Standing in the centre of Plaza Murillo (La Paz) in the middle of September of 2019, I faced towards the National Congress of Bolivia. In front of the building, alongside the traditional Bolivian tricolour of red, yellow and green, flew the wiphala, the multi‐coloured, chequered flag that [...]
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As another week in lockdown passes, people are understandably worried about their future. The economic results of this global pandemic are set to rival the Great Depression of the 1930s with the global economy predicted to contract by 3 percent according to the International Monetary Fund. [...]
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The Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society, edited by Michael Leary-Owhin and John McCarthy, has just been published by Routledge. The volume provides an accessible form of engaging with one of the most innovative Marxist social theorists of the twentieth-century and [...]
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A new book edited by Peter Baker, Irina Feldman, Mike Geddes, Felipe Lagos and Roberto Pareja, entitled Latin American Marxisms in Context: Past and Present, brings together chapters from both established and early-career scholars to offer an excellent contribution to understanding both [...]
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In my latest article ‘A Gramscian Conjuncture in Latin America? Reflections on Violence, Hegemony and Geographical Difference’ I explore whether the ideas and concepts of Antonio Gramsci still “travel” to Latin America.
During the twentieth-century, Gramsci was one of the most [...]
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With his latest monograph, Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartlands, Alf Gunvald Nilsen has provided a case study in how to write theoretically engaged, ethnographically driven, historical sociology. Although focusing on subaltern politics in India [...]
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My recent monograph with the University of Georgia Press (Geographies of Social Justice and Transformation series), seeks to give empirical grounding to Henri Lefebvre’s famous statement that, ‘Today, more than ever, the class struggle is inscribed in space.’ An overarching focus on issues [...]
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From the years 2000-2005, Bolivia stood in a moment of potentially revolutionary transformation. Spurred by indigenous social movement activism protesting against the privatisation of water and natural gas, two successive governments were brought down, and a new political party with its base [...]
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