This post introduces readers to the second Special Issue we have co-edited on the umbrella theme of ‘Politicizing Artistic Pedagogies’. The first Special Issue, entitled ‘Politicizing Artistic Pedagogies: Publics, Spaces, Teachings’, was published in late 2021 in the journal Art & the Public [...]
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Back in 2011, with a view to engaging students through different teaching methods, we launched a poetry competition on the core MA module "Theories and Concepts in International Relations" at the University of Nottingham. After all, Roland Bleiker has himself emphasised the role of the poetic [...]
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I have recently co-written a chapter in the new ‘Handbook of Alternative Theories of Political Economy’ that considers ways that political economy teaching can be expanded. Five broad strategies are discussed: seeking reform to get more PE units of study taught within economics [...]
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Australia’s political and economic system is built on exploitation. From the violent foundational occupation of Indigenous lands, to the ongoing denial of Indigenous sovereignty over those lands; from the destructive extraction of natural resources, to the profound devaluation of the care work [...]
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The mission of D-Econ (Diversifying and Decolonising Economics) is to promote inclusivity within the content and institutions of the economics discipline due to the dominance of Eurocentric thinking. This situation has occurred because of the longstanding exclusion of alternate views—based on [...]
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What is political economy? How is political economy different from conventional economics? Why choose to study political economy? What’s it like to be a political economy student? Where can political economy take you in your life and career?
For Open Day 2021, current and former [...]
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For several years now the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has been responding to declining levels of enrolments in the study of economics by diligently extolling the personal and societal benefits of studying economics and by producing research on the topic of falling enrolments. For [...]
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This is the second of two posts on how we are forever enmeshed in relationships, in all aspects of our lives, that continually (re)shape, (re)produce, and (re)envision how we practise our craft. The first discussed the important role played by my students across the 2010s in educating me [...]
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