Mike McCarthy
University of California Santa Cruz Prof. Director of Community Studies. Author: The Master’s Tools (Verso) + Dismantling Solidarity (Cornell). Senior Associate Editor: Critical Sociology. Likes: economic democracy, critical social theory, 2x2 tables.
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Critical Social, Political, & Economic Theory
The theorists and activists here do work that denaturalizes power and points the way to alternatives that promote human and ecological flourishing. These: capitalism, democracy, social difference, power, solidarity, and emancipation.
Critical Social, Political, & Economic Theory
The theorists & activists here all do work that denaturalizes relations of power and points the way to alternatives that promote human and ecological flourishing. Themes: capitalism, democracy, environment, social difference, solidarity, emancipation.
@stephenshapiro.bsky.social
Edinburgh based: read my scholarly books below! I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
@davonnorris.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Organizational Studies at U of Michigan, but a Buckeye forever. In these debt and municipal finance streets
@realbrianjudge.bsky.social
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/democracy-in-default/9780231213998
@thomasherndon.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics, John Jay College, CUNY. Bass player for Light Sweet Crude and Minaxi. All thoughts my own.
@johanwahlsten.bsky.social
political economy of finance & money, economic democracy, & world politics | phd researcher @helsinkiuni
@sylviachi.bsky.social
dog person. i work on climate justice and public banking. she/they 🇺🇸🇹🇼 nutmegger in Oakland. Legal & Advocacy Director, Just Solutions; Fellow, Climate & Community Institute; Leg. Director, California Public Banking Alliance. opinions are my own
@motorres.bsky.social
sociologist: cities, political economy, race/racism · umich.edu/~motorres
@prof-deleon.bsky.social
Prof of Sociology & Labor Studies UMass Amherst - Author of Freedom Train https://www.ucpress.edu/books/freedom-train/paper - Co-Editor, Articulations Book Series https://www.sup.org/books/series/articulations-studies-race-immigration-and-capitalism
@alybatt.bsky.social
political theory @BarnardCollege: climate, Marxism, feminism. A Planet to Win at Verso; Free Gifts forthcoming at Princeton UP https://tinyurl.com/fa8868a5 www.alyssabattistoni.com
@assembleamerica.org
It’s time to save America. Democracy by Assembly is the way. We're putting everyday people in charge through Citizen Assemblies. Join the movement for #DxA www.assembleamerica.org
@alfredosaadfilho.bsky.social
Professor of International Political Economy, Queen’s University Belfast; visiting appointments at U of Johannesburg, LUT, U della Campania, SOAS, AU Cairo and U of Brasilia.
@ichatterjea.bsky.social
#ProductStrategy #UX #ServiceDesign @rendezvoux.bsky.social @soraaad.bsky.social "Teaching the Study of Religion w/o a Church: SORAAAD as Punk Pedagogy" https://search.worldcat.org/title/1368270665 🏴☠️ TDPR's Navigator 🏴☠️
@maximillianalvarez.bsky.social
- Editor in Chief & Co-Executive Director, @therealnews.com - Host, Working People podcast - Author, The Work of Living - Dad to many cats
@silkys13.bsky.social
executive director, Detention Watch Network, author Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024), from Texas, views my own book info/events: https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/unbuild-walls
@amnaakbar.bsky.social
@hjacobcarlson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Kean University, Social Housing Development Authority, "Housing is a Social Good" (2026)-@UChicagoPress https://www.hjacobcarlson.com/
@jordantcamp.bsky.social
Jordan T. Camp is Assoc. Prof. of American Studies at Trinity College, author of Incarcerating the Crisis, co-editor of Policing the Planet, and co-host of the Conjuncture podcast and web series: trinitysocialjustice.com/conjuncture-podcast/. Posts my own.
@maniccage.bsky.social
Beers, bikes & bong rips. Chicago homer to a fault. (he/him)
@ucl-ccs.bsky.social
CCS is a world-leading centre for critical interdisciplinary research into the past, present & future of capitalism, led by @ariskomporozos.bsky.social
@letcesar.bsky.social
Professora @UFSC | @UCBerkeley PhD | Digital anthropology, ecology of mind | Relações humano-máquina, cibernética da extrema direita, pós-neoliberalismo | Autora de O Mundo do Avesso @ubu_editora | Mãe de 2 humanos e 4 não-humanos
@clementpetitj.bsky.social
Community organizing | social movements | Chicago | yoga. Associate professor, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. Author of "Occupation: Organizer" (Haymarket Books)
@cperold.bsky.social
Asst Prof @cumediastudies. Research: labor, computer history, U.S. empire in Latin America. PhD @mccNYU. Member @ucwcolorado.
@megantobiasneely.bsky.social
Sociologist & Assistant Professor of Organization @CBScph. Author of #HedgedOut (http://tinyurl.com/Hedged-Out) & #Divested (http://tinyurl.com/Divested-Book)
@victorpickard.bsky.social
Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
@thomasmhanna.bsky.social
Author of Our Common Wealth: The Return of Public Ownership in the US | PhD: history and theory of Democratic Public Ownership | President and founder of the Institute for a Democratic Economy and Society (IDES) | Climate and Community Institute fellow. 🇵🇸
@algreen.house.gov
Proud to represent the Ninth Congressional District of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.
@katederickson.bsky.social
Professor at U of Minnesota Geog & Director, Urban Studies; Managing Editor, Society & Space; Instructor, Stillwater State Prison
@franifio.bsky.social
Chinese-Italian Scallion • Correspondent, comedian • Host of The Bitchuation Room Podcast on YouTube and Twitch • Newsbroke on @ajplus• IG: @franifio
@mattsparke.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of Politics, Geographer and Global and Community Health collaborator at University of California Santa Cruz.
@reijer.bsky.social
@econgeo.bsky.social
Economic Geography Professor: global commodity chains | financialization/agriculture | race-economy-inequality | African economic futures | Wrote a book on global money, farming & institutional landcapes www.institutionallandscapes.org | www.winra.org
@jamiepeck.bsky.social
Geographer at UBC, editor of EPA: Economy & Space; https://blogs.ubc.ca/peck/
@cwd-asu.bsky.social
Research and education supporting unions, movements, and working people’s organizations in the United States.
@charlotteerosen.bsky.social
historian, writer, abolitionist, buttercream enthusiast
@ankitbhardwaj.bsky.social
researches how democracies respond to climate change PhD candidate in Sociology, New York University more: https://sites.google.com/view/ankit-bhardwaj-climate
@davidarditi.bsky.social
Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism
@runzach.bsky.social
Sociologist of expertise, quantification, medicine, social policy at NYU zachgriffen.com
@mquijoux.bsky.social
Sociologue historisant démocraties au travail, syndicale et coopérative
@evgenymorozov.bsky.social
Hater of solutionism. Books: The Net Delusion; To Save Everything Click Here. Podcasts: The Santiago Boys. A Sense of Rebellion. Founder: The Syllabus.
@musefoundry.bsky.social
Former music analyst at Pandora | I publish articles on a regular basis on Medium: https://medium.com/@WeWillNotBeFlattened | Currently building the future of music offline https://musefoundry.studio/
@nikadubrovsky.bsky.social
Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More http://davidgraeber.institute, http://davidgraeber.org @museumofcare http://a4kids.org