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Mapping the World of David Ireland

Adam David Morton | November 18, 2025

In Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland, subtitled “An Australian Atlas”, Brett Heino has delivered a classic book on political economy, space, and literature. It is highly original and offers a series of consistent contributions that people will engage with, use, deploy and build on.

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Teaching Political Economy Symposium Program

Luciano Carment | Gareth Bryant | Frank Stilwell | November 17, 2025

The Discipline of Political Economy and the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) is hosting a Teaching Political Economy Symposium on Monday December 8th at the University of Sydney. This workshop is being held as part of a suite of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of [...]

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Launching the Literary Geographies of David Ireland

Brett Heino | November 11, 2025

Launched on 31 October 2025 at Gleebooks, Sydney, this post focuses on the book by Brett Heino, Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland, which will be followed next week by a commentary from the same evening delivered by Adam David Morton. 

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Rethinking experiences and horizons of food sovereignty through Cultivating Socialism

Aiko Ikemura Amaral | November 5, 2025

In Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty, Rowan Lubbock offers a compelling multiscalar analysis of the pursuit of food sovereignty. His account of the Boliviarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and the central role of the Venezuelan state [...]

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Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South

Alf Nilsen | November 4, 2025

How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?

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Fifty Years of Political Economy at the University of Sydney

Evan Jones | October 29, 2025

In July 2025 the Journal of Australian Political Economy published a special issue (JAPE No.95) devoted to recollections and implications of 50 years of Political Economy courses at the University of Sydney. Why is this issue so critical to the past, present and future of political economy?

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A multiscalar approach to food sovereignty: ALBA and the state

Maria Eugenia Giraudo | October 28, 2025

In his book, Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty, Rowan Lubbock provides a novel approach to understanding not only some of the shortcomings of ALBA as a revolutionary project, but beyond that, how food systems and emancipatory politics cannot be [...]

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Shortlist For The 2025 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize

Ainsley Elbra | October 22, 2025

The selection committee for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2025 prize, as voted on by AIPEN members.

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