Dissecting the Polycrisis, Charting the Conceptual Terrain of Enquiry
Andreas Bieler | March 24, 2026
How can we dissect the conjunctural appearances of crisis from the deep structural conditions of crisis shaping global capitalism today?
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Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis
Andreas Bieler | Vincenzo Maccarrone | March 10, 2026
How is the European polycrisis inflected through the classed, raced, gendered and environmental conditions of global capitalism today?
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What political economy approach for the 21st century?
Andreas Bieler | February 25, 2025
What political economy approach can reveal the internal relations of exploitation and expropriation through a focus on related class struggles and broader alliances across the spheres of production and social reproduction?
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Cementing neo-colonial relations: the EU – Mercosur ‘free’ trade deal
Andreas Bieler | September 5, 2023
‘EU and Mercosur leaders ignore the voice of the people to push forward with toxic deal’ declared the Stop EU – Mercosur campaign alliance, a coalition of more than 450 organisations from Latin America and Europe, including trade unions, farmers organisations, social movements, animal activists [...]
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Conceptualising struggles over water grabbing
Andreas Bieler | Madelaine Moore | February 21, 2023
Capital has identified water as an important opportunity for profitable investment. Whether it is the privatisation of public water infrastructure, the expansion of the bottled water industry, the construction of dams for energy generation or the free expropriation of water for mineral [...]
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Is capitalism structurally indifferent to gender?
Andreas Bieler | Adam David Morton | August 31, 2021
A sweep through key arguments about the abstracting logic of capital will yield a common emphasis, which is a stress on the “indifference” of capital to those it exploits. For sure, this is evident in some of Marx’s own writings. Witness points in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts on [...]
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Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe
Andreas Bieler | June 24, 2021
Capitalism is characterised by relentless structural pressures towards constant outward expansion. It strives to submit ever more areas to market forces and profit-making. Water is no exception in this respect. Whether it is the expropriation of water for the extractive industry or bottled [...]
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Labour Conflicts in the Global South: a new special issue in Globalizations
Andreas Bieler | Jörg Nowak | May 25, 2021
Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007-8 and increasing inequality across the world, we have experienced widespread, large-scale industrial action throughout the Global South, including in countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, which had been hailed [...]
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