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Online conference on Problems and Solutions for Decarbonisation and Energy Transition: a Cross-National Dialogue

Gareth Bryant | December 2, 2021

December 7-9, 2021 via Zoom This Conference brings together the latest research on energy transitions from across several countries. It involves institutes, researchers and key participants in the process of energy transition, to learn from experience and to reflect on obstacles and [...]

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Winner Of The 2021 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize

Maria Tanyag | December 2, 2021

The Prize Committee is delighted to announce that the article by Melissa Johnston, “Frontier finance: the role of microfinance in debt and violence in post-conflict Timor-Leste,” published in the journal, Review of International Political Economy has won the 2021 Australian International [...]

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What is exploitation and abuse in the workplace?

Anna Boucher | November 30, 2021

An array of exploitative practices harm workers in contemporary workplaces. In this blog piece, I focus on the issue of exploitation in detail by considering a group that is often affected by workplace infringements, namely migrant workers. Their exploitation has been raised as a concern in the [...]

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The Clash of Theory and Practice in China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Tristan Kenderdine | Péter Bucsky | November 25, 2021

China’s Belt and Road is not an infrastructure project. With the external industrial policy International Capacity Cooperation being now unwound and Belt and Road floundering as the guiding foreign economic policy, the intercontinental containerised China Rail Express (CR Express) is sitting on [...]

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Relative surplus populations and the crises of contemporary capitalism

Nick Bernards | Susanne Soederberg | November 23, 2021

Over the last decade, there has been a dramatic increase in engagements with Marx’s concept of relative surplus populations (RSPs). The RSP describes the portion of the working-age population surplus to the immediate needs of capital for waged labour at any given place and time. Revived [...]

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Everybody strike! The urban environmental politics of Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140

Kurt Iveson | November 22, 2021

How can we develop a program and movement for climate justice that will address the pathologies of our toxic capitalist present? How can we overcome a pervasive capitalist realism that insists that ‘there is no alternative’, and rise to the challenge of imagining and enacting a political [...]

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Postcapitalism 2021

Anitra Nelson | November 18, 2021

Sirens of our times are pregnant with urgency — unprecedented floods, fires, species extinctions and the Covid-19 pandemic — all linked one way or the other with capitalism, global heating and the ways we live. In 2020, I published my most successful article to date, if success can be [...]

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JAPE Young Scholars Award 2021: Info for applicants

Frank Stilwell | November 17, 2021

Have you recently written an honours thesis for your Bachelor’s degree? Or another similar in-depth study? If so, did you enjoy the research and writing process, despite the study interruptions resulting from the pandemic? Did it turn out well in the end? If so, you might consider capping it [...]

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