Dr Remi Edwards

💭 On New Thinking: Podcasting, praxis and pedagogy in political economy 💭

I reflect on what I've learned about podcasting as a medium for enhancing scholarly praxis and pedagogy in political economy, as after 8 years I finally say goodbye to SPERI.

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I spoke to Ben Selwyn about the class relations of value chains, and the role of superpowers in their rise and maintenance

A great teaching resource for anyone teaching GVCs!

You wouldn't know from the editing but a few laughs were had in the making of this podcast

India’s farming sector is facing deep crisis. Falling productivity, debt and mass protests have drawn global attention.

Dr Shreya Sinha joins Dr Remi Edwards to discuss who gains, who loses and how women are affected most.

Listen here: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/how-d...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement

“I hope, as a result of our report, that the minds of states will also be opened” says Navi Pillay, the head of the commission of inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory and a former international criminal court judge
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I spoke to Natalie about her expertly crafted new paper on unstable production, the impact on workers and the structural and contextual challenges in protecting those expelled from capitalist social relations

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Live: Is organised violence central to capitalism? @ BISA 2025 SPERI Presents... · Episode

@sperishefuni.bsky.social Presents:

Live: Is organised violence central to capitalism? @ BISA2025 w/ Joanna Tidy, Elena Simon, Vick Reif-Breitwieser Beryl Pong @frankmaracchione.bsky.social & @remiedwards.bsky.social 🎉

Recorded @ipegbisa.bsky.social roundtable #BISA2025 🌟

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My technoanxiety did not get the better of me and we pulled off a live recorded roundtable at @mybisa.bsky.social in Belfast

To hear about the production and labour behind the means of violence, defence spending, corporate harm, everyday resistance to violence etc etc- listen here shorturl.at/GF3re

Shreya's work brilliantly sheds light on the interactions between gender, class, caste, ecology and crisis in shaping women's experience of agricultural labour in Punjab

I'm a big fan of Shreya's work so I was excited to discuss this with her on New Thinking - link below

I wrote a piece for Jacobin about the misuse of antisemitism scholarship for authoritarian projects and the role German antisemitism scholarship plays in the dehumanisation of Palestinians and the justification of the genocide in Gaza.

New Thinking: Queer Activism in Ghana w/ Ellie Gore SPERI Presents... · Episode

🎙️ I also discussed the book with Ellie and Natalie Langford on my podcast last year: shorturl.at/MGN3t

I argue the work "is a powerful and arresting account of the everyday contours of queer struggle under the neoliberal development paradigm" - I HIGHLY recommend it to those interested in queer studies, social reproduction, development and agency/resistance in the global economy

Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

📚 I reviewed Ellie Gore's book Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana for Journal of Development Studies - available now!

Eprint: shorturl.at/bZeCq

students: capitalism is the problem!!!

me: what about these actually existing examples of struggles to challenge capitalist social relations, are they a good idea?

students: how unrealistic

US banana giant Chiquita fires thousands over Panama strike President Jose Raul Mulino, whose changes to social security laws prompted the protest, called the strike ‘illegal’.

Banana producer Chiquita has announced mass layoffs in Panama amid an ongoing strike.

The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday it was letting “all” daily labourers go for the “unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations”.

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Thanks to @remiedwards.bsky.social for the invite to the @sperishefuni.bsky.social podcast New Thinking in their SPERI presents series

This time on cities and technocapitalist power ...

An interesting chat with Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi

Loads of other great eps too - inc a series on "crisis"

New episode!

We're back with a new episode of New Thinking, exploring the the power of big pharma and its implications for vaccine distribution and the governance of global health

Though I'm not pictured bc I took the photo, it was an honour to be involved in this!

Crisis Point: A Theory Of Crisis w/ Dillon Wamsley & Chris Saltmarsh SPERI Presents... · Episode

🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️

In the final episode of Crisis Point, Dillon and Chris review the series and propose a theory of crisis in capitalism

In the post-2008 era, crises of accumulation and legitimation entangle and intensify absent a popular social force able to break the deadlock

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Rising prices have dominated social and political life in recent years. High inflation has been called the cost-of-living crisis, but does this constitute a crisis of capitalism or the system working as normal?

Martijn Konings discusses with Chris and Dillon

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This series take a deep dive in the histories and contemporary forms of crisis within capitalism - episode 1-8 are available now on Spotify, Apple, Acast and other podcast platforms.

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Crisis Point

In episode 2, Chris and Dillon interview Gareth Dale about how the ideas of Karl Polanyi can help understand the Great Depression in the 1930s

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CRISIS POINT

In the first episode, co-hosts Chris and Dillon discuss crisis as a core feature of capitalism, the role crisis plays in capitalism’s history, and whether polycrisis is the right way to understand politics today

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SPERI impact: Remi Edwards presents research at Fruit Logistica 2025 Remi presented her research on workers' experience of ethical certification schemes in the banana industry to industry stakeholders in Berlin.

Our Research & Impact Associate @remiedwards.bsky.social presented her research to industry stakeholders at Fruit Logistica 2025

She argued that certification programmes in the banana industry fail to incorporate workers and protect them from abuse, along with recommendations

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Experts discuss how queer men in Ghana navigate HIV, rights and the ties between politics and change.

Listen here: bit.ly/41nbrHP

If you work in UK Higher Education and aren't already in a trade union, now is the time to join!

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This hit hard today
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University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?

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