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Pandemic as symptom: COVID-19 and human-animal relations under capitalism

Bella Devine-Poulos | August 13, 2020

Zoonotic disease pandemics such as COVID-19 present us with an opportunity to reframe how we understand capitalism by visibilising the role animals are forced to play in its processes, and the forms and spaces of human-animal contact that are dominant in our world. The [...]

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The normative, transformative, politics of capitalist development

Graham Harrison | August 11, 2020

When carrying out fieldwork in northern Mozambique, I had a series of conversations with a researcher for the local government’s cultural archives. Over a couple of months, I asked him about all sorts of aspects of Mozambique’s political economy. Often, once I had asked a question, he would [...]

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Rethinking Global Labour: A Debate

Ronaldo Munck | August 6, 2020

I would like to thank Andreas Bieler for his interesting and engaged review of my recent book Rethinking Global Labour, optimistically titled After Neoliberalism and Adam David Morton for hosting it on his excellent cutting-edge site. After explaining what the book is about Bieler makes two [...]

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The Pallid Shadows of Revolution

Adam David Morton | August 4, 2020

Continuing my engagement with the novels of Paco Ignacio Taibo II (or PIT) on Mexico, my attention here turns to el monstruo, the monster, that is his book Retornamos como sombras (Returning as Shadows, 2001). Readers of my earlier blog post The Shadows of [...]

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Financialization and Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Turkey

Gorkem Altinors | July 30, 2020

The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed his son-in-law Berat Albayrak as the Treasury and Finance Minister shortly after he retained his office in the general elections in June 2018. On 10th August 2018, Albayrak held a press meeting with the heads of the prominent [...]

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Chasing Spaces and Shadows of Revolution

Adam David Morton | July 28, 2020

Furthering my sometime theme on the representations of space in Mexico City, I want to continue my interest in the work of Paco Ignacio Taibo II (or PIT) and this time his novella De Paso (1986), published subsequently in English as Just Passing Through with [...]

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How is the Pandemic Going for You? Trump, Johnson and Bolsonaro in the Swamp

Alfredo Saad-Filho | July 23, 2020

The spectacular failures of Brazil, the UK and the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic offer valuable lessons on what must never happen again: wish away the virus, minimise the potential impact of a pandemic on public health and the economy, delay inevitable lockdowns, the list goes on. They [...]

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Call for Nominations: 2020 AIPEN Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize

Gareth Bryant | July 22, 2020

We are pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the 2020 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize. This is the sixth annual prize for the best article published in the broad field of International Political Economy (IPE) by [...]

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