Alice Figes

Writing

Research

  • ‘Utopianism at the End of History: Vision, Leverage and Endurance’ PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 2026
  • ‘Territories of Hope: Land, Endurance and Leverage in Brazil’s MST’ Social Movement Studies, forthcoming

Essays

  • ‘Fraudulent Hope?’ Philosophy Now, forthcoming

Journalism

Translation, from Italian

  • M. Cento, ‘In the Anarchic State of Capital: The Suspended History of Latin America’ In Global Left: History and Critique of the Social Movement in the Global Market, Brill, 2022
  • M. Ricciardi, ‘Germany as Anachronism: Marx, Social Science and the State’ In Storia e critica del movimento sociale nel mercato mondiale, Meltemi, 2020
  • M. Cento, ‘Between Capitalism and Administration: The Atlantic Liberalism of Nitti’ Il Mulino, 2017
The trunk and twisting lower branches of an old conifer in dappled light. Black and white photograph.
Photograph by Alice Figes