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CLaSP@clasp-qmul.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 New on the CLaSP blog by Gerald Hanlon 📣 Gerard Hanlon analyses how the military is a central shaping force of both the contemporary and historical capitalist division of labour. www.claspblog.org/blogposts/mi...

Today I tried to pay for the bus with my house keys. Who else is looking forward to a vacation?

📣 New on the CLaSP blog by @ggouzoulis.bsky.social 📣 Giorgos critically explores the fraught logic and impact of financial literacy programmes. www.claspblog.org/blogposts/fi...

The gospel of financial literacy — CLaSP Blog

Giorgos Gouzoulis critically explores the fraught logic and impact of financial literacy programmes.

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📣 New on the CLaSP blog 📣 Will Monteith (@willmonteith.bsky.social) examines the colonial origins of the green hydrogen frontier. www.claspblog.org/blogposts/green-hydrogen

Counter-mapping the green hydrogen rush in Africa — CLaSP Blog

Will Monteith examines the colonial origins of the green hydrogen frontier.

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📣 New on the CLaSP Blog: My Body, Whose Choice? Elena Keighobadi explores the Tradwife and Girlboss hashtags on TikTok through a feminist intersectional lens www.claspblog.org/blogposts/my...

My Body, Whose Choice? — CLaSP Blog

Elena Keighobadi critically examines the #tradwife and #girlboss movements on TikTok from a feminist intersectional lens.

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We're hosting this great seminar on AI and Water Justice to learn more about ongoing struggles and organising strategies against data centre development. Join us on Feb 20th at 1pm UK!

Just Water Futures@justwaterfutures.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Webinar Alert!! Just Water Futures is pleased to present a webinar on AI and Water Justice: Data Centres as Sites of Struggle. 📆February 20, 2026 ⏰13:00-14:00 CEST. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-and-wat...

New commentary by @cellllla.bsky.social, @perhaxis.bsky.social and myself: "The tech worker movement and the rise of the tech oligarchy". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The tech worker movement and the rise of the tech oligarchy

Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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This book launch of Clara Mattei's "Escape from Capitalism" with the brilliant @cacrisalves.bsky.social as discussant looks 🔥: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Imagine this in a trial. Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing Declaration filed in federal court: "I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."

"If only it were as simple as de-privatization." The unraveling of Britain’s largest water utility is not just a corporate scandal but a case study in how privatized water systems strain under climate pressure and the limits of market governance.

Nothing to Lose but Our Mains

The unraveling of Britain’s largest water utility is not just a corporate scandal but a case study in how privatized water systems strain under climate pressure, aging infrastructure and the limits…

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Great essay by Valerio Bini and Alessio Iocchi on the failures of the “Great Green Wall” in Africa, a phantom mega-development project: www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ud... @clasp-qmul.bsky.social

The increase in life sentences that followed a wave of so-called tough-on-crime policies in the 1980s and 1990s has resulted in a graying of the U.S. prison population, leading to swelling medical costs that states are now struggling to address.

Terminally Ill People Languish in North Carolina Prisons, Even After Reforms

State lawmakers expanded the law for people seeking medical release from prison, but eligibility remains limited.

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Sharing my piece reflecting on how the mobilization of green finance for investments in water and sanitation infrastructure figures into Brazil's Ecological Transformation Plan (in Portuguese but everything is translatable nowadays): outraspalavras.net/mercadovsdem...

A “COP da Verdade” e a ficção das finanças verdes | Outras Palavras

O saneamento brasileiro virou vitrine da financeirização da sustentabilidade. Por trás do marketing “verde” – e de suas debêntures subsidiadas –, há uma escolha política: transformar direitos em ativo...

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Mamdani’s win in NYC is a victory for democratic possibility. As he said in his winning speech, politics done by us not to us.

justwaterfutures.org @icruxen.bsky.social @rachel-woods.bsky.social @lylamehta.bsky.social 💦 ondasbrasil.org

@akmuehlebach.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The Great Sell-Off: Unpacking Rapid Water Privatization in Brazil, with Léo Heller, Isadora Cruxên, Marcos Helano Fernandes Montenegro and Edson Aparecido da Silva, now online in English youtu.be/YZaP-Tiv0EM and Portuguese youtu.be/ZB8zbqiQQLA 💦 !

We have a great event coming up on Nov. 12 to discuss possibilities for and examples of Feminist AI —join us! bit.ly/DCFNOV2025 #DataAgainstFeminicide #FAIR @kanarinka.bsky.social @ladelentes.bsky.social @silvanavf.bsky.social

Join us for our next JustWaterFutures Event on the rapid privatization of water in Brazil. With Léo Heller, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation, and many other speakers. In Portuguese and English. 💦 @icruxen.bsky.social @justwaterfutures.bsky.social

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain. A country remade by privatisation. Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life. 🧵

Sexta-feira terminando e a gente cantando: "Chegou o fim de semana, todo mundo vai sair. Só não vai Jair, só não vai Jair..."

A joyful day for Brazilian democracy: our Supreme Court has formed a majority to convict Bolsonaro and 7 defendants for criminal organisation and attempted coup!

¿Qué rol podría jugar la inteligencia artificial en la lucha contra la violencia de género? RIAF me invitó a compartir nuevo proyecto de #DatosContraFeminicidio y DISCO Lab, que explora la cobertura periodística de casos de feminicidio y el desarrollo de IA. ¡Sumate! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A new handbook on Comparative Political Economy is out! Ben Schneider and I have a chapter on capitalism in Latin America, tracing lineages of thinking on its development and how they speak to each other. We touch on VofC, GMs, dependency thinking, financialization. tinyurl.com/4arb2wt4

Handbook of Comparative Political Economy

‘In his splendid Handbook, Marino Regini not only assembles a stellar cast of distinguished practitioners from Europe and America; he also demonstrates how needed such a volume is to the interdiscipli...

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Reading Karen Hao's Empire of AI, so much to unpack in this directive OpenAI crafted to configure how GPT-4o should respond to users: "act like a human", "be warm", be "full of charm". Strong "your outtie is..." Severance vibes

Amazing to celebrate 5 years of Data Against Feminicide with so many inspirational peers last week👏🏽 Read the amazing report from @icruxen.bsky.social and Alessandra for reflections on the participatory AI work I've been collaborating on. qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/bitstr...

Check out the newly launched D-Econ padlet for resources related to these topics. d-econ.org/d-econ-padlet/

The D-Econ Padlet

Welcome to the D-Econ padlet!  This padlet is an effort to make resources related to decolonizing economics available to a wider audience. We have chosen to start with a few select themes, but…

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Fascinating piece in the FT today on the question of financing AI infrastructure at scale — makes clear we can’t think about AI development without thinking about financialization

‪ @justwaterfutures.bsky.social. Our seminars are now live! @gemmagasseau.bsky.social, @blue-community.net, @icruxen.bsky.social, @rachel-woods.bsky.social etc. Check out: What´s Public about Public Water? www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjvC...