When writing interventions on contemporary events, one’s best hope is that comrades of all stripes will engage with them closely and critically. I have recently written two –Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century and How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning [...]
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The people who run the planet have 364 days in their honor (more on leap years!) — the people whose labour makes it run have only one. So happy [...]
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Housing forms a vital part of everyday life under capitalism, as argued in my new book Urban Displacements. It is a place where people prepare their meals, eat, sleep, entertain friends and family, enjoy solace from the outside world, and often work. For many, however, the security and [...]
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“How green is your pension?” asked the Financial Times a few weeks ago, opening up a series of issues for readers to consider such as: How are you incorporating your ethics into your personal investment strategy? How are you managing financial, as well as other risks, as you look to the [...]
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The variations of the question ‘What is the point of International Relations?’ have been asked by so many scholars over the years that there is now a veritable literature dedicated to analysing the discipline’s unending existential angst. In a snapshot of the debates on IR’s raison d’être, [...]
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In my latest (open access) article for Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space I explore the political economy of wind park development in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, and the struggles of Indigenous groups against such wind parks. Today, Juchitán (a municipality in the Isthmus of [...]
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Following the completion in the Past & Present Reading Group of Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness we thought it would be novel to pose a set of questions about the book to Daniel Lopez as one of the most prominent and fresh experts to engage the dialectician and [...]
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Perhaps granted much less attention than it merits, Henri Lefebvre in The Production of Space directly draws the reader’s attention to Marx’s Capital, Vol.3, and a focus on the ‘trinity’ formula (land, labour, capital) that transcends the capital-labour binary. Lefebvre asks us: ‘What of the [...]
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