SPERI Blog
Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute
SPERI develops and promotes new analysis and understanding of contemporary capitalism, and the major economic and political challenges arising from it.
Latest posts
The politics of embedding a new economic consensus
Tony Payne - 15 April 2024Rachel Reeve's Mais Lecture charts a new economic course for Labour - but what will it take to embed a new economic consensus?
Why Sinoscepticism will remake British politics
Liam Stanley - 25 March 2024‘Sinoscepticism’, which we can define as a political position defined by opposition to the increasing power of China and its ruling Communist Party, prompts questions: why has this position become so prominent and what effects will it have? This piece is based on newly published research by the author.
Why the NHS is in crisis: an answer at three levels
Benjamin Stokes - 18 March 2024If we can only face looking back so far as the Covid pandemic and the political dynamics set in motion from 2010 - highly significant as they are - we’ll be missing the full story.
Materialising the immaterial, via the Belfast peace walls
Michael Livesey - 05 February 2024During the ‘Troubles’, the British Army and Government built ‘peace walls’ in Northern Irish cities to separate predominantly Catholic/nationalist from predominantly Protestant/unionist neighbourhoods. These walls imprinted ‘immaterial’ ideas about the relationship between social class and violence within ‘material’ structures of city space.
The political economy of managing conflict: the state-corporate nexus and 'greening' extractivism
Vicki Reif-Breitwieser - 21 November 2023Resistance and activism against extractivism is prompting repression by state and corporate actors. This blog is the third in the series The Political Economy of Conflict by members of SPERI's Doctoral Researcher Network.
Partisan geographic sorting in the UK: do political views influence to where we choose to move?
Georgios Efthyvoulou, Vincenzo Bove & Harry Pickard - 11 September 2023New research shows that, when we move within the UK, we tend to move to areas that share our political values and ideals.