Hallsworth Research Fellow, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula reveals that renewable energy projects perpetuate forms of hidden violence against local ecosystems and indigenous communities. In a global push for large-scale solar and wind deployment, lives, livelihoods and cultures are being erased.
This series, inspired by a SPERI workshop in June 2024, explores the intersections between economy and the exercise of organised violence.
Veganism offers a deep critique of contemporary food systems, but is susceptible to corporate co-optation that may reduce its transformative potential.
With vegan and environmentally-friendly diets on the rise in the UK, this blog asks what these changes in consumption behaviour imply for the political economy of food production and how might the state support such a transition? This blog is part 4 of the ‘Studying an Uncertain Future‘ written by members of SPERI’s Doctoral Researchers Network.
A new generation of political economists, drawn from SPERI’s Doctoral Researcher Network reflect on what their work tells us about where the world may be going in the next ten years.
While the UK’s industrial strategy is an important step in meeting the 2050 net zero carbon target set under the Climate Change Act, there are limits to these policies.