Why my new book Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing: Without Water, We Have Nothing addresses how conflicts over water are human-caused events that have socio-political and economic roots.
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Double book launch for:
False Profits of Ethical Capital: Finance, Labour and the Politics of Risk by Claire Parfitt
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Supporters and detractors of mining both recognise the rapid economic, social and political change that mining brings can completely transform societies, which is certainly so in Indonesia, where the research for my new book Undermining Resistance: The governance of participation by [...]
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At stake in the machinations between global asset managers, the firms they invest in, and regulators is the core question of what environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing really does and its function at the frontiers of contemporary capital accumulation. This is the question [...]
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In my recently published book, Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital accumulation, State Formation, and Geopolitics, by Manchester University Press in the Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Series, I offer an alternative narrative to state formation in Iran grounded in a historical [...]
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What is the water crisis’ relationship to the ecological crisis? To the crisis of social reproduction? Or the crises of political legitimacy? And could it be a potential crisis for capitalism? These are all questions that animate my new book Water Struggles as Resistance to Neoliberal [...]
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For decades the concept of “imperialism” all but disappeared from popular discourse and academic writing in the rich countries. It was an idea that used to be dominated by Marxist thinkers until the 1970s, but even among Marxists – at least in academia – the concept has rarely been seen as [...]
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My new book Keynes and Marx attempts a constructive Marxist engagement with Keynes and Keynesianism. I’ll explain what I mean by this and how the book tries to achieve it. Three attitudes dominate Marx-Keynes relations. I argue for a fourth.
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