This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Jennifer Robinson, Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development.
As previously, we will meet Fridays, 1:00-2:00, with our meetings [...]
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Australia’s student loan scheme, originally called the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS), was introduced in 1989. This innovation, now known as the Higher Education Loan Programme (HELP) has since been exported around the world. It reflects a new way of thinking of [...]
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12-13 December 2019 | City, University of London
Building on the success of our previous conferences, the 4th annual Finance and Society Network (FSN) conference aims to foster further dialogue between the diverse camps that make up the new field of ‘finance and society’ studies. [...]
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I can’t stand political Eeyorism. Much like the lovably, ever-depressive Eeyore’s parade-raining, the tendency to quash political optimism attached to perceived momentum is a stagnating online political trope. Irony aside, here’s some rain for my fellow anti-capitalists: Trojan Horse [...]
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Rising developments within labour challenge the conventional progressive wisdom that neoliberal globalisation has been an unprecedented disaster for workers, trade unions, and the labor movement. As argued in my new contribution to the Great Transition Initiative, the obstacles to labour [...]
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It was E.P. Thompson who stated, in The Making of the English Working Class, that:
When we encounter some sonorous phrase such as “the strong ebb and flow of the trade cycle” we must be put on our guard. For behind this trade cycle there is a structure of social relations, [...]
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The question of who controls water and for what purpose makes water inherently political. Whether it’s water sources, water production such as desalination plants and waste treatment, or water services, private industry and financial markets are approaching water as the “it” commodity of [...]
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The study of the political economy of Australian capitalism begins with Marx’s Capital, Volume I (1867) Chapter 33 ‘The Modern Theory of Colonisation’. In this final chapter, Marx discusses the exportation of capitalist social relations to the global periphery. This required, it is [...]
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