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Hot off the Press: Handbook of Alternative Theories of Political Economy

Frank Stilwell | David Primrose | Tim Thornton | June 21, 2022

We’re pleased to be able to inform readers of Progress in Political Economy of progress with a political economy project that we’ve been working on for the last three years. Following an invitation from the UK-based international publisher, Edward Elgar, we’ve been compiling a book that [...]

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International Student Mental Health and General Well-Being: why it’s time for policy action

Gaby Ramia | Isabella Choi | Michelle Peterie | June 14, 2022

International students fared worse than most in Australia during the COVID restrictions, especially because they were excluded from the financial assistance offered to citizens and permanent residents in 2020. At the height of the pandemic, media outlets across Australia published stories of [...]

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Toward collective intellectual labour; or, How seven critical scholars got along with each other and co-authored a journal article

Sirma Altun | Christian Caiconte | Madelaine Moore | Adam David Morton | Matthew Ryan | Riki Scanlan | Austin Smidt | June 7, 2022

Through the Past & Present Reading Group we have experienced an organic, collective strategy of reading and writing that makes collective intellectual labour a little easier, and much more fun. This has come to the fore most recently in both our collective reading of György Lukács’ History and [...]

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Travelling with Lukács

Sirma Altun | Christian Caiconte | Madelaine Moore | Adam David Morton | Matthew Ryan | Riki Scanlan | Austin Smidt | May 31, 2022

We have travelled with Lukács. Despite the global pandemic conditions of lockdown induced by Covid-19, as a group of scholars forged through collective intellectual labour, we each picked up György Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness and travelled, at least intellectually. Based in [...]

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Asset-value politics: why the tech crash is bad news for the climate

Philipp Golka | May 24, 2022

The past weeks have been turbulent times for global stock markets. Russia’s war in Ukraine caused global energy and food crises on top of the horror it brought to the Ukrainian people. The war and the COVID-19 crisis have disrupted global supply chains, significantly affecting the production of [...]

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Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City

Zachary Levenson | May 17, 2022

I’ve just released a book with Oxford University Press (Global and Comparative Ethnography series) that seeks to provide micro-foundations for a properly dialectical reading of Antonio Gramsci. As it is typically understood, civil society is the private sphere beyond the purview of the state, [...]

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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text

Adam David Morton | May 12, 2022

This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is  Jairus Banaji, A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2020).

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Unravelling the Social Formation in Turkey

Akif Avcı | May 10, 2022

The collapse of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s, and the integration of China into the word trade system have transformed the social relations of production across the world. This transformation in global capitalism has also transformed global value chains, dividing the process [...]

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