Perhaps granted much less attention than it merits, Henri Lefebvre in The Production of Space directly draws the reader’s attention to Marx’s Capital, Vol.3, and a focus on the ‘trinity’ formula (land, labour, capital) that transcends the capital-labour binary. Lefebvre asks us: ‘What of the [...]
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Institute of Australian Geographers & New Zealand Geographical Society Combined Conference
6-9 July, 2021, University of Sydney
The Institute of Australian Geographers and New Zealand Geographical Society Combined Conference will take place at the University of Sydney on [...]
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This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Martha E. Giménez, Marx, Women and Social Reproduction: Marxist Feminist Essays (Haymarket Books, 2019).
This is our twentieth book in the reading [...]
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This post was originally published in 2012 as part of the hosting of Rodric Braithwaite as a guest speaker at the University of Nottingham. Although it is less about radical economics pedagogy, it is reproduced here as it is often used in my teaching to exemplify different ways of [...]
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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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This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics [1922] (MIT Press, 1971).
Our meetings will commence next month, with [...]
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Continuing my engagement with the novels of Paco Ignacio Taibo II (or PIT) on Mexico, my attention here turns to el monstruo, the monster, that is his book Retornamos como sombras (Returning as Shadows, 2001). Readers of my earlier blog post The Shadows of [...]
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Furthering my sometime theme on the representations of space in Mexico City, I want to continue my interest in the work of Paco Ignacio Taibo II (or PIT) and this time his novella De Paso (1986), published subsequently in English as Just Passing Through with [...]
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