner Prize 2024 winner Jasleen Kaur used her acceptance speech to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, to demand an end to institutional complicity in Israels genocide & to call for an immediate arms embargo.

I am still astounded and increasingly concerned by the frequency and casualness of academic colleagues' remarks about working evenings, weekends, annual leave, bank holidays, closure days

Really enjoyed this conversation with @benclift.bsky.social and @cisk.bsky.social We talk about the IPCC's approach to climate modelling, how constructivist IPE can help us to see the policy imprint of entrenched ideas about the economy, and what this means for mitigating climate change