Nick Bernards

Out now! I've edited a special issue of New Political Economy on 'Centring exploitation in global political economy'. Link to the intro: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Other articles (all brilliant!) and a short summary 👇 1/

The systemic and historical role of sanctions is vast and debilitating to ALL Global South countries. The International Development Complex plays a vital role in sustaining the US-led sanctions regime. My article at @MidEastCritique. #openaccess bit.ly/4lxGhGo

The piece I wrote on foreign investment screening mechanisms now has a journal issue "Foreign investment screening mechanisms and emergent geographies of (post)globalization" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

new article out:

This book will be out on 2 June 2026. It summarises 10 years of empirical and theoretical research on work&ecology, around the questions of automation and deindustrialisation, employment precarity, imperialism and reproduction. And since I'm back here, hands off Iran and Lebanon!

As Germany is entering the imperialist war against Iran and keeps supporting the genocide in Palestine, I hope that this piece can support collective efforts in the academy and beyond to have a hard look at our country, its history, present and future. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Really long in the making, pleased to share this Insight in World Development sciencedirect.com/science/articl… - many inspired this piece, and special thanks to Jairus Banaji and Rohini Hensman, Silvia Federici, Leopoldina Fortunati, and Shirin Rai. @SOASDevelopment @SOASpolitics

"The sense of some new technology as inevitable or unstoppable is a product of the overt and covert marketing of the relevant interests (...) powerfully assisted by a mode of cultural pessimism, among quite different and even apparently opposed people"Williams, Towards 2000 (133)

Struck by how contemporary the final lines of Marx’s 18th Brumaire feel re Trump 2.0

New paper on the geographies of capitalist subsumption — For those interested in subsumption, domination, Banaji, landed property and uneven development journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

New book available for pre-order. It simultaneously spatialises autonomist Marxism and utilises the categories of operaismo for a renewed Marxist urban theory. Read for surveys of class/spatial composition, 'the tendency' and the social factory in the midst of urban revolt.⤵️

✨New South Atlantic Quarterly special issue edited by me & Sarah Bufkin, "Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe" read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic… The cover is by Sámi painter Per Enoksson

We’re at a point where your average really basic point like ‘you can’t read political positions mechanistically from class positions’ is almost beside the point because the entire debate is based on a bizarro vibes-based idea of what class position is in the first place…

It does not, however, matter whether any of the above are women, or members of the Green Party, or install heat pumps.

I feel like the current ‘is a plumber working class?’ debate on here is honestly a new low in UK class discourse. Literally everyone is wrong and the stakes are depressing.

I just read this article, "Misperceptions of the Border" by Adam Hanieh and Rafeef Ziadah. I think it's fantastic and everyone should read it. brill.com/view/journals/…

My co-edited book with Kayhan Valadbaygi, Mode of Production and the Historiography of Capitalism, is now out with Bristol University Press. The book reopens the mode of production debate and its historiographical stakes. 50% off in the January sale. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/mode-of-produc…

📢I am glad to see this piece out now in New Political Economy! This article explains the remarkable success of the #crypto ecosystem in #Argentina 🇦🇷, paying close attention to its intertwining with crisis and through the lens of the #polycrisis. 🧵 #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The reactionary politics of non-adaptation One of the most under-appreciated paradoxes of the climate transition is people increasingly seeing climate action, not climate change, as having the bigger impact on their daily lives tinyurl.com/5n6jysd7