Book Launch: Brett Heino, Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland

Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland: An Australian Atlas by Brett Heino explores the spatiality of Australian society through the literature of Miles Franklin prize-winning author David Ireland.

Positing the existence of a spatial unconscious of Ireland’s texts, author Brett Heino maps this spatial unconscious to create a complex, unique and highly fertile ideological atlas of the spaces and places of Australia. In the midst of the contemporary spatial crisis, this mapping of Ireland’s work helps us plot our past and present and orient ourselves to the future.

The book launch will involve Brett Heino (UTS) in dialogue with Adam D. Morton (University of Sydney) and Jumana Bayeh (Macquarie University).

When: Friday 31 October, 6:00pm for 6:30

Where: Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Sydney

Registration: available for free HERE

Author: Adam David Morton

Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (2007); Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (2011), recipient of the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG); and co-author of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (2018) with Andreas Bieler. The volume Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography was published in 2022 with University of Minnesota Press, co-edited with Stuart Elden.

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