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
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With thanks to @alirizataskale.bsky.social for putting this special issue together!
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.
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!
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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...
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 🧵
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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:
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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.
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:
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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.
New OA article on nickel extraction & processing in Indonesia - I hope this is useful to someone 🙏
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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).
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🆕 🗞️ 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
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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...
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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....
ABSTRACT 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.
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
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I have a new article out in
@ijurresearch.bsky.social!
"The Hidden Abodes of Capitalist Space: Rethinking Crisis and the Built Environment."
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Should be of interest to those writing/thinking about Hegel, Harvey, capitalism's "hidden abodes," and much more
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:
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.
I have a new one on cloud infrastructure and capitalist instability out!
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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
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Now that I think about it, the only things I've written that are somewhat hard to access are the ones that aren't readily available in PDF format...
Unironically people asking me questions about things I've written is an extraordinary occasional privilege and genuinely one of the most enjoyable parts of the job. I do not wish to automate it away.
'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.'
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
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On the 22nd of January (incidentally, the date of Gramsci's birthday) my article came out in @gpejournal.bsky.social
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(This is mostly a stupid joke but also we need to reckon with the role that the University in its current form has played in enabling fascism and managerialization and ‘impact’ is not not relevant)
Someone, somewhere in the University of Kent’s research office, is trying to work out whether they can put together a REF impact case study out of Matt Godwin.
Feels almost quaint, at this point, to be reporting things like disclosure requirements and stricter labelling rules ‘did not materially alter the sustainability of [mutual fund] portfolios’.
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My co-edited book with Kayhan Valadbaygi, Mode of Production and the Historiography of Capitalism, is now out with Bristol University Press.
The book reopens the mode of production debate and its historiographical stakes.
50% off in the January sale.
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