Good ideas, all of them, but the answer to your questions is probably that editors don't have much traction with the publishers and the evermore tenuously tied-in subcontractors who do the actual work of maintaining the journal platforms, setting auto responses and, of course, robo-proofing.
This handy comparison of the alternative approaches using the pill metaphor is very teachable, but there are many more critical resources that could have been listed, including Reimagining Global Health by Farmer et al and allied critiques of blue-pill neoliberalism such as doi.org/10.1080/1356....
Branko Milanovic offers a superb analysis in Jacobin that makes an important distinction between tracking neoliberal policy-making nationally and transnationally. The resulting comparison of China and the US is extremely useful, offering fresh purchase on Trumpism too.
jacobin.com/2025/03/what...
Nonsense, indeed! But might we also describe it as the geographical imagination of 'behemoth geopolitics'?
doi.org/10.1080/2469...
And some more market discipline today for 'Hayek's bastards' (to use the title of Quinn Slobodian's new book)! www.ft.com/content/c5a5...
0 to 1939 in 3 seconds! Talk about 'right wing accelerationism' (as so usefully outlined as part of the Trumpian Trinity by Quinn Slobodian on Democracy Now and in interview with Doug Henwood)
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
This great analysis of the Trump regime's NIH cuts highlights how they are going to create a eugenicist approach to health - replaying anew the ways we saw 'herd immunity' during COVID get reimagined on the right as the survival of a white supremacist national herd.
My latest for @thenation.com.
This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Maybe, but the 10% tariffs on China come on top of preceding ones and will really hurt companies such as Apple
Broligarchy gone wild
This appeal for a 'Spark' by Riley led me (with an 'e' - Sparke!) to another piece in NLR on the Trump-tech oligarch axis that ends with a note - 'Yet the tech billionaires have their own obstacles to confront' - that Trump's tariffs now make matter very materially! newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
a nice piece by @dylanriley032571.bsky.social newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
This piece co-authored with my grad students is informed by other theorists too, but is also aligned with Foucault's 'method' with/on archives: doi.org/10.1177/0263...
Many thanks for this kind reply. I also really appreciate your work much more generally. Thank you!
Greetings! Great to connect with you here. Drop me an email at msparke@ucsc.edu and I can share some more.
cheers,
Matt
This points to some of the extreme inequalities in vulnerability and resilience we see in California. To map related risks and provide response resources for farmworkers specifically, our team at UCSC has created a risk map app and allied trainings for CHWs/promotoras: see farmworkerhealth.ucsc.edu
A terrific take on the demise of neoliberal globalization of which Trump's geopolitics is just another symptom. But Milanovic does not delve into today's neoliberal continuities in the enduring support for plutocrats, monopolists, and investor class rentiers... except to critique the FT mainstream!
"Access to essential medicines remains a global challenge. Medicines consistently display high prices, low affordability, and poor availability"
Sobering study with data from 54 low-income and middle-income countries
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
At just under 2.5K words, Eliot Weinberger's indictment of the incoming Trump administration is a critical primer to share with anyone who cares about our collective future. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Great new article on "Philanthrocapitalism, Neoliberalism, and the University," focused on the object (and landscaping) lessons of the failed Munger Hall project at UCSB. Its by my partner Katharyne Mitchell and Greg Woolston and can be found open access at doi.org/10.1177/1942...
This is spot on
I'll be speaking on an online panel for the transform! europe webinar "Trumpism as the New Normal?" on Wednesday, Dec 11, 2024 12:00 PM [ET].
Free but registration required:
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This conversation is so damn good.
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CFP: Ideational economic geographies
Global Conference on Economic Geography #GCEG2025
What does it mean to prioritize and problematize the role of ideas in the making and remaking of economic geographies?
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Jamie Peck, Chris Meulbroek & Rachel Phillips
