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Nick Bernards

@nickbernards.bsky.social
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Critical Political Economist -- Author: A critical history of poverty finance (bit.ly/3pEV7Cf); Fictions of financialization (bit.ly/3PUWzdR) -- Reader in Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick. Views mine.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote a review of Lorenzo Feltrin's very good book. I'd appreciate if you'd read the review and I hope it makes you want to read the book. prometheus-mag.com/2026/09/17/a...
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A Review of "Workers and the World" - Prometheus Magazine
Nate Holdren reviews Lorenzo Feltrin's "Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within", praising it for countering climate despair.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 08/09/2026
I have reason to believe that this is a must-read.
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Stefano Sgambati | Private Leverage, Public Costs
How hedge fund speculation destabilized the bond market
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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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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I contributed to this brief report alongside an int. law researcher & a geographer to explore the problem of the 'climate refugee'. I draw on the work of A. Baldwin, Carol Farbotko and others who have shown how this conversation is racialised. @environmentalpol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Title: The climate refugee misnomer. Authors: Eli Auslender; Charlotte Weatherill; M. M. Golam Rabbani. Abstract: This brief report engages with the idea of the ‘climate refugee’ through three lenses: international law and governance, racialisation and coloniality, and the tangible impacts of climate damage and displacement, with a focus on Bangladesh. Through this engagement, it shows that ‘climate refugee’ is used as a means of exclusion towards those displaced by climate disasters, and as a means of avoiding accountability for climate damage from historically polluting states. Additionally, the piece argues that the label of ‘climate refugee’ disempowers the climate vulnerable and subverts not only their efforts to maintain their livelihoods, but also restricts the debate about climate accountability by tying it to an unhelpful set of questions.
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Penguin has a page up for my new book, coming Feb 2027, HOUSE SOCIETY The epigraph is from Kenneth T. Jackson's famous "Crabgrass Frontier": "... no society can be fully understood apart from the residences of its members" The book is an exploration and affirmation of that thesis!
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House Society
The world is in the midst of a deep and worsening housing crisis. It has caused rents to soar in Britain, millions to protest in Spain, and a government to collapse in Sweden. Under a global ideology ...
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 10/08/2026
How could things in UK higher ed possibly get worse? Hello for-profit universities run by a firm owned by the Bettencourt family and Canada's biggest pension fund. www.ft.com/content/f094...
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Mikkel Krause Frantzen @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It is now possible to preorder The Birth of the Financial Thriller in paperback which means you can now buy the book and not go entirely bankrupt because the price is no longer £90.00 but £19.99! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-bir...
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The Birth of the Financial Thriller
The Birth of the Financial Thriller
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Crystal A. Ennis @crystalennis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Wonderful to see our book out in the world! I had the pleasure of co-editing this wonderful #openaccess collection with @shrzd.bsky.social, Rethinking the Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Governance. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Rethinking the Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Governance
This open access book explores the political economy of migration in non-Western regions, offering global insights into migration governance and experience
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Lars Cornelissen @lcornelissen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
@ersjournal.com has published a review forum for my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book, Neoliberalism and Race Contributions are by Arun Kundnani, Siddhant Issar, and Hasret Cetinkaya, followed by my reply www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Race, neoliberalism and ideology critique
In this response to the book symposium on Neoliberalism and Race, the author explains what intervention the book aims to make, explores the value of ideology critique when studying the role of raci...
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Carla Ibled @cibled.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My new article with @mihjournal.bsky.social is at long last in orbit. It explores how the neoliberal fantasy machine has used space colonisation to wish away the problem of environmental limits and revive the legitimation of private property.
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A “Limitless Frontier”? Neoliberalism, Silicon Valley, and the Commercialization of Space | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
A “Limitless Frontier”? Neoliberalism, Silicon Valley, and the Commercialization of Space
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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thoroughly enjoying this:
Working Nature, by Daniela Russ
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We're excited to announce our next book! The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis and the Rise of Fossil Fascism will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social exactly one month from today. Here it is, in the flesh. If you're interested, please do pre-order now: www.versobooks.com/products/340...
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Jack Copley @jackcopley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
For @newleftreview.bsky.social I wrote about Timothy Mitchell's fascinating and frustrating book The Alibi of Capital. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...
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Jack Copley, Rentier Regimes, NLR 159, May–June 2026
Jack Copley on Timothy Mitchell, The Alibi of Capital. Capital re-conceptualized as terraforming expropriation of the future.
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Giorgos Gouzoulis @ggouzoulis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
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Lars Cornelissen @lcornelissen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
New publication! Earlier this week, my new paper was published in @mihjournal.bsky.social: 'Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial' It's Open Access! 1/ doi.org/10.1017/S147...
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Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
New review paper from Matt Zook and I on Cryptocurrencies in Geography. We use the idea of Monetary Interregnum to situate new spaces of crypto in the present conjuncture. Open access for now at this link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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alexismoraitis.bsky.social @alexismoraitis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The introduction to the S/I on Open Marxism and Political Marxism is out along with the 5 banger contributions!!! Introduction written with @jackcopley.bsky.social @harveymurenow.bsky.social Teddy Paikin and Sam Salour journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
How does rampant #assetisation and variation in #assetmanagement affect social conflicts? Our special issue co-edited with @theobourgeron.bsky.social in New Political Economy proposes a framework to analyse such asset struggles and brings together 7 papers with key empirical studies. 🧵
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Third paper from our #assetstruggles SI online! Mareike Beck makes the very important point that assets can also fuel conflict within households, often taking a gendered form not only because of the gender wealth gap but also because of qualitative differences in the assets women and men hold.
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Global environmental governance after liberal environmentalism: Review of International Political Economy @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @jacktaggart.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Global environmental governance after liberal environmentalism
Global environmental governance has long been predicated on a normative compromise, commonly referred to as ‘liberal environmentalism’, which posits that addressing global environmental challenges ...
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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🚨New article w/ @savannahcox.bsky.social & @zacjtaylor.bsky.social in @jcultecon.bsky.social🚨 "Inscription networks: finance, infrastructural power, and the governance of climate risk" explores a longstanding player in state-market entanglements -Moody's- as it shapes how climate change is governed.
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Giulia Dal Maso @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
New open access article on @antipodeonline.bsky.social with @nickbernards.bsky.social and Laura Quinteros. We look at green fintech to show how green finance works as fictitious capital. Builds on @cedricdurand.bsky.social
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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
New article! @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social, Laura Quinteros and I on experiments with ‘green fintech’, and what they tell us about green finance as a form of fictitious capital. Just out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
New article! On the echoes between projects of 'financial inclusion' and colonial statecraft. Just out in @ripejournal.bsky.social, in an incredible SI on raced finance ed. by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @vincentguermond.bsky.social and @alibhagat.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
University management spent £80 million on new building that wasn't needed (presently for sale at £14 million) and now decide 600 staff should go to 'save' £50 million. This is the math currently shaping future of UK HE. Staff paying the price for mismanagement. Govt looking the other way
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Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New paper in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Some great colleagues' work is sampled @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @landstuff.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social @azadehakbari.bsky.social @jamiepeck.bsky.social @reijer.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #geosky #ipesky
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Max Haiven @maxhaiven.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
With thanks to @alirizataskale.bsky.social for putting this special issue together!
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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Trump's $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget will enable more idiotic wars in the short term & be a social + environmental disaster in the long term. $1.5 trillion for the military industrial complex would make the Pentagon's climate pollution about the same as the entire country of Spain.
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Trump’s Pentagon Budget is a human, economic, and environmental disaster
The new $1.5 trillion request implies 267 megatons of carbon emissions, and could fund massive social spending instead
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The book forum on The Spectre of State Capitalism now has an issue in the AAG Review of Books, featuring great contributions by Jerome Roos, Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Pavlos Roufos, Juvaria Jafri and Nassar Alnassar, Angus McNelly, Rachel Bok. Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Spectre of State Capitalism
Published in The AAG Review of Books (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2026)
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Greig Charnock @greigc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Hey Bluesky, our book on 25 years of pioneering (yet crisis-ridden) #innovationdistrict transformation in #Barcelona is now available as an e-book, at a slightly more affordable price than the hardback version! @monrf.bsky.social @antroperplejo.bsky.social www.routledge.com/The-Politics...
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The Politics of Late Urban Entrepreneurialism: The Innovation District
The Politics of Late Urban Entrepreneurialism provides a critical examination of how innovation district transformation in Barcelona has led to periodic crisis and an overproduction of commercial real...
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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Pleased to finally publish this paper with Mareike Beck on the epistemic origins of the 2022 gilt market crisis in @jeppjournal.bsky.social   How can we explain the limited regulatory response to the increasing systemic risk of LDI strategies in UK pensions? 1/n 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
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Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
My new book Currency of Nihilism is officially out today! In it, I develop a history and theory of financial nihilism that speaks directly to the ongoing merger of digital technology with finance. Use the code SAMMAN20 for 20% off: www.sup.org/books/politi... mngbookshop.co.uk/978150364586...
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Matt Thompson @mattthompson.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
If this is a conjuncture marked by escalating crises, provoking growing interest in conjunctural thinking across the critical social sciences and humanities, now's the time to ask... What's the point of conjunctural analysis? New article out in Dialogues in Urban Research: doi.org/10.1177/2754...
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 the point of conjunctural analysis? Its purpose, I argue, is to offer a method for identifying points of condensation of crisis and contradiction within the social totality of planetary colonial capitalism, with a view to providing practical pointers on how to begin to exploit those moments for strategic intervention. This makes conjunctural analysis a distinctive, praxis-oriented mode of historical materialism – understood as an open, relational and holistic critical theory encompassing feminist, postcolonial and ecological perspectives, and alert to multiple social relations of domination, of exploitation and appropriation, notably gender, race and ecology as well as class. What conjunctural analysis adds to the two main methods of historical materialism – one apprehending capital's necessary form; the other capitalism's historical formation – is a more strategic and speculative orientation to social change as this emerges through contestation at pressure points in contradictory social formations, to assist in praxis, in the rearticulation of these formations for emancipatory ends. To that end, I attempt to provide conjunctural analysis with an epistemological grounding in dialectical relations between subjectivity and objectivity, totality and particularity, thought and history, past and future – a means to understand where, how and why to look for the conjuncture. The article concludes with suggestions on what such a vision for conjunctural analysis might mean for urban research through considering urban applications of conjunctural thinking.
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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
In what should be a surprise to no one, the US and Israeli attack on Iran has serious climate consequences. Our new analysis, covered in @theguardian.com this morning, tallies the climate costs of the first two weeks of the attacks.
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US and Israel’s war on Iran is a disaster for the environment, analysis shows
Exclusive: War has led to 5m tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in two weeks and is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined
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Lisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
New OA article on nickel extraction & processing in Indonesia - I hope this is useful to someone 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Indonesian nickel sovereignty and global raced finance: the value of Element 28 in an age of ‘transition’
In the context of a global rush to electrify vehicle markets, for which nickel is recast as a ‘critical mineral’, Indonesia has sought to build sovereignty over its mineral resources and reinvigora...
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Reminds me of this classic, wherein Michael Hardt sought to persude George W Bush not to invade Iraq because ... his book Empire had a more rational vision for how global power should work? (If your analysis doesn't fit reality - persuade reality). www.theguardian.com/comment/stor...
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Michael Hardt: Folly of our masters of the universe | Guardian daily comment | guardian.co.uk
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James Jackson @james7jackson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
🆕 🗞️ New Publication online today: Subsidizing global decarbonization: how Chinese state support for clean technologies enables and (potentially) obstructs a worldwide green transition - with @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Subsidizing global decarbonization: how Chinese state support for clean technologies enables and (potentially) obstructs a worldwide green transition
Over the last decade, green technologies have been deployed at record-breaking speeds across the world. No actor has been more important to this process than China, which now dominates what is cons...
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Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
New article in Global Studies Quarterly - the first academic piece developing my “materialized science fiction” framework. Thiel, Musk, and Andreessen don’t just love SF; they’re turning it into a blueprint for sovereignty. Fully open access: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... Short thread ↓
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Lukas Bogner @lbogner.eurosky.social · 05/03/2026
New Paper out with @financeandspace.bsky.social (open access!) about attempts to make voluntary carbon markets 'liquid' via legal standardization, and a source of climate finance for the Global South. Plenty of strange things happening in the process. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Muireann O'Dwyer @mergito.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Why is it so hard to translate high-level committements into actual policy changes when it comes to gender equality? Check out our newly published article - ‘It would have slowed down the work’ – the challenges of gender sensitive economic policy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Recovery and Resilience Facility of the European Union (EU) provided member states with funds to counteract the economic consequences of the pandemic and required the submission of national action plans. The EU developed guidance on how member states should apply for and use these funds, directing applicants to include a gendered analysis. While there is significant variation in the levels of gender awareness within the national plans, the Irish plan is notable in that it lacks any substantial engagement with gender considerations. Using document analysis and policy maker interviews, this article examines the causes and outcomes of this disengagement, exploring this puzzle of a lack of gender sensitive economic policy-making in Ireland. We examine why, despite direction from the EU, those charged with Ireland’s economic policy framework omitted any significant consideration of gender. Drilling down into a specific example of how gender considerations were marginalised in economic governance, we argue for understanding more about how the interpretive or cognitive lens that policy makers apply reinforces long-standing norms about what matters. We contribute to feminist political economic analysis of the EU and national policy-making, highlighting where the blockages to gender equality lie.
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William Conroy @williamwconroy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I have a new article out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social! "The Hidden Abodes of Capitalist Space: Rethinking Crisis and the Built Environment." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Should be of interest to those writing/thinking about Hegel, Harvey, capitalism's "hidden abodes," and much more
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THE HIDDEN ABODES OF CAPITALIST SPACE: Rethinking Crisis and the Built Environment
This article develops a new theory of the relationship between the built environment and the reproduction of capitalism. To do so, it pursues a critical engagement with David Harvey's landmark texts ...
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
New piece for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, written with @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @tomchodor.bsky.social! It's an attempt at grasping the dismantling of multilateral global governance, in light of intensifying geopolitical rivalries, resurgent state capitalism, and hegemonic crisis. Link below:
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William Westgard-Cruice @williamwc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
For those interested in value theory and the critique of political ecology: This new article by André Novas Otero shows how rent can only be understood in terms of its double basis (natural difference and class power), and how this double basis helps explain the persistence of uneven development.
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Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I have a new one on cloud infrastructure and capitalist instability out! doi.org/10.1080/0197...
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Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation (with an incredible lineup). A longread of 68 pages @antipodeonline.bsky.social #geosky @demonicgrounds.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation
Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and wo...
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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
'Imagine if every stupid thing you've ever written took on a life of its own and people could ask it questions on your behalf, saving them the trouble of reading it, or actually asking you, and consuming a small swimming pool's worth of water in the process.'
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Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
My afterword "The Material Politics of Labour in Africa" to the SI "Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa" edited is now freely available. @rsa-tpg.bsky.social @rsablog.bsky.social #geosky www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DFDSB...
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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Very interesting new article by Geoff Goodwin www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Understanding the roles of decommodification in socioecological transformations: a new theoretical approach
Decommodification is widely considered a central pillar of progressive socioecological transformations, like the green new deal, degrowth and ecosocialism. Yet it is inadequately problematised and ...
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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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