Critical Political Economy Research Network (RN06)

CPERN monthly workshops

During the pandemic we launched a series of CPERN monthly workshops, to allow our research network to continue to offer opportunities for us to meet and discuss new and developing issues and research in critical political economy. The series worked well so we have continued! This normally takes place at 5pm on the final Thursday of the month – join our email list to be updated on when the next workshop is due to take place.

Find below a list of the workshops we’ve held so far, with video recordings for most workshops from July 2021 onwards:

2021

• Jan 2021: A Critical Political Economy of the Populist Right, After Trump?, with Owen Worth, Mònica Clua-Losada and Yuliya Yurchenko

• Feb 2021: A critical political economy of the European Union under covid capitalism, with Laura Horn, Muireann O’Dwyer, Etienne Schneider

• March 2021: A critical political economy of disruption and resistance, with Alke Jenss, Clemence Fourton, Nikolai Huke, Alona Lyasheva

• April 2021: Neoliberal transformations and the state, before and after Covid, with Adriano Cozzolino, Davide Monaco, Aleksandra Piletić

• May 2021: Comparing (covid) capitalisms: forefronting crises, conflicts and contradictions in critical political economy, with Ian Bruff, Reecia Orzeck, Jana Bacevic

• June 2021: Climate Catastrophe and the Capitalist State, with Andrea Brock, Oscar Berglund, Madelaine Moore

• July 2021: Covid responses and the threat to Higher Education (co-hosted with EAEPE, SASE, ESA CPERN, BISA IPEG, and IIPPE), with Charlie Dannreuther, Henry Giroux, Laura Horn, Sam Dallyn

• Oct 2021: Cultural Materialism and “Keywords as method”, with Marie Moran and Owen Worth

• Nov 2021: Developments in Social Reproduction Theory, with Kirstin Munro and Jule Goikoetxea

2022

• Jan 2022: Fraternal capitalism, with Bhabani Shankar Nayak and Yuliya Yurchenko

• Feb 2022: A critical political economy of health movements, with Mònica Clua-Losada, Olatz Ribera-Almandoz, Mary Naughton (University College Dublin)

• April 2022: Ukraine and the changing nature of war: critical political economy, geopolitics, nationhood, with Aliona Liasheva, Marko Bojcun, Yuliya Yurchenko

• May 2022: Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal? Critical political economy and Political Organisation, with Rodrigo Nunes, David J. Bailey, Melany Cruz

• Sep 2022: Critical Political Economy of Work and Agency during and after Covid-19, with Sarrah Kassem, Phoebe V Moore, Saori Shibata

• Dec 2022: Social Movements and the Politics of Debt: Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents, with Christoph Sorg, Bernd Bonfert, David Bailey

2023

• Jan 2023: Monoliths of authoritarianism, cartographies of popular disenfranchisement and the ascendance of the far-right in Estonia, with Jokubas Salyga, Yuliya Yurchenko, Owen Worth

• May 2023: The Rise of the Capital-state and Neo-nationalism: A New Polanyian Moment, with Oleksandr Svitych, Yuliya Yurchenko, Gareth Dale

• July 2023: Derailed – How to fix Britain’s broken railways, with Tom Haines-Doran, Andrea Brock, David Bailey

• July 2023: Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism – A time of reproductive unrest, with Madelaine Moore, Aliki Koutlou, Gemma Gasseau

• August 2023: Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance, with Kai Koddenbrock, Benjamin Braun, Johannes Jäger, Daniela Tepe-Belfrage

• Oct 2023: Degrowth and agri-food systems: a research agenda for the critical social sciences, with Leonie Guerrero Lara, Bernd Bonfert

• Oct 2023: Toward a political economy of synthetic data: A data-intensive capitalism that is not a surveillance capitalism?, with James Steinhoff, Phoebe Moore, Justin Joque

2024

• Jan 2024: Renewable energy and EU-led authoritarian neoliberalization, with Aleksandra Piletić, Alke Jenss, Yuliya Yurchenko

• Feb 2024: Understanding Green Finance: A Critical Assessment and Alternative Perspectives, with Johannes Jäger, Patrick Bond, Richard Kozul-Wright

• March 2024: Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution, with Matthew Thompson, Yousaf Nishat-Botero, Christoph Sorg, Agnes Gagyi

• April 2024: The uneven and combined development of racial capitalism and South Africa’s changing race-class articulations, with Sam Ashman, Ilias Alami, Jörg Nowak

• May 2024: The critical political economy of climate protests, with Oscar Berglund, Louisa Rosemary Parks, Laurence Cox

• September 2024: Austerity-driven policification: Neoliberalisation, schools and the police in Britain, with Malte Laub, Emma Bell

• November 2024: Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency, with ROlan Erne, Ian Bruff, Guglielmo Meardi, Laura Horn

2025

• January 2025: Challenging SpaceX on the US–Mexico border: Value struggles against racial authoritarian neoliberalism, with Mònica Clua-Losada, Rosa Maryon, Ian Bruff

• February 2025: Regional pathologies of late-stage neoliberalization: The case of Japan in East Asia, with Saori Shibata, David Bailey, Nicolò Deiana, Max Nagel

• March 2025: Exiting the Factory: Strikes and Class Formation beyond the Industrial Sector, with Alexander Gallas, Andreas Bieler

• May 2025: Global solidarities against water grabbing: Without water, we have nothing, with Caitlin Schroering, Filippo  Menga, Lydia Karazarifi

• June 2025: The Left and Digital Politics: Political Parties from Platform Neoliberalism to Platform Socialism, with Marco Guglielmo, Bradley Ward, Maria Francesca De Tullio, Sara C. Santoriello

• September 2025: Urban social movements as extended class actors: struggles over reproduction in Buenos Aires, New York City and Hamburg, with Sarah Uhlmann, Miria Gambardella, Bernd Bonfert

• October 2025: Thirst: the global quest to solve the water crisis, with Filippo Menga, Gemma Gasseau, Alexander Dunlap

• November 2025: Coloniality dressed in green: in its current form, climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule, with Stefan Zylinski, Johannes Jäger, Ewa Dziwok

2026

• Jauary 2026: Finance and the Far Right: Financial-nationalist politics in an asset-manager world, with Inga Rademacher, Owen Worth, Alen Toplisek

• March 2026: Detaching ‘neoliberalism’ from ‘free markets’: monopolistic corporations as neoliberalism’s ideal market form, with Ian Bruff, Aleksandra Piletić, Matthew Watson

• April 2026: Cracks in left strategy: Interstitial revolution in E. O. Wright and John Holloway, with Neal Harris, Robin Jervis

• June 2026: Sterilizing democratic politics: The rise of the technocratic–neoliberal fix in Italy and Europe, with Adriano Cozzolino, Daniela Caterina