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Chris Hesketh

@chrishesketh.bsky.social
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Academic @IRSussex | Author 'Marxism and the Marginalized: struggles for Indigenous sovereignty in Latin America’ | Historical Materialism | Mexico | Bolivia | Indigenous resistance

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New article with @cbtansel.net www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We offer a renewed/revised articulation of our earlier work on AN. Four main aims: (i) respond to the well-known 'periodisation' critique; (ii) establish a more developed understanding of the interplay between systemic/conjunctural;
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Authoritarian neoliberal recompositions of public-institutional spaces: theory, method, evidence
Criticisms of the authoritarian neoliberalism literature have centred on questions of temporality, especially regarding the post-2008 shift in neoliberal governance practices that have been identif...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Teaching Walter Rodney *How Europe Underdeveloped Africa* this semester has led me to the conclusion that he provides many avenues of research that can be fruitfully followed up, to develop new and contemporary research projects. Here is one such line for development from Chapter 5 1/
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, Rodn...
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨 New book ‘Marxism and the Marginalized: struggles for Indigenous sovereignty in Latin America’ coming soon (ish) Full details available here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A short introduction to our new article ‘Totality must be defended’ written with @morton.bsky.social www.ppesydney.net/from-localit... Engaging with recent work by @mattthompson.bsky.social and @davidharvey.org among others
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From Locality to Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Blogging on our article "Totality must be defended* with @chrishesketh.bsky.social published in Progress in Human Geography, we make available Aníbal Quijano's text Redefinición de la dependencia y proceso de marginalización en América Latina @ingridhk.bsky.social 1/
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From Locality to Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The People’s Emergency Briefing – A missed opportunity, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
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The People’s Emergency Briefing – A missed opportunity!
Across the UK, the People’s Emergency Briefing is currently being screened to large audiences. It is intended as a wake-up call just in tim...
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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Jess Whyte and I wrote on the shifting mix btw persuasion and coercion in monetary hierarchy and the effects of this shift on the legal forms of the dollar. TLDR: soft law, IL and legal cooperation are replaced by executive orders and tweets. It's open access! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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From Dollar Hegemony to Dollar Dominance - Law and Critique
This article describes and diagnoses a major shift in the modalities, uses and legal forms of the international role of the US dollar. Drawing from the work of Ranajit Guha, we argue that the balance ...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Now published in Progress in Human Geography, open access, *Totality must be defended*, co-authored with @chrishesketh.bsky.social -- brilliant to work on this together. We will blog on it next week on @ppesydney.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @proghumgeog.bsky.social
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Latest book completed with the Past & Present Reading Group - Part I of *Theories of Surplus Value* — what an important text to read! Commentary to follow soon on @ppesydney.bsky.social www.ppesydney.net/past-present...
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Alexandre Kojève's famous lectures on Hegel (1933-1939), at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, included Jacques Lacan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty as students. Registered numbers: 19 (1933), 11 (1934), 9 (1935), 10 (1936), 11 (1937), 17 (1938). No threat of academic "sustainability" in those days!
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My new article ‘Totality must be defended’ , co-written with @morton.bsky.social is now out in Progress in Human Geography journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Inside Britain’s university crisis open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Superb to receive confirmation that this co-authored article with @chrishesketh.bsky.social has now been accepted for publication in Progress in Human Geography #totality Thanks to all those who gave feedback as well as the peer reviewers and editors. @proghumgeog.bsky.social
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Congratulations Steve - excellent to see this in print!
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Dr Stephen Hurt @drstephenhurt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Pleased to share my new article published in the journal British Politics on the consequences of the UK's #trade policy for democracy since #Brexit. link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Special thanks to @michaellister.bsky.social and @chrishesketh.bsky.social for convincing me to persevere with this!
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Taking back control? Democracy and UK trade policy after Brexit - British Politics
During the Brexit referendum the Leave campaign claimed that the UK would be able to regain its sovereignty and ‘take back control’. Trade policy became a particular focus of the Conservative Governme...
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Germany – The Genocidal State, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/07/germ... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
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Germany – The Genocidal State!
In an online seminar on 5 March 2026, the Palestinian academic Abdaljawad Omar reflected on several universal insights, which have come to ...
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/07/divi... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
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Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’
The global labour movement has been divided over ‘free trade’. Many unions in the Global North, especially in export-oriented sectors, suppo...
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/05/crit... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
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Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis
Over the last two decades, the European Union (EU) has faced a series of intertwined crises, including the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 a...
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Having read all volumes of Capital and Grundrisse together, now it’s time for the highest of the ‘luminous summits’
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Social and Environmental Upgrading through Global Value Chains? A review of the book by Selwyn and Bernhold, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/04/soci... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
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Social and Environmental Upgrading through Global Value Chains? A review of the book by Selwyn and Bernhold.
In Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics (Oxford University Press, 2025), Benjamin Selwyn and Chri...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Un “pincelazo” de Maurice Dobb para entender la economía mixta y el capitalismo de Estado con @davidaviles.bsky.social en @economyandspace.bsky.social sobre Mexico y Chile @iliasalami.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @llchristyll.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
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Invernadero para el Desarrollo: Reordenando la Economía Mixta y el Capitalismo de Estado - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
¿Qué tienen de malo los enfoques de "economía mixta" y "capitalismo de Estado" para comprender la era del desarrollo estabilizador en América Latina?
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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Matt Thompson @mattthompson.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New article out: What's the point of conjunctural analysis? doi.org/10.1177/2754...
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What's the point of conjunctural analysis? - Matthew Thompson, 2026
With conjunctural approaches to urban research fast proliferating, along with the compounding crises they seek to study, now's the time to ask: what's...
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The absolute state of those people cry-wanking over whether Churchill is on a banknote
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Disgusting factionalism by the Green Party in Gorton and Denton by…’checks notes’ ….actually appealing to the electorate
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Essential reading on how to conceptualise the current state of the world from a historical materialist perspective
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/01/2026
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
What are the specificities of past and present forms of market and violence in Heide Gerstenberger’s *Market and Violence*? @alexcallinicos.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @drmeljohnston.bsky.social
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Heide Gerstenberger, Market and Violence - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
From the shores of present-day Namibia via Heide Gerstenberger, Slavoj Žižek and Byung-Chul Han, what can a real picture postcard reveal about the specificity of past and present forms of market and v...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Drawing on his recent @risjnl.bsky.social article, Oliver Dodd explains why framing Colombia’s 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 Colombia’s 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...
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Given the decline of the Pink Tide the current timing has presented a major opportunity to re-engineer political power in the region, including the longstanding obsession with regime change in Cuba There is a then a confluence of regional and wider geopolitics that provide the further motivation
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Chile has recently elected the most far right government since Pinochet and Javier Milei represents Trumps’s biggest regional cheerleader in Argentina.
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
At the present conjuncture the Pink Tide is at its lowest ebb. Although Lula was returned to power after a fascist interregnum and Columbia and Mexico broke the trend the trend of being neoliberal outliers, the MAS have now fallen from power in Bolivia (as perhaps the key regional ally of Venezuela)
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Among other things, this collective identity being forged in Latin America rejected the proposals for a US dominated Free Trade Area of the Americas (with Venezuela leading plans for an alternative trade arrangement based on mutual solidarity).
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
However, the 2003 war in Iraq led many to claim the US had focused its attention on the wrong region, allowing the Pink Tide era of left and centre left governments to consolidate and build a new form of state-led developmentalism (with greater control over natural resources)
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Venezuela has been a geopolitical thorn in the US side since Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999. He was subsequently the target of numerous campaigns to displace him and regain control of the oil industry (all very well documented).
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
There are plenty of conspiracy theories going round regarding why the US has taken the actions it has in Venezuela. In my view the explanation is rather more simple and has much more to do with the politics of Latin America itself.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Trump gives the country an economics lesson on tariffs. The textbook story comes through loud and clear deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trump-give...
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Trump Gives the Country an Economics Lesson on Tariffs
The textbook story comes through loud and clear
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Your Party continue to be more satirical than the People’s Front of Judea
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
All the blog posts on @bolshierowbot.bsky.social book forum *Cultivating Socialism* - a diverse set of engagements and a wonderful rejoinder from Rowan Lubbock himself www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...
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Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
'Real household disposable income is going to grow about 0.4% annually this parliament. That is the second worst growth in living standards we've had since the late 1970s.' @ckfarquharson.bsky.social discusses living standards in our #Budget2025 podcast. 🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
They want to read Poulantzas now!
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Michael Lister @michaellister.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Out now! New edited book “New Directions in Vernacular Security” with Palgrave. Great working with @leejarvis.bsky.social & @akinoyawale.bsky.social to bring it together. Great contributions-from Rohingya refugee camps, to military self help books & more in between link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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New Directions in Vernacular Security Research
This book provides a fresh perspective on vernacular security, featuring diverse case studies and unique sources to enrich your understanding.
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Congratulations Michael!
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Great to be able to use @alkejenss.bsky.social fantastic book ‘Selective Security in the War on Drugs’ for MA teaching yesterday - sparked some important ongoing debates
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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
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Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'
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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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...
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