Ulas Ince
@ulasince.bsky.social
Associate Professor of political theory at SOAS; British Academy Senior Research Fellow; author of Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism (Oxford 2018; https://bit.ly/3a8F0mr); writes on colonialism, capitalism, race; www.ulasince.com
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Ulas Ince
@ulasince.bsky.social
· Nov 5
Saving capitalism from empire: uses of colonial history in new institutional economics - Onur Ulas Ince, 2024
This article contributes to theorising colonialism and capitalism within the same analytic frame through a critical engagement with the uses of colonial history...
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My critique of Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson's colonial history of development is out in the latest issue of International Relations.
Their dichotomy of inclusionary vs. extractive institutions do not survive the history of actually existing capitalism in slavery, imperialism, and settlerism.
Their dichotomy of inclusionary vs. extractive institutions do not survive the history of actually existing capitalism in slavery, imperialism, and settlerism.
Let's see how well this ages.
October 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Let's see how well this ages.
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AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.
Run, don’t walk.
Run, don’t walk.
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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September 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.
Run, don’t walk.
Run, don’t walk.
APSA 2025 impression: academic conference receptions are practically Hieronymous Bosch paintings.
September 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
APSA 2025 impression: academic conference receptions are practically Hieronymous Bosch paintings.
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As an anthropologist, I'm inclined to try to understand stuff that looks like magical thinking rather than mock it, but proposing to build a God and then expecting him to tell you how to get rich is really testing all of my professional training...
From the replies (bsky.app/profile/dasb...) here's Sam Altman doing what the quoted post described. He seems serious about it.
August 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
As an anthropologist, I'm inclined to try to understand stuff that looks like magical thinking rather than mock it, but proposing to build a God and then expecting him to tell you how to get rich is really testing all of my professional training...
I have reviewed Inés Valdez's book, Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, for Political Theory journal.
I highly recommend it on its integration of political economy into political theorizing. 👇
I highly recommend it on its integration of political economy into political theorizing. 👇
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June 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I have reviewed Inés Valdez's book, Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, for Political Theory journal.
I highly recommend it on its integration of political economy into political theorizing. 👇
I highly recommend it on its integration of political economy into political theorizing. 👇
Here's your "fiscal headroom."
UK families ‘seize moment’ to buy exclusive London homes as non-doms retreat
Domestic buyers take advantage of tumbling prices as new non-dom tax regime cools interest from abroad
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June 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Here's your "fiscal headroom."
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Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
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The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
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June 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
My article on capitalist racialization and Chinese migration in British Asia received an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Article Award from APSA's International History and Politics Section.
Open access👇
Open access👇
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire - Volume 118 Issue 4
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June 6, 2025 at 7:04 AM
My article on capitalist racialization and Chinese migration in British Asia received an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Article Award from APSA's International History and Politics Section.
Open access👇
Open access👇
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Nominations are now open for BIAPT’s Early and Mid-career prizes. Please consider nominating someone’s whose contribution to our field you really value. Note that self-nominations *are* permitted. Deadline is May 23rd. Details 👇 www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk?p=4842&previ...
BIAPT Prizes 2025: call for nominations - BIAPT
Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought Prizes 2025 Nominations are invited for our two annual prizes: The BIAPT Early-Career Prize 2025 Open to political theorists within eight years of...
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March 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Nominations are now open for BIAPT’s Early and Mid-career prizes. Please consider nominating someone’s whose contribution to our field you really value. Note that self-nominations *are* permitted. Deadline is May 23rd. Details 👇 www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk?p=4842&previ...
A useful overview of the state of the art on "racial capitalism."
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism in the United States | Annual Reviews
This article summarizes recent scholarship on racial capitalism with an eye toward highlighting the opportunities the lens poses for the field of American political economy. It reviews the origins and...
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May 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A useful overview of the state of the art on "racial capitalism."
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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You get a lot of centrist YIMBY types going on about planning and "get government red tape out the way and just build build build!" but impossible to look at this graph and draw any conclusion other than "oh, shit, the shortfall is just state housing"
April 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
You get a lot of centrist YIMBY types going on about planning and "get government red tape out the way and just build build build!" but impossible to look at this graph and draw any conclusion other than "oh, shit, the shortfall is just state housing"
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Join us on 11 April at SOAS for the workshop, "Globalizing Political Economy: Uneven Topographies of Capitalism."
Full program below.
Attendees need to register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
Full program below.
Attendees need to register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
April 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Join us on 11 April at SOAS for the workshop, "Globalizing Political Economy: Uneven Topographies of Capitalism."
Full program below.
Attendees need to register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
Full program below.
Attendees need to register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
Join us on 11 April at SOAS for the workshop, "Globalizing Political Economy: Uneven Topographies of Capitalism."
Full program below.
Attendees need to register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
Full program below.
Attendees need to register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
April 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Join us on 11 April at SOAS for the workshop, "Globalizing Political Economy: Uneven Topographies of Capitalism."
Full program below.
Attendees need to register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
Full program below.
Attendees need to register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
"“We are living through the nightmare edition of ‘Great Men Make History’,” wrote the leftwing theorist Mike Davis shortly before his death in 2022. “... there are few safety switches between today’s maximum leaders and Armageddon."
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Corporate America won’t stop Trump’s tariffs. Here’s why | Alex Bronzini-Vender
Whether among executives, lobbyists or university trustees, an elite backlash to the Trump administration won’t. Only working people can resist Trump
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April 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"“We are living through the nightmare edition of ‘Great Men Make History’,” wrote the leftwing theorist Mike Davis shortly before his death in 2022. “... there are few safety switches between today’s maximum leaders and Armageddon."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"I'm an American prince with 10 million dollars that I need to get out of the country. I will give you one million dollar if you help me. Please send me your bank account information. God bless you."
April 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"I'm an American prince with 10 million dollars that I need to get out of the country. I will give you one million dollar if you help me. Please send me your bank account information. God bless you."
Last call -- happening tomorrow
"Empire and Emancipation"
"Empire and Emancipation"
"Empire and Emancipation"
Panel organized by London Political Theory Network
4 April, 3pm.
SOAS, Senate House Rm 104.
Register at the link:👇
Panel organized by London Political Theory Network
4 April, 3pm.
SOAS, Senate House Rm 104.
Register at the link:👇
Empire and Emancipation Panel + Spring Social
The London Political Theory Network will host scholars to explore themes of colonialism, imperial legacy, and anticolonial resistance.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Last call -- happening tomorrow
"Empire and Emancipation"
"Empire and Emancipation"
An excellent initiative.
"The Return of Political Economy to Intellectual History."
"The Return of Political Economy to Intellectual History."
Call for Submissions, JHI Blog Forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”
Inspired by a panel at the 2025 American Historical Association annual conference, this JHI Blog Forum will collect and publish short reflections on the relationship between new work in intellectual h...
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April 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
An excellent initiative.
"The Return of Political Economy to Intellectual History."
"The Return of Political Economy to Intellectual History."
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Bloody hell. What a point.
Can u imagine this amount of coverage about the economic costs of Brexit?
Sigh.
Sigh.
April 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Bloody hell. What a point.
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Really looking forward to this, thanks @ulasince.bsky.social for organizing and bringing us all together!
Join us on 11 April at SOAS for the workshop, "Globalizing Political Economy."
Details and registration here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
Details and registration here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
April 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Really looking forward to this, thanks @ulasince.bsky.social for organizing and bringing us all together!
Reposted by Ulas Ince
Join us on 11 April at SOAS for the workshop, "Globalizing Political Economy."
Details and registration here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
Details and registration here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
April 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Join us on 11 April at SOAS for the workshop, "Globalizing Political Economy."
Details and registration here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
Details and registration here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
Join us on 11 April at SOAS for the workshop, "Globalizing Political Economy."
Details and registration here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
Details and registration here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
April 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Join us on 11 April at SOAS for the workshop, "Globalizing Political Economy."
Details and registration here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
Details and registration here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...
I wish I was "junior" enough to attend this. Hopkins has a terrific group of scholars working on race, capitalism, and political economy.
If you're a graduate student or junior scholar interested in the intersection between racial politics and political economy please consider attending the 2025 Johns Hopkins University Racial Politics Summer School (June 2-6). Applications now open! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Johns Hopkins 2025 Racial Politics Summer School on Political Economy
The Johns Hopkins Racial Politics Summer School (June 2-June 6 2025) The formal study of the relationship between the state and the market has long drawn the attention of scholars for intellectual an...
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March 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I wish I was "junior" enough to attend this. Hopkins has a terrific group of scholars working on race, capitalism, and political economy.
Happening in a few hours.
I'm giving an online lecture next week at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, based on my critique of Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson.
Zoom link and details:
www.csds.in/saving_capit...
And the critique itself:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Zoom link and details:
www.csds.in/saving_capit...
And the critique itself:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
March 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Happening in a few hours.
"Empire and Emancipation"
Panel organized by London Political Theory Network
4 April, 3pm.
SOAS, Senate House Rm 104.
Register at the link:👇
Panel organized by London Political Theory Network
4 April, 3pm.
SOAS, Senate House Rm 104.
Register at the link:👇
Empire and Emancipation Panel + Spring Social
The London Political Theory Network will host scholars to explore themes of colonialism, imperial legacy, and anticolonial resistance.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"Empire and Emancipation"
Panel organized by London Political Theory Network
4 April, 3pm.
SOAS, Senate House Rm 104.
Register at the link:👇
Panel organized by London Political Theory Network
4 April, 3pm.
SOAS, Senate House Rm 104.
Register at the link:👇
Once the legitimate preserve of the boomers and an object of cringe for everyone else, mustaches are back - presumably in the quasi-ironic mode just as plaid shirts and beards were once the rage amongst hipsters. In that spirit, I'll leave this gem of a song here for the newly 'tached. We love you.
A Million Ways to Die in the West (5/10) Movie CLIP - If You've Only Got a Moustache (2014) HD
YouTube video by Movieclips
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March 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Once the legitimate preserve of the boomers and an object of cringe for everyone else, mustaches are back - presumably in the quasi-ironic mode just as plaid shirts and beards were once the rage amongst hipsters. In that spirit, I'll leave this gem of a song here for the newly 'tached. We love you.