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Editors in chief: Mònica Clua-Losada @monicaclua.bsky.social & David Bailey @djbailey231.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journa…

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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can read part 1 of the AIPOWW symposium here bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Global Political Economy Volume 4 Issue 2: Including Themed Section: Artificial Intelligence Policy Observatory for the World of Work (AIPOWW) Symposium (2025)
"Volume 4 (2025): Issue 2 (Sep 2025): Including Themed Section: Artificial Intelligence Policy Observatory for the World of Work (AIPOWW) Symposium" published on Sep 2025 by Bristol University Press.
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Our latest issue is out now! Read Vol 5.1 for research on resistance to ICE, the materiality of money and part 2 of our AI Policy Observatory for the World of Work Symposium bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #AIPOWW
Research Articles
Mestizaje genealogies of precarity, survivance and joy: enfleshed poetics of reason and/as (political) pluridiverse life
Author: Sara C. Motta 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257Y2026D000000058
Pages: 199–219
World order and the era of farce
Author: Owen Worth 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257Y2026D000000062
Pages: 220–239
Documenting the repertoire of contentious performances in Minnesota and the wider US in response to ICE’s ‘Operation Metro Surge’
Authors: Andy Hodder  and John Kallas 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257Y2026D000000059
Pages: 240–263
The materiality of money matters: how silver became world money in colonial South America
Author: Nicolás Aguila 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257Y2026D000000060
Pages: 264–284
External conflict and currency competition in a globalised world
Authors: Rosaria Rita Canale  and Claudio Cozza 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257Y2026D000000063
Pages: 285–302Commentaries
Sabotaging ordoliberal communitarianism: for a critical discursive political economy of ‘the local community’ in neoliberal Europe
Author: Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257Y2024D000000024
Pages: 303–317
Themed Section: Commentaries
AI governance under the second Trump administration: implications for labour
Author: Catriona Gray 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257Y2025D000000052
Pages: 318–329
Regulation and governance of artificial intelligence in India
Author: Malte Jauch 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257Y2026D000000055
Pages: 330–342
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We’re at #EISAPEC26! Stop by the @brisunipress.bsky.social stand to learn more about publishing in the journal or say hi to our Co-Editor in Chief @monicaclua.bsky.social
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Are you presenting a paper at the CPERN stream at #ESAWarsaw2026? Then you'll be interested in Global Political Economy. We’re a cross-disciplinarity, spanning international relations, sociology, feminism, PoliSci, Econ and more! Learn more here bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We’re at #ESAWarsaw2026! Our Co-Editor in Chief @djbailey231.bsky.social is at ESA & would be happy to discuss submissions. Or you can stop by the @brisunipress.bsky.social stand to learn more about Global Political Economy Learn more about GPE here bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gpe
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New blog from our author Owen Worth (@politics-ul.bsky.social) on the politics of farce #PoliSci
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Andy Hodder @hodderandy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A new article with @johnniekallas.bsky.social has been published open access in @gpejournal.bsky.social We create an 'event catalogue' of the extensive protest activities that took place earlier this year in Minnesota and the wider US in response to ICE's Operation Metro Surge. tinyurl.com/4bx45873
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Documenting the repertoire of contentious performances in Minnesota and the wider US in response to ICE’s ‘Operation Metro Surge’
This article outlines and critically analyses the repertoires of contentious performance used by activists in Minnesota and beyond following a surge in federal immigration enforcement in the United St...
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Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick @politics-ul.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Timely new article by Owen Worth in @gpejournal.bsky.social characterising the unravelling of the neoliberal order as an era of farce bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Nina C. Krickel-Choi @nckc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"...the world being reduced to abstract and quantifiable calculations of individual gain. AI is simply the next stage, and logical corollary of, the commodification of everything. It reduces the qualitative richness of the world" 🔥👇 doi.org/10.1332/2635...
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How to be ‘anti-AI’ in the 21st century: overcoming the inevitability narrative
The general consensus appears to be that AI has the potential to provide solutions to most of society’s major problems, but not without introducing its own downsides, which need to be addressed in ord...
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
My co-panellists on this BUP webinar will be Masoumeh Iran Mansouri ('How to be ‘anti-AI’ in the 21st century' bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...) and Patrick Brodie ('From the Bog to the Cloud - Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland') bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/from-the-bog...
screenshot of the regostration page for the event, showing the title 'Colonialism in the Digital Age: The Fight for a Livable Future' and time May 12, 2026 03:00 PM alongside an abstract graphic/
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
✨ Discover the latest selection of articles handpicked by the editors for the Editors' Choice Collection. All papers are free to read until 31 August! ⏳ bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Edit...
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Philosophy Tilburg University @tilburgphilosophy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
New research from the Tilburg philosophy department: @timchristiaens.bsky.social on platform work, micro-entrepreneurship, and postcolonialism.
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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
My paper on platform worker subjectivity in Global Political Economy now has an official issue. I start from the paradox that platform workers are identified as micro-entrepreneurs yet constantly make choices that are against their own interests.1/3 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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James Hickson @jmchickson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The Commentary Roundtable on The Global Politics of Precarity and Insecure Work, edited by @stellamorgana.bsky.social and I, now has a permanent home in the latest issue of @gpejournal.bsky.social (Volume 5, Issue 1). Read more here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
⭐Enjoy free access to our journal Editors’ highlights from recent issues. Access these articles for free until 30 April. Congrats to all featured authors! @gemmagasseau.bsky.social @jmchickson.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Edit...
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Dan Welch @drdjwelch.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
In the latest issue of Consumption and Society we take stock of the journal's development (Impact Factor 3 and rising...) and introduce a Themed Section on 'Transformations in East Asian food consumption’ edited by I-liang Wahn bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
Cover of the journal Consumption and Society
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Gemma Gasseau @gemmagasseau.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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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Malte Laub @maltelaub.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I'm happy to have joined the editorial board of @gpejournal.bsky.social as an associate editor! I'm looking forward to working with great people on exciting research. If you have ideas for articles, commentaries, or debate pieces, get in touch! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
Picture of a GPE journal cover page.
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Rebecca Florisson @rebeccaflorisson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
📢 My new journal article is out today in Global Political Economy in a great collection edited by @jmchickson.bsky.social and @stellamorgana.bsky.social. I explore job insecurity across England’s mayoral combined authorities — and what this means for regional inequality and economic growth. A🧵...
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Crystal A. Ennis @crystalennis.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Very pleased to see our article (with Yujing Tan & Shivant Jhagroe) on the GPE of Labour & platform capitalism, drawing on our study of migrant gig workers in multinational food delivery platforms in the Netherlands published with @gpejournal.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1332/2635...
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James Hickson @jmchickson.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Building on our workshop last year on The Global Politics of Precarity and Insecure Work, @stellamorgana.bsky.social and I are delighted to share a collection of 6 original commentary articles on this theme in @gpejournal.bsky.social Read the full introduction here: doi.org/10.1332/2635...
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This article examines the role of gender and patriarchy in shaping collective power and protest among male migrant construction workers in China doi.org/10.1332/2635... #SocSky #LaborProtests #patriarchy
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
How did COVID-19-era fiscal policy reproduce the hierarchies between production and social reproduction? Read this new article with open access doi.org/10.1332/2635... #PoliticalEconomy #IPE #socialReproduction
‘Protecting people’s lives and livelihoods’: gender, social reproduction and fiscal policy during the UK COVID-19 crisis
Author: Adrienne Roberts

Article Category: Research Article
Copyright: © Author 2025
Online Publication Date: 09 Jun 2025
Pages: 1–22
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Volume/Issue: Early View
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257Y2025D000000033
Keywords: social reproduction; COVID-19; feminist political economy; fiscal policy; common sense
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
"The degree to which AI is able to harm our society and environment will depend on how best we can organise in opposition to those harms." New blog from @djbailey231.bsky.social and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri on why we need to #ResistAI
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
🏖️Looking for some summer reading? Access our recent global political economy highlights for free ❤️‍🔥 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Edit... PoliSky #GPE #IPE
A list of three articles with an excerpt from each article:  
Monetary sovereignty and the ‘Invisible Leviathan’: the politics of Marx’s theory of money
Author: Jack Copley
A debate has recently emerged in Heterodox Economics and Political Economy on the nature of monetary sovereignty, and whether it can be democratised and wielded to address the social and environmental catastrophes of our age. While Modern Monetary Theory understands monetary sovereignty to be relatively unconstrained, post-Keynesian, Struct... Show More

Sabotaging ordoliberal communitarianism: for a critical discursive political economy of ‘the local community’ in neoliberal Europe
Author: Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta
The commentary aims to provoke a discussion in Critical Political Economy (CPE) about local articulations of neoliberalism, proposing the concept of ordoliberal communitarianism as a theoretical practice to sabotage the hegemonic essentialisation of ‘the local community’ within the context of EU neoliberal constitutionalism. This conceptual pr... Show More

Towards the progressive network-system: a normative theory of organisation to achieve disruption in times of crisis
Authors: Marco Guglielmo and Bradley Ward
This article introduces the progressive network-system as a normative and descriptive theory of counter-hegemonic organisation. It is descriptive insofar as the inspiration comes from a new wave of anti-austerity leaders, movements and parties that have been less dogmatically committed to ‘horizontal’ or ‘vertical’ models of organising, and... Show More
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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Good thread on the longer historical trajectory that explains the more recent revolution of values (and current counter-revolution) I tried to document here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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David Bailey @djbailey231.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Anti-AI - nice to see this new piece - How we might be Anti-AI, co-authored with Iran Mansouri just out in @gpejournal.bsky.social Trying to think different ways to imagine alternatives to a life reduced to objects of capitalist quantification bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Is #AI adoption really inevitable? Masoumeh Iran Mansouri & David J. Bailey challenge this narrative and set out five ways to be ‘anti-AI’. doi.org/10.1332/2635... #AIresistance
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How to be ‘anti-AI’ in the 21st century: overcoming the inevitability narrative
The general consensus appears to be that AI has the potential to provide solutions to most of society’s major problems, but not without introducing its own downsides, which need to be addressed in ord...
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Our co-editor-in-chief @monicaclua.bsky.social is delivering the keynote lecture of the Economists without borders conference in Madrid this evening 👇
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
New issue out now! Digital Fragmentations, Technological Sovereignty and New Perspectives on the Global Digital Political Economy Guest Edited by @maximilianiras.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Kayhan Valadbaygi @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🚨My recent co-authored article on the EU's "puzzling" and "contradictory" integration promotion strategy in the MENA region is now published in @gpejournal.bsky.social Below is a brief thread summarising its main arguments.
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Gemma Gasseau @gemmagasseau.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The people’s budget? How business interests and fiscal constraints shaped the economic policies of the Italian populist government with @bigmacca.bsky.social for @gpejournal.bsky.social we analyze the negotiations around Italy's 2019 budgetary plan bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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