Jeremy Brice

Please see the workshop link above for further details of the rationale of the workshop and instructions for preparing and submitting your EoI. Feel free to reach out to Ben, Aarti or I if you have any questions — and please help us spread the word by sharing the call within your networks!

Participation in this event is free and a small quantity of travel funding to support attendance will be available, courtesy of UoM's Sustainable Consumption Institute (with priority given to early career researchers, scholars from the Global South, and underrepresented groups).

I, Aarti Krishnan and Ben Eyre are currently inviting expressions of interest to participate in the workshop. If you're interested in joining then please send a short (1-2-page) EoI and a CV to jeremy.brice@manchester.ac.uk, aarti.krishnan-2@manchester.ac.uk and Ben.Eyre@uea.ac.uk by 2nd July 2025.

Workshop on Sustainable Investment and the Politics of Materiality We invite expressions of interest (EoIs) in participating in a workshop on ‘Sustainable Investment and the politics of materiality’, which will be held in Manchester on 16 and 17 September 2025, with ...

The workshop aims to develop new networks of researchers interested in the emerging politics of sustainable investment and to explore questions and opportunities for future research related to this theme. See here for further details of the call and rationale: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/w...

📢Workshop – Sustainable Investment & the Politics of Materiality, University of Manchester, 16-17 September 2025 📢
I'm co-organising an event at UoM exploring how relationships between politics, finance & sustainability are changing as sustainable investment becomes a focus of political controversy.

So, I'm really proud of all my collaborators and particularly thrilled to see this piece out in the world. Special thanks to Adam for holding the team together under difficult circumstances as PI!

Incidentally, this piece is the result of a long-running @britishacademy.bsky.social-funded collaboration (which started back in 2020!). I've enjoyed every minute of working with this team but it's been a long, complicated road from idea to publication - especially during the pandemic.

Beyond Breakdown: Enacting Infrastructural Life with Augustin Daly’s Under the Gaslight Alternation between mundane invisibility and spectacular foregrounding is a critical touchstone of infrastructural aesthetics. Infrastructure failures, which often mediate between these states, the...

New Publication: Jo Hofer-Robinson, @nicolakirkby.bsky.social, Adam O'Brien & I ask how engaging with narrative fiction – and following characters’ encounters with infrastructures – might help scholars to navigate infrastructural (in)visibility. Available OA at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....