Money in the 21st Century
Jamie Morgan | December 2, 2025
With an eye on Stablecoin, what struggles are currently underway to shape the future of money issuance, banking and finance?
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Cultivating Socialism: A Reply to the Symposium
Rowan Lubbock | November 25, 2025
When I sat down with the Venezuelan political activist and media producer, Ambar Garcia, in 2016, I was somewhat taken aback by her sombre prognosis: “If the social movements do not assume the necessary critique for repoliticising the process… then we will not be talking about ALBA in three [...]
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Teaching Political Economy Symposium Program
Luciano Carment | Gareth Bryant | Frank Stilwell | November 17, 2025
The Discipline of Political Economy and the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) is hosting a Teaching Political Economy Symposium on Monday December 8th at the University of Sydney. This workshop is being held as part of a suite of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of [...]
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Rethinking experiences and horizons of food sovereignty through Cultivating Socialism
Aiko Ikemura Amaral | November 5, 2025
In Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty, Rowan Lubbock offers a compelling multiscalar analysis of the pursuit of food sovereignty. His account of the Boliviarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and the central role of the Venezuelan state [...]
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Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South
Alf Nilsen | November 4, 2025
How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?
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Fifty Years of Political Economy at the University of Sydney
Evan Jones | October 29, 2025
In July 2025 the Journal of Australian Political Economy published a special issue (JAPE No.95) devoted to recollections and implications of 50 years of Political Economy courses at the University of Sydney. Why is this issue so critical to the past, present and future of political economy?
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A multiscalar approach to food sovereignty: ALBA and the state
Maria Eugenia Giraudo | October 28, 2025
In his book, Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty, Rowan Lubbock provides a novel approach to understanding not only some of the shortcomings of ALBA as a revolutionary project, but beyond that, how food systems and emancipatory politics cannot be [...]
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Shortlist For The 2025 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize
Ainsley Elbra | October 22, 2025
The selection committee for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2025 prize, as voted on by AIPEN members.
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