Over the past month, the United States and most of the globe have been rocked by historic uprisings for racial justice and against police brutality towards Black people, following the brutal murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police. The protests have resonated far [...]
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This week I watched Andrei Rublev, the black and white masterpiece created in 1965 by Russian auteur, Andrei Tarkovsky. The film depicts a series of vignettes featuring Rublev, the 15th century painter of iconography and one of Russia’s most famous artists. Tarkovsky was apparently a deeply [...]
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Just published in the Economic and Labour Relations Review (ELRR), and available open access, is a paper looking at the early impacts of COVID-19 in Australia and internationally. Written by researchers across health, economics and labour, the article emphasises that the impacts of the [...]
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On April 23, 2020, the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced an austerity plan to confront the health and economic crisis provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. These measures secured, among other things, a series of controversial megaprojects in the South-Southeast of [...]
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The federal government framed its sweeping changes to university funding as a reprioritisation from arts to sciences to support the “jobs of the future”. But the details tell a very different story. While the package punishes arts students, it also deprives universities of the [...]
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The United States of America currently lies stricken in multi-faceted economic, political and social crisis. More than 100,000 Americans have been killed by COVID-19 in a once-in-a-century pandemic. Unemployment has sky-rocketed, with over twenty million people now out of work. Widespread [...]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged countries across the world into crises, but the challenges are particularly dire for developing countries. My recent research demonstrates that a dependency theory research agenda is crucial for understanding these contemporary global inequalities and for [...]
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The conjuncture between the thirtieth anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the USSR is an apt occasion to revisit the trajectories of change in the post-Soviet space. In our article ‘Baltic Labour in the Crucible of Capitalist Exploitation: Reassessing [...]
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