As Ken Buckley reveals in volume four of the Essays in the Political Economy of Australian Capitalism, some ‘brickbats’ were expected from critics of their treatment of the economic history and political economy of Australia as well as their endeavour to destroy the hedges constructed around [...]
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This text was first published in Avanti!, Turin edition, from Antonio Gramsci’s column “Sotto la Mole,” January 1, 1916.
Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s day.
That’s why I hate these New Years that fall like [...]
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Following my practice last year, I have listed my “novel” reading for 2017. 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 “normal” [...]
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Modern Colonial Geographies in Latin America: The Mirage of the Civilising City and the Archaic Countryside “Wanting to be modern seems crazy: we are condemned to be so, given that the future and the past are prohibited” — Octavio Paz (1966: 5)
Invitation to [...]
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Winner of the 2017 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) — Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize
The prize committee is delighted to announce that Samanthi Gunawardana’s article ‘“To Finish, We Must Finish”: Everyday Practices of Depletion in [...]
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In my research on the Monument to the Revolution, as one of the foremost commemorative spatial sites of state power in Mexico City, now published in Journal of Latin American Studies, I have previously blogged on:
1) how a focus on monuments enables a way of revealing the history of [...]
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This second volume in the five-part series on A Political Economy of Australian Capitalism offers seven contributions all revolving around the role of the state in diverse aspects of capitalist development in Australia. Readers can access the complete text ESSAYS IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF [...]
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I argue in a recent article in Journal of Latin American Studies that the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City stands as an ambiguous carrier of utopian promise, which links past and present generations of struggle. Specifically, my concluding point was that this architectural space [...]
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