How can we best account for the recent formation of Sydney’s metropolitan planning authority, the Greater Sydney Commission (GSC)?
This question guided my Honours research last year into the latest evolution of Sydney’s planning regime. My argument situates the Greater Sydney [...]
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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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Wallace-Wells’ confronting and daunting climate piece ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ begins by saying “it is much worse than you think”. Following this evocative jolt Wallace-Wells threads a thorough run down of the catastrophic risks posed by climate change. The piece has attracted much [...]
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There are few issues that capture the level of public and scholarly interest that housing does today. Housing, many are aware, was a central cog in the defective system that produced the Global Financial Crisis, and has since remained at the forefront of political debate throughout the [...]
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A year ago, while I was studying for Honours, I would never have foreseen volunteering to read a 500 page volume of Marx’s work in my free time. But a week after I completed my thesis, at a local bar on a Friday night, I found myself eagerly agreeing to take part in a reading group of [...]
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The historicity of concepts is as unintuitive to our reason as it is fundamental for Marxist analysis. That Marx regarded analytical categories as historically specific is a key assertion of the internal relations approach. In this blog post I will argue that ‘the state’ is a distinctly [...]
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This is the third in a series of posts for the Unconventional Wisdom section of the Progress in Political Economy blog, written by Honours students within the Department of Political Economy. It stems from the cohort of Honours students that took the unit coordinated by Adam Morton entitled [...]
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This is the second in a series of posts for the Unconventional Wisdom section of the Progress in Political Economy blog, written by Honours students within the Department of Political Economy. It stems from the cohort of Honours students that took the unit coordinated by Adam Morton entitled [...]
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