Dr Remi Edwards
@remiedwards.bsky.social
Research & Impact Associate at @sperishefuni.bsky.social
Researching labour, consumption, agribusiness, supply chains, governance, race, agency
Hosting SPERI Presents... New Thinking in Political Economy
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Researching labour, consumption, agribusiness, supply chains, governance, race, agency
Hosting SPERI Presents... New Thinking in Political Economy
open.spotify.com/show/6zpmfHj
I spoke to Ben Selwyn about the class relations of value chains, and the role of superpowers in their rise and maintenance
A great teaching resource for anyone teaching GVCs!
A great teaching resource for anyone teaching GVCs!
🚢How do global supply chains drive labour exploitation, nature destruction and geopolitical tension?
📚Ben Selwyn discusses his new co-authored book Capitalist Value Chains on the latest episode of New Thinking in Political Economy
🎧Listen now: shorturl.at/NyFNT
📚Ben Selwyn discusses his new co-authored book Capitalist Value Chains on the latest episode of New Thinking in Political Economy
🎧Listen now: shorturl.at/NyFNT
October 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I spoke to Ben Selwyn about the class relations of value chains, and the role of superpowers in their rise and maintenance
A great teaching resource for anyone teaching GVCs!
A great teaching resource for anyone teaching GVCs!
You wouldn't know from the editing but a few laughs were had in the making of this podcast
September 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
You wouldn't know from the editing but a few laughs were had in the making of this podcast
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India’s farming sector is facing deep crisis. Falling productivity, debt and mass protests have drawn global attention.
Dr Shreya Sinha joins Dr Remi Edwards to discuss who gains, who loses and how women are affected most.
Listen here: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/how-d...
Dr Shreya Sinha joins Dr Remi Edwards to discuss who gains, who loses and how women are affected most.
Listen here: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/how-d...
September 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
India’s farming sector is facing deep crisis. Falling productivity, debt and mass protests have drawn global attention.
Dr Shreya Sinha joins Dr Remi Edwards to discuss who gains, who loses and how women are affected most.
Listen here: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/how-d...
Dr Shreya Sinha joins Dr Remi Edwards to discuss who gains, who loses and how women are affected most.
Listen here: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/how-d...
Reposted by Dr Remi Edwards
“I hope, as a result of our report, that the minds of states will also be opened” says Navi Pillay, the head of the commission of inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory and a former international criminal court judge
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
“I hope, as a result of our report, that the minds of states will also be opened” says Navi Pillay, the head of the commission of inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory and a former international criminal court judge
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
I spoke to Natalie about her expertly crafted new paper on unstable production, the impact on workers and the structural and contextual challenges in protecting those expelled from capitalist social relations
Link below
Link below
🫖 What are the limits of civil society activism in protecting workers who become excluded from systems of production?
✍️ Dr Natalie Langford discusses her new paper with @remiedwards.bsky.social, published this year in @ripejournal.bsky.social
🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/9Cqjj
✍️ Dr Natalie Langford discusses her new paper with @remiedwards.bsky.social, published this year in @ripejournal.bsky.social
🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/9Cqjj
August 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I spoke to Natalie about her expertly crafted new paper on unstable production, the impact on workers and the structural and contextual challenges in protecting those expelled from capitalist social relations
Link below
Link below
Reposted by Dr Remi Edwards
@sperishefuni.bsky.social Presents:
Live: Is organised violence central to capitalism? @ BISA2025 w/ Joanna Tidy, Elena Simon, Vick Reif-Breitwieser Beryl Pong @frankmaracchione.bsky.social & @remiedwards.bsky.social 🎉
Recorded @ipegbisa.bsky.social roundtable #BISA2025 🌟
listen
Live: Is organised violence central to capitalism? @ BISA2025 w/ Joanna Tidy, Elena Simon, Vick Reif-Breitwieser Beryl Pong @frankmaracchione.bsky.social & @remiedwards.bsky.social 🎉
Recorded @ipegbisa.bsky.social roundtable #BISA2025 🌟
listen
Live: Is organised violence central to capitalism? @ BISA 2025
SPERI Presents... · Episode
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July 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
@sperishefuni.bsky.social Presents:
Live: Is organised violence central to capitalism? @ BISA2025 w/ Joanna Tidy, Elena Simon, Vick Reif-Breitwieser Beryl Pong @frankmaracchione.bsky.social & @remiedwards.bsky.social 🎉
Recorded @ipegbisa.bsky.social roundtable #BISA2025 🌟
listen
Live: Is organised violence central to capitalism? @ BISA2025 w/ Joanna Tidy, Elena Simon, Vick Reif-Breitwieser Beryl Pong @frankmaracchione.bsky.social & @remiedwards.bsky.social 🎉
Recorded @ipegbisa.bsky.social roundtable #BISA2025 🌟
listen
My technoanxiety did not get the better of me and we pulled off a live recorded roundtable at @mybisa.bsky.social in Belfast
To hear about the production and labour behind the means of violence, defence spending, corporate harm, everyday resistance to violence etc etc- listen here shorturl.at/GF3re
To hear about the production and labour behind the means of violence, defence spending, corporate harm, everyday resistance to violence etc etc- listen here shorturl.at/GF3re
July 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
My technoanxiety did not get the better of me and we pulled off a live recorded roundtable at @mybisa.bsky.social in Belfast
To hear about the production and labour behind the means of violence, defence spending, corporate harm, everyday resistance to violence etc etc- listen here shorturl.at/GF3re
To hear about the production and labour behind the means of violence, defence spending, corporate harm, everyday resistance to violence etc etc- listen here shorturl.at/GF3re
Shreya's work brilliantly sheds light on the interactions between gender, class, caste, ecology and crisis in shaping women's experience of agricultural labour in Punjab
I'm a big fan of Shreya's work so I was excited to discuss this with her on New Thinking - link below
I'm a big fan of Shreya's work so I was excited to discuss this with her on New Thinking - link below
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
How does India's agrarian crisis harm women workers? 🌾
Shreya Sinha explores how shifts from cotton to rice cultivation relate to class, gender and caste oppression in Punjab 💭
🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/WYfmC
#Agriculture #PoliticalEconomy #Labour #Podcast
How does India's agrarian crisis harm women workers? 🌾
Shreya Sinha explores how shifts from cotton to rice cultivation relate to class, gender and caste oppression in Punjab 💭
🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/WYfmC
#Agriculture #PoliticalEconomy #Labour #Podcast
June 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Shreya's work brilliantly sheds light on the interactions between gender, class, caste, ecology and crisis in shaping women's experience of agricultural labour in Punjab
I'm a big fan of Shreya's work so I was excited to discuss this with her on New Thinking - link below
I'm a big fan of Shreya's work so I was excited to discuss this with her on New Thinking - link below
Reposted by Dr Remi Edwards
I wrote a piece for Jacobin about the misuse of antisemitism scholarship for authoritarian projects and the role German antisemitism scholarship plays in the dehumanisation of Palestinians and the justification of the genocide in Gaza.
Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.
Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech
Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.
jacobin.com
June 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I wrote a piece for Jacobin about the misuse of antisemitism scholarship for authoritarian projects and the role German antisemitism scholarship plays in the dehumanisation of Palestinians and the justification of the genocide in Gaza.
📚 I reviewed Ellie Gore's book Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana for Journal of Development Studies - available now!
Eprint: shorturl.at/bZeCq
Eprint: shorturl.at/bZeCq
Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana
Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
shorturl.at
June 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
📚 I reviewed Ellie Gore's book Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana for Journal of Development Studies - available now!
Eprint: shorturl.at/bZeCq
Eprint: shorturl.at/bZeCq
students: capitalism is the problem!!!
me: what about these actually existing examples of struggles to challenge capitalist social relations, are they a good idea?
students: how unrealistic
me: what about these actually existing examples of struggles to challenge capitalist social relations, are they a good idea?
students: how unrealistic
June 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
students: capitalism is the problem!!!
me: what about these actually existing examples of struggles to challenge capitalist social relations, are they a good idea?
students: how unrealistic
me: what about these actually existing examples of struggles to challenge capitalist social relations, are they a good idea?
students: how unrealistic
Reposted by Dr Remi Edwards
Banana producer Chiquita has announced mass layoffs in Panama amid an ongoing strike.
The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday it was letting “all” daily labourers go for the “unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations”.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday it was letting “all” daily labourers go for the “unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations”.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
US banana giant Chiquita fires thousands over Panama strike
President Jose Raul Mulino, whose changes to social security laws prompted the protest, called the strike ‘illegal’.
www.aljazeera.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Banana producer Chiquita has announced mass layoffs in Panama amid an ongoing strike.
The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday it was letting “all” daily labourers go for the “unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations”.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday it was letting “all” daily labourers go for the “unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations”.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
Reposted by Dr Remi Edwards
Thanks to @remiedwards.bsky.social for the invite to the @sperishefuni.bsky.social podcast New Thinking in their SPERI presents series
This time on cities and technocapitalist power ...
An interesting chat with Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi
Loads of other great eps too - inc a series on "crisis"
This time on cities and technocapitalist power ...
An interesting chat with Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi
Loads of other great eps too - inc a series on "crisis"
🎙️ SPERI Presents… 🎙️
How do cities become engines of technocapitalist power? 🏙️
We explore how capitalism shapes urban life, labour & knowledge, and ask: Can we reclaim the city from value extraction? 💭
🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/IOpZl
#UrbanPoliticalEconomy #Technocapitalism #Podcast
How do cities become engines of technocapitalist power? 🏙️
We explore how capitalism shapes urban life, labour & knowledge, and ask: Can we reclaim the city from value extraction? 💭
🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/IOpZl
#UrbanPoliticalEconomy #Technocapitalism #Podcast
May 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Thanks to @remiedwards.bsky.social for the invite to the @sperishefuni.bsky.social podcast New Thinking in their SPERI presents series
This time on cities and technocapitalist power ...
An interesting chat with Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi
Loads of other great eps too - inc a series on "crisis"
This time on cities and technocapitalist power ...
An interesting chat with Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi
Loads of other great eps too - inc a series on "crisis"
New episode!
🎙️ SPERI Presents… 🎙️
How do cities become engines of technocapitalist power? 🏙️
We explore how capitalism shapes urban life, labour & knowledge, and ask: Can we reclaim the city from value extraction? 💭
🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/IOpZl
#UrbanPoliticalEconomy #Technocapitalism #Podcast
How do cities become engines of technocapitalist power? 🏙️
We explore how capitalism shapes urban life, labour & knowledge, and ask: Can we reclaim the city from value extraction? 💭
🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/IOpZl
#UrbanPoliticalEconomy #Technocapitalism #Podcast
May 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
New episode!
We're back with a new episode of New Thinking, exploring the the power of big pharma and its implications for vaccine distribution and the governance of global health
🎙️SPERI Presents…🎙️
Why does a small group of companies dominate the pharmaceutical sector? What are the consequences for global health?💊
Dr Owain Williams discusses:
🦠 COVID
💵 Market-state-society relations
💉 The political economy of Big Pharma
🎧 shorturl.at/IyHMw
#GlobalHealth #COVID19 #Pharma
Why does a small group of companies dominate the pharmaceutical sector? What are the consequences for global health?💊
Dr Owain Williams discusses:
🦠 COVID
💵 Market-state-society relations
💉 The political economy of Big Pharma
🎧 shorturl.at/IyHMw
#GlobalHealth #COVID19 #Pharma
April 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
We're back with a new episode of New Thinking, exploring the the power of big pharma and its implications for vaccine distribution and the governance of global health
Though I'm not pictured bc I took the photo, it was an honour to be involved in this!
On 3 April 2025, SPERI hosted a workshop on the British Political Economy Tradition to examine its character, insights and contributions, and celebrate the life's work of Professor Andrew Gamble who recently retired
More here: shorturl.at/X9qrX
More here: shorturl.at/X9qrX
April 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Though I'm not pictured bc I took the photo, it was an honour to be involved in this!
Reposted by Dr Remi Edwards
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
In the final episode of Crisis Point, Dillon and Chris review the series and propose a theory of crisis in capitalism
In the post-2008 era, crises of accumulation and legitimation entangle and intensify absent a popular social force able to break the deadlock
shorturl.at/hMG7e
In the final episode of Crisis Point, Dillon and Chris review the series and propose a theory of crisis in capitalism
In the post-2008 era, crises of accumulation and legitimation entangle and intensify absent a popular social force able to break the deadlock
shorturl.at/hMG7e
Crisis Point: A Theory Of Crisis w/ Dillon Wamsley & Chris Saltmarsh
SPERI Presents... · Episode
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April 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
In the final episode of Crisis Point, Dillon and Chris review the series and propose a theory of crisis in capitalism
In the post-2008 era, crises of accumulation and legitimation entangle and intensify absent a popular social force able to break the deadlock
shorturl.at/hMG7e
In the final episode of Crisis Point, Dillon and Chris review the series and propose a theory of crisis in capitalism
In the post-2008 era, crises of accumulation and legitimation entangle and intensify absent a popular social force able to break the deadlock
shorturl.at/hMG7e
Reposted by Dr Remi Edwards
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
Rising prices have dominated social and political life in recent years. High inflation has been called the cost-of-living crisis, but does this constitute a crisis of capitalism or the system working as normal?
Martijn Konings discusses with Chris and Dillon
shorturl.at/GWVk8
Rising prices have dominated social and political life in recent years. High inflation has been called the cost-of-living crisis, but does this constitute a crisis of capitalism or the system working as normal?
Martijn Konings discusses with Chris and Dillon
shorturl.at/GWVk8
April 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
Rising prices have dominated social and political life in recent years. High inflation has been called the cost-of-living crisis, but does this constitute a crisis of capitalism or the system working as normal?
Martijn Konings discusses with Chris and Dillon
shorturl.at/GWVk8
Rising prices have dominated social and political life in recent years. High inflation has been called the cost-of-living crisis, but does this constitute a crisis of capitalism or the system working as normal?
Martijn Konings discusses with Chris and Dillon
shorturl.at/GWVk8
This series take a deep dive in the histories and contemporary forms of crisis within capitalism - episode 1-8 are available now on Spotify, Apple, Acast and other podcast platforms.
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
High rents, shortages and homelessness dominate the housing system. But does this represent a ‘housing crisis’ or capitalism functioning as it should?
Johnna Montgomorie joins Chris & Dillon in Crisis Point, episode 8
shorturl.at/zlVZ0
High rents, shortages and homelessness dominate the housing system. But does this represent a ‘housing crisis’ or capitalism functioning as it should?
Johnna Montgomorie joins Chris & Dillon in Crisis Point, episode 8
shorturl.at/zlVZ0
March 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This series take a deep dive in the histories and contemporary forms of crisis within capitalism - episode 1-8 are available now on Spotify, Apple, Acast and other podcast platforms.
Reposted by Dr Remi Edwards
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
Crisis Point
In episode 2, Chris and Dillon interview Gareth Dale about how the ideas of Karl Polanyi can help understand the Great Depression in the 1930s
Liste now: shorturl.at/M8ovx
Crisis Point
In episode 2, Chris and Dillon interview Gareth Dale about how the ideas of Karl Polanyi can help understand the Great Depression in the 1930s
Liste now: shorturl.at/M8ovx
March 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
Crisis Point
In episode 2, Chris and Dillon interview Gareth Dale about how the ideas of Karl Polanyi can help understand the Great Depression in the 1930s
Liste now: shorturl.at/M8ovx
Crisis Point
In episode 2, Chris and Dillon interview Gareth Dale about how the ideas of Karl Polanyi can help understand the Great Depression in the 1930s
Liste now: shorturl.at/M8ovx
Reposted by Dr Remi Edwards
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
CRISIS POINT
In the first episode, co-hosts Chris and Dillon discuss crisis as a core feature of capitalism, the role crisis plays in capitalism’s history, and whether polycrisis is the right way to understand politics today
Listen now: shorturl.at/4di4P
CRISIS POINT
In the first episode, co-hosts Chris and Dillon discuss crisis as a core feature of capitalism, the role crisis plays in capitalism’s history, and whether polycrisis is the right way to understand politics today
Listen now: shorturl.at/4di4P
March 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
CRISIS POINT
In the first episode, co-hosts Chris and Dillon discuss crisis as a core feature of capitalism, the role crisis plays in capitalism’s history, and whether polycrisis is the right way to understand politics today
Listen now: shorturl.at/4di4P
CRISIS POINT
In the first episode, co-hosts Chris and Dillon discuss crisis as a core feature of capitalism, the role crisis plays in capitalism’s history, and whether polycrisis is the right way to understand politics today
Listen now: shorturl.at/4di4P
Reposted by Dr Remi Edwards
Our Research & Impact Associate @remiedwards.bsky.social presented her research to industry stakeholders at Fruit Logistica 2025
She argued that certification programmes in the banana industry fail to incorporate workers and protect them from abuse, along with recommendations
shorturl.at/aBIM1
She argued that certification programmes in the banana industry fail to incorporate workers and protect them from abuse, along with recommendations
shorturl.at/aBIM1
SPERI impact: Remi Edwards presents research at Fruit Logistica 2025
Remi presented her research on workers' experience of ethical certification schemes in the banana industry to industry stakeholders in Berlin.
shorturl.at
February 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Our Research & Impact Associate @remiedwards.bsky.social presented her research to industry stakeholders at Fruit Logistica 2025
She argued that certification programmes in the banana industry fail to incorporate workers and protect them from abuse, along with recommendations
shorturl.at/aBIM1
She argued that certification programmes in the banana industry fail to incorporate workers and protect them from abuse, along with recommendations
shorturl.at/aBIM1
Reposted by Dr Remi Edwards
Check out this podcast from @sperishefuni.bsky.social!
Experts discuss how queer men in Ghana navigate HIV, rights and the ties between politics and change.
Listen here: bit.ly/41nbrHP
Experts discuss how queer men in Ghana navigate HIV, rights and the ties between politics and change.
Listen here: bit.ly/41nbrHP
February 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Check out this podcast from @sperishefuni.bsky.social!
Experts discuss how queer men in Ghana navigate HIV, rights and the ties between politics and change.
Listen here: bit.ly/41nbrHP
Experts discuss how queer men in Ghana navigate HIV, rights and the ties between politics and change.
Listen here: bit.ly/41nbrHP
Reposted by Dr Remi Edwards
If you work in UK Higher Education and aren't already in a trade union, now is the time to join!
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bsky.app/profile/shef...
This afternoon, @ucu.org.uk informed the Vice Chancellor that we will be formally balloting for local industrial action at @sheffielduni.bsky.social in relation to proposed cuts to the staffing budget and the threats to staff jobs due to restructuring.
February 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
If you work in UK Higher Education and aren't already in a trade union, now is the time to join!
bsky.app/profile/shef...
bsky.app/profile/shef...