Chris Hesketh

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...

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”

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

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

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

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....

Looks great Nick. What is the collection?

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"

Meanwhile

The Spectator is condoning the bombing of Brighton and Glastonbury

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

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...

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

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

What about ‘totalisation’?

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

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?

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

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...

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

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...

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 👇🏽

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

@annajurkevics.bsky.social, Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds - Oxford University Press, April 2025
academic.oup.com/book/59797

Sign the Petition End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University.

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

chng.it/BXNkGMFNJS

Congratulations Felix! A great article

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

🚨 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):

academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

The Political Economy of Turkey’s Integration with Europe: Uneven Development and Hegemony - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) In my recently published book, Political Economy of Turkey’s Integration with Europe: Uneven Development and Hegemony, rather than highlight the form of integration, I address the socio-economic conte...

Great overview from @elifuzgoren.bsky.social on her new book *Political Economy of Turkey’s Integration with Europe, Uneven Development and Hegemony* with @manchesterup.bsky.social - the latest in the @ppesydney.bsky.social Book Series!
@abieler.bsky.social

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.

University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

Student choice at risk as almost half of universities cut courses Institutions expect to consider more subject closures as financial problems spiral, finds UUK survey

Almost half of UK universities surveyed have shut down courses in response to growing financial pressures, new research shows. @helenpacker.bsky.social reports

#AcademicSky #EduSky

Andor: Trump, Global Repression, and the Political Economy of Fascism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Season two of the acclaimed Star Wars series Andor has begun. The first season of the franchise came amid backlash, critique, and frustration against Disney’s general handling of the galaxy’s most sou...

What is the political economy of fascism and the labour process in *Andor*? @therealelliotde.bsky.social delivers the insights!
@chrishesketh.bsky.social

And great student slides engaging with the work of @chrishesketh.bsky.social

Great to take part in our annual MA fieldtrip to Brussels with our International Relations students from @sussex.ac.uk - highlights included visits to NATO HQ, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the External Action Services

Great and informative visit to NATO today with @sussex.ac.uk International Relations MA students today during our Brussels field trip.

The Contemporary Indigeneity in the Americas series brings together high-quality papers that explore socialism and indigeneity in the Americas. Read the first paper in this series in Radical Americas: What’s at stake in the plurinational state debate? bit.ly/44MZv4e

The article explores the radical possibility of the concept, the way it has become ‘statised’ (what I term ‘actually-existing plurinationalism’) and puts claims for plurinationalism into wider debate with Marxist and Indigenous state theoretical debates

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

When is the SI coming out? Will be interested to read