Manchester University Press Book Series

The Manchester University Press (MUP) Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Book Series provides a new space for innovative and radical thinking in political economy covering interdisciplinary scholarship from the perspectives of historical materialism, feminism, political ecology, critical geography, heterodox economics, decolonialism and racial capitalism. Within this ambit we are seeking manuscripts from established scholars as well as the very best new research from early-career scholars that emphasise:

• the contestations and radical ruptures in intensified processes of capitalist exploitation and appropriation with a focus on transformative alternatives beyond capitalism;
• the multi-scalar dimensions of struggles by social movements and grass roots organisations across local, state, and regional levels in the geographical expansion of capitalism;
• the appropriation of non-human nature within the epoch of the Anthropocene / Capitalocene and how socio-ecological substrata are embedded in the production of space;
• the role of the household as a crucial pillar of capitalist value and thus how gendered struggles over unpaid labour and social reproduction constitute everyday political economy;
• the centrality of race to the history and ongoing generation of capital accumulation necessitating a decolonisation of political economy frames of analysis;
• the constitution of spaces of non-capitalism (e.g. the commons), including Indigenous economic formations, that seek to challenge the survival of capitalism across different regional locales and urban environments;
• the transnational conditions of labour struggles, their embeddedness within local, regional and global scales of exploitation, and their organisation through class, gender, sexuality and racial hierarchies, as well as through digital spaces;
• the subsumption of capitalist production and the social and ecological reproduction of capitalism to financial and debt-based logics, processes and interests as a new terrain of exploitation, crisis and contestation;
• the contradictory transformations of capitalist states through the neoliberalisation of governance and the rise of authoritarian movements in the guise of authoritarian neoliberalism and fascism;
• the history of economic thought encompassing its pluralist, radical and heterodox traditions;
• the production of new axes of inequalities of income, wealth and risk within systemic and unfolding processes of uneven development;
• the new contours of monetary, fiscal, social and environmental policy being enacted at multiple scales by national, regional and city governments, central banks and other domains of state investment and regulation; and,
• the transformative role of new technologies, the merger between technology and finance, and new forms of oppression through surveillance capitalism

Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Book Series seeks to combine the reputations and reach of the PPE blog and MUP across online and book publishing platforms as a basis for the launch and maintenance of a leading book series. Authors in the series will gain immediate and wide exposure for their work by publishing posts and excerpts on the blog and readers will have opportunities to review and debate books in dedicated online forums.

The managing editors of the series are Andreas Bieler (School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham), Gareth Bryant (Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney), Mònica Clua-Losada (Department of Political Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), Adam David Morton (Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney), and Angela Wigger (Department of Political Science, Radboud University, The Netherlands). This team provides rich intellectual and geographical reach and interested authors seeking to publish in the book series should contact any of the managing editors and/or the Commissioning Editor at MUP Robert Byron. Authors should also consult the Manchester University Press proposal guidelines.