Jack Copley
@jackcopley.bsky.social
Teach & research international political economy at Durham University.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/ykvf98wn
Book: https://tinyurl.com/ykvf98wn
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A lot of writing on renewable energy depicts the industry as "laborless," suggesting that workers in the industry aren't really central to the politics of the "energy transition."
My new article in @societyandspace.bsky.social shows how mistaken this view is.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
My new article in @societyandspace.bsky.social shows how mistaken this view is.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 AM
A lot of writing on renewable energy depicts the industry as "laborless," suggesting that workers in the industry aren't really central to the politics of the "energy transition."
My new article in @societyandspace.bsky.social shows how mistaken this view is.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
My new article in @societyandspace.bsky.social shows how mistaken this view is.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This is a very interesting piece, both in terms of its analysis of the Truss government and its implications for how we think about the politics of depoliticisation today.
November 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This is a very interesting piece, both in terms of its analysis of the Truss government and its implications for how we think about the politics of depoliticisation today.
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Save the Date: In a two-day workshop on December 4th & 5th we will bring together scholars working at the intersection of philosophy, political economy, and critical theory to reflect on the contested rationality of economic planning.
More information: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...
More information: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...
November 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Save the Date: In a two-day workshop on December 4th & 5th we will bring together scholars working at the intersection of philosophy, political economy, and critical theory to reflect on the contested rationality of economic planning.
More information: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...
More information: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...
Another banger! Carla studies the most depraved neoliberal writings so you don't have to. This is a must read.
My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality
‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’: Human capital and endogenous mortality in Gary Becker’s work
Chicago School economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Gary Becker writes that ‘most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent “suicides” in the sense that they could have been postponed if more re...
www.tandfonline.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Another banger! Carla studies the most depraved neoliberal writings so you don't have to. This is a must read.
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My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality
‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’: Human capital and endogenous mortality in Gary Becker’s work
Chicago School economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Gary Becker writes that ‘most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent “suicides” in the sense that they could have been postponed if more re...
www.tandfonline.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality
This is an excellent article - highly recommended.
OnlineFirst - "Infinitely recyclable? Scraps and disarticulations in the steelmaking green transition" by Daniela Lai:
#steel #disarticulations #greentransition #steelmaking #politicaleconomy
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#steel #disarticulations #greentransition #steelmaking #politicaleconomy
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This is an excellent article - highly recommended.
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New publication out, “creative political geography” in the De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, generously and gently edited by Cordelia Freeman and Sydney Calkin.
degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)
degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)
https://degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
New publication out, “creative political geography” in the De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, generously and gently edited by Cordelia Freeman and Sydney Calkin.
degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)
degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…
( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)
although I only got to stay for 2 days, HM was incredible - best conference in the world
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
although I only got to stay for 2 days, HM was incredible - best conference in the world
it was a great pleasure to host @alybatt.bsky.social at Durham yesterday - thank you to everyone who came! And go buy a copy of Free Gifts 📘
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
it was a great pleasure to host @alybatt.bsky.social at Durham yesterday - thank you to everyone who came! And go buy a copy of Free Gifts 📘
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🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.
To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.
🧵
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
If you're in the north east, come along!
🎉 Save the date!
Join us for a conversation with Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social on her brilliant new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature @princetonupress.bsky.social
🗓 Monday 3rd November
🕓 14:00–15:30
📍 Room IM102 (Al Qassimi)
Join us for a conversation with Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social on her brilliant new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature @princetonupress.bsky.social
🗓 Monday 3rd November
🕓 14:00–15:30
📍 Room IM102 (Al Qassimi)
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
If you're in the north east, come along!
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BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Deadline extended to 27 May! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025
www.historicalmaterialism.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
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i've been waiting years for this to come out so I can cite it. This is *fantastic* - give it a read
New article out with @histmat.bsky.social
I revisit Marx's critique of the relationship between labour, technology and the surplus population and situate it within the context of capitalism's directionality
I revisit Marx's critique of the relationship between labour, technology and the surplus population and situate it within the context of capitalism's directionality
October 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
i've been waiting years for this to come out so I can cite it. This is *fantastic* - give it a read
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Long, very interesting (and informative) interview with two members of the Endnotes collective about the history of the journal:
chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...
chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...
chuangcn.org
February 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Long, very interesting (and informative) interview with two members of the Endnotes collective about the history of the journal:
chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...
chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...
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@transitionsec.bsky.social co-director Khem Rogaly lays it out straight
What underpins the UK's continued military support of Israel?
Khem Rogaly, from @transitionsec.bsky.social @cmmonwealth.bsky.social, on the latest episode of the New Economics Podcast.
Listen now: neweconomics.org/2025/10/how-...
#ukpolitics #economics #gaza #palestine #armstrade
Khem Rogaly, from @transitionsec.bsky.social @cmmonwealth.bsky.social, on the latest episode of the New Economics Podcast.
Listen now: neweconomics.org/2025/10/how-...
#ukpolitics #economics #gaza #palestine #armstrade
October 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
@transitionsec.bsky.social co-director Khem Rogaly lays it out straight
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Really cool to see this very thoughtful critical essay on Fictions of Financialization, by Hannah Hasenberger, in @financeandspace.bsky.social!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Challenging the ‘fictions of financialisation’: a commentary on explanation in financial geography
Financialisation is a key concept in financial geography, used to explain various phenomena. But have we sufficiently explained financialisation? Nick Bernards’ recent book, Fictions of Financializ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Really cool to see this very thoughtful critical essay on Fictions of Financialization, by Hannah Hasenberger, in @financeandspace.bsky.social!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The most vivid illustration of the 'anarchy of production': "No one knows whether his individual product will meet an actual demand, whether he will be able to make good his costs of production or even to sell his commodity at all. Anarchy reigns in socialised production." (Engels, Anti-Dühring)
July 31, 2025 at 7:22 AM
The most vivid illustration of the 'anarchy of production': "No one knows whether his individual product will meet an actual demand, whether he will be able to make good his costs of production or even to sell his commodity at all. Anarchy reigns in socialised production." (Engels, Anti-Dühring)
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Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever.
ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
July 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever.
ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
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🧵My new paper "State Strategies and Gendered Labour: Neoliberalism's Impact on Tunisia's Working Class Composition" is now out in Third World Quarterly. It builds on my earlier state theory work, adding a crucial dimension: how dependency shapes state action in the South
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
State strategies and gendered labour: neoliberalism’s impact on Tunisia’s working class composition
This paper examines the role of the state in shaping the technical composition of the working class in Tunisia. Drawing on dependency theory and autonomist Marxism, it argues that states in the Sou...
doi.org
August 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
🧵My new paper "State Strategies and Gendered Labour: Neoliberalism's Impact on Tunisia's Working Class Composition" is now out in Third World Quarterly. It builds on my earlier state theory work, adding a crucial dimension: how dependency shapes state action in the South
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
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I'll be speaking to Nancy Fraser and Geoff Mann about what's 'Beyond Capitalism' at the New York Verso Office on Thursday, October 2nd. Please share! Link for tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-left-r...
New Left Review 154 Launch
Aaron Benanav will be discussing his framework for a post-capitalist social order with Nancy Fraser and Geoff Mann.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I'll be speaking to Nancy Fraser and Geoff Mann about what's 'Beyond Capitalism' at the New York Verso Office on Thursday, October 2nd. Please share! Link for tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-left-r...
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Very happy to say that my article on Musk and Thiel's political theory of the founder (drawing on Lacan on the way) is out with @jcultecon.bsky.social! Strange to see it out there with all what happened in the last year, but it will hopefully make it a good read
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur
Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...
www.tandfonline.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Very happy to say that my article on Musk and Thiel's political theory of the founder (drawing on Lacan on the way) is out with @jcultecon.bsky.social! Strange to see it out there with all what happened in the last year, but it will hopefully make it a good read
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:
It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.
www.versobooks.com/products/331...
It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.
www.versobooks.com/products/331...
The Long Heat
The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...
www.versobooks.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:
It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.
www.versobooks.com/products/331...
It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.
www.versobooks.com/products/331...