Happy to share my latest article in @theconversation.com where I try to give a sense of the amazing people and the unique setting of the Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek: theconversation.com/kyrgyzstans-...

Kyrgyzstan’s Dordoi Bazaar: a world made from shipping containers and a city within a city

Every container opens onto its own distinct social world.

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@ersjournal.com has published a review forum for my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book, Neoliberalism and Race Contributions are by Arun Kundnani, Siddhant Issar, and Hasret Cetinkaya, followed by my reply www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Race, neoliberalism and ideology critique

In this response to the book symposium on Neoliberalism and Race, the author explains what intervention the book aims to make, explores the value of ideology critique when studying the role of raci...

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🎙️Season 3 of Material Crimes launches today! This podcast explores how infrastructure is made by global systems yet experienced and contested in locally. This week's episode - the legacy of the “Cape-to-Cairo” railway and the fight from activists today for a united Africa https://bit.ly/4prFjxe

My new article with @mihjournal.bsky.social is at long last in orbit. It explores how the neoliberal fantasy machine has used space colonisation to wish away the problem of environmental limits and revive the legitimation of private property.

What is the human impact of the current crisis in UK higher education? Bethan Evans draws from the experiences of academics with energy limiting conditions to show how universities function as an 'exhaustion economy' Check out the latest from our Dispatches series

The exhaustion economy: Seven illustrations of life at UK universities

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In this new series on 'Locating the Geopolitical' we argue that anthropology is particularly well equipped to study the geopolitical - not as an abstract domain of global affairs, but as something co-produced and rendered meaningful from within concrete locations and experiences. shorturl.at/yOLYQ

Locating the Geopolitical · Anthropological Theory

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New publication! Earlier this week, my new paper was published in @mihjournal.bsky.social: 'Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial' It's Open Access! 1/ doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Universities often encourage academics to leave their ivory towers. Yet such work is veiled in risk assessments and reputational management. In this Dispatch, Eric Lybeck argues for the slow and uneven practice of meaningful civic engagement

What Makes Public Engagement So Difficult (and Why It Still Matters)

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Restructuring continues to be the proposed solution to the financial crisis of British universities as academics face the risk of redundancy. What does it mean to live under a constant cloud of uncertainty? @gsoh31.bsky.social explores further in our latest Dispatch

What Does It Feel Like to Live Under the Threat of Redundancy?

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New article! How is finance ‘raced’, and why is this the case? With what consequences for our understandings of race, finance, and capitalism? To explore this, we develop a 'raced finance' analytic, grounded in political economy and racial capitalism debates. Link 👇🏾and 🧵:

NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇 isrf.org/blog/whats-t...

What’s the future for our universities?

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I'm excited to announce a cfa for Roadsides' fall issue on 'Markets as Infrastructures.' Together with Hasan H. Karrar we edit this issue and we look forward to receiving abstracts from far and wide, incl. #economicanthropology #politicaleconomy #decolonialstudies www.roadsides.net/collections/...

For the forum on political economy, Lars Cornelissen answers Samuel Moyn’s call to conceptualize the social side of ideology by turning to Stuart Hall’s idea of ideology as “practical reason,” examining the material networks that led neoliberalism further rightward. @lcornelissen.bsky.social

Stuart Hall, Ideology, and Neoliberalism’s Reactionary Drift

by Lars Cornelissen This essay is part of a JHI Blog forum, “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”

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In Neoliberalism and Race, @lcornelissen.bsky.social argues that race is the organising principle of neoliberalism. He shows that racial motifs have always shaped neoliberal thought—and cannot be removed without rendering it incoherent. buff.ly/MevrIVm

Neoliberalism and race: a love story - ROAPE

Lars Cornelissen offers an extract from his recent book Neoliberalism and Race, which argues that race functions as an organising principle of neoliberal ideology. Drawing on intellectual history and…

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I have a new paper out in @ripejournal.bsky.social: From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion It's Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion

This paper brings together scholarship on the history of neoliberal thought with the emerging ‘raced finance’ research agenda. The paper makes a methodological and an empirical contribution. First,...

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Great reporting: "In total, the IEA accepted £479,992 from oil and gas firms, with the majority (£357,063) coming from 1991 onwards. These fossil fuel giants were among the biggest corporate contributors to the IEA during the period, according to DeSmog’s analysis." www.desmog.com/2025/12/10/t...

The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...

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I really enjoyed recording this podcast on my new book, Neoliberalism and Race, with Morteza Hajizadeh newbooksnetwork.com/neoliberalis...

Latest blog post Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised by @lcornelissen.bsky.social In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised. isrf.org/blog/neolibe...

Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised

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It's publication day for Neoliberalism and Race!

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Beginning in the interwar period and running through to recent developments, Neoliberalism and Race by Lars Cornelissen shows that racial themes have always pervaded neoliberal thinking. #ReadUP https://ow.ly/KQGr50XaO8e

Author’s copies of my book have arrived! It looks even better IRL! Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Turns out the men who founded the Adam Smith Institute held some pretty controversial views on race, IQ, and segregation. Read my latest blog post here: keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/the-adam-s...

The Adam Smith Institute on Race

Explore the controversial history of the Adam Smith Institute's views on race, IQ, and intelligence in this revealing archival research from a groundbreaking neoliberal study.

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Very much looking forward to this!

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Book Launch: 'Neoliberalism and Race', by @lcornelissen.bsky.social Tuesday 9th December 2025, 6:00pm-7:30pm (GMT). In person & online. isrf.org/events/neoli...

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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Why is Palestine a defining fault line of 21st‑century politics? Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler‑colonialism within imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism—not just humanitarian / legal narratives. Officially out & available in paperback & ebook www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Resisting Erasure

Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...

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(1/3) Apropos of the University of Edinburgh's report on its historical relations to slavery, colonialism, and race science: For the first years of its existence, The Mankind Quarterly was published and printed in Edinburgh, which is where its editor, the intellectual fraud Robert Gayre, lived...

"Snowdon’s is a knee-jerk reflex calculated to protect the neoliberal project and some of its most precious philosophers from what he perceives to be a smear campaign." keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/the-neolib...

The Neoliberals Read Slobodian

So You Don’t Have to - #2

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This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...

Wrote a post about Lionel Robbins and race. After stumbling on a pair of surprisingly incendiary early pieces on race and population, I found that Robbins had a career-spanning interest in differential fertility rates. keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/robbins-on...

Robbins on Race

Notes from the Archive - #1

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📢🔔 ICYMI - this at 1989 views in less than a month is By FAR our fastest moving article ‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur - @cibled.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur

Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...

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