New research from the Tilburg philosophy department: @timchristiaens.bsky.social on platform work, micro-entrepreneurship, and postcolonialism.

My paper on platform worker subjectivity in Global Political Economy now has an official issue. I start from the paradox that platform workers are identified as micro-entrepreneurs yet constantly make choices that are against their own interests.1/3

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The Commentary Roundtable on The Global Politics of Precarity and Insecure Work, edited by @stellamorgana.bsky.social and I, now has a permanent home in the latest issue of @gpejournal.bsky.social (Volume 5, Issue 1). Read more here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

⭐Enjoy free access to our journal Editors’ highlights from recent issues. Access these articles for free until 30 April. Congrats to all featured authors! @gemmagasseau.bsky.social @jmchickson.bsky.social
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Cover of the journal Consumption and Society

In the latest issue of Consumption and Society we take stock of the journal's development (Impact Factor 3 and rising...) and introduce a Themed Section on 'Transformations in East Asian food consumption’ edited by I-liang Wahn
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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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Picture of a GPE journal cover page.

I'm happy to have joined the editorial board of @gpejournal.bsky.social as an associate editor! I'm looking forward to working with great people on exciting research. If you have ideas for articles, commentaries, or debate pieces, get in touch! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

📢 My new journal article is out today in Global Political Economy in a great collection edited by @jmchickson.bsky.social and @stellamorgana.bsky.social. I explore job insecurity across England’s mayoral combined authorities — and what this means for regional inequality and economic growth.

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Very pleased to see our article (with Yujing Tan & Shivant Jhagroe) on the GPE of Labour & platform capitalism, drawing on our study of migrant gig workers in multinational food delivery platforms in the Netherlands published with @gpejournal.bsky.social!

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Building on our workshop last year on The Global Politics of Precarity and Insecure Work, @stellamorgana.bsky.social and I are delighted to share a collection of 6 original commentary articles on this theme in @gpejournal.bsky.social

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This article examines the role of gender and patriarchy in shaping collective power and protest among male migrant construction workers in China doi.org/10.1332/2635...
#SocSky #LaborProtests #patriarchy

‘Protecting people’s lives and livelihoods’: gender, social reproduction and fiscal policy during the UK COVID-19 crisis Author: Adrienne Roberts Article Category: Research Article Copyright: © Author 2025 Online Publication Date: 09 Jun 2025 Pages: 1–22 Publisher: Bristol University Press Volume/Issue: Early View DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/26352257Y2025D000000033 Keywords: social reproduction; COVID-19; feminist political economy; fiscal policy; common sense

How did COVID-19-era fiscal policy reproduce the hierarchies between production and social reproduction?
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"The degree to which AI is able to harm our society and environment will depend on how best we can organise in opposition to those harms."
New blog from @djbailey231.bsky.social and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri on why we need to #ResistAI

A list of three articles with an excerpt from each article: Monetary sovereignty and the ‘Invisible Leviathan’: the politics of Marx’s theory of money Author: Jack Copley A debate has recently emerged in Heterodox Economics and Political Economy on the nature of monetary sovereignty, and whether it can be democratised and wielded to address the social and environmental catastrophes of our age. While Modern Monetary Theory understands monetary sovereignty to be relatively unconstrained, post-Keynesian, Struct... Show More Sabotaging ordoliberal communitarianism: for a critical discursive political economy of ‘the local community’ in neoliberal Europe Author: Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta The commentary aims to provoke a discussion in Critical Political Economy (CPE) about local articulations of neoliberalism, proposing the concept of ordoliberal communitarianism as a theoretical practice to sabotage the hegemonic essentialisation of ‘the local community’ within the context of EU neoliberal constitutionalism. This conceptual pr... Show More Towards the progressive network-system: a normative theory of organisation to achieve disruption in times of crisis Authors: Marco Guglielmo and Bradley Ward This article introduces the progressive network-system as a normative and descriptive theory of counter-hegemonic organisation. It is descriptive insofar as the inspiration comes from a new wave of anti-austerity leaders, movements and parties that have been less dogmatically committed to ‘horizontal’ or ‘vertical’ models of organising, and... Show More

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Good thread on the longer historical trajectory that explains the more recent revolution of values (and current counter-revolution) I tried to document here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Anti-AI - nice to see this new piece - How we might be Anti-AI, co-authored with Iran Mansouri just out in
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Trying to think different ways to imagine alternatives to a life reduced to objects of capitalist quantification

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How to be ‘anti-AI’ in the 21st century: overcoming the inevitability narrative The general consensus appears to be that AI has the potential to provide solutions to most of society’s major problems, but not without introducing its own downsides, which need to be addressed in ord...

Is #AI adoption really inevitable? Masoumeh Iran Mansouri & David J. Bailey challenge this narrative and set out five ways to be ‘anti-AI’.
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#AIresistance

Our co-editor-in-chief @monicaclua.bsky.social is delivering the keynote lecture of the Economists without borders conference in Madrid this evening 👇

New issue out now!

Digital Fragmentations, Technological Sovereignty and New Perspectives on the Global Digital Political Economy

Guest Edited by @maximilianiras.bsky.social
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🚨My recent co-authored article on the EU's "puzzling" and "contradictory" integration promotion strategy in the MENA region is now published in @gpejournal.bsky.social

Below is a brief thread summarising its main arguments.

The people’s budget? How business interests and fiscal constraints shaped the economic policies of the Italian populist government

with @bigmacca.bsky.social for @gpejournal.bsky.social we analyze the negotiations around Italy's 2019 budgetary plan
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