Chris Hesketh is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex. He received his BA, MA and PhD all from the University of Nottingham. Before joining the University of Sussex in 2023 he taught at Oxford Brookes University where he was Reader in International Political Economy. He have also taught previously at Birkbeck College and the University of Nottingham.

Chris has an inter-disciplinary research agenda that combines political economy, the historical sociology of international relations, political geography, political theory and Latin American studies. These interests are captured in his monograph, Spaces of Capital / Spaces of Resistance: Mexico and the Global Political Economy (University of Georgia Press, 2017) which was shortlisted for the 2018 International Political Economy Group book prize.

His current research revolves around the political economy of development in Latin America focusing specifically on Indigenous resistance to neo-extractivist development in the region. Empirically Chris's work has focused on Mexico and Bolivia where he has conducted fieldwork on numerous occasions. He is also interested in the intersections of International Relations and international theory.

Biographical details correct as of 11.02.25