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Winner Of The 2025 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize

Ainsley Elbra | December 4, 2025

The prize committee is pleased to announce that Anja Bless’ article, titled ‘The co-optation of regenerative agriculture: revisiting the corporate environmental food regime’, published in the Globalizations, has won the 2025 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard [...]

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Money in the 21st Century

Jamie Morgan | December 2, 2025

With an eye on Stablecoin, what struggles are currently underway to shape the future of money issuance, banking and finance?

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Cultivating Socialism: A Reply to the Symposium

Rowan Lubbock | November 25, 2025

When I sat down with the Venezuelan political activist and media producer, Ambar Garcia, in 2016, I was somewhat taken aback by her sombre prognosis: “If the social movements do not assume the necessary critique for repoliticising the process… then we will not be talking about ALBA in three [...]

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Thinking about applying for this year’s JAPE Young Scholar Award?

Frank Stilwell | November 24, 2025

The editors of the Journal of Australian Political Economy like to encourage and enable students to progress to publishing articles based on their work. Particularly for any student who has been writing a dissertation or thesis, getting an article published [...]

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Mapping the World of David Ireland

Adam David Morton | November 18, 2025

In Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland, subtitled “An Australian Atlas”, Brett Heino has delivered a classic book on political economy, space, and literature. It is highly original and offers a series of consistent contributions that people will engage with, use, deploy and build on.

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Teaching Political Economy Symposium Program

Luciano Carment | Gareth Bryant | Frank Stilwell | November 17, 2025

The Discipline of Political Economy and the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) is hosting a Teaching Political Economy Symposium on Monday December 8th at the University of Sydney. This workshop is being held as part of a suite of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of [...]

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Launching the Literary Geographies of David Ireland

Brett Heino | November 11, 2025

Launched on 31 October 2025 at Gleebooks, Sydney, this post focuses on the book by Brett Heino, Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland, which will be followed next week by a commentary from the same evening delivered by Adam David Morton. 

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Rethinking experiences and horizons of food sovereignty through Cultivating Socialism

Aiko Ikemura Amaral | November 5, 2025

In Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty, Rowan Lubbock offers a compelling multiscalar analysis of the pursuit of food sovereignty. His account of the Boliviarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and the central role of the Venezuelan state [...]

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