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Matt Sparke

@mattsparke.bsky.social
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Distinguished Professor of Politics, Geographer and Global and Community Health collaborator at University of California Santa Cruz.

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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Good ideas, all of them, but the answer to your questions is probably that editors don't have much traction with the publishers and the evermore tenuously tied-in subcontractors who do the actual work of maintaining the journal platforms, setting auto responses and, of course, robo-proofing.
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Talk about a crushing re-branding! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4Z...
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TANK VS TESLA
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This handy comparison of the alternative approaches using the pill metaphor is very teachable, but there are many more critical resources that could have been listed, including Reimagining Global Health by Farmer et al and allied critiques of blue-pill neoliberalism such as doi.org/10.1080/1356....
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COVID and structural cartelisation: market-state-society ties and the political economy of Pharma
The big profits and influence of pharmaceutical firms that again rose to prominence during the COVID pandemic illustrate far more than just the global reach and market power of Big Pharma. Here we ...
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Branko Milanovic offers a superb analysis in Jacobin that makes an important distinction between tracking neoliberal policy-making nationally and transnationally. The resulting comparison of China and the US is extremely useful, offering fresh purchase on Trumpism too. jacobin.com/2025/03/what...
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What Comes After Globalization?
The world as we know it is a product of globalization — and this era of globalization might be coming to a close.
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Nonsense, indeed! But might we also describe it as the geographical imagination of 'behemoth geopolitics'? doi.org/10.1080/2469...
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Reaction, Resilience, and the Trumpist Behemoth: Environmental Risk Management from “Hoax” to Technique of Domination
The election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency has led to significant changes in environmental governance, unleashing an authoritarian, nationalistic, and business-deregulating juggernaut aime...
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
And some more market discipline today for 'Hayek's bastards' (to use the title of Quinn Slobodian's new book)! www.ft.com/content/c5a5...
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Rout wipes $800bn from crypto market as bitcoin slump deepens
Crypto fervour that greeted Trump’s election has faded amid series of scandals
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
www.theinvestorscentre.co.uk/trading/how-...
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How to Short Tesla Stock: Beginner’s Guide to Shorting 2025
Learn how to short Tesla, understand the risks, and explore various methods with our 2025 guide to short selling for beginners.
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
0 to 1939 in 3 seconds! Talk about 'right wing accelerationism' (as so usefully outlined as part of the Trumpian Trinity by Quinn Slobodian on Democracy Now and in interview with Doug Henwood) www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘I felt nothing but disgust’: Tesla owners vent their anger at Elon Musk
The tycoon’s links with Donald Trump and Germany’s far-right AfD have slammed the brakes on sales and put the car’s owners in a spin
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This great analysis of the Trump regime's NIH cuts highlights how they are going to create a eugenicist approach to health - replaying anew the ways we saw 'herd immunity' during COVID get reimagined on the right as the survival of a white supremacist national herd.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
My latest for @thenation.com.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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CDC Data Are Disappearing
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Maybe, but the 10% tariffs on China come on top of preceding ones and will really hurt companies such as Apple
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Broligarchy gone wild
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This appeal for a 'Spark' by Riley led me (with an 'e' - Sparke!) to another piece in NLR on the Trump-tech oligarch axis that ends with a note - 'Yet the tech billionaires have their own obstacles to confront' - that Trump's tariffs now make matter very materially! newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Cédric Durand, Fragile Leviathan? — Sidecar
Trump and tech.
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
a nice piece by @dylanriley032571.bsky.social newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Dylan Riley, Fire and Spark — Sidecar
Capital’s fairytales.
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This piece co-authored with my grad students is informed by other theorists too, but is also aligned with Foucault's 'method' with/on archives: doi.org/10.1177/0263...
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Alternative archives: Researching politics with chunks of reality - Sarah Cheikhali, Ingy Higazy, Mark Howard, Henry McLaughlin, Gabriela Segura-Ballar, Matthew Sparke, Lucia Vitale, 2024
The challenges and opportunities of accessing empirical material present a puzzle insofar as they index simultaneously the politics of research archives and the...
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Many thanks for this kind reply. I also really appreciate your work much more generally. Thank you!
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Greetings! Great to connect with you here. Drop me an email at msparke@ucsc.edu and I can share some more. cheers, Matt
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This points to some of the extreme inequalities in vulnerability and resilience we see in California. To map related risks and provide response resources for farmworkers specifically, our team at UCSC has created a risk map app and allied trainings for CHWs/promotoras: see farmworkerhealth.ucsc.edu
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Farmworker Health and Climate Change – Research on helping farmworkers weather the climate change
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A terrific take on the demise of neoliberal globalization of which Trump's geopolitics is just another symptom. But Milanovic does not delve into today's neoliberal continuities in the enduring support for plutocrats, monopolists, and investor class rentiers... except to critique the FT mainstream!
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
"Access to essential medicines remains a global challenge. Medicines consistently display high prices, low affordability, and poor availability" Sobering study with data from 54 low-income and middle-income countries www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
At just under 2.5K words, Eliot Weinberger's indictment of the incoming Trump administration is a critical primer to share with anyone who cares about our collective future. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Eliot Weinberger · Incoming!
They vow to cut two trillion dollars from the federal budget – five times the combined annual salaries of all federal...
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The Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Welcoming postdoc applications from scholars from any field whose research relates to the theme of the Pembroke Seminar, "The Civic Work of Monuments.” Learn more: buff.ly/44G5BA6. Apps due 11/25. Led by Juliet Hooker, Political Science. @juliethooker.bsky.social @brownupolisci.bsky.social
2025-26 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at the Pembroke Center Applications Now Open. Applications due Monday Nov 25 2024. Complete applications must include CV, cover letter, and writing sample.
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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Matt Sparke @mattsparke.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Great new article on "Philanthrocapitalism, Neoliberalism, and the University," focused on the object (and landscaping) lessons of the failed Munger Hall project at UCSB. Its by my partner Katharyne Mitchell and Greg Woolston and can be found open access at doi.org/10.1177/1942...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This is spot on
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 09/12/2024
I'll be speaking on an online panel for the transform! europe webinar "Trumpism as the New Normal?" on Wednesday, Dec 11, 2024 12:00 PM [ET]. Free but registration required: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Trumpism as the New Normal? Understanding It Means Defeating It. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
In the aftermath of the US presidential election, it is more vital than ever to understand the reasons for Donald Trump's victory. The fact that the far-right can still win elections after governing a...
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Jon Shaffer @jonshaffer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This conversation is so damn good. open.spotify.com/episode/4M2f...
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MAGA 2.0 w/ Quinn Slobodian & Wendy Brown
The Dig · Episode
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Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
CFP: Ideational economic geographies Global Conference on Economic Geography #GCEG2025 What does it mean to prioritize and problematize the role of ideas in the making and remaking of economic geographies? aag.secure-platform.com/gceg2025/org... Jamie Peck, Chris Meulbroek & Rachel Phillips
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Governance Challenges for A Sustainable and Inclusive Future Globally, we are witnessing an urgent need for new forms of governance and institutional transformations that can improve development outco...
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