Vincent Guermond
@vincentguermond.bsky.social
Lecturer/geographer Write about finance and debt, climate adaptation, social reproduction, and migration. Teach on platform/'green' capitalism. 🇵🇸
New article out with Rachel Phillips in @ripejournal.bsky.social: 'Financing the Border', Part of a special issue on Raced Finance guest edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @vincentguermond.bsky.social and me www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Financing the border: racial capitalism, migration, and the practices of the Canadian state
Canada is often recognised as one of the most progressive nations in the world when it comes to the acceptance of refugees and multiculturalism as national policy. However, the longer history of bo...
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Really good itw of Zarah Sultana. "What I want – and I struggle to see how a successful left party could be set up in any other way – is a campaigning, social-movement orientation combined with a robust parliamentary presence." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Zarah Sultana, The Alternative — Sidecar
On Britain’s new left party—3.
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David Lammy, you can't hide! Hundreds of people currently heading to his constituency office to call his complicity in genocide out!
Very excited to give this talk in Sydney in early August, presenting new research (conducted with @vincentguermond.bsky.social and @alibhagat.bsky.social) on race and finance.
Adam David Morton@morton.bsky.social · last yr.Returning to the University of Sydney in August is @iliasalami.bsky.social speaking on 'Towards an International Political Economy of Raced Finance' - details below!! 👇 @ppesydney.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social
An excellent piece by Sofia Negri in the @clasp-qmul.bsky.social blog on platform workers' search for autonomy. www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ac...
Freedom as Autonomy: platform workers’ struggles and the future of work in Argentina — CLaSP Blog
Sofia Negri asks how we can build a future of work that transforms the salaried relationship to reconcile autonomy with social protection.
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TOMORROW in-person @qmul.ac.uk 2.30pm - @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social hosts an event on the Multiple Crises of Higher Education, exploring the various financial, governance, accountability crises rocking the sector. A few tickets left. Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...
Select tickets – The Multiple Crises of Higher Education – Queen Mary University of London, iQ East (Scape) 0.14
Join us for an event on the multiple crises that are currently affecting UK Higher Education, emerging from efforts to reorgani...
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A very powerful book on love and how we all somehow fail at it. It's a deeply political and personal critique of what it means to love (and be loved) in our patriarchal, transphobic and consumerist society.
A brilliant short episode on the Paris Commune and why Marx thought it was so important for a future communist society. open.spotify.com/episode/0syU...
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Marx and the Paris Commune
Past Present Future · Episode
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“In international relations, trade, security and markets, the themes are the same: the rest of the world is seeking to diversify, decarbonize, defend, and dedollarize.” NEW by @katemac.bsky.social + @70sbachchan.bsky.social on the month since Liberation Day www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr...
April is the Cruelest Month | The Polycrisis
Diversification and dedollarization in the world economy
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It is tomorrow - come along if you're in London! www.claspblog.org/events/spect...
‘The Spectre of State Capitalism’ — CLaSP Blog
The Spectre of State Capitalism
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Ilias Alami@iliasalami.bsky.social · last yr.In case that's of interest, giving a talk tomorrow at Queen Mary, organised by the Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production www.qmul.ac.uk/events/upcom...
mine and Alex's second book, 'Fascism and the Women's Cause' is out TODAY, published by @ebb.bsky.social please buy it, read it, share it, order it from your local library. and please help us to spread the word about it as we're too exhausted to do it ourselves lol.
📣 28-29 May at QMUL @clasp-qmul.bsky.social End of Year Event on 'The Materialities of AI', feat. @katecrawford.bsky.social @anavaldi.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Join us on Thursday 1st May for a talk by @iliasalami.bsky.social on 'The Spectre of State Capitalism'. More info here: www.claspblog.org/events/spect... @clasp-qmul.bsky.social
‘The Spectre of State Capitalism’ — CLaSP Blog
The Spectre of State Capitalism
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📣📣New on the CLaSP blog How US tariffs will impact poorer countries such as Cambodia, Bangladesh and Lesotho. www.claspblog.org/blogposts/at...
Attacking the world's poor: The effects of US tariffs on least developed economies — CLaSP Blog
How will US tariffs affect the least developed countries? Daniel Gay considers possible impacts, highlighting how they might inflict greater pain on already struggling populations.
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🚨Event alert: "Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier", May 28-29 @qmul.ac.uk. Info + registration here: www.claspblog.org/events/mater...
Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier — CLaSP Blog
Public debate on artificial intelligence is marked by hopes and fears around the possibility of artificially generated human-like intelligence, extraordinary economic growth prospects, mass technologi...
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CLaSP@clasp-qmul.bsky.social · last yr.We have a keynote by @katecrawford.bsky.social, panels with @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social and Ana Valdivia, and workshops with @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social. Head over to this link to register: buytickets.at/centreonlabo... We look forward to participating with you!
New on the CLaSP blog: 'Race, Profit, and Algorithms', @wonyoungso.bsky.social details his research on iBuyers, a new class of real estate actors generating profits in racialized housing markets www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ra...
Race, Profit, and Algorithms: How iBuyers Leverage Neighbourhood Inequality — CLaSP Blog
How do algorithm-driven business models interact with historical patterns of segregation, property devaluation, and racial capitalism? Wonyoung So addresses this question in new research into iBuyers—...
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wonderful piece by Melinda Cooper www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Trump’s Antisocial State - Dissent Magazine
The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.
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That was such a great conversation! Episode 1 is out
Daniel Denvir@danieldenvir.bsky.social · last yr.New Dig! First in two-part series w @iliasalami.bsky.social & @70sbachchan.bsky.social: analysis of entire (poly)crisis-ridden world capitalism system, Trump’s militarism and tariff wars, the new Cold War with China, Europe after the liberal international order… www.thedigradio.com/podcast/glob...
Wooww - that is such a fantastic episode on Stuart Hall's marxism and method to investigate historically specific and antagonistic social relations that produce capitalist social formations. Amazing work by @thedigradio.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/5ODA...
Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning
The Dig · Episode
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Just seeing the RCT 'scandal' brewing among econs again. This is not a question about some bad apples or some instances of malpractice. The RCT industry has been completely distorted from its inception in Econ and this is closely tied to the incentive structure of the discipline.
If, like me, you're really into bouldering, this short film is absolutely incredible. The breakdown of the crux (ie the most difficult move of a climb) between 2:30 and 5:00 is pure poetry. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EzhK...
The North Face Presents: Nathaniel Coleman - "No One Mourns the Wicked" V17/9A - First Ascent
YouTube video by mellow
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Interesting piece on the socialisation of nature (versus legalising or moralising nature) as a way to resolve the ecological and climate crisis. www.break-down.org/post/sociali...
Socialising Nature
How we can live together without exploiting each other? This is the work of socialising nature.
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"(...) we are witnessing something new: the convergence of three strains of politics that have never simultaneously been this proximate to power. 1/2 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Speed Up the Breakdown | Quinn Slobodian
For the last month, the US opinion-making class has stared agog as Elon Musk and his minions have stormed the engine room of the federal government. Young
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This piece by Prabhat Patnaik from 2021 is great: "But even if neofascism loses in the short term, it will remain a strong contender for returning to power so long as successor govs revert to neoliberal business as usual." www.bostonreview.net/articles/why...
Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists - Boston Review
We’re witnessing the last-ditch effort of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis.
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This is an excellent paper, must read for people interested in the shortcomings of private finance for development/climate. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Insufficient pipelines of ‘investment-ready’ projects are widely seen as a key impediment to unlocking private capital for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), prompting various interventions ai...
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