Over the past thirty years or so, global financial market integration and financial (re)regulation have largely contributed to the increased vulnerability of Developing and Emerging Capitalist Countries (DECC) to the volatile cross-border movement of money and capital. Repeated financial [...]
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Welcome to the first 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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Those who position themselves as feminist International Relations (IR) scholars usually realise early on that they need to be experts in international relations AND feminist theory—both the mainstream and critical perspectives of their particular subfield. But as one of the key takeaways [...]
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David Harvey’s pioneering book Social Justice and the City (1973) takes its readers on a fascinating journey, from a mainstream liberal view of the city to a radical political economic alternative. The transition is developed through engagement with an array of complex analytical issues – [...]
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Materialism and dialectics have given us totality and difference, as well as the structural link which subjectively unites them . . . It remains insufficient as long as this structure, this totality is not internally split, as long as we do not succeed in grasping not the structural [...]
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Reaching the end as a state employee I decided to take a trip to the west coast of Tasmania. It’s a region defined by mines, forests and its isolation from the largest settlements during colonisation. And towns established to service industries have been abandoned and deprived of any [...]
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There was only once, in the final year of my PhD, that my supervisor and I butted heads. I had just submitted my fourth chapter for her review and, because I was living in another city at the time, she sent me an email saying we needed to speak on the phone urgently. A radical feminist, she [...]
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Despite increasing inequality and social deprivation in Europe since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2007-8, right-wing parties, such as the French Front National and the German Alternative for Deutschland, have benefited the most in recent elections. Does the electoral failure [...]
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