Papers

(2022). Utopia, future imaginations and prefigurative politics in the indigenous women’s movement in Argentina. Social Movement Studies. Ahead of Print.

Meta-work – the work that makes work possible – is an important aspect of professional lives. Yet, it is also one that remains understudied, in particular in th...

(2022). Feral fascists and deep green guerrillas: infrastructural attack and accelerationist terror. Critical Studies on Terrorism: Vol. 15, Critical Approaches to Extreme Right Wing Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism, pp. 169-208.

(2022). Capitalism and Imperialism in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century: A Critical Analysis of Conventional and Marxist Theories of Imperialism. International Critical Thought. Ahead of Print.

We propose a new international monetary system based on carbon currency (the carbon standard) to tackle two pressing externalities in today's global e…

(2022). The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’. Cultural Studies. Ahead of Print.

(2022). The biogeopolitics of cities: a critical enquiry across Jerusalem, Phnom Penh, Toronto. Planning Perspectives. Ahead of Print.

(2022). Challenging the skills fetish. British Journal of Sociology of Education. Ahead of Print.

(2022). Formalising and Informalising Labour in Vietnam. Journal of Contemporary Asia. Ahead of Print.

Ethics and Information Technology - In this study, I use the Critical Realism perspective of power to explain how the Bitcoin protocol operates as a system of power. I trace the ideological...

(2022). The historical logic of the mode of capital accumulation in Mozambique. Review of African Political Economy. Ahead of Print.

(2022). From global value chains to corporate production and innovation systems: exploring the rise of intellectual monopoly capitalism. Area Development and Policy. Ahead of Print.

Do volunteers and civil society groups entrench or subvert neoliberalisation? We contribute to this debate by utilising data from 662 self-administered questionnaires and 78 semi-structured interviews with adults who made and distributed personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to a failed federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA.

Whether the corporation should be considered a person is a matter of active academic and public debate. Here, we examine whether, and in what ways, or…

The neologism ‘necrosecurity’ describes the cultural idea that mass death among less grievable subjects plays an essential role in maintaining social welfare and public order. In the early months of the novel coronavirus pandemic in the United States, this perspective on the social value of death emerged in diverse contexts, particularly in claims that deaths were a necessary consequence of returning economies to normal. Necrosecurity discourse encourages audiences to perceive coronavirus fatalities as neither preventable nor exceptional, and to perceive themselves as facing little risk of infection or death. Overlooking the realities of infectious disease epidemiology, these accounts portrayed COVID-19 as a mild disease and imagined a population of robust and physically normative individuals who would survive an epidemic unscathed and ready to return to work. These appeals articulate with powerful cultural tropes of survivorship, in which statistical calculations of relative risk and life chances—ostensibly cited to inspire hope for an individual outcome—conceal a zero-sum calculus in which ill or susceptible individuals are pitted against one another. In contrast to the construct of biosecurity—the securing of collective life against risk—necrosecurity paradoxically imagines the deaths of vulnerable others as a means of managing shared existential dangers.

Brooke Erin Duffy, Megan Sawey

Fintech and decentralized finance have penetrated all areas of the financial system and have improved financial inclusion in the last decade. In this …

Abstract. Cruel memes spread messages of hate via social media. The Internet itself extends the memes’ geographical reach, and many such cruel memes circulate a

Digital platforms and application software have changed how people work in a range of industries. Empirical studies of the gig economy have raised concerns abou...

This article contributes to the emerging body of urban digitalisation scholarship concerned with alternative practices at the grassroots level by revi…

Scientific Reports - Trade of economically and physically scarce virtual water in the global food network

This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the ‘next pandemic’ and turns attention towards the role of pandemic