Ian Bruff

@ianbruff.bsky.social

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Critical political economist, University of Manchester.

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · Oct 20

Rowman & Littlefield was recently taken over by Bloomsbury. I am very pleased to see that the 'Transforming Capitalism' book series, of which I was Managing Editor from 2014-23, now has a webpage again: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/tr...

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Rosa Luxemburg Foundation @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social · 2h

Happy Birthday, Antonio Gramsci. #OnThisDay in 1891, the Sardinian Marxist was born. From Turin’s workers’ councils to founding the Communist Party of Italy, his Prison Notebooks - written under fascist imprisonment - reshaped Marxist thought on power and hegemony.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 10h

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 1d

We should! I'm in the middle of marking at the moment and there'll be teaching prep, but perhaps some time next month?

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a good read!

Inanna Hamati-Ataya @berytia.bsky.social · 1d

My inaugural lecture, "Humanist Yearning as Political Epistemology” last October was an opportunity to share my vision for a new field of knowledge and celebrate the creation of the first ever chair in Global Political Anthropology | @facultyofartsug.bsky.social books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/...

Humanist Yearning as Political Epistemology | University of Groningen Press

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Inanna Hamati-Ataya @berytia.bsky.social · 1d

Humanist Yearning as Political Epistemology | University of Groningen Press

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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 1d

Now available for pre-order and we're open for book talks to students, workshops and conferences, organisations etc.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

A response to many of the replies I'm getting - people comparing AI to the emergence of useful technologies are getting it wrong.

AI is not the wheel or computers. It is asbestos, it is leaf blowers. It is a more harmful version of something we can already do.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

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Bernd Bonfert @bonfert.bsky.social · 2d

Belgian PM Bart De Wever quoting Gramsci's 'time of monsters' line against Trump was definitely not on my Geopolitics Bingo card

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CPERN @cpern.bsky.social · 2d

New CPERN online workshop: Finance and the Far Right (29 Jan)

Join us to discuss how asset-manager capitalism has shaped financial-nationalist politics

With author @ingarade.bsky.social and discussants Owen Worth and @alentop.bsky.social

On zoom: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

See you there!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN monthly workshop - January. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Inga Rademacher (City) presents her working paper: 'Finance and the far right: financial-nationalist politics in an asset-manager world' Discussants: Owen Worth (University of Limerick) and Alen Topl...

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 2d

An essential collection

Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · 2d

Out now!

I've edited a special issue of New Political Economy on 'Centring exploitation in global political economy'.

Link to the intro:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Other articles (all brilliant!) and a short summary 👇

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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · 2d

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Joseph Ward @jward232.bsky.social · 2d

Lockout at University of Sheffield! Yesterday, @sheffielduni.bsky.social members were told we'll lose 100% pay for the foreseeable as we refuse to replace teaching scheduled during strike action. They've docked pay once for this, now they're at it again! Donate here support us! gofund.me/ac2b3adcb

Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton

I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!

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Gareth @gfearn.bsky.social · 2d

🔊🔊 Episode 2 of our mini-series on authoritarian urbanism is out with @urbanpolitical.bsky.social. I discuss emergent and intensifying authoritarian practices w/ @nitin-bathla.bsky.social @alkejenss.bsky.social @sdwolfe.bsky.social @ebrukurtozman.bsky.social

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102 - Authoritarian Practices in Urban Government

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 2d

Drawing on his recent @risjnl.bsky.social article, Oliver Dodd explains why framing Colombia’s civil war as a narco problem fundamentally misunderstands how and why the conflict escalated
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Narco-Myths and Neoliberal War: Why Colombia’s Conflict Escalated - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Rather than a deviation from capitalist modernisation, how has political violence in Colombia been a constitutive outcome of a project of "passive revolution" through which capitalist modernisation wa...

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Malte Laub @maltelaub.bsky.social · 2d

Join @jward232.bsky.social and me in Izmir at #EWIS2026 to discuss the causes and effects of we have tentatively called 'austerity militarism' - the end of austerity for (European) militaries, but continued restraint and new cuts for welfare/social care.

CfP here eisa-net.org/wp-content/u...

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Kayhan Valadbaygi @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social · 3d

The paper edition of my book "Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics" will be released this month and is included in Manchester University Press’s January Sale. (1/8)

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 3d

Insa Koch's new book is now out, a worthy follow-up to the outstanding Personalising the State www.insaleekoch.com/modernslaver...

Drugs, Race, and the Politics of Modern Slavery Law — INSA LEE KOCH

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 3d

This is a really excellent and timely paper

John Duncan @johntheduncan.bsky.social · 9d

My article with Kian Aspinall in @DistinktionT is now available tp read. It's open access so anyone can read it (link below)

Neoliberal fascism emerges from the essential social relations of neoliberal hegemony in combination with its increasingly authoritarian statecraft

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 3d

The sequel being Grave of the Totoros

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Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 3d

I'm really proud to have been one of the lead authors of Oxfam’s global inequality report this year.

And honestly a bit overwhelmed by the impact it’s having this morning. When you’re used to your writing being read by a couple hundred fellow nerds, this is something else.

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 5d

Looks to be an important, and politicised, contribution on conjunctural analysis. Very necessary at the moment!

Alexander Gallas @alexandergallas.bsky.social · 6d

I've written a piece on #ConjuncturalAnalysis, which has been published in the open access journal Coils of the Serpent. Drawing upon #Marxism and #CriticalRealism, I argue that the conjuncture is an ontological layer. 1/3

coilsoftheserpent.org/2026/01/conj...

Conjunctural Analysis: A Materialist and Critical-Realist Approach – Coils of the Serpent

coilsoftheserpent.org

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Alexander Gallas @alexandergallas.bsky.social · 6d

Conjunctural Analysis: A Materialist and Critical-Realist Approach – Coils of the Serpent

coilsoftheserpent.org

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d

The single biggest thing (in cost terms) I’ve changed my mind about is UK tuition fees. Dreadful system, need to scrap it.

Jeremy Driver @jdriver89.bsky.social · 7d

This is clearly depressing and radicalising in a way a tax wouldn't have been.

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Jakub Krupa @jakubkrupa.bsky.social · 6d

Jenrick the latest conservative voice to use Poland & Bulgaria as rhetoric vehicles to advance the 'broken Britain' narrative, it's SO BAD that EVEN EASTERN EUROPEANS are (close to) doing better than us.

But Poland's success isn't UK's failure. Two different stories, mixed up.