This section of the PPE blog is dedicated to Literary Geographies of Political Economy bringing together the emergence of new work in this area addressing political economy in a truly interdisciplinary manner. The objective is to co-ordinate material that focuses on literary geography, literary history, and political economy. This entails an interdisciplinary focus on literary studies, geographical studies, and political economy addressing narratives of literary and material space.
The ambition is to reach out to cognate endeavours engaged with literary geographies and political economy, be it work linked to the journal Literary Geographies; work on Early Modern Literary Geographies; work on Capital Fictions linking literary fiction and capitalist modernity; or work on Political Economy and the Novel, linking literary history and political economy.
My new book Class War is a literary history, but it is committed to literature as something more than a record of past events. With a textual archive comprising letters, slogans, songs, manifestoes, memoirs, and field manuals in addition to novels, poems, and other more obviously literary modes [...]
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The Australian literary firmament recently lost a giant when David Ireland passed away at the age of 94. Ireland’s literary career, spanning the best part of fifty years, can essentially be broken into two halves. From his literary breakout in 1968 to the early 1980s, Ireland was very much the [...]
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Nivedita Majumdar’s book The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism promises to analyse postcolonial literature from a standpoint of radical universalism. In six of her seven chapters she fulfills this promise.
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The Department of Political Economy and The Novel Network, both at the University of Sydney, co-hosted a roundtable focus on Space, Place and Capitalism: The Literary Geographies of The Unknown Industrial Prisoner by Brett Heino, which represents the first time that a literary economy approach [...]
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Our world today is not just characterised by the Covid-19 pandemic and the climate disaster, it is also increasingly dominated and driven by financialised capitalism, as manifest e.g., in trading in derivatives and the rise of the cryptocurrency known as “bitcoin.” In other words, contemporary [...]
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The majority of the posts in the section of this blog entitled ‘Literary Geographies of Political Economy’ draw theoretical insights from the field of critical political economy to shed interpretive light on literary texts, and/or draw out the insights that fictional worlds can provide into the [...]
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How can we develop a program and movement for climate justice that will address the pathologies of our toxic capitalist present? How can we overcome a pervasive capitalist realism that insists that ‘there is no alternative’, and rise to the challenge of imagining and enacting a political [...]
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The Department of Political Economy and The Novel Network, both at the University of Sydney, co-hosted a roundtable focus on Space, Place and Capitalism: The Literary Geographies of The Unknown Industrial Prisoner by Brett Heino, which represents the first time that a literary economy approach [...]
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