The SPERI Doctoral Researchers Network hosted around 40 Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers to present their work, empirical and theoretical perspectives, on emerging themes and directions in Critical Political Economy (CPE). It provided platform to bolster, celebrate, and challenge research and ideas emerging in CPE, and facilitate networking for postgraduate and early career researchers in the field. CPE gives researchers at all levels frameworks to explore some of the most pressing issues facing humanity today. Polycrisis spanning economies, environments, polities, and societies across the world are prompting new questions and new approaches to understand the multiplicity of problems facing us.
Panels were organised as follows:
- The Dispossessed: Extractive economic in capitalism's crises
- Embodied Political Economies: Social reproduction and the everyday
- Past & Present: Power and crisis through time
- Greening Capitalism: Climate governance and the political economy of sustainability
- Capital & Coloniality: Racialised and uneven political economies
- New World Order: Polycrisis and the future of global politics
- Contesting Ideologies: The politics of economic ideas
- IPE From Below: Labour, resistance, and the politics of place
- Revisiting IPE: Governance, financial disciplines, and trade politics
The final session of the day was a plenary in which participants were invited to reflect upon contemporary crisis in the global economy, the role of political economists in analysing and acting within it, and future directions for the field in this regard.
The network conveners are Josh White, Vicki Reif-Breitwieser, Emma Mahoney, Chris
Saltmarsh and Andrew Hughes. If you're a doctoral researcher within or beyond the University of Sheffield interested in finding out more about SPERI DRN's activities, get in touch.