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Hallsworth Research Fellow, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
Green promises, violent realities: how large-scale renewables perpetuate violence in vulnerable regions in Yucatan Mexico
Sandra Barragan Contreras & James Jackson - 25 November 2024Green promises, violent realities: how large-scale renewables perpetuate violence in vulnerable regions in Yucatan Mexico
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.
Introduction: The production of organised violence
Elena Simon, Remi Edwards, Vicki Reif-Breitwieser, Joanna Tidy, Sandra Barragan Contreras, James Jackson, Baris Celik & David Yates - 25 November 2024Introduction: The production of organised violence
This series, inspired by a SPERI workshop in June 2024, explores the intersections between economy and the exercise of organised violence.
Remi Edwards & James Jackson - 10 May 2022
Veganism offers a deep critique of contemporary food systems, but is susceptible to corporate co-optation that may reduce its transformative potential.
The rise of veganism: How the growth of sustainable diets may affect the political economy of food production in the UK
James Jackson - 6 July 2020The rise of veganism: How the growth of sustainable diets may affect the political economy of food production in the UK
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.
Studying an uncertain future: Researching political economy in a time of COVID-19, crisis and climate change
SPERI's Doctoral Researcher Network - 15 June 2020Studying an uncertain future: Researching political economy in a time of COVID-19, crisis and climate change
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.
The use of industrial policy to meet emissions reductions: is it enough?
James Jackson - 28 October 2019The use of industrial policy to meet emissions reductions: is it enough?
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.
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