💭 On New Thinking: Podcasting, praxis and pedagogy in political economy 💭 I reflect on what I've learned about podcasting as a medium for enhancing scholarly praxis and pedagogy in political economy, as after 8 years I finally say goodbye to SPERI. shorturl.at/CCbNU Here's me and my billboard:

I spoke to Ben Selwyn about the class relations of value chains, and the role of superpowers in their rise and maintenance A great teaching resource for anyone teaching GVCs!

Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute@sperishefuni.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚢How do global supply chains drive labour exploitation, nature destruction and geopolitical tension? 📚Ben Selwyn discusses his new co-authored book Capitalist Value Chains on the latest episode of New Thinking in Political Economy 🎧Listen now: shorturl.at/NyFNT

You wouldn't know from the editing but a few laughs were had in the making of this podcast

Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute@sperishefuni.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Does China's party-state capitalist model mean it can fully decarbonise its economy? Our exec producer Chris Saltmarsh joins Remi to discuss his @ripejournal.bsky.social article on the development of the Chinese political economy and implications for tackling the climate crisis 🎧 shorturl.at/xUwW5

India’s farming sector is facing deep crisis. Falling productivity, debt and mass protests have drawn global attention. Dr Shreya Sinha joins Dr Remi Edwards to discuss who gains, who loses and how women are affected most. Listen here: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/how-d...

“I hope, as a result of our report, that the minds of states will also be opened” says Navi Pillay, the head of the commission of inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory and a former international criminal court judge www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement

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I spoke to Natalie about her expertly crafted new paper on unstable production, the impact on workers and the structural and contextual challenges in protecting those expelled from capitalist social relations Link below

Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute@sperishefuni.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🫖 What are the limits of civil society activism in protecting workers who become excluded from systems of production? ✍️ Dr Natalie Langford discusses her new paper with @remiedwards.bsky.social, published this year in @ripejournal.bsky.social 🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/9Cqjj

@sperishefuni.bsky.social Presents: Live: Is organised violence central to capitalism? @ BISA2025 w/ Joanna Tidy, Elena Simon, Vick Reif-Breitwieser Beryl Pong @frankmaracchione.bsky.social & @remiedwards.bsky.social 🎉 Recorded @ipegbisa.bsky.social roundtable #BISA2025 🌟 listen

Live: Is organised violence central to capitalism? @ BISA 2025

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My technoanxiety did not get the better of me and we pulled off a live recorded roundtable at @mybisa.bsky.social in Belfast To hear about the production and labour behind the means of violence, defence spending, corporate harm, everyday resistance to violence etc etc- listen here shorturl.at/GF3re

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Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute@sperishefuni.bsky.social · last yr.

🎙️ SPERI Presents... LIVE! 🎙️ 📡 What is the relationship between the capitalist economy and organised violence by, within and between states? ⏺️ We recorded a roundtable discussion at @mybisa.bsky.social Conference in Belfast Listen now: shorturl.at/GF3re

Shreya's work brilliantly sheds light on the interactions between gender, class, caste, ecology and crisis in shaping women's experience of agricultural labour in Punjab I'm a big fan of Shreya's work so I was excited to discuss this with her on New Thinking - link below

Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute@sperishefuni.bsky.social · last yr.

🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️ How does India's agrarian crisis harm women workers? 🌾 Shreya Sinha explores how shifts from cotton to rice cultivation relate to class, gender and caste oppression in Punjab 💭 🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/WYfmC #Agriculture #PoliticalEconomy #Labour #Podcast

📚 I reviewed Ellie Gore's book Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana for Journal of Development Studies - available now! Eprint: shorturl.at/bZeCq

Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights: The Political Economy of Queer Activism in Ghana

Published in The Journal of Development Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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students: capitalism is the problem!!! me: what about these actually existing examples of struggles to challenge capitalist social relations, are they a good idea? students: how unrealistic

Banana producer Chiquita has announced mass layoffs in Panama amid an ongoing strike. The United States-owned banana giant said on Friday it was letting “all” daily labourers go for the “unjustified abandonment of work at our plantations”. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

US banana giant Chiquita fires thousands over Panama strike

President Jose Raul Mulino, whose changes to social security laws prompted the protest, called the strike ‘illegal’.

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Thanks to @remiedwards.bsky.social for the invite to the @sperishefuni.bsky.social podcast New Thinking in their SPERI presents series This time on cities and technocapitalist power ... An interesting chat with Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi Loads of other great eps too - inc a series on "crisis"

Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute@sperishefuni.bsky.social · last yr.

🎙️ SPERI Presents… 🎙️ How do cities become engines of technocapitalist power? 🏙️ We explore how capitalism shapes urban life, labour & knowledge, and ask: Can we reclaim the city from value extraction? 💭 🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/IOpZl #UrbanPoliticalEconomy #Technocapitalism #Podcast

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Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute@sperishefuni.bsky.social · last yr.

🎙️ SPERI Presents… 🎙️ How do cities become engines of technocapitalist power? 🏙️ We explore how capitalism shapes urban life, labour & knowledge, and ask: Can we reclaim the city from value extraction? 💭 🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/IOpZl #UrbanPoliticalEconomy #Technocapitalism #Podcast

We're back with a new episode of New Thinking, exploring the the power of big pharma and its implications for vaccine distribution and the governance of global health

Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute@sperishefuni.bsky.social · last yr.

🎙️SPERI Presents…🎙️ Why does a small group of companies dominate the pharmaceutical sector? What are the consequences for global health?💊 Dr Owain Williams discusses: 🦠 COVID 💵 Market-state-society relations 💉 The political economy of Big Pharma 🎧 shorturl.at/IyHMw #GlobalHealth #COVID19 #Pharma

Though I'm not pictured bc I took the photo, it was an honour to be involved in this!

Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute@sperishefuni.bsky.social · last yr.

On 3 April 2025, SPERI hosted a workshop on the British Political Economy Tradition to examine its character, insights and contributions, and celebrate the life's work of Professor Andrew Gamble who recently retired More here: shorturl.at/X9qrX

🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️ In the final episode of Crisis Point, Dillon and Chris review the series and propose a theory of crisis in capitalism In the post-2008 era, crises of accumulation and legitimation entangle and intensify absent a popular social force able to break the deadlock shorturl.at/hMG7e

Crisis Point: A Theory Of Crisis w/ Dillon Wamsley & Chris Saltmarsh

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🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️ Rising prices have dominated social and political life in recent years. High inflation has been called the cost-of-living crisis, but does this constitute a crisis of capitalism or the system working as normal? Martijn Konings discusses with Chris and Dillon shorturl.at/GWVk8

This series take a deep dive in the histories and contemporary forms of crisis within capitalism - episode 1-8 are available now on Spotify, Apple, Acast and other podcast platforms.

Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute@sperishefuni.bsky.social · last yr.

🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️ High rents, shortages and homelessness dominate the housing system. But does this represent a ‘housing crisis’ or capitalism functioning as it should? Johnna Montgomorie joins Chris & Dillon in Crisis Point, episode 8 shorturl.at/zlVZ0

🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️ Crisis Point In episode 2, Chris and Dillon interview Gareth Dale about how the ideas of Karl Polanyi can help understand the Great Depression in the 1930s Liste now: shorturl.at/M8ovx

🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️ CRISIS POINT In the first episode, co-hosts Chris and Dillon discuss crisis as a core feature of capitalism, the role crisis plays in capitalism’s history, and whether polycrisis is the right way to understand politics today Listen now: shorturl.at/4di4P

Our Research & Impact Associate @remiedwards.bsky.social presented her research to industry stakeholders at Fruit Logistica 2025 She argued that certification programmes in the banana industry fail to incorporate workers and protect them from abuse, along with recommendations shorturl.at/aBIM1

SPERI impact: Remi Edwards presents research at Fruit Logistica 2025

Remi presented her research on workers' experience of ethical certification schemes in the banana industry to industry stakeholders in Berlin.

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Check out this podcast from @sperishefuni.bsky.social! Experts discuss how queer men in Ghana navigate HIV, rights and the ties between politics and change. Listen here: bit.ly/41nbrHP

If you work in UK Higher Education and aren't already in a trade union, now is the time to join! bsky.app/profile/shef...

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This afternoon, @ucu.org.uk informed the Vice Chancellor that we will be formally balloting for local industrial action at @sheffielduni.bsky.social in relation to proposed cuts to the staffing budget and the threats to staff jobs due to restructuring.

This hit hard today www.lexacademic.com/blog/living-...

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students

These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza

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Labour's gleeful, unprincipled, swing even further right is something to behold but are we to understand from this quote that until only a few weeks ago, Sir Keir Starmer believed himself to be a man of the people?

Want to get involved with a new series of SPERI Presents...? We welcome expressions of interest to lead on all or part of a new series on the Political Economy of everyday life, with support from the SPERI podcast committee More here: shorturl.at/nC4pN

Open call: Podcast series on Political Economy of Everyday Life

We welcome expressions of interest to lead on all or part of a new SPERI Present... podcast series.

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Nine months after my viva, I finally got to celebrate receiving my PhD with friends and family I am grateful to so many for making this possible, especially my participants who shared their experiences and struggles with inspirational candour I hope I can do some justice to that

3 PhD opportunities to work with the awesome Dr Caroline Hambloch on labour control and agency in agricultural GVCs at the University of Bonn. Deadline 2nd March. Pls share with interested folks! shorturl.at/6kwyS