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War, law, political economy: thinking through forms

Ntina Tzouvala | September 19, 2023

In the recent years, progressive lawyers have sought to bring considerations of class and political economy back to the centre of legal analysis. Coalescing around ClassCrits and, more recently, the Law and Political Economy movement, legal scholars have taken aim at the role of law in [...]

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Debating Modes of Production in Latin America

Chris Hesketh | September 12, 2023

In my latest article (open access) for Environment and Planning F I explore Latin American contributions to the debates surrounding the concept ‘mode of production’ (MOP). I specifically explore the contributions of José Carlos Mariátegui and René Zavaleta as two of the continent’s most [...]

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Cementing neo-colonial relations: the EU – Mercosur ‘free’ trade deal

Andreas Bieler | September 5, 2023

‘EU and Mercosur leaders ignore the voice of the people to push forward with toxic deal’ declared the Stop EU – Mercosur campaign alliance, a coalition of more than 450 organisations from Latin America and Europe, including trade unions, farmers organisations, social movements, animal activists [...]

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Call For Nominations For The 2023 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Journal Article Prize

Maria Tanyag | August 29, 2023

For some time, it has been noticeable that, outside individual academic journals or associations, independent recognition of IPE scholarship in journal article form has been lacking. While there are independent and esteemed prize awards for academic book publishing, e.g. the British [...]

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Seminar: Claire Parfitt, ‘The uncertain foundations of sustainable investing and the politics of risk’

Claire Parfitt | August 24, 2023

Political Economy Seminar The uncertain foundations of sustainable investing and the politics of risk Speaker: Dr Claire Parfitt, University of Sydney Date and time: Tuesday 12 September at 12 noon Location: Social Sciences Building (A02), Room 650, The University of Sydney

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Amy C. Offner, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas

David Avilés Espinoza | August 22, 2023

Almost nine years after reading Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto's Dependencia y Desarrollo en America Latina, the Past & Present Reading Group has come back to visit the history of Latin American political economy. In this journey, I have the pleasure of being the Latin American [...]

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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text

Adam David Morton | August 17, 2023

This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is: Aileen Moreton-Robinson, The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015).

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The 14th AIPEN Workshop: Call for Papers

Wesley Widmaier | August 15, 2023

We are very excited to announce that the 14th Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) workshop will be held at the Australian National University on February 7-9, 2024.

Sponsored by the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, the ANU School of Regulation and Global [...]

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