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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · Apr 23

Happy to share my latest article in Radical Americas exploring the contested understandings of plurinationalism in Bolivia - journals.uclpress.co.uk/ra/article/p... @morton.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social

What’s at stake in the plurinational state debate? The case of Bolivia

The idea of a plurinational state is one that has gained currency in parts of Latin America in recent decades. Driven by the demands of Indigenous social movements and communities, countries such as B...

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Shadow DEFRA SoS, Victoria Atkins MP, bemoans those trying to score points off Jenrick's "private" remarks: "These are conversation we must have thoughtfully away from the clickbait of social media that, sadly, is so often the case."

And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA

Victoria Atkins with a thoughtfull bullhorn, wearing a non-clickbait union jack jacket.

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 8d

So excited to share this symposium on my book, Cultivating Socialism, at the @ppesydney.bsky.social . Check out our first two posts from @chrishesketh.bsky.social and Kyla Sankey. More to come each Tuesday!

www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...

Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 16d

First post in a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book *Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty*, with the engagement started by @chrishesketh.bsky.social -- more to follow in subsequent weeks!!

The State of the Revolution - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

First post of a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book Cultivating Socialism, which focuses on how peasants, workers, and states attempted to redress the inequities of commercial agriculture across the Lat...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23d

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.

You're welcome

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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great to see this out. Fantastic contributions and very happy to be part of this collective endeavour

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 8

Now out:

Special Issue: Value Theory in the Country and the City

Environment and Planning F

Ten articles by Dallas Rogers @monicaclua.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @davidaviles.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @davidjmadden.bsky.social
@feministonmarx.bsky.social
and many more!

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Aug 6

Revisiting, this week, this piece in Socialist Register 2024, written with @abieler.bsky.social, following various conversations on the geopolitics of war (and peace) and global capitalism @therealelliotde.bsky.social @shaharhameiri.bsky.social @tomchodor.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social

Reframing the Geopolitics of Global Capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

In our latest essay in Socialist Register 2024 on the Ukraine War we deliver a contribution to understanding contemporary geopolitics without shying away from placing our concerns within an analysis o...

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Aug 5

Looking forward to dialoguing today with @iliasalami.bsky.social on raced finance in IPE. Here’s a contribution to the debate on the “dialectical tensions” that exist in raced finance; or with @abieler.bsky.social what we call the dialectical matrix of class, gender, race—beyond a “trinity formula”

Beyond intersectional political economy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Is gender oppression a structurally necessary feature in the constitution and reproduction of capitalism, and is discrimination based on race also an in-built necessary element in the making and remak...

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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · Jul 31

Rather than a simple revival of dependency ideas, I argue that a renewed dependency theory must over its past tendencies towards developmentalism and nation-state centrism and incorporate broader ecological and socio-territorial concerns

Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · Jul 31

I argue that dependency theory can usefully address the current panorama of neo-exrtactivist development in Latin America as well as offering useful tools to interpret the rise of the BRICS countries

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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · Jul 31

My new piece for Alternautas considers the revival of dependency theory - building on recent contributions by @ingridhk.bsky.social and Felipe Antunes de Oliveira (among others) journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/al...

thanks to @morton.bsky.social for comments on earlier draft

Towards a new dialectics of dependency theory | Alternautas

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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · Jul 25

And one from me. On how modes of exploitation distinctive to colonial capitalism help to explain the uneven development of climate vulnerability:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · Jul 5

Looks great Nick. What is the collection?

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · Jul 5

Meanwhile

The Spectator is condoning the bombing of Brighton and Glastonbury

I'm sure it will be a proscribed organisation any minute now...

Screenshot of a tweet from The Spectator on July 3, 2025

"One on Glasto, one on Brighton, and the UK would soon begin its recovery.

✍️Rod Liddle"

With a link to a Spectator article titled "And now let's bomb Glastonbury"

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · May 26

New open access article co-authored with @davidaviles.bsky.social in Environment and Planning A, refocuses attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" mixed economy + state capitalism debates @llchristyll.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social

Hothousing for Development: sorting out the mixed economy and state capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy...

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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · Jun 21

Counter view: not only is the market efficiency view of AI erroneous in the long term, it is also totally flawed from the view of social efficiency. People, and especially young people, need more, not less contact with human beings. This is adding to isolation and the mental health crisis IMO

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Jun 20

Opinion: “Our analysis of tasks across hundreds of public sector bodies shows that AI has a common role to play in helping them engage with people who use their services, run their back-office operations and make better decisions.”

✍️ Alexander Iosad #highered #EduSky

To survive the funding crisis, UK universities must embrace AI

The tasks that can be automated or augmented are some of those that university staff undertake day in and day out, says Alexander Iosad

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · Jun 20

What about ‘totalisation’?

Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · Jun 13

Since when was the response to the unilateral bombing of a sovereign country to insist that ‘all sides now show restraint’?

Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · Jun 11

I will look forward to reading this article but it does seem strange (and problematic) to me that Global South scholars - esp from Latin America - who pioneered this very thesis are completed erased.

A case of academic unequal exchange?

Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · Jun 9

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · Jun 9

🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds.

@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.

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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · Jun 9

Are we at the moment of the Ghorman rebellion in Trump Season 2?

Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · Jun 9

An excellent overview of Mario Tronti’s ‘Workers and Capital’ www.ppesydney.net/mario-tronti... by Laisrian Flynn.

This was read as part of the Past and Present reading group. Not always the easiest text to engage with, but glad I stuck with it

Mario Tronti, Workers and Capital - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Just as Mario Tronti wanted to engage with Marx in his own time, how do we approach Operai e capitale (Workers and Capital) on the basis of capitalism today? The latest deep-dive from the Past & Prese...

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Jun 9

Mario Tronti’s *Workers and Capital* gets added to the reviews from the Past & Present Reading Group. Check out the repository on all 33 classic books 👇🏽

Past & Present Reading Group - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Building on earlier initiatives, this reading group was launched in 2014 within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney to provide a regular focus on classics of heterodox poli...

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · May 27

@annajurkevics.bsky.social, Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds - Oxford University Press, April 2025
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Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds

Abstract. Contested Territory presents a critical, non-sovereign theory of territorial rights capable of responding to border-defying global crises such as

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C. B. Tansel @cbtansel.net · May 23

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University.

Please sign, share and circulate this @newcastleucu.bsky.social petition amongst your colleagues and networks.

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Sign the Petition

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · May 20

Congratulations Felix! A great article

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Felix Rösch @felixroesch.bsky.social · May 20

🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology:

#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan

Find the paper here (open-access):

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Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan

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