My latest book Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India delves into arguments around co-option to offer a different way to think of feminism’s entanglement in power, especially in a conjuncture shaped by global neoliberalism. First, unlike arguments around co-option [...]
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Our contemporary era of perpetual crises demands, we contend, a critical reappraisal of the state’s potential role, to supplant the predominant market-led responses to crisis, to advance a more equitable society. Historically, all major theories of the state—liberal and radical—have been [...]
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Associate Professor Srila Roy (University of the Witwatersrand) is visiting the University of Sydney as the 2022 recipient of the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC) Hunt-Simes Visiting Chair of Sexuality Studies. Srila is based at the Department of [...]
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Presenter: Professor Alf Nilsen (University of Pretoria) hosted by the Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney
Title: ‘Making the Neoliberal Hindu Nation: The Politics of Accumulation and Legitimation in Modi’s India’
Date: 18 August, [...]
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ESG investment funds, which claim to invest according to environmental, social and governance criteria, grew to almost US$3 trillion in 2021. With a 53% increase since 2020, this made ESG the fastest growing sector of the asset management industry. The rapid flow of funds into ESG [...]
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Australia has until recently been somewhat insulated from the turbulence in the global political economy. In large measure, this can be attributed to the buoyant international demand for Australian iron ore, coal and gas, but this situation is being severely challenged. Reining in the [...]
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This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is:
Alex Callinicos, Making History: Agency, Structure and Change in Social Theory (Haymarket Books, 2009).
Our discussions will commence [...]
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In 2022, one has to be exceptionally out of touch not to have taken note of the dramatic democratic backsliding that has taken place in India under the eight-year long rule of Narendra Modi and the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). This is reflected in India’s [...]
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