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Dancing the Dialectic in the Neoliberal University

Seamus Barker | July 7, 2020

This week I watched Andrei Rublev, the black and white masterpiece created in 1965 by Russian auteur, Andrei Tarkovsky. The film depicts a series of vignettes featuring Rublev, the 15th century painter of iconography and one of Russia’s most famous artists. Tarkovsky was apparently a deeply [...]

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COVID-19, the economy and labour: Equality and sustainability

Elizabeth Humphrys | July 2, 2020

Just published in the Economic and Labour Relations Review (ELRR), and available open access, is a paper looking at the early impacts of COVID-19 in Australia and internationally. Written by researchers across health, economics and labour, the article emphasises that the impacts of the [...]

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‘Developing’ Indigenous Peoples: The racial legacy of colonialism in Mexico

Inés Durán Matute | June 30, 2020

On April 23, 2020, the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced an austerity plan to confront the health and economic crisis provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. These measures secured, among other things, a series of controversial megaprojects in the South-Southeast of [...]

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It doesn’t add up: uni funding overhaul will also hurt STEM students

Gareth Bryant | June 29, 2020

The federal government framed its sweeping changes to university funding as a reprioritisation from arts to sciences to support the “jobs of the future”. But the details tell a very different story. While the package punishes arts students, it also deprives universities of the [...]

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Donald Trump and American Caesarism

Brett Heino | June 26, 2020

The United States of America currently lies stricken in multi-faceted economic, political and social crisis. More than 100,000 Americans have been killed by COVID-19 in a once-in-a-century pandemic. Unemployment has sky-rocketed, with over twenty million people now out of work. Widespread [...]

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Beyond the Stereotype: How Dependency Theory Remains Relevant

Ingrid Kvangraven | June 24, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged countries across the world into crises, but the challenges are particularly dire for developing countries. My recent research demonstrates that a dependency theory research agenda is crucial for understanding these contemporary global inequalities and for [...]

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Cartographies of Baltic labour resistance

Andreas Bieler | Jokubas Salyga | June 22, 2020

The conjuncture between the thirtieth anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the USSR is an apt occasion to revisit the trajectories of change in the post-Soviet space. In our article ‘Baltic Labour in the Crucible of Capitalist Exploitation: Reassessing [...]

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5 Talking Points from Moishe Postone’s ‘Time, Labor and Social Domination’

Janet Burstall | June 18, 2020

The Past & Present Reading Group at the University of Sydney has just completed reading Moishe Postone’s classic book Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1996). The book provided very fertile ground for [...]

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