Ian Bruff

@ianbruff.bsky.social

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Critical political economist, University of Manchester.

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · Oct 20

Rowman & Littlefield was recently taken over by Bloomsbury. I am very pleased to see that the 'Transforming Capitalism' book series, of which I was Managing Editor from 2014-23, now has a webpage again: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/tr...

www.bloomsbury.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

So his response to the criticism of his app generating sexual deep fakes of children is... to try to monetise it as a feature

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:

ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony

Jonathan Ross told a federal court in December about his professional background, including “hundreds” of encounters with drivers during enforcement actions, according to testimony obtained by WIRED.

www.wired.com

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 4d

Today @kimkelly.bsky.social writes about the parallels between the killings of Renee Nicole Gold and Heather Heyer in Charlottesville in 2017.
www.welcometohellworld.com/justificatio...

Justification for our own murder

Are you not as sick as I am of being lied to?

www.welcometohellworld.com

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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · 4d

One telling consequence of the US intervention: Hedge funds scrambling to figure out how to buy exposure to unpaid compensation for 2007 nationalizations.

www.ft.com/content/2c04...

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 4d

Also, @kimkelly.bsky.social is a great journalist/writer and helps illuminate many things (plus she's a metaller, so all good!)

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think he's written yet on Trump 2.0 in this respect (could be wrong), but I'd highly recommend @jordantcamp.bsky.social More classically, Ruth Wilson Gilmore will still help understand better the current situation

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 4d

ICE just executed someone in cold blood in Minneapolis. The agency is frantically trying to spin it but the videos are already out there. Murderous fascist pigs.

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CPERN @cpern.bsky.social · 5d

The CfP for the European Sociological Association conference (25-28 August in Warsaw) is available: bit.ly/48E3ylb

Our stream (RN06) focuses on 'Solidarity, action, revolution? Questioning systemic unsustainability'

Submit your abstracts by 30 January: www.conftool.com/esa2026

See you in Warsaw!

European Sociological Association

bit.ly

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 5d

ICYMI My new article on the material politics of climate storytelling.

I use an experimental approach to juxtapose two stories of climate change in the Pacific. That of the IPCC, representing the dominant narrative, & then an anti-imperial version.
@geoopenaccess.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Title: ‘Operation Hurricane’: Narrating Climate Change as Imperial Mess.
Abstract: How climate change is narrated matters. Every story that is told of climate change contains its own causes of the problem, its own solutions and its own vision of the future. This article juxtaposes two stories: the dominant story of climate change as represented by the IPCC and a counter-story of climate change as ‘imperial mess’. This language comes from Alice Te Punga Somerville and her book Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay About Captain Cook (2020). In this book, Te Punga Somerville writes about colonialism in Aotearoa and the Pacific as a story that can be told in endless different ways, with each story drawing out different elements. Number 223 of her project, ‘In Montebello Islands’, discusses the British nuclear weapons testing programme. The tests were called ‘Operation Hurricane’, and Te Punga Somerville writes that the whole imperial mess of the past five centuries could be called “Operation Hurricane”. This article takes this claim as a prompt, both methodologically and theoretically, in order to argue that climate change needs to be understood in a historically and geographically informed way, where the colonial history becomes the present, coloniality and resistance entwine and the ‘way out of the mess’ has to be found in a fight against the entirety of Operation Hurricane. The contribution of the article is twofold: First, this article contributes to literatures that understand climate change as a historical process of imperial violence, by directly addressing what this changes about an analysis of climate politics. Second, it contributes to critiques of the IPCC by showing how its approach depoliticises climate change through the way it narrates and communicates climate science as separate from historical and structural processes.

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 6d

Ah wow! I'm sure the lyrics were about cricket ;) And were they fans of Nasum, by any chance? Good stuff!

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 6d

Haha, what?! Did they make jokes about grindcore songs being the equivalent of one-day internationals? Almost every year I supervise a diss project (UG or MA) on the myth of social mobility especially in relation to education - the student is always an angry, alienated northerner

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 6d

I didn't think about it at the time, but my main friends at Leeds in the late 90s (when it was more fashionable: M/cr now being where southern students go for the Grand Tour), were from Mansfield (links to mining), Pontefract (strong links to mining), and inner city Newcastle. No surprise, really!

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 6d

My pleasure! First came across you on the fantastic Architect album, and I enjoy Memory Echoes just as much.

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 7d

Great new article by @gemmagasseau.bsky.social and colleagues, on the IPE of Berlusconism. Of considerable relevance for current debates about neoliberalism and the radical/far-right, both in and beyond Italy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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journals.sagepub.com

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Emmy Eklundh @emmyeklundh.bsky.social · 7d

My new book is out now! Read for an alternative view on populism in Europe, influenced by decolonial theory, feminism and psychoanalysis.

I'm available to do book talks in 2026! @populismpsa.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-popu...

Europe’s Populist Condition

Europe’s Populist Condition; Challenging the notion that populism is an anomaly in European politics, this book argues that the main threat to democracy is the exclusionary nature of European democrat...

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk

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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 7d

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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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 9d

Best explainer from a critical perspective of the Venezuelan path from popular rebellion to Maduro's rentier capitalism 'with socialist characteristics' is this piece from 2024 by KCL's Thomas Purcell.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9d

Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.

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Jordan T. Camp @jordantcamp.bsky.social · 23d

Got the chance to speak with fierce labor reporter @kimkelly.bsky.social for upcoming Conjuncture. We discuss the ongoing @sbworkersunited.org strike, the role of labor in the struggle against fascism, and her book Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of the Labor Movement. We'll release in 2026! 1/2

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Carla Ibled @cibled.bsky.social · 23d

I was lucky to join @addiemcgowan.bsky.social and @philiproscoe.bsky.social's (not so virtual) kitchen to chat about Musk and founder ideology with @dominikzelinsky.bsky.social. My podcast's baptism of fire 🙈 - thanks for having me!

Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 23d

🥳 and it’s live youtu.be/xVG8J71YYRw?... - feat. @cibled.bsky.social & Dominik Želinský 🎧 the scent of musk tempered with a liberal appreciation of haggis

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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 23d

🥳 and it’s live youtu.be/xVG8J71YYRw?... - feat. @cibled.bsky.social & Dominik Želinský 🎧 the scent of musk tempered with a liberal appreciation of haggis

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 24d

Great read. Reminded me a lot of equivalent bleatings about Third Way transcendence a generation ago.

Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 24d

I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 24d

I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 25d

If your cost-benefit model tells you it isn't worth investing in a tram or light rail system for an urban area with a population of well over 1m, like Leeds-Bradford, your model is wrong and should be thrown in the bin.

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 25d

Remember when HS2 to Leeds was cancelled by the NIC's shitty maths and fundamental lack of expertise, and Leeds was thrown the bone of "you'll get trams" and I said those would never be delivered?

Yeah, as I was saying...

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Joost Vervoort - Infrastructures of Mystery @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 25d

NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚒🔥🔥 Teaching the "heads, hearts, and hands" of futures literacy in sustainability education using radical seeds of change! ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss4/a... #education #sustainability #hope #transition

Ecology & Society

A journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

ecologyandsociety.org

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Lukas Oberndorfer @lukasoberndorfer.bsky.social · 26d

I’m very pleased to have contributed a piece to Social Europe on how a socially and ecologically planned economic policy can reconnect Europe by rail – while creating jobs and protecting the climate. www.socialeurope.eu/europes-rail...

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 27d

I had an interesting exchange with the chatbot issued to students by my university about the advisability of using it—at a university. It thought this was a terrible idea.

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 28d

My pleasure! I listen to it all the time, so so good

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 28d

Gig of the year: Wiegedood playing all three 'De Doden...' albums at Damnation Festival will live long in the memory. Festival of the year: Fortress Festival. Two days of black metal by the beach! And an honourable mention to @nadineshah.bsky.social for the fantastic gig in Bradford in May.

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