Chris Hesketh
@chrishesketh.bsky.social
Academic @IRSussex | Author 'Spaces of Capital/Spaces of Resistance: Mexico and the Global Political Economy | Historical Materialism | Mexico | Bolivia | Indigenous resistance
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Chris Hesketh
@chrishesketh.bsky.social
· Apr 23
What’s at stake in the plurinational state debate? The case of Bolivia
The idea of a plurinational state is one that has gained currency in parts of Latin America in recent decades. Driven by the demands of Indigenous social movements and communities, countries such as B...
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Happy to share my latest article in Radical Americas exploring the contested understandings of plurinationalism in Bolivia - journals.uclpress.co.uk/ra/article/p... @morton.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
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Trump gives the country an economics lesson on tariffs. The textbook story comes through loud and clear deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trump-give...
Trump Gives the Country an Economics Lesson on Tariffs
The textbook story comes through loud and clear
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December 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Trump gives the country an economics lesson on tariffs. The textbook story comes through loud and clear deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trump-give...
Your Party continue to be more satirical than the People’s Front of Judea
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Your Party continue to be more satirical than the People’s Front of Judea
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All the blog posts on @bolshierowbot.bsky.social book forum *Cultivating Socialism* - a diverse set of engagements and a wonderful rejoinder from Rowan Lubbock himself
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Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
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November 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
All the blog posts on @bolshierowbot.bsky.social book forum *Cultivating Socialism* - a diverse set of engagements and a wonderful rejoinder from Rowan Lubbock himself
www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...
www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...
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'Real household disposable income is going to grow about 0.4% annually this parliament. That is the second worst growth in living standards we've had since the late 1970s.'
@ckfarquharson.bsky.social discusses living standards in our #Budget2025 podcast.
🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
@ckfarquharson.bsky.social discusses living standards in our #Budget2025 podcast.
🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
'Real household disposable income is going to grow about 0.4% annually this parliament. That is the second worst growth in living standards we've had since the late 1970s.'
@ckfarquharson.bsky.social discusses living standards in our #Budget2025 podcast.
🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
@ckfarquharson.bsky.social discusses living standards in our #Budget2025 podcast.
🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
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Out now! New edited book “New Directions in Vernacular Security” with Palgrave. Great working with @leejarvis.bsky.social & @akinoyawale.bsky.social to bring it together. Great contributions-from Rohingya refugee camps, to military self help books & more in between
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
New Directions in Vernacular Security Research
This book provides a fresh perspective on vernacular security, featuring diverse case studies and unique sources to enrich your understanding.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Out now! New edited book “New Directions in Vernacular Security” with Palgrave. Great working with @leejarvis.bsky.social & @akinoyawale.bsky.social to bring it together. Great contributions-from Rohingya refugee camps, to military self help books & more in between
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Great to be able to use @alkejenss.bsky.social fantastic book ‘Selective Security in the War on Drugs’ for MA teaching yesterday - sparked some important ongoing debates
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Great to be able to use @alkejenss.bsky.social fantastic book ‘Selective Security in the War on Drugs’ for MA teaching yesterday - sparked some important ongoing debates
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Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social
@versobooks.bsky.social
@chrishesketh.bsky.social
@abieler.bsky.social
@ingridhk.bsky.social
@versobooks.bsky.social
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@ingridhk.bsky.social
Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?
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November 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social
@versobooks.bsky.social
@chrishesketh.bsky.social
@abieler.bsky.social
@ingridhk.bsky.social
@versobooks.bsky.social
@chrishesketh.bsky.social
@abieler.bsky.social
@ingridhk.bsky.social
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I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'
Shadow DEFRA SoS, Victoria Atkins MP, bemoans those trying to score points off Jenrick's "private" remarks: "These are conversation we must have thoughtfully away from the clickbait of social media that, sadly, is so often the case."
And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA
And here is Victoria Thoughtful-Atkins at a farmers' protest. ~AA
October 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'
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So excited to share this symposium on my book, Cultivating Socialism, at the @ppesydney.bsky.social . Check out our first two posts from @chrishesketh.bsky.social and Kyla Sankey. More to come each Tuesday!
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www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...
Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
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September 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
So excited to share this symposium on my book, Cultivating Socialism, at the @ppesydney.bsky.social . Check out our first two posts from @chrishesketh.bsky.social and Kyla Sankey. More to come each Tuesday!
www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...
www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...
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First post in a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book *Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty*, with the engagement started by @chrishesketh.bsky.social -- more to follow in subsequent weeks!!
The State of the Revolution - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
First post of a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book Cultivating Socialism, which focuses on how peasants, workers, and states attempted to redress the inequities of commercial agriculture across the Lat...
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September 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
First post in a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book *Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty*, with the engagement started by @chrishesketh.bsky.social -- more to follow in subsequent weeks!!
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Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.
You're welcome
You're welcome
September 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.
You're welcome
You're welcome
Great to see this out. Fantastic contributions and very happy to be part of this collective endeavour
Now out:
Special Issue: Value Theory in the Country and the City
Environment and Planning F
Ten articles by Dallas Rogers @monicaclua.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @davidaviles.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @davidjmadden.bsky.social
@feministonmarx.bsky.social
and many more!
Special Issue: Value Theory in the Country and the City
Environment and Planning F
Ten articles by Dallas Rogers @monicaclua.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @davidaviles.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @davidjmadden.bsky.social
@feministonmarx.bsky.social
and many more!
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September 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Great to see this out. Fantastic contributions and very happy to be part of this collective endeavour
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Revisiting, this week, this piece in Socialist Register 2024, written with @abieler.bsky.social, following various conversations on the geopolitics of war (and peace) and global capitalism @therealelliotde.bsky.social @shaharhameiri.bsky.social @tomchodor.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
Reframing the Geopolitics of Global Capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
In our latest essay in Socialist Register 2024 on the Ukraine War we deliver a contribution to understanding contemporary geopolitics without shying away from placing our concerns within an analysis o...
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August 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Revisiting, this week, this piece in Socialist Register 2024, written with @abieler.bsky.social, following various conversations on the geopolitics of war (and peace) and global capitalism @therealelliotde.bsky.social @shaharhameiri.bsky.social @tomchodor.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
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Looking forward to dialoguing today with @iliasalami.bsky.social on raced finance in IPE. Here’s a contribution to the debate on the “dialectical tensions” that exist in raced finance; or with @abieler.bsky.social what we call the dialectical matrix of class, gender, race—beyond a “trinity formula”
Beyond intersectional political economy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Is gender oppression a structurally necessary feature in the constitution and reproduction of capitalism, and is discrimination based on race also an in-built necessary element in the making and remak...
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August 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Looking forward to dialoguing today with @iliasalami.bsky.social on raced finance in IPE. Here’s a contribution to the debate on the “dialectical tensions” that exist in raced finance; or with @abieler.bsky.social what we call the dialectical matrix of class, gender, race—beyond a “trinity formula”
My new piece for Alternautas considers the revival of dependency theory - building on recent contributions by @ingridhk.bsky.social and Felipe Antunes de Oliveira (among others) journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/al...
thanks to @morton.bsky.social for comments on earlier draft
thanks to @morton.bsky.social for comments on earlier draft
Towards a new dialectics of dependency theory
| Alternautas
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July 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
My new piece for Alternautas considers the revival of dependency theory - building on recent contributions by @ingridhk.bsky.social and Felipe Antunes de Oliveira (among others) journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/al...
thanks to @morton.bsky.social for comments on earlier draft
thanks to @morton.bsky.social for comments on earlier draft
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And one from me. On how modes of exploitation distinctive to colonial capitalism help to explain the uneven development of climate vulnerability:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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July 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
And one from me. On how modes of exploitation distinctive to colonial capitalism help to explain the uneven development of climate vulnerability:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Meanwhile
The Spectator is condoning the bombing of Brighton and Glastonbury
I'm sure it will be a proscribed organisation any minute now...
The Spectator is condoning the bombing of Brighton and Glastonbury
I'm sure it will be a proscribed organisation any minute now...
July 5, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Meanwhile
The Spectator is condoning the bombing of Brighton and Glastonbury
I'm sure it will be a proscribed organisation any minute now...
The Spectator is condoning the bombing of Brighton and Glastonbury
I'm sure it will be a proscribed organisation any minute now...
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New open access article co-authored with @davidaviles.bsky.social in Environment and Planning A, refocuses attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" mixed economy + state capitalism debates @llchristyll.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
Hothousing for Development: sorting out the mixed economy and state capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy...
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May 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
New open access article co-authored with @davidaviles.bsky.social in Environment and Planning A, refocuses attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" mixed economy + state capitalism debates @llchristyll.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
Counter view: not only is the market efficiency view of AI erroneous in the long term, it is also totally flawed from the view of social efficiency. People, and especially young people, need more, not less contact with human beings. This is adding to isolation and the mental health crisis IMO
Opinion: “Our analysis of tasks across hundreds of public sector bodies shows that AI has a common role to play in helping them engage with people who use their services, run their back-office operations and make better decisions.”
✍️ Alexander Iosad #highered #EduSky
✍️ Alexander Iosad #highered #EduSky
To survive the funding crisis, UK universities must embrace AI
The tasks that can be automated or augmented are some of those that university staff undertake day in and day out, says Alexander Iosad
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Counter view: not only is the market efficiency view of AI erroneous in the long term, it is also totally flawed from the view of social efficiency. People, and especially young people, need more, not less contact with human beings. This is adding to isolation and the mental health crisis IMO
Since when was the response to the unilateral bombing of a sovereign country to insist that ‘all sides now show restraint’?
June 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Since when was the response to the unilateral bombing of a sovereign country to insist that ‘all sides now show restraint’?
I will look forward to reading this article but it does seem strange (and problematic) to me that Global South scholars - esp from Latin America - who pioneered this very thesis are completed erased.
A case of academic unequal exchange?
A case of academic unequal exchange?
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds.
@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.
wid.world/news-article...
@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.
wid.world/news-article...
June 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I will look forward to reading this article but it does seem strange (and problematic) to me that Global South scholars - esp from Latin America - who pioneered this very thesis are completed erased.
A case of academic unequal exchange?
A case of academic unequal exchange?
Are we at the moment of the Ghorman rebellion in Trump Season 2?
June 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Are we at the moment of the Ghorman rebellion in Trump Season 2?
An excellent overview of Mario Tronti’s ‘Workers and Capital’ www.ppesydney.net/mario-tronti... by Laisrian Flynn.
This was read as part of the Past and Present reading group. Not always the easiest text to engage with, but glad I stuck with it
This was read as part of the Past and Present reading group. Not always the easiest text to engage with, but glad I stuck with it
Mario Tronti, Workers and Capital - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Just as Mario Tronti wanted to engage with Marx in his own time, how do we approach Operai e capitale (Workers and Capital) on the basis of capitalism today? The latest deep-dive from the Past & Prese...
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June 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
An excellent overview of Mario Tronti’s ‘Workers and Capital’ www.ppesydney.net/mario-tronti... by Laisrian Flynn.
This was read as part of the Past and Present reading group. Not always the easiest text to engage with, but glad I stuck with it
This was read as part of the Past and Present reading group. Not always the easiest text to engage with, but glad I stuck with it
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Mario Tronti’s *Workers and Capital* gets added to the reviews from the Past & Present Reading Group. Check out the repository on all 33 classic books 👇🏽
Past & Present Reading Group - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Building on earlier initiatives, this reading group was launched in 2014 within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney to provide a regular focus on classics of heterodox poli...
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June 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Mario Tronti’s *Workers and Capital* gets added to the reviews from the Past & Present Reading Group. Check out the repository on all 33 classic books 👇🏽
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@annajurkevics.bsky.social, Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds - Oxford University Press, April 2025
academic.oup.com/book/59797
academic.oup.com/book/59797
Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds
Abstract. Contested Territory presents a critical, non-sovereign theory of territorial rights capable of responding to border-defying global crises such as
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May 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
@annajurkevics.bsky.social, Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds - Oxford University Press, April 2025
academic.oup.com/book/59797
academic.oup.com/book/59797