During the Spring semester 2019, students on the module Globalisation and Resistance in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham-UK carried out independent research projects. In addition to writing a 4,000 word essay, they also composed [...]
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A manifesto is a statement or declaration that describes the injustices of the world and outlines a program of the kinds of changes that should take place within it. People throughout history have written manifestos, from the Cartagena Manifesto by South American independence leader Simón [...]
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In September 2018, a Teaching Political Economy workshop was held at the University of Warwick, sponsored by the BISA International Political Economy Group and Warwick’s Department of Politics and International Studies. Participants from fifteen different institutions gathered to discuss [...]
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Across several of the political economy courses, or units, I teach at the University of Sydney the one set of issues often repeated to my students revolves around essay writing best practice. Rather than reciting these tips afresh from course to course, the following aims to outline some of [...]
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Across our joint collaborations, one of the key features has not just been our co-authorship but also our joint teaching. The latter has combined delivery of undergraduate political economy courses (or modules/units) as well as International Relations theory teaching, not least in relation [...]
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This set of reflections concludes this series of “five minute honours theses” produced by members of the 2017 Political Economy Honours cohort. The motivation for running this series emerged from the desire to see our research and ideas reach a broader audience than a couple of markers and [...]
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When he visited Sydney a few years ago I met Bill Carroll, Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria in Canada. We talked about teaching political economy and, in particular, how he taught Marx’s theoretical concepts. Carroll told me about an experiential classroom exercise [...]
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For many years I’ve taught a unit called ‘The Social Foundations of Modern Capitalism’ in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Its premise is that capitalism is a socially embedded system of value production. The unit encourages students to examine some of the [...]
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