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Revisiting Neoliberalism and Democracy in a Time of Crisis

David Primrose | January 21, 2021

Reflecting on the political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Jürgen Habermas suggested that ‘existential uncertainty is now spreading globally and simultaneously […] There was never so much knowing about our not-knowing and about the constraint to act and live in [...]

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Marx as a reader of Dickens

Gavin Edwards | January 19, 2021

In 1848 The Communist Manifesto argued that the bourgeoisie ‘for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions…has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.’ This did not remain Marx’s view of the bourgeoisie, however, at least of the English bourgeoisie as he [...]

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Geographies of Space and Place in The Unknown Industrial Prisoner

Brett Heino | January 12, 2021

One of the most special moments you can have as a scholar is for a particular project to irresistibly place itself at the centre of your attention. You think about it, obsess about it, lose sleep over it, sure in the knowledge that you must pursue it wherever it may lead. I was lucky enough [...]

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Literary Geographies of Race and Space

Joel Wainwright | Joshua Lund | January 7, 2021

We share a common desire to understand the interlocking relations of race and space in Latin America. While in graduate school at the University of Minnesota—where Joel Wainwright wrote his PhD (Geography) on the colonisation of the Maya in Belize, Joshua Lund (Spanish) wrote on theories of [...]

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Degrowth?

Anitra Nelson | January 4, 2021

Degrowth is on the agenda as a set of theories increasingly encountered in scholarly articles and books as well as activist journalism. Yet degrowth is a much maligned and misinterpreted concept and approach, and is especially difficult for economists to handle. Is that because using money [...]

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Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness

Madelaine Moore | December 29, 2020

For the last book of 2020, the Past & Present Reading Group tackled Georg Lukács’ classic, History and Class Consciousness. There was a general sense that although the text remains a critical work for the development of a theory of praxis and for historical materialism more broadly, as [...]

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Novel Reading in 2020

Adam David Morton | December 22, 2020

Following my annual practice, I have listed here my “novel” reading for 2020. This is a way of documenting what I get through in a year’s worth of reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling outside of my “normal” academic reading – albeit there was [...]

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What are Social Movements in Latin America?: Response to Readers

Ronaldo Munck | December 17, 2020

Once a book is written it no longer ‘belongs’ to the author so I will not respond defensively to the thoughtful readers in this forum. Rather, I will join them in seeking to take the debate on social movements forward, conscious that often the students of social movement are also activists. [...]

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