The wealthy classes know only too well how to juggle away revolutions: “Abracadabra!”
Picking up on my series of posts on Victor Serge, my attention now turns to his second novel in the ‘cycle of revolution’, Birth of Our Power, where the narrative moves from a failed [...]
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Following the publication of my article on ‘The Urban Revolution in Victor Serge’, in Annals of the American Association of Geographers, my thinking has returned to collating a series of posts I had previously written on the novelist. These will now be collected on Progress in [...]
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Following my annual practice, I have listed my “novel” reading for 2018. 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 on those airplane journeys from/to Sydney outside of my [...]
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Tanto como un poema o una tragedia, un monumento metamorfosea en esplendor el temor ante el paso del tiempo, la angustia ante la muerte — Henri Lefebvre, La Producción del espacio.
Saben que el espacio del poder estatal es el enfoque de mi presentación hoy. De hecho [...]
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A new special issue of the journal Globalizations has just been published and brings together articles on Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek that were initially presented, or otherwise have their origins, in an international conference ‘Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy’, held [...]
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The attention granted to the Grand Renaissance dam in Ethiopia, costing more than $4.3bn, forming Africa’s largest hydroelectric plant and raising controversy with Egypt over access to the waters of the river Nile poses anew some questions of geopolitical economy surrounding multipurpose dam [...]
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Across several of the political economy courses, or units, I teach at the University of Sydney the one set of issues often repeated to my students revolves around essay writing best practice. Rather than reciting these tips afresh from course to course, the following aims to outline some of [...]
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Delivering searing criticism on the psychosis of absolute power, Victor Serge’s second novel to be featured in my new article in Annals of the American Association of Geographers is a masterly work. The Case of Comrade Tulayev was written in 1942 and is situated [...]
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