Don't forget to join our workshop this Thursday! ⬇️

Detaching ‘neoliberalism’ from ‘free markets’: monopolistic corporations as neoliberalism’s ideal market form The article contributes to the emerging literature on neoliberalism that explicitly rejects the long-held assumption that it is fundamentally about the valorisation of free markets. This scholarshi...

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New workshop: Detaching ‘neoliberalism’ from ‘free markets’. Monopolistic corporations as neoliberalism’s ideal market form

When: 26 March, 6pm CET

Where: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

With Author @ianbruff.bsky.social and discussants @apiletic.bsky.social and Matthew Watson

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Important for critical political economy to tackle theoretical blindspots of past critical European integration research @corporateeurope.org @tninstitute.bsky.social @cpern.bsky.social Patriarchal and racist forms of oppression have been key to neo-liberal restructuring in Europe!

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New online workshop: Towards a radical highway geography - Berlin and the remaking of city logistics in global capitalism

When: 26 February, 6pm CEST

Where: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

With author @soederberg1.bsky.social and discussants Darragh Golden and Laura Stegemann

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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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Remember to submit your abstracts for our track (RN06) at the European Sociological Conference! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Deadline this Friday!

New CPERN online workshop: Finance and the Far Right (29 Jan)

Join us to discuss how asset-manager capitalism has shaped financial-nationalist politics

With author @ingarade.bsky.social and discussants Owen Worth and @alentop.bsky.social

On zoom: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

See you there!

The CfP for the European Sociological Association conference (25-28 August in Warsaw) is available: bit.ly/48E3ylb

Our stream (RN06) focuses on 'Solidarity, action, revolution? Questioning systemic unsustainability'

Submit your abstracts by 30 January: www.conftool.com/esa2026

See you in Warsaw!

Remember to join our online workshop this Thursday!

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Reminder: Join us on 27 November to discuss 'Coloniality dressed in green'!

With author @stefanzylinski.bsky.social who will explain how climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule

With discussants Johannes Jaeger and Ewa Dziwok

Register here: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Happy to have been part of this collective endeavour to understand what's happening in the EU's political economy - check out our chapter: "A lasting legacy? A critical political economy perspective on
Berlusconism and its afterlives"

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New CPERN online workshop: Coloniality dressed in green

Join us on 27 November to discuss how climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule

With author @stefanzylinski.bsky.social and discussants Johannes Jaeger and Ewa Dziwok

Register on zoom: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Happening this Thursday! Join us to discuss the relation between capitalism and the global water crisis 🌊

Thirst Two billion people worldwide are without access to safe water. But solutions are hard to come by when causes are not clearly defined. In a whirlwind tour of global water insecurity, one of the world’s...

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We have a new online workshop coming!

Join us on 30 October to discuss the book 'Thirst: the global quest to solve the water crisis'

With author @filippomenga.bsky.social and discussants @gemmagasseau.bsky.social and Alexander Dunlap

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Remember to join us tomorrow to discuss Sarah Uhlmann's excellent work on 'Urban social movements as extended class actors'! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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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...
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What's changing and what's not in European Economic Governance in the current conjuncture? With @bigmacca.bsky.social we address the question in this short piece just published journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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#CPERN Mid-term Workshop @University of Helsinki

Glad to be part of a community where politics and knowledge are openly claimed as inseparable and where the myth of neutrality is exposed for what it is: a convenient alibi for the machinery of power.

#research #CriticalPoliticalEconomy #PRESILIENT

Our Midterm Workshop 'Critical Political Economy at the Time of Monsters' has come to a close

Many thanks to all our amazing participants for the great time together!

And a special thanks to @teivo.bsky.social and Silke Trommer for welcoming us in beautiful Helsinki!

See you all again next year!

Thrilled to have presented my paper "Interregnum, Polycrisis, and Liquid Modernity" at the Critical Political Conference in Helsinki! Helsinki was absolutely stunning – a blend of Nordic serenity, and the magical late-summer light reflecting off the Baltic Sea. The perfect atmosphere for deep critical dialogue! The conference brought together truly inspiring scholars whose insights on global instability were both humbling and energizing. Discussing crises of democracy, ecology, and capitalism with such brilliant minds reaffirmed why spaces like CPC are vital. My paper wove together three pivotal concepts: 1️⃣ Interregnum (Gramsci): Our "time between orders," where old systems collapse but new ones haven’t crystallized. 2️⃣ Polycrisis (Morin, Edgar & Tooze, Adam): Overlapping crises (climate, inequality, pandemics, war) amplifying each other. It’s not just multiple problems; it’s systemic entanglement. 3️⃣ Liquid Modernity (Bauman, Zygmunt): Our social structures, identities, and power are fluid, unstable, and elusive. Grateful to the organizers, fellow presenters, and engaged attendees for fierce yet generous debates. Onward! ✊ Thank you Prof. Teivo Teivainen for showing us the city & finnish history! Thank you Yuliya Yurchenko Silke Trommer Bernd Bonfert Madalaine Moore for organzing this great event! #CriticalTheory #PoliticalScience #ZygmuntBauman #Interregnum #Polycrisis #LiquidModernity #Helsinki #AcademicTwitter #Conference #PoliticalPhilosophy

Thrilled to have presented my paper "Interregnum, Polycrisis, and Liquid Modernity" at the Critical Political Conference in Helsinki! Helsinki was absolutely stunning – a blend of Nordic serenity, and the magical late-summer light reflecting off the Baltic Sea. The perfect atmosphere for deep critical dialogue! The conference brought together truly inspiring scholars whose insights on global instability were both humbling and energizing. Discussing crises of democracy, ecology, and capitalism with such brilliant minds reaffirmed why spaces like CPC are vital. My paper wove together three pivotal concepts: 1️⃣ Interregnum (Gramsci): Our "time between orders," where old systems collapse but new ones haven’t crystallized. 2️⃣ Polycrisis (Morin, Edgar & Tooze, Adam): Overlapping crises (climate, inequality, pandemics, war) amplifying each other. It’s not just multiple problems; it’s systemic entanglement. 3️⃣ Liquid Modernity (Bauman, Zygmunt): Our social structures, identities, and power are fluid, unstable, and elusive. Grateful to the organizers, fellow presenters, and engaged attendees for fierce yet generous debates. Onward! ✊ Thank you Prof. Teivo Teivainen for showing us the city & finnish history! Thank you Yuliya Yurchenko Silke Trommer Bernd Bonfert Madalaine Moore for organzing this great event! #CriticalTheory #PoliticalScience #ZygmuntBauman #Interregnum #Polycrisis #LiquidModernity #Helsinki #AcademicTwitter #Conference #PoliticalPhilosophy

Thrilled to have presented my paper "Interregnum, #Polycrisis, and Liquid Modernity" at the Critical Political Conference in Helsinki!

#Helsinki was absolutely stunning, a blend of Nordic serenity, and the magical late-summer light reflecting off the Baltic Sea. The perfect atmosphere for dialoge

The Left and Digital Politics: Political Parties from Platform Neoliberalism to Platform Socialism Digital platforms are more than devices, algorithms and websites. They organise societies through the leadership of platform capitalists and their allies in political institutions. We know that this l...

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Join or online workshop tomorrow (26 June, 6pm CEST) about Marco Guglielmo's new book 'The Left and Digital Politics'!

With discussants Bradley Ward, Maria Francesca De Tullio and
@gameoftech.bsky.social

Register here: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Join us on 26 June!

The Left and Digital Politics: Political Parties from Platform Neoliberalism to Platform Socialism Digital platforms are more than devices, algorithms and websites. They organise societies through the leadership of platform capitalists and their allies in political institutions. We know that this l...

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