Associate Prof in International Development @CDS_Bath | Editor @ROAPEjournal | Coordinator @IIPPE_ | Mining & Energy GVCs | Central Africa & Pacific Islands
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May 6
🚨New special issue on mining, green transitions & uneven development in the global South.
This thread links to the 18 contributions (11 open access), introduced here along with my fellow guest editors @CDS_Bath Roy Maconachie, @yixiansun & Aidan Barlow:
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Introducing an open access special issue on reparations & global health, @Liepollo9 argues that if the 19th century was the era of abolition & the 20th century of decolonisation (however incomplete), then the 21st century must be the era of repair.
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Jun 4
A great opportunity here for the right person to join @ROAPEjournal editorial board:
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Jun 4
A reminder that ROAPE is looking for two affiliates to join the journal’s Editorial Working Group for a year starting from September 2026.
Please apply by 9 June - all details are in the post!
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Jun 4
A reminder that ROAPE is looking for two affiliates to join the journal’s Editorial Working Group for a year starting from September 2026.
Please apply by 9 June - all details are in the post!
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Jun 2
ROAPE's latest issue 187 is now out, a retrospective on the South African Communist Party to mark its 100th anniversary
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Jun 1
To mark the 100th anniversary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Peter Lawrence and Janet Cherry introduce ROAPE’s special issue 187, which focuses on the role of the SACP in the post-liberation government led by the African National Congress.
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Jun 1
To mark the 100th anniversary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Peter Lawrence and Janet Cherry introduce ROAPE’s special issue 187, which focuses on the role of the SACP in the post-liberation government led by the African National Congress.
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May 28
🚨ROAPE Journal, Volume 53 Issue 187 is out now!
The South African Communist Party: liberation, socialism and state power in South Africa
Issue Editors: Janet Cherry and Peter Lawrence
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May 20
New publication, with @SFMoshonas & @tomdeherdt in Development & Change: "Bureaucracy as Assemblage: Civil Service Reform, Administrative Legacies and the Politics of Informalization in the Democratic Republic of Congo" #DRC (1/n) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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May 20
This is a really excellent piece of writing, on a generally under-reported story.
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May 20
In March, the UN passed a Ghanaian-led resolution naming the transatlantic slave trade a crime against humanity.
Priyanka Sharma argues the vote was a strategic masterstroke, forcing the West to defend the capitalist foundations of its historical wealth.
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May 20
In March, the UN passed a Ghanaian-led resolution naming the transatlantic slave trade a crime against humanity.
Priyanka Sharma argues the vote was a strategic masterstroke, forcing the West to defend the capitalist foundations of its historical wealth.
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May 14
🧵1/4 A short thread providing further background & information on yetserday's events
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May 14
Gathanga Ndung’u - community organiser & activist at @MathareSJustice - explains how Kenya’s puppet government is helping France salvage its waning colonial grip on Africa & how the voices opposed to these imperial manoeuvres are being brutally silenced.
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May 14
Important dispatch on yesterday's events in Kenya, as peaceful demonstrators against French imperialism were arrested
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May 14
Gathanga Ndung’u - community organiser & activist at @MathareSJustice - explains how Kenya’s puppet government is helping France salvage its waning colonial grip on Africa & how the voices opposed to these imperial manoeuvres are being brutally silenced.
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May 14
Important dispatch on yesterday's events in #Kenya, with many arrested for peacefully protesting French imperialism, from community organiser & activist with @MathareSJustice Gathanga Ndung'u
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I think this might win an award for longest ever time to finish an article. I started working on this article in 1991, just published now:
"Revising Structuralism in Times of Crisis: Lance Taylor and the Neo-Structuralist Synthesis in the 1980s"
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May 11
ROAPE interviews legendary African-American socialist August Nimtz who shares how his travels to Tanzania in the 1970s played a crucial role in his intellectual journey from Pan-African nationalism to radical socialism.
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Great to see the full Special Issue out! SO many excellent papers spanning a wide range of countries - including Indonesia - that all try to weigh up the promises and risks of expanding mining for the green transition. Thanks to @RadleyBen and @CDS_Bath editors!
May 6
🚨New special issue on mining, green transitions & uneven development in the global South.
This thread links to the 18 contributions (11 open access), introduced here along with my fellow guest editors @CDS_Bath Roy Maconachie, @yixiansun & Aidan Barlow:
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This infographic examines the evolution of the DRC’s 2025 cobalt export ban - from temporary bans to structured quota systems - and their strategic role in modern resource governance. Learn more about our research at aegt.ca/.
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May 5
Let this sink in:
A person with the *median* income in Mozambique is at the 3rd lowest global percentile; a person with the median income in Congo is at the 2nd lowest global percentile.
A person with the median German income is at the 91st global percentile. A person with the median US income is at the 93rd global percentile.
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May 6
🚨New special issue on mining, green transitions & uneven development in the global South.
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May 6
From local priorities to global responses: Assessing sustainability initiatives in South American lithium mining
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By @MartinObaya, Diego I. MurguÃa & Daniela Sánchez-López
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May 6
Will Congo 🇨🇩 move up the battery supply chain? Strategic capitalism, friendshoring, and localized manufacturing in the time of the green transition
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