How is subalternity both constituted and contested in and through state-society relations in India today? This is the question at the heart of my new book, Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland, which is being published in the series South Asia in the [...]
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Europe’s colonial encounter with the Americas has profoundly influenced modern conceptualisations of the political subject. As argued in an article ‘Amazonian Struggles for Recognition’ in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Europeans started from a point of [...]
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“Neoliberalism is a slippery concept, meaning different things to different people” (p. 1). Simon Springer, Kean Birch and Julie MacLeavy’s excellently-edited volume The Handbook of Neoliberalism starts its mission with this nailing definition. Neoliberalism has become one of the concepts [...]
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Historical Materialism Sydney | Contesting the Survival of Capitalism | University of Sydney | 13-14 December 2018 Call for papers
Capitalism has been able to attenuate but not resolve the contradictions of capital, doing so by occupying and producing space, extending urbanism, programming [...]
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In a famous passage in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, the sequel to Alice in Wonderland, the following exchange takes place between Alice and Humpty Dumpty:
`I don’t know what you mean by “glory”,’ Alice [...]
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As featured in The Sydney Morning Herald by Matt Wade, the share of total economic output in Australia that is paid to workers (in the form of wages, salaries, and superannuation contributions) has been declining for decades. Workers produce more real output with each hour of labour (thanks [...]
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This week, Jeremy Corbyn delivered a keynote speech to showcase Labour’s emerging electoral manifesto on industrial policy. Titled Build it in Britain, it sets out an industrial strategy based on three key policy directives: large-scale public investment in infrastructure, a revived and [...]
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Turkey’s recent political and economic direction under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has come to occupy a significant place in academic and popular discussions on contemporary authoritarian politics. Amidst a seemingly global resurgence of authoritarian political actors and [...]
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