James Richard O’Connor (Apr 20, 1930 – Nov 12, 2017)
The passing of James O’Connor marks a significant moment in the history of Marxist scholarship and politics. Born in 1930 and growing up in Boston, a short stint in the merchant marine introduced him to a world beyond the oppressive [...]
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With economic, social and environmental crises worldwide, the inhumane and ecologically destructive nature of capitalism is only too obvious. A plethora of movements unite those protesting these conditions of inequality and unsustainability and make demands in various spaces and contexts, to [...]
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Welcome to the sixth post in our #7CheapThings blog series! Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore’s A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things focuses on seven areas that are the foundation of modern commerce: nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives. How has the cheapening of these [...]
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In my research on the Monument to the Revolution, as one of the foremost commemorative spatial sites of state power in Mexico City, now published in Journal of Latin American Studies, I have previously blogged on:
1) how a focus on monuments enables a way of revealing the history of [...]
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Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is it, then, that opportunities for speculative investment continue to proliferate in the wake [...]
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Welcome to the fifth post in our #7CheapThings blog series! Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore’s A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things focuses on seven areas that are the foundation of modern commerce: nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives. How has the cheapening of these [...]
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The Making of Neoliberal Turkey edited by Cenk Özbay, Maral Erol, Ayşecan Terzioglu, and Z. Umut Türem, focuses on the various aspects of neoliberalisation in Turkey since the 1980s. The volume provides an empirically rich material for students and readers of Turkish politics, and also it [...]
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Welcome to the fourth post in our #7CheapThings blog series! Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore’s A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things focuses on seven areas that are the foundation of modern commerce: nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives. How has the cheapening of these [...]
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