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Writing Political Economy: Helpful Hints

Frank Stilwell | April 6, 2021

Just starting to write an essay or a thesis on a topic in political economy? Or thinking about putting together an article for an academic journal? Maybe something shorter for a broader audience? Of course, whatever you are planning, you need to have something significant to say, but you [...]

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Theorising ‘the international’ with historical materialism

Cemal Burak Tansel | April 1, 2021

The variations of the question ‘What is the point of International Relations?’ have been asked by so many scholars over the years that there is now a veritable literature dedicated to analysing the discipline’s unending existential angst. In a snapshot of the debates on IR’s raison d’être, [...]

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The answer is blowin’ in the wind? Clean energy, Indigenous Struggles and Environmental Justice

Chris Hesketh | March 30, 2021

In my latest (open access) article for Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space I explore the political economy of wind park development in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, and the struggles of Indigenous groups against such wind parks. Today, Juchitán (a municipality in the Isthmus of [...]

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China and the Changing Global Political Economy | 12th AIPEN Workshop, Brisbane

Shahar Hameiri | March 25, 2021

Call for Papers for the 12th Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) workshop organised by the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland

The COVID-19 pandemic has not so much changed but catalysed trends in the global political [...]

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10 Questions on Georg Lukács

Daniel Lopez | March 23, 2021

Following the completion in the Past & Present Reading Group of Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness we thought it would be novel to pose a set of questions about the book to Daniel Lopez as one of the most prominent and fresh experts to engage the dialectician and [...]

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Henri Lefebvre, From the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography – a new collection of writings forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press, 2022

Stuart Elden | Adam David Morton | March 16, 2021

Perhaps granted much less attention than it merits, Henri Lefebvre in The Production of Space directly draws the reader’s attention to Marx’s Capital, Vol.3, and a focus on the ‘trinity’ formula (land, labour, capital) that transcends the capital-labour binary. Lefebvre asks us: ‘What of the [...]

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Radical and literary geographies

Brett Heino | March 9, 2021

In a previous post on Progress in Political Economy, I discussed how David Ireland’s Miles Franklin prize-winning novel The Unknown Industrial Prisoner is particularly relevant for an analysis at the crossroads of political economy, radical geography and literary theory. In that same piece I [...]

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How to write about pipelines

Sakshi Aravind | March 2, 2021

Writing about Indigenous rights or climate and environmental justice movements as a non-Indigenous person is difficult and complex. The magnitude of difficulty becomes manifold if the authorial voice falls somewhere on the white, western knowledge spectrum. What we have to say matters less [...]

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