Lars Cornelissen
@lcornelissen.bsky.social
Researcher, editor, teacher
Author of *Neoliberalism and Race* (https://bit.ly/46bn07F)
Blogs at *Keeping Up With the Neoliberals* (https://bit.ly/3IhsnJk)
Author of *Neoliberalism and Race* (https://bit.ly/46bn07F)
Blogs at *Keeping Up With the Neoliberals* (https://bit.ly/3IhsnJk)
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Author’s copies of my book have arrived! It looks even better IRL!
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
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In December 2025, the ISRF launched its eighth Mid-Career Fellowship competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, the Selection Panel met in July 2026, and voted to make seven awards.
Read more about their projects at https://isrf.org/competitions/mcf8
Read more about their projects at https://isrf.org/competitions/mcf8
September 25, 2026 at 9:03 AM
In December 2025, the ISRF launched its eighth Mid-Career Fellowship competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, the Selection Panel met in July 2026, and voted to make seven awards.
Read more about their projects at https://isrf.org/competitions/mcf8
Read more about their projects at https://isrf.org/competitions/mcf8
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My book, Unruly Subjects, is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social 📘✨
For the last decade, I’ve been researching Europe’s border struggles in Greece, in the Aegean archipelago. It's a look at how people - citizens and non-citizens - carve out spaces of hope amidst state violence and abandonment. (1/4)
For the last decade, I’ve been researching Europe’s border struggles in Greece, in the Aegean archipelago. It's a look at how people - citizens and non-citizens - carve out spaces of hope amidst state violence and abandonment. (1/4)
September 3, 2026 at 1:06 PM
My book, Unruly Subjects, is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social 📘✨
For the last decade, I’ve been researching Europe’s border struggles in Greece, in the Aegean archipelago. It's a look at how people - citizens and non-citizens - carve out spaces of hope amidst state violence and abandonment. (1/4)
For the last decade, I’ve been researching Europe’s border struggles in Greece, in the Aegean archipelago. It's a look at how people - citizens and non-citizens - carve out spaces of hope amidst state violence and abandonment. (1/4)
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Happy to share my latest article in @theconversation.com where I try to give a sense of the amazing people and the unique setting of the Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek: theconversation.com/kyrgyzstans-...
Kyrgyzstan’s Dordoi Bazaar: a world made from shipping containers and a city within a city
Every container opens onto its own distinct social world.
theconversation.com
August 4, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Happy to share my latest article in @theconversation.com where I try to give a sense of the amazing people and the unique setting of the Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek: theconversation.com/kyrgyzstans-...
@ersjournal.com has published a review forum for my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book, Neoliberalism and Race
Contributions are by Arun Kundnani, Siddhant Issar, and Hasret Cetinkaya, followed by my reply
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Contributions are by Arun Kundnani, Siddhant Issar, and Hasret Cetinkaya, followed by my reply
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Race, neoliberalism and ideology critique
In this response to the book symposium on Neoliberalism and Race, the author explains what intervention the book aims to make, explores the value of ideology critique when studying the role of raci...
www.tandfonline.com
July 21, 2026 at 5:09 PM
@ersjournal.com has published a review forum for my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book, Neoliberalism and Race
Contributions are by Arun Kundnani, Siddhant Issar, and Hasret Cetinkaya, followed by my reply
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Contributions are by Arun Kundnani, Siddhant Issar, and Hasret Cetinkaya, followed by my reply
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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🎙️Season 3 of Material Crimes launches today! This podcast explores how infrastructure is made by global systems yet experienced and contested in locally. This week's episode - the legacy of the “Cape-to-Cairo” railway and the fight from activists today for a united Africa https://bit.ly/4prFjxe
July 21, 2026 at 11:02 AM
🎙️Season 3 of Material Crimes launches today! This podcast explores how infrastructure is made by global systems yet experienced and contested in locally. This week's episode - the legacy of the “Cape-to-Cairo” railway and the fight from activists today for a united Africa https://bit.ly/4prFjxe
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My new article with @mihjournal.bsky.social is at long last in orbit. It explores how the neoliberal fantasy machine has used space colonisation to wish away the problem of environmental limits and revive the legitimation of private property.
A “Limitless Frontier”? Neoliberalism, Silicon Valley, and the Commercialization of Space | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
A “Limitless Frontier”? Neoliberalism, Silicon Valley, and the Commercialization of Space
www.cambridge.org
July 17, 2026 at 8:55 AM
My new article with @mihjournal.bsky.social is at long last in orbit. It explores how the neoliberal fantasy machine has used space colonisation to wish away the problem of environmental limits and revive the legitimation of private property.
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What is the human impact of the current crisis in UK higher education? Bethan Evans draws from the experiences of academics with energy limiting conditions to show how universities function as an 'exhaustion economy' Check out the latest from our Dispatches series
The exhaustion economy: Seven illustrations of life at UK universities
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July 2, 2026 at 11:02 AM
What is the human impact of the current crisis in UK higher education? Bethan Evans draws from the experiences of academics with energy limiting conditions to show how universities function as an 'exhaustion economy' Check out the latest from our Dispatches series
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In this new series on 'Locating the Geopolitical' we argue that anthropology is particularly well equipped to study the geopolitical - not as an abstract domain of global affairs, but as something co-produced and rendered meaningful from within concrete locations and experiences. shorturl.at/yOLYQ
Locating the Geopolitical · Anthropological Theory
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June 24, 2026 at 8:03 AM
In this new series on 'Locating the Geopolitical' we argue that anthropology is particularly well equipped to study the geopolitical - not as an abstract domain of global affairs, but as something co-produced and rendered meaningful from within concrete locations and experiences. shorturl.at/yOLYQ
New publication!
Earlier this week, my new paper was published in @mihjournal.bsky.social: 'Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial'
It's Open Access!
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doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Earlier this week, my new paper was published in @mihjournal.bsky.social: 'Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial'
It's Open Access!
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doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial
doi.org
June 24, 2026 at 10:10 AM
New publication!
Earlier this week, my new paper was published in @mihjournal.bsky.social: 'Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial'
It's Open Access!
1/
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
Earlier this week, my new paper was published in @mihjournal.bsky.social: 'Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial'
It's Open Access!
1/
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
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Universities often encourage academics to leave their ivory towers. Yet such work is veiled in risk assessments and reputational management. In this Dispatch, Eric Lybeck argues for the slow and uneven practice of meaningful civic engagement
What Makes Public Engagement So Difficult (and Why It Still Matters)
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June 11, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Universities often encourage academics to leave their ivory towers. Yet such work is veiled in risk assessments and reputational management. In this Dispatch, Eric Lybeck argues for the slow and uneven practice of meaningful civic engagement
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Restructuring continues to be the proposed solution to the financial crisis of British universities as academics face the risk of redundancy. What does it mean to live under a constant cloud of uncertainty? @gsoh31.bsky.social explores further in our latest Dispatch
What Does It Feel Like to Live Under the Threat of Redundancy?
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June 9, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Restructuring continues to be the proposed solution to the financial crisis of British universities as academics face the risk of redundancy. What does it mean to live under a constant cloud of uncertainty? @gsoh31.bsky.social explores further in our latest Dispatch
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New article! How is finance ‘raced’, and why is this the case? With what consequences for our understandings of race, finance, and capitalism?
To explore this, we develop a 'raced finance' analytic, grounded in political economy and racial capitalism debates. Link 👇🏾and 🧵:
To explore this, we develop a 'raced finance' analytic, grounded in political economy and racial capitalism debates. Link 👇🏾and 🧵:
May 13, 2026 at 12:47 PM
New article! How is finance ‘raced’, and why is this the case? With what consequences for our understandings of race, finance, and capitalism?
To explore this, we develop a 'raced finance' analytic, grounded in political economy and racial capitalism debates. Link 👇🏾and 🧵:
To explore this, we develop a 'raced finance' analytic, grounded in political economy and racial capitalism debates. Link 👇🏾and 🧵:
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NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇
isrf.org/blog/whats-t...
isrf.org/blog/whats-t...
What’s the future for our universities?
isrf.org
May 5, 2026 at 4:48 PM
NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇
isrf.org/blog/whats-t...
isrf.org/blog/whats-t...
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I'm excited to announce a cfa for Roadsides' fall issue on 'Markets as Infrastructures.' Together with Hasan H. Karrar we edit this issue and we look forward to receiving abstracts from far and wide, incl. #economicanthropology #politicaleconomy #decolonialstudies www.roadsides.net/collections/...
February 20, 2026 at 12:52 PM
I'm excited to announce a cfa for Roadsides' fall issue on 'Markets as Infrastructures.' Together with Hasan H. Karrar we edit this issue and we look forward to receiving abstracts from far and wide, incl. #economicanthropology #politicaleconomy #decolonialstudies www.roadsides.net/collections/...
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For the forum on political economy, Lars Cornelissen answers Samuel Moyn’s call to conceptualize the social side of ideology by turning to Stuart Hall’s idea of ideology as “practical reason,” examining the material networks that led neoliberalism further rightward.
@lcornelissen.bsky.social
@lcornelissen.bsky.social
Stuart Hall, Ideology, and Neoliberalism’s Reactionary Drift
by Lars Cornelissen
This essay is part of a JHI Blog forum, “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
web.sas.upenn.edu
February 2, 2026 at 2:42 PM
For the forum on political economy, Lars Cornelissen answers Samuel Moyn’s call to conceptualize the social side of ideology by turning to Stuart Hall’s idea of ideology as “practical reason,” examining the material networks that led neoliberalism further rightward.
@lcornelissen.bsky.social
@lcornelissen.bsky.social
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In Neoliberalism and Race, @lcornelissen.bsky.social argues that race is the organising principle of neoliberalism. He shows that racial motifs have always shaped neoliberal thought—and cannot be removed without rendering it incoherent.
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Neoliberalism and race: a love story - ROAPE
Lars Cornelissen offers an extract from his recent book Neoliberalism and Race, which argues that race functions as an organising principle of neoliberal ideology. Drawing on intellectual history and…
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January 30, 2026 at 10:22 AM
In Neoliberalism and Race, @lcornelissen.bsky.social argues that race is the organising principle of neoliberalism. He shows that racial motifs have always shaped neoliberal thought—and cannot be removed without rendering it incoherent.
buff.ly/MevrIVm
buff.ly/MevrIVm
I have a new paper out in @ripejournal.bsky.social:
From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion
It's Open Access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion
It's Open Access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion
This paper brings together scholarship on the history of neoliberal thought with the emerging ‘raced finance’ research agenda. The paper makes a methodological and an empirical contribution. First,...
www.tandfonline.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I have a new paper out in @ripejournal.bsky.social:
From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion
It's Open Access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion
It's Open Access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Great reporting:
"In total, the IEA accepted £479,992 from oil and gas firms, with the majority (£357,063) coming from 1991 onwards. These fossil fuel giants were among the biggest corporate contributors to the IEA during the period, according to DeSmog’s analysis."
www.desmog.com/2025/12/10/t...
"In total, the IEA accepted £479,992 from oil and gas firms, with the majority (£357,063) coming from 1991 onwards. These fossil fuel giants were among the biggest corporate contributors to the IEA during the period, according to DeSmog’s analysis."
www.desmog.com/2025/12/10/t...
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Great reporting:
"In total, the IEA accepted £479,992 from oil and gas firms, with the majority (£357,063) coming from 1991 onwards. These fossil fuel giants were among the biggest corporate contributors to the IEA during the period, according to DeSmog’s analysis."
www.desmog.com/2025/12/10/t...
"In total, the IEA accepted £479,992 from oil and gas firms, with the majority (£357,063) coming from 1991 onwards. These fossil fuel giants were among the biggest corporate contributors to the IEA during the period, according to DeSmog’s analysis."
www.desmog.com/2025/12/10/t...
I really enjoyed recording this podcast on my new book, Neoliberalism and Race, with Morteza Hajizadeh
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newbooksnetwork.com/neoliberalis...
Lars Cornelissen, "Neoliberalism and Race" (Stanford UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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November 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I really enjoyed recording this podcast on my new book, Neoliberalism and Race, with Morteza Hajizadeh
newbooksnetwork.com/neoliberalis...
newbooksnetwork.com/neoliberalis...
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Latest blog post
Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
by @lcornelissen.bsky.social
In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised.
isrf.org/blog/neolibe...
Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
by @lcornelissen.bsky.social
In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised.
isrf.org/blog/neolibe...
Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
isrf.org
October 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Latest blog post
Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
by @lcornelissen.bsky.social
In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised.
isrf.org/blog/neolibe...
Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
by @lcornelissen.bsky.social
In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised.
isrf.org/blog/neolibe...
It's publication day for Neoliberalism and Race!
Beginning in the interwar period and running through to recent developments, Neoliberalism and Race by Lars Cornelissen shows that racial themes have always pervaded neoliberal thinking. #ReadUP
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https://ow.ly/KQGr50XaO8e
October 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It's publication day for Neoliberalism and Race!
Author’s copies of my book have arrived! It looks even better IRL!
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Author’s copies of my book have arrived! It looks even better IRL!
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Turns out the men who founded the Adam Smith Institute held some pretty controversial views on race, IQ, and segregation.
Read my latest blog post here:
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/the-adam-s...
Read my latest blog post here:
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/the-adam-s...
The Adam Smith Institute on Race
Explore the controversial history of the Adam Smith Institute's views on race, IQ, and intelligence in this revealing archival research from a groundbreaking neoliberal study.
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Turns out the men who founded the Adam Smith Institute held some pretty controversial views on race, IQ, and segregation.
Read my latest blog post here:
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/the-adam-s...
Read my latest blog post here:
keeping-up-with-the-neoliberals.beehiiv.com/p/the-adam-s...
Very much looking forward to this!
Book Launch: 'Neoliberalism and Race', by @lcornelissen.bsky.social
Tuesday 9th December 2025, 6:00pm-7:30pm (GMT). In person & online.
isrf.org/events/neoli...
Tuesday 9th December 2025, 6:00pm-7:30pm (GMT). In person & online.
isrf.org/events/neoli...
Neoliberalism and Race | 9th December 2025
An in-person & online book launch and conversation with Dr Lars Cornelissen, author of 'Neoliberalism and Race', co-hosted with the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre.
isrf.org
September 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Very much looking forward to this!
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New article out with Rachel Phillips in @ripejournal.bsky.social: 'Financing the Border', Part of a special issue on Raced Finance guest edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @vincentguermond.bsky.social and me
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Financing the border: racial capitalism, migration, and the practices of the Canadian state
Canada is often recognised as one of the most progressive nations in the world when it comes to the acceptance of refugees and multiculturalism as national policy. However, the longer history of bo...
www.tandfonline.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
New article out with Rachel Phillips in @ripejournal.bsky.social: 'Financing the Border', Part of a special issue on Raced Finance guest edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @vincentguermond.bsky.social and me
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....