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Heide Gerstenberger, Market and Violence

Christian Caiconte | January 27, 2026

From the shores of present-day Namibia via Heide Gerstenberger, Slavoj Žižek and Byung-Chul Han, what can a real picture postcard reveal about the specificity of past and present forms of market and violence?

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What the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom?

Adam David Morton | January 25, 2026

More than eighty years on, what the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and how can we make sense of the text today?

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Narco-Myths and Neoliberal War: Why Colombia’s Conflict Escalated

Oliver Dodd | January 20, 2026

Rather than a deviation from capitalist modernisation, how has political violence in Colombia been a constitutive outcome of a project of "passive revolution" through which capitalist modernisation was produced?

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Review of Southern Interregnum

Kevin Gray | January 1, 2026

Review by Kevin Gray of Alf Nilsen et al., Southern Interregnum: Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.

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Novel Reading in 2025

Adam David Morton | December 29, 2025

So what did I get through in a year’s worth of "novel" reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling outside of my “normal” academic reading? My use of the term “novel” reading is loosely adopted, as you will see from the list below.

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New issue of JAPE addresses key policy issues

Frank Stilwell | December 22, 2025

The Journal of Australian Political Economy regularly publishes articles on contentious issues of public concern. Because real-world challenges are continuously evolving, timely analyses of the underlying political economic forces are recurrently needed. This latest issue of JAPE focuses on [...]

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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text

Adam David Morton | December 13, 2025

All the details on the next text selected by the Past & Present Reading Group, commencing in 2026.

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Making Gaza Safe for Capitalism: De-risking Palestine for Business

Elliot Dolan-Evans | December 11, 2025

Within 48 hours of the United Nations Security Council approving US President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza on 17th November, Israel launched several airstrikes across Gaza that killed 28 people, mostly women and children, and injured over 70 others. In the same time period, [...]

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