Chris Hesketh
@chrishesketh.bsky.social
Academic @IRSussex | Author 'Spaces of Capital/Spaces of Resistance: Mexico and the Global Political Economy | Historical Materialism | Mexico | Bolivia | Indigenous resistance
Inside Britain’s university crisis open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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Superb to receive confirmation that this co-authored article with @chrishesketh.bsky.social has now been accepted for publication in Progress in Human Geography #totality Thanks to all those who gave feedback as well as the peer reviewers and editors. @proghumgeog.bsky.social
Pleased to share my new article published in the journal British Politics on the consequences of the UK's #trade policy for democracy since #Brexit. link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Special thanks to @michaellister.bsky.social and @chrishesketh.bsky.social for convincing me to persevere with this!
Taking back control? Democracy and UK trade policy after Brexit - British Politics
During the Brexit referendum the Leave campaign claimed that the UK would be able to regain its sovereignty and ‘take back control’. Trade policy became a particular focus of the Conservative Governme...
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Germany – The Genocidal State, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/07/germ... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
Germany – The Genocidal State!
In an online seminar on 5 March 2026, the Palestinian academic Abdaljawad Omar reflected on several universal insights, which have come to ...
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Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/07/divi... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’
The global labour movement has been divided over ‘free trade’. Many unions in the Global North, especially in export-oriented sectors, suppo...
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Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/05/crit... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis
Over the last two decades, the European Union (EU) has faced a series of intertwined crises, including the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 a...
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Having read all volumes of Capital and Grundrisse together, now it’s time for the highest of the ‘luminous summits’
Adam David Morton@morton.bsky.social · 3mo agoRevving up for this next text as part of the collective intellectual labour that is the Past & Present Reading Group . . .
Social and Environmental Upgrading through Global Value Chains? A review of the book by Selwyn and Bernhold, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/04/soci... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
Social and Environmental Upgrading through Global Value Chains? A review of the book by Selwyn and Bernhold.
In Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics (Oxford University Press, 2025), Benjamin Selwyn and Chri...
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Un “pincelazo” de Maurice Dobb para entender la economía mixta y el capitalismo de Estado con @davidaviles.bsky.social en @economyandspace.bsky.social sobre Mexico y Chile @iliasalami.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @llchristyll.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
Invernadero para el Desarrollo: Reordenando la Economía Mixta y el Capitalismo de Estado - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
¿Qué tienen de malo los enfoques de "economía mixta" y "capitalismo de Estado" para comprender la era del desarrollo estabilizador en América Latina?
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New article out: What's the point of conjunctural analysis? doi.org/10.1177/2754...
What's the point of conjunctural analysis? - Matthew Thompson, 2026
With conjunctural approaches to urban research fast proliferating, along with the compounding crises they seek to study, now's the time to ask: what's...
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The absolute state of those people cry-wanking over whether Churchill is on a banknote
Disgusting factionalism by the Green Party in Gorton and Denton by…’checks notes’ ….actually appealing to the electorate
Essential reading on how to conceptualise the current state of the world from a historical materialist perspective
Dissecting the Polycrisis, Charting the Conceptual Terrain of Enquiry, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/02/diss... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social @jokubassalyga.bsky.social
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
What are the specificities of past and present forms of market and violence in Heide Gerstenberger’s *Market and Violence*? @alexcallinicos.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @drmeljohnston.bsky.social
Heide Gerstenberger, Market and Violence - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
From the shores of present-day Namibia via Heide Gerstenberger, Slavoj Žižek and Byung-Chul Han, what can a real picture postcard reveal about the specificity of past and present forms of market and v...
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Drawing on his recent @risjnl.bsky.social article, Oliver Dodd explains why framing Colombia’s civil war as a narco problem fundamentally misunderstands how and why the conflict escalated @abieler.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
Narco-Myths and Neoliberal War: Why Colombia’s Conflict Escalated - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Rather than a deviation from capitalist modernisation, how has political violence in Colombia been a constitutive outcome of a project of "passive revolution" through which capitalist modernisation wa...
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a man in a sweater says sack lynn for being unloyal diloyal
ALT: a man in a sweater says sack lynn for being unloyal diloyal
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Henry Zeffman@hzeffman.bsky.social · 7mo agoBREAKING Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership. She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform
People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
There are plenty of conspiracy theories going round regarding why the US has taken the actions it has in Venezuela. In my view the explanation is rather more simple and has much more to do with the politics of Latin America itself.
Trump gives the country an economics lesson on tariffs. The textbook story comes through loud and clear deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trump-give...
Trump Gives the Country an Economics Lesson on Tariffs
The textbook story comes through loud and clear
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Your Party continue to be more satirical than the People’s Front of Judea
All the blog posts on @bolshierowbot.bsky.social book forum *Cultivating Socialism* - a diverse set of engagements and a wonderful rejoinder from Rowan Lubbock himself www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...
Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
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'Real household disposable income is going to grow about 0.4% annually this parliament. That is the second worst growth in living standards we've had since the late 1970s.' @ckfarquharson.bsky.social discusses living standards in our #Budget2025 podcast. 🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
Out now! New edited book “New Directions in Vernacular Security” with Palgrave. Great working with @leejarvis.bsky.social & @akinoyawale.bsky.social to bring it together. Great contributions-from Rohingya refugee camps, to military self help books & more in between link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
New Directions in Vernacular Security Research
This book provides a fresh perspective on vernacular security, featuring diverse case studies and unique sources to enrich your understanding.
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Great to be able to use @alkejenss.bsky.social fantastic book ‘Selective Security in the War on Drugs’ for MA teaching yesterday - sparked some important ongoing debates
Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social
Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?
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I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'
Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · 10mo agoShadow DEFRA SoS, Victoria Atkins MP, bemoans those trying to score points off Jenrick's "private" remarks: "These are conversation we must have thoughtfully away from the clickbait of social media that, sadly, is so often the case." And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA
So excited to share this symposium on my book, Cultivating Socialism, at the @ppesydney.bsky.social . Check out our first two posts from @chrishesketh.bsky.social and Kyla Sankey. More to come each Tuesday! www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...
Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
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First post in a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book *Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty*, with the engagement started by @chrishesketh.bsky.social -- more to follow in subsequent weeks!!
The State of the Revolution - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
First post of a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book Cultivating Socialism, which focuses on how peasants, workers, and states attempted to redress the inequities of commercial agriculture across the Lat...
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