Are you presenting a paper at the CPERN stream at #ESAWarsaw2026? Then you'll be interested in Global Political Economy. We’re a cross-disciplinarity, spanning international relations, sociology, feminism, PoliSci, Econ and more! Learn more here bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

We’re at #ESAWarsaw2026! Our Co-Editor in Chief @djbailey231.bsky.social is at ESA & would be happy to discuss submissions. Or you can stop by the @brisunipress.bsky.social stand to learn more about Global Political Economy Learn more about GPE here bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gpe

New blog from our author Owen Worth (@politics-ul.bsky.social) on the politics of farce #PoliSci

Bristol University Press@brisunipress.bsky.social · 6d ago

"The era of #SocialMedia, #PostTruth and the culture wars have all contributed to a form of performance politics, where #Politics is played out through a lens of empty #Populism" https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2026/08/20/world-order-in-crisis-the-rise-of-the-politics-of-farce/

A new article with @johnniekallas.bsky.social has been published open access in @gpejournal.bsky.social We create an 'event catalogue' of the extensive protest activities that took place earlier this year in Minnesota and the wider US in response to ICE's Operation Metro Surge. tinyurl.com/4bx45873

Documenting the repertoire of contentious performances in Minnesota and the wider US in response to ICE’s ‘Operation Metro Surge’

This article outlines and critically analyses the repertoires of contentious performance used by activists in Minnesota and beyond following a surge in federal immigration enforcement in the United St...

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Timely new article by Owen Worth in @gpejournal.bsky.social characterising the unravelling of the neoliberal order as an era of farce bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

"...the world being reduced to abstract and quantifiable calculations of individual gain. AI is simply the next stage, and logical corollary of, the commodification of everything. It reduces the qualitative richness of the world" 🔥👇 doi.org/10.1332/2635...

How to be ‘anti-AI’ in the 21st century: overcoming the inevitability narrative

The general consensus appears to be that AI has the potential to provide solutions to most of society’s major problems, but not without introducing its own downsides, which need to be addressed in ord...

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My co-panellists on this BUP webinar will be Masoumeh Iran Mansouri ('How to be ‘anti-AI’ in the 21st century' bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...) and Patrick Brodie ('From the Bog to the Cloud - Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland') bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/from-the-bog...

✨ Discover the latest selection of articles handpicked by the editors for the Editors' Choice Collection. All papers are free to read until 31 August! ⏳ bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Edit...

New research from the Tilburg philosophy department: @timchristiaens.bsky.social on platform work, micro-entrepreneurship, and postcolonialism.

Tim Christiaens@timchristiaens.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My paper on platform worker subjectivity in Global Political Economy now has an official issue. I start from the paradox that platform workers are identified as micro-entrepreneurs yet constantly make choices that are against their own interests.1/3 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

My paper on platform worker subjectivity in Global Political Economy now has an official issue. I start from the paradox that platform workers are identified as micro-entrepreneurs yet constantly make choices that are against their own interests.1/3 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

The Commentary Roundtable on The Global Politics of Precarity and Insecure Work, edited by @stellamorgana.bsky.social and I, now has a permanent home in the latest issue of @gpejournal.bsky.social (Volume 5, Issue 1). Read more here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

James Hickson@jmchickson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Building on our workshop last year on The Global Politics of Precarity and Insecure Work, @stellamorgana.bsky.social and I are delighted to share a collection of 6 original commentary articles on this theme in @gpejournal.bsky.social Read the full introduction here: doi.org/10.1332/2635...

⭐Enjoy free access to our journal Editors’ highlights from recent issues. Access these articles for free until 30 April. Congrats to all featured authors! @gemmagasseau.bsky.social @jmchickson.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Edit...

In the latest issue of Consumption and Society we take stock of the journal's development (Impact Factor 3 and rising...) and introduce a Themed Section on 'Transformations in East Asian food consumption’ edited by I-liang Wahn bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

On the 22nd of January (incidentally, the date of Gramsci's birthday) my article came out in @gpejournal.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

I'm happy to have joined the editorial board of @gpejournal.bsky.social as an associate editor! I'm looking forward to working with great people on exciting research. If you have ideas for articles, commentaries, or debate pieces, get in touch! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

📢 My new journal article is out today in Global Political Economy in a great collection edited by @jmchickson.bsky.social and @stellamorgana.bsky.social. I explore job insecurity across England’s mayoral combined authorities — and what this means for regional inequality and economic growth. A🧵...

Very pleased to see our article (with Yujing Tan & Shivant Jhagroe) on the GPE of Labour & platform capitalism, drawing on our study of migrant gig workers in multinational food delivery platforms in the Netherlands published with @gpejournal.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1332/2635...

Building on our workshop last year on The Global Politics of Precarity and Insecure Work, @stellamorgana.bsky.social and I are delighted to share a collection of 6 original commentary articles on this theme in @gpejournal.bsky.social Read the full introduction here: doi.org/10.1332/2635...

This article examines the role of gender and patriarchy in shaping collective power and protest among male migrant construction workers in China doi.org/10.1332/2635... #SocSky #LaborProtests #patriarchy

How did COVID-19-era fiscal policy reproduce the hierarchies between production and social reproduction? Read this new article with open access doi.org/10.1332/2635... #PoliticalEconomy #IPE #socialReproduction

"The degree to which AI is able to harm our society and environment will depend on how best we can organise in opposition to those harms." New blog from @djbailey231.bsky.social and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri on why we need to #ResistAI

Bristol University Press@brisunipress.bsky.social · last yr.

@djbailey231.bsky.social and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri argue that while #AI’s rapid rise offers immense promise, its grave risks may outpace weak safeguards like the EU’s AI Act unless met with far stronger resistance: buff.ly/nVBFBQj

🏖️Looking for some summer reading? Access our recent global political economy highlights for free ❤️‍🔥 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Edit... PoliSky #GPE #IPE

Good thread on the longer historical trajectory that explains the more recent revolution of values (and current counter-revolution) I tried to document here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Jack Graham@timescarcass.bsky.social · last yr.

This is simplistic but I'mma put it out here anyway... the socialist revolutions of the late 19th / early 20th centuries started a radical process of political, social, cultural progress even within bourgeois society.

Anti-AI - nice to see this new piece - How we might be Anti-AI, co-authored with Iran Mansouri just out in @gpejournal.bsky.social Trying to think different ways to imagine alternatives to a life reduced to objects of capitalist quantification bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Is #AI adoption really inevitable? Masoumeh Iran Mansouri & David J. Bailey challenge this narrative and set out five ways to be ‘anti-AI’. doi.org/10.1332/2635... #AIresistance

How to be ‘anti-AI’ in the 21st century: overcoming the inevitability narrative

The general consensus appears to be that AI has the potential to provide solutions to most of society’s major problems, but not without introducing its own downsides, which need to be addressed in ord...

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Our co-editor-in-chief @monicaclua.bsky.social is delivering the keynote lecture of the Economists without borders conference in Madrid this evening 👇

Economistas sin Fronteras@economiajusta.bsky.social · last yr.

¡Este fin de semana son las jornadas #OtraEconomíaEstáEnMarcha! Si quieres venir a reflexionar colectivamente sobre cómo impulsar las transformaciones que necesitamos para transitar hacia una economía justa, ¡aún puedes apuntarte! ecosfron.org/otra-economi...

New issue out now! Digital Fragmentations, Technological Sovereignty and New Perspectives on the Global Digital Political Economy Guest Edited by @maximilianiras.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

🚨My recent co-authored article on the EU's "puzzling" and "contradictory" integration promotion strategy in the MENA region is now published in @gpejournal.bsky.social Below is a brief thread summarising its main arguments.

The people’s budget? How business interests and fiscal constraints shaped the economic policies of the Italian populist government with @bigmacca.bsky.social for @gpejournal.bsky.social we analyze the negotiations around Italy's 2019 budgetary plan bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...