Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute
sperishefuni.bsky.social
Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute
@sperishefuni.bsky.social
SPERI develops and promotes new analysis and understanding of the major economic and political challenges arising from contemporary capitalism.

Blog: https://speri-blog.sites.sheffield.ac.uk

Podcast: https://sheffield.ac.uk/speri/podcast
🚢How do global supply chains drive labour exploitation, nature destruction and geopolitical tension?

📚Ben Selwyn discusses his new co-authored book Capitalist Value Chains on the latest episode of New Thinking in Political Economy

🎧Listen now: shorturl.at/NyFNT
October 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Does China's party-state capitalist model mean it can fully decarbonise its economy?

Our exec producer Chris Saltmarsh joins Remi to discuss his @ripejournal.bsky.social article on the development of the Chinese political economy and implications for tackling the climate crisis

🎧 shorturl.at/xUwW5
September 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
🏭 What are the impacts of the Indonesian state's Green Industrial Policy, in terms of growth, extractivism and environmental (in)justice?

Muhammad Firman Eko Putra on state capitalism in Indonesia's nickel industry, based on his MA dissertation

📖 Read here: shorturl.at/ROdIA
September 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
"Ending deforestation in Brazil requires not a change of rhetoric, but an entire rethink of the country’s ‘neo-extractivist’ development model and the system of political patronage that underpins it"

Paulina Flores-Martinez and coauthors for SPERI Blog: shorturl.at/8Z6hA
September 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
🫖 What are the limits of civil society activism in protecting workers who become excluded from systems of production?

✍️ Dr Natalie Langford discusses her new paper with @remiedwards.bsky.social, published this year in @ripejournal.bsky.social

🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/9Cqjj
August 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
💭 What's the relationship between organised violence and the capitalist economy?

Vicki Reif-Breitwieser talks about her research on corporate harm to communities through lithium extraction

🎧 Full episode here: shorturl.at/RnWdU
August 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
✍️NEW BLOG✍️

Labubu dolls are having a moment online - but what can this tell us about what consumers are seeking in the digital age?

Erhan Kilincarslan and Jiafan Li of @huddersfielduni.bsky.social on the emotional economics of Labubu

shorturl.at/JCGy7
July 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Is organised violence central to capitalism?

Our live episode recorded at @mybisa.bsky.social is @the-syllabus.bsky.social's podcast of the week

Listen here: shorturl.at/RnWdU
July 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🎙️ SPERI Presents... LIVE! 🎙️

📡 What is the relationship between the capitalist economy and organised violence by, within and between states?

⏺️ We recorded a roundtable discussion at @mybisa.bsky.social Conference in Belfast

Listen now: shorturl.at/GF3re
July 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🌏 Research Climate Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities workshop

💭 Our Doctoral Researchers Network hosted a one-day workshop for PGRs and ECRs working on the political economy of the climate crisis and activism

Info, including how to get involved in future events, here: shorturl.at/LXXsC
July 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🌾 How are Indian women losing out in India's 30-year agricultural crisis?

🎙Shreya Sinha from @qmul.bsky.social explores how shifts from cotton to rice production have excluded women workers and made their daily lives more arduous.

🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/WYfmC
June 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️

How does India's agrarian crisis harm women workers? 🌾

Shreya Sinha explores how shifts from cotton to rice cultivation relate to class, gender and caste oppression in Punjab 💭

🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/WYfmC

#Agriculture #PoliticalEconomy #Labour #Podcast
June 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🎙️ The urban field today isn’t progressive - it’s marked by inequality, polarisation, and tech monopoly power…

Tune in to our latest episode of New Thinking for more on the role of political power in reshaping cities 🏙️

🎧 Full Ep: shorturl.at/IOpZl
May 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🎙️ SPERI Presents… 🎙️

How do cities become engines of technocapitalist power? 🏙️

We explore how capitalism shapes urban life, labour & knowledge, and ask: Can we reclaim the city from value extraction? 💭

🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/IOpZl

#UrbanPoliticalEconomy #Technocapitalism #Podcast
May 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
May 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
💭NEW BLOG💭

Trump’s erratic actions expose the flaws in assuming political leaders behave rationally, challenging political science to confront irrational decision-making, argue Matthew Hurst and Thomas Moore

📝: shorturl.at/PckzE
May 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
💭NEW BLOG💭

Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley develop Seven Theses on Crisis in capitalism, illuminated by their discussions with experts in their recent 12-part podcast series

📝Read the blog: shorturl.at/sfKqO

🎧Listen to the series: shorturl.at/wxXZJ
April 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
🎙️ Routine overprescription, the subordination of science, and the co-option of the medical profession…

Tune in to our latest episode of New Thinking for more on vaccine hesitancy and the capitalist reality of the pharmaceutical industry 💊

🎧 Full Ep: shorturl.at/IyHMw
April 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🎙️SPERI Presents…🎙️

Why does a small group of companies dominate the pharmaceutical sector? What are the consequences for global health?💊

Dr Owain Williams discusses:

🦠 COVID
💵 Market-state-society relations
💉 The political economy of Big Pharma

🎧 shorturl.at/IyHMw
#GlobalHealth #COVID19 #Pharma
April 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
On 3 April 2025, SPERI hosted a workshop on the British Political Economy Tradition to examine its character, insights and contributions, and celebrate the life's work of Professor Andrew Gamble who recently retired

More here: shorturl.at/X9qrX
April 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️

Does the rise of right-wing populism represent a crisis of democracy in the West? What does this have to do with the 2008 crisis?

Michael Bray joins Chris and Dillon to discuss democracy in the history of capitalism and populism.

Listen now: shorturl.at/syXzE
April 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️

Rising prices have dominated social and political life in recent years. High inflation has been called the cost-of-living crisis, but does this constitute a crisis of capitalism or the system working as normal?

Martijn Konings discusses with Chris and Dillon

shorturl.at/GWVk8
April 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️

High rents, shortages and homelessness dominate the housing system. But does this represent a ‘housing crisis’ or capitalism functioning as it should?

Johnna Montgomorie joins Chris & Dillon in Crisis Point, episode 8

shorturl.at/zlVZ0
March 31, 2025 at 7:47 AM
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️

Clara Mattei joins Chris and Dillon for episode 7 of Crisis Point to discuss austerity

Why has it dominated politics since 2008? What explains its endurance as a response to economic crisis? And how has it produced crises of its own?

shorturl.at/pyE09
March 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️

In episode 6 of Crisis Point, Chris and Dillon interview Matthew Watson

They ask how the Long Depression (1870s-90s) informed key economic thinkers’ ideas about ‘crisis’ in capitalism including the contributions and limitations of neoclassical economics

shorturl.at/Iwkfk
March 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM