Where now for indigenous struggles in Bolivia?

Chris Hesketh | November 23, 2020

Standing in the centre of Plaza Murillo (La Paz) in the middle of September of 2019, I faced towards the National Congress of Bolivia. In front of the building, alongside the traditional Bolivian tricolour of red, yellow and green, flew the wiphala, the multi‐coloured, chequered flag that [...]

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Social movement research, class and protest

Sian Lazar | November 19, 2020

There are many things going on in Social Movements in Latin America. Mapping the Mosaic. I especially appreciated the critical discussions of cultural political economy, of autonomy, of left critiques of progressive but extractivist governments, and the plea to account for the [...]

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Recording of 2020 Wheelwright Lecture with Adam Tooze, Susan Ferguson and Jayati Ghosh

Martijn Konings | November 17, 2020

This Global Crisis: Capitalism In And Beyond The Pandemic

The Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, together with the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) and the Political Economy Student Society (ECOPSoc) hosted the 13th Annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright [...]

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A Modern Accumulation?

Luis F. Angosto-Ferrández | November 11, 2020

In Gran Sabana, southern Venezuela, an ongoing process of enclosure is generating social transformations comparable to the ones associated with primitive accumulation: this process leads to the transformation of land into capital and accentuates the conditions that have for decades spurred [...]

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A Research Agenda for Critical Political Economy

Bill Dunn | November 5, 2020

My new edited volume A Research Agenda for Critical Political Economy has just been published. The book’s chapters explore different dimensions of political economy and different ways of doing political economy. Issues range across inequality, growth and development, money, trade, land, time [...]

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Shortlist for the 2020 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize

Gareth Bryant | November 2, 2020

The selection committee for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2020 prize, as voted on by AIPEN members.

The prize will be awarded to the best article published in 2019 [...]

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Roadblocks in Australia’s Inevitable Energy Transition

Antonia Flowers | October 27, 2020

Australia is currently undergoing what is acknowledged to be the fastest energy transition in the world. In the face of this rapid and uncertain transformational change, the federal government is pushing for a ‘gas-led recovery’ and a Technology Investment Roadmap that explicitly excludes [...]

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