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Matt Sparke
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Distinguished Professor of Politics, Geographer and Global and Community Health collaborator at University of California Santa Cruz.
Good ideas, all of them, but the answer to your questions is probably that editors don't have much traction with the publishers and the evermore tenuously tied-in subcontractors who do the actual work of maintaining the journal platforms, setting auto responses and, of course, robo-proofing.
June 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Talk about a crushing re-branding! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4Z...
TANK VS TESLA
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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May 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This handy comparison of the alternative approaches using the pill metaphor is very teachable, but there are many more critical resources that could have been listed, including Reimagining Global Health by Farmer et al and allied critiques of blue-pill neoliberalism such as doi.org/10.1080/1356....
COVID and structural cartelisation: market-state-society ties and the political economy of Pharma
The big profits and influence of pharmaceutical firms that again rose to prominence during the COVID pandemic illustrate far more than just the global reach and market power of Big Pharma. Here we ...
doi.org
April 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Nonsense, indeed! But might we also describe it as the geographical imagination of 'behemoth geopolitics'?
doi.org/10.1080/2469...
Reaction, Resilience, and the Trumpist Behemoth: Environmental Risk Management from “Hoax” to Technique of Domination
The election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency has led to significant changes in environmental governance, unleashing an authoritarian, nationalistic, and business-deregulating juggernaut aime...
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March 13, 2025 at 4:12 AM
And some more market discipline today for 'Hayek's bastards' (to use the title of Quinn Slobodian's new book)! www.ft.com/content/c5a5...
Rout wipes $800bn from crypto market as bitcoin slump deepens
Crypto fervour that greeted Trump’s election has faded amid series of scandals
www.ft.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This piece co-authored with my grad students is informed by other theorists too, but is also aligned with Foucault's 'method' with/on archives: doi.org/10.1177/0263...
Alternative archives: Researching politics with chunks of reality - Sarah Cheikhali, Ingy Higazy, Mark Howard, Henry McLaughlin, Gabriela Segura-Ballar, Matthew Sparke, Lucia Vitale, 2024
The challenges and opportunities of accessing empirical material present a puzzle insofar as they index simultaneously the politics of research archives and the...
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January 15, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Many thanks for this kind reply. I also really appreciate your work much more generally. Thank you!
January 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Greetings! Great to connect with you here. Drop me an email at [email protected] and I can share some more.

cheers,
Matt
January 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM