Neil is a member of the Centre for Global Migrations at the University of Otago, where he also teaches in the Schools of Arts and Social Sciences. His research interests include the political economy of neoliberalism, anti-capitalist politics, post-capitalism, borders, and displacement. He is the author of Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness (Goldsmiths Press, 2021), which is part of the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) series. His work has also appeared in academic journals, such as Rethinking Marxism, Angelaki, Poetics Today, and Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, as well as magazines, including New Internationalist and ROAR. He is currently finishing a co-authored book manuscript with Catherine Dale titled Suicide in Public and the Privatisation of Emotion in the Twenty-First Century. He completed his BA and MA degrees at Queen’s University Belfast, and his PhD at Otago in 2015.
