New LIVE podcast out now🔥 'The Second China Shock' recorded at BISA26 in Brighton - this is a vital discussion you don't want to miss. Listen👉https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nNmTG2se4GaQsOaFv8KfU?si=e9f5cbc4bee74758 @mybisa.bsky.social @ipegbisa.bsky.social @frankmaracchione.bsky.social

NEW PODCAST Josh White interviews our very own Dr Nina Lotze about her research on neoliberal think tanks during the COVID-19 pandemic - for the latest episode of New Thinking in Political Economy. open.spotify.com/episode/01sV...

New Thinking: Neoliberal Knowledge Production w/ Nina Lotze

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'Towards a Revolutionary Political Economy of Climate Transition?' SPERI Doctoral Researchers Network organised a roundtable discussion at #PSA26 last week debating strategy and political agency in climate crisis. The podcast of the session is out now: open.spotify.com/episode/3oxb...

Music streaming accompanies us through everyday life, but it also tracks us. In the final episode of Ground Level, we explore how platforms commodify everyday listening, turning music into a technology of consumer surveillance and behavioural data extraction. open.spotify.com/episode/1qR1...

In episode 6 of Ground Level, we explore the everyday political economy of transport electrification with James Jackson & Vicki Reif-Breitwieser: from EV supply chains & green extractivism to China’s role in the transition & everyday resistance. open.spotify.com/episode/5SpJ...

Drugs, alcohol and other recreational substances are central to everyday social life and a contested part of the global economy. Ground Level Episode 5 explores the political economy of grassroots cannabis production and its encounters with the state. open.spotify.com/episode/3PU8...

Ground Level: Cannabis and the State w/ Adam Lloyd, Gulzat Botoeva and Matt Bishop

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New podcast with our Chair @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social. Listen now!

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The global economy is lived in ordinary spaces. In the first episode of SPERI Presents… new series 'Ground Level' Dr Frank Maracchione (SOAS) and Prof Juanita Elias (BISA chair) discuss how researching everyday life reshapes our understanding of the global economy. open.spotify.com/episode/4007...

New episode of Ground Level, the new series I host for @sperishefuni.bsky.social. We discuss queer globalisation and queer everyday lives from #Kazakhstan to #Brasil passing through #Italy’s Veneto. With: @levitanus.bsky.social @heltonlevy.bsky.social! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

Ground Level: RuPaul's Drag Race and Globalisation w/ Helton Levy and Mariya Levitanus

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The global economy is lived in ordinary spaces. In the first episode of SPERI Presents… new series 'Ground Level' Dr Frank Maracchione (SOAS) and Prof Juanita Elias (BISA chair) discuss how researching everyday life reshapes our understanding of the global economy. open.spotify.com/episode/4007...

Ground Level: The International and the Everyday w/ Juanita Elias & Frank Maracchione

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It was such a pleasure to discuss my work with Josh on Speri presents! Have a listen if you want to go skiing 🎿❄️

Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute@sperishefuni.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW PODCAST - Winter Tourism w/ Valentina Ausserladscheider Link: lnkd.in/e_XCu4Pb Though probably not the first industry that comes to mind when you think of the green transition, alpine ski resorts are nonetheless at the forefront of climate breakdown and its economic effects.

NEW PODCAST - Winter Tourism w/ Valentina Ausserladscheider Link: lnkd.in/e_XCu4Pb Though probably not the first industry that comes to mind when you think of the green transition, alpine ski resorts are nonetheless at the forefront of climate breakdown and its economic effects.

Had a lot of fun doing this interview on the New Thinking podcast discussing the cost-of-living crisis, the installation economy and how worker organising can disrupt their transition. tinyurl.com/3z9p52pc

🎙️NEW PODCAST🎙️ Disrupting the Climate Transition? W/ Nicholas Beuret. lnkd.in/ewYqDPVU We hear a lot about the ‘Green Transition’, but what does the ‘transition economy’ actually look like in Britain? Who are its winners and losers, and how does it intersect with longer term structural trends?

✍️ NEW BLOG: Labour's deregulation gamble Nick Kotucha argues the Labour government is risking everyone's prosperity by pursuring financial regulations in the name of growth and competitiveness 📄 Based a recently published article in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social Read blog: shorturl.at/7jY34

My thoughts on the financialcialisation of football in audio form w/ @sperishefuni.bsky.social. Many of the aspects discussed are also part of a forthcoming book on football and climate change w/ @markdoidge.bsky.social @berglundoscar.bsky.social @samtoscano.bsky.social @jennyamann.bsky.social

Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute@sperishefuni.bsky.social · 8mo ago

⚽ How do financial interests dominate elite football? Is it inevitable the English Premier League will go bust? 📝 @james7jackson.bsky.social discusses his co-authored article with James Silverwood on financialisation in football and the EPL's 'Minsky moment' 🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/70CmH

⚽ How do financial interests dominate elite football? Is it inevitable the English Premier League will go bust? 📝 @james7jackson.bsky.social discusses his co-authored article with James Silverwood on financialisation in football and the EPL's 'Minsky moment' 🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/70CmH

🚢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

Why does labour governance fail the very workers it should protect? Dr Natalie Langford joins Dr Remi Edwards to explore racialisation, colonialism and globalisation through the lens of the Indian tea industry. Listen here: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/why-l... #LabourRights #GlobalEconomy

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...

🏭 What are the impacts of the Indonesian state's Green Industrial Policy, in terms of growth, extractivism and environmental (in)justice? Muhammad Firman Eko Putra on state capitalism in Indonesia's nickel industry, based on his MA dissertation 📖 Read here: shorturl.at/ROdIA

"Ending deforestation in Brazil requires not a change of rhetoric, but an entire rethink of the country’s ‘neo-extractivist’ development model and the system of political patronage that underpins it" Paulina Flores-Martinez and coauthors for SPERI Blog: shorturl.at/8Z6hA

This is Crisis: Critical Political Economy, in flux? Our Doctoral Researchers' Network hosted their annual conference, featuring presentations from almost 40 early-career political economists from across the UK and beyond. More here: shorturl.at/X6rqX

SPERI Doctoral Researchers' Network host annual conference

Doctoral researchers from across the UK and beyond came to SPERI on 8 September to share their research around the conference theme 'This is Crisis: Critical Political Economy, in flux?'.

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How do we define crisis in today’s world? In the final Crisis Point episode, Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley reflect on financial and climate crises, theory, and action. Listen on The Player: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/theor... #PoliticalEconomy

The climate crisis threatens life itself, yet emissions continue to rise. In SPERI Presents... Crisis Point, Prof Jeremy Green joins Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley to ask why, and what history tells us about the chance of change. Listen here: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/clima...

Is populism a threat to democracy, or part of how it has always worked? Professor Michael Bray joins Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley in Crisis Point to explore democracy, capitalism and crisis. Listen here: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/popul... #Populism #Democracy #CrisisPoint

🫖 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

💭 What's the relationship between organised violence and the capitalist economy? Vicki Reif-Breitwieser talks about her research on corporate harm to communities through lithium extraction 🎧 Full episode here: shorturl.at/RnWdU

Is the rising cost of living a crisis in capitalism or a normal part of the system? In Crisis Point: Cost of Living, Professor Martijn Konings explains inflation, its effects, and what it means for the future. Listen here: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/cost-... #CostOfLiving #Inflation

Why does austerity keep coming back? In Crisis Point, Clara Mattei joins us to explain how austerity has shaped capitalist societies for over a century. Listen now on The Player: bit.ly/45zUEU8 #Austerity #CrisisPoint #PoliticalEconomy