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William I. Robinson, Can Global Capitalism Endure?

Elna Tulus | March 21, 2023

Capitalism has its capacity to reinvent itself and not only survive the many crises it has caused but transform itself into more aggressive forms over the years. This has prompted many authors to query the possibility of its collapse and at what point this event may occur. More importantly, how [...]

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Beyond Agrarian Transitions in Africa

Jesse Salah Ovadia | Jasper Abembia Ayelazuno | March 14, 2023

In their efforts to industrialise, African states are looking beyond the traditional path of transition from agrarian to industrial economies by seeking to leverage on their natural resources, both in/on land and ocean, to power industrialisation. In this blog post, drawing from a new article [...]

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What do we learn from engaging in politicised pedagogical and teaching practices?

Ian Bruff | Mel Jordan | March 6, 2023

This post introduces readers to the second Special Issue we have co-edited on the umbrella theme of ‘Politicizing Artistic Pedagogies’. The first Special Issue, entitled ‘Politicizing Artistic Pedagogies: Publics, Spaces, Teachings’, was published in late 2021 in the journal Art & the Public [...]

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Gonzo as Insurgent Method: Literary Techniques for the Critique of Political Economy II

Japhy Wilson | February 28, 2023

In August 2017 I travelled to Dayuma, a small town on the Ecuadorian oil frontier. I was conducting research for my recent book on fantastical materialism and post-neoliberal state utopias, which was the focus of my previous post on literary techniques for the critique of political economy. But [...]

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Conceptualising struggles over water grabbing

Andreas Bieler | Madelaine Moore | February 21, 2023

Capital has identified water as an important opportunity for profitable investment. Whether it is the privatisation of public water infrastructure, the expansion of the bottled water industry, the construction of dams for energy generation or the free expropriation of water for mineral [...]

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Devolution or Decapitation? Decentralization and the War in Donbas

Elliot Dolan-Evans | February 14, 2023

Ukraine’s decentralization reform has been hailed as one of the country’s most successful since the 2013-2014 Revolution of Dignity. Recently, a piece in Foreign Affairs claimed that Ukraine’s decentralization has ‘brought the country together’ in the face of Russia’s 2022 invasion, fostering [...]

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COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state

Lee Jones | Shahar Hameiri | February 9, 2023

We are delighted and very grateful to receive the 2022 AIPEN Richard Higgott Prize for our article “COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state,” published in the journal, Review of International Political Economy. It is getting harder to remember just how extraordinary, and [...]

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Michael Lebowitz, Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class

Madelaine Moore | February 7, 2023

My first introduction to Michael Lebowitz’s Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class was through social reproduction theory. Specifically Tithi Bhattacharya’s chapter ‘How not to skip class’ in Social Reproduction Theory uses Lebowitz as a basis for centreing social [...]

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