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Ian Bruff

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Critical political economist, University of Manchester.

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no, please no!! (you might be right, though)

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 1d

I enjoyed reading this review! I was a little less critical overall, but similar to you. I don't know what you think of it, but I liked Joe Mulhall's Rebel Sounds (which a UG diss student last year used for a project on rave and resistance to Thatcherism), which is more glass half-full

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 1d

If profits shape the energy transition we need to understand the biggest profit event this century: the 2022 oil and gas price spike.

Very happy our paper is now out in Energy Research & Social Science. Thread by lead-author @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social 👇

Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 1d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Jordan T. Camp @jordantcamp.bsky.social · 1d

"The environment is woven into the rise of the right-wing movement," Alex Loftus tells me in our interview to launch Season 5 of the Conjuncture podcast. Episode produced w/ support of Trinity Social Justice Institute & @antipodeonline.bsky.social: trinitysocialjustice.com/alex-loftus-...

Alex Loftus on Ecology, Right-wing Populism, and Gramscian Geography

Jordan T. Camp speaks with critical geographer Alex Loftus about the climate crisis, right-wing populism, and “translating” Gramsci’s geographical insights in the present. Watch the episode on YouTube...

trinitysocialjustice.com

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent stuff, as always from Joost. Makes me think of a recent article by @cibled.bsky.social as well: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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David Bailey @djbailey231.bsky.social · 2d

against Labour's plan to ban repeat protests

theconversation.com/labour-wants...

Labour wants to restrict repeat protests – but that’s what makes campaigns successful

Since entering office, the Labour government has further tightened restrictions on the right to protest.

theconversation.com

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 3d

Join us for 'Imagining our Working Lives: A Creative Exploration' 💭🖍🪛🧤🥄🖱

1st Nov, Central Manchester. Part of ESRC Festival of Social Science 2025.

Free to attend, places limited. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-...

P.s. There'll be cake!🍰
With @amycbarron.bsky.social + @clarecourtney

Poster for the event: Imagining our working lives: a creative exploration. The poster features a picture of a woman sat at a desk looking at a screen, surrounded by colourful pots and books. The poster contains a qr code to the event (see post)

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Sabina Lawreniuk @sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social · 3d

🧵Once the beating heart of #UK manufacturing, #Leicester's garment industry is now on the brink of collapse

❓What went wrong?

👟On the ground, our new Invisible Workers colleague, Dr Evie Gilbert, uncovers a story of systemic neglect

🔗 Read on: www.invisibleworkers.org.uk/journal/leic...

Leicester clothes the world? — Invisible workers

Traces of the UK’s clothing and textile manufacturing heritage remain today in places like Leicester, where a shrinking number of suppliers still vie for orders in the competitive global market. Our ...

www.invisibleworkers.org.uk

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 4d

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Liberalism has betrayed the working class, but illiberali...

If we fail to uphold equality and democracy, where will our society be?

observer.co.uk

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d

After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. 🧵

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Agenda Publishing @agendapub.bsky.social · 7d

“A chilling and eye-opening exposé... gives voice to those living at the sharpest edge of austerity and makes an irrefutable case for change.”

@graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by
@kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week).

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt...

#housing #debt

Photo of a pile of books. The books are 'Debt Trap Nation' by Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki. Cover image features a woman and small child in a deep concrete basin or pit with no way of climbing out as the ladder is too short.

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 14d

Please join us to discuss our book on Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance (thread below). One launch on the 8th Oct, 10am EST, one on the 16th Oct, 4pm EST. See flyer for details and to register. The book is open access so you can quiz us. See you there! @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 15d

Special Section in The GJ:

'Legacies of Austerity', edited by @smhall.bsky.social & @sanvanlan.bsky.social

This #OpenAccess collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

A blue tile with a quote from the editorial introduction to the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section by S. van Lanen & S.M. Hall (2025): "As political discourse transforms and the period of fierce austerity implementation moves into history, we believe critical geographers should remain attentive to its traces in everyday practices, policy realities and material conditions. To imagine alternative futures, austerity's legacies should not be forgotten".

A blue tile sharing the titles of 8 open access papers within the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section:
1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall
2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al.
3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock
4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou
5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali
6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al.
7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull
8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy

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Prof Katherine Brickell @kbrickell.bsky.social · 15d

👀 Check out our new events page for our book "Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State" www.debt-trap-nation.org/events

🌹 First up is a Labour Party Conference fringe event on Tuesday – Mel Nowicki will be in conversation with MP Siobhain McDonagh and Francesca Albanese from Crisis

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 22d

This is an excellent collection

Gareth @gfearn.bsky.social · 28d

Very proud to say that our special issue with @urbanstudiesjournal.com is now all up online!
We address the authoritarian turn in urban governance globally, as neoliberal policies lose legitimacy and require more coercive means of enforcement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s) - Güldem Özatağan, Gareth Fearn, Ayda Eraydin, 2025

This Special Issue presents ‘authoritarian neoliberal urbanism’ as an empirical marker and a concept that signposts the ascendence of a new constellation in whi...

journals.sagepub.com

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 22d

In Britain, every time you...

— turn on a tap
— flip a light switch
— board a train or bus
— post a letter
— drop your child at nursery

... you take part in a system designed to extract wealth & concentrate power.

🧵 From cradle to grave, this is how a failed experiment has shaped your life.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22d

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 22d

Look who came with

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Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social · 22d

It was a pleasure to sit in the passenger seat with Laam Hae's driving on the long journey that became this article. It's focused on her extensive work on the topic here, but I had some modest input with the theoretical framing.... 1/4

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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CPERN @cpern.bsky.social · 23d

Online workshop: Urban social movements as extended class actors
Join us on 25 September to discuss Sarah Uhlmann's article about struggles over social reproduction!
With discussants @miria-gam.bsky.social and @bonfert.bsky.social
Register here: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
See you there!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN monthly meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Sarah Uhlmann 'Urban social movements as extended class actors: struggles over reproduction in Buenos Aires, New York City and Hamburg', in Global Political Economy. Discussants: Miria Gambardella a...

bham-ac-uk.zoom.us

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Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 23d

Thinking of using #ChatGPT for 'help' with assessments? Think again. #university #AI

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How AI is undermining learning and teaching in universities | Letter

Letter: Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney say student misuse of generative artificial intelligence is widespread and we must be sceptical of its usefulness

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 23d

2025 is a shit year for fans of heavy music. Even more than Erik Wunder of Cobalt, Tomas Lindberg's death saddens me the most. I was never that into At the Gates, but they left an incredible legacy, influencing lots of bands I love. And his side projects were great. Plus a teacher of social studies!

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 24d

Everything that Labour ignored and/or pretended wasn't in the Forde Report will now be regularly used to further weaken Starmer until he's too damaged to carry on.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24d

I mean maybe I'm just simple minded but this isn't really screaming "towering intellect" to me

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24d

I mean maybe I'm just simple minded but this isn't really screaming "towering intellect" to me

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26d

The actual group moving most strongly to Reform are male Gen X-ers. We need more articles on how to deal with them.

Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 26d

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 26d

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 27d

I got asked to write about the Gaza Riviera Plan + argue it should be understood within the settler colonial logic of elimination + made possible through urbicide and expulsion

theconversation.com/the-gaza-riv...

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy plan that relies on urbicide and expulsion

The leaked redevelopment plan pays homage to mega projects in the Gulf.

theconversation.com

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Gareth @gfearn.bsky.social · 28d

Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s) - Güldem Özatağan, Gareth Fearn, Ayda Eraydin, 2025

This Special Issue presents ‘authoritarian neoliberal urbanism’ as an empirical marker and a concept that signposts the ascendence of a new constellation in whi...

journals.sagepub.com

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 29d

The first issue of my @europeanreview.bsky.social subscription arrived today. Exciting! Looking forward to reading the Kapka Kasaabova piece - love her books

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 29d

Charlie Kirk was killed for saying things "that used to be simple common sense," says Boris Johnson.

Here's a few of those things

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