Next Past & Present Reading Group text

This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space.

As previously, we will meet Fridays, 1:00-2:00, with our meetings in Semester 2 to be held at Abercrombie Business School, Seminar Room 2003.

The first meeting of the group is scheduled for Friday 3 August and all are welcome.

The previous twelve books read by the group have included the following past and present classics in political economy, with a commentary written on each text by a member from the group:

J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron and Stephen Healy, Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities.
Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation.
Louis Althusser, Reading Capital: The Complete Edition.
Jason W. Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital.
Suzanne de Brunhoff, Marx on Money.
Susanne Soederberg, Debtfare State and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population.
Nicos Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism.
Samuel Knafo, The Making of Modern Finance: Liberal Governance and the Gold Standard.
Charles Post, The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America.
Costas Lapavitsas, Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All.
Peter Thomas, The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism.

Adam David Morton

The set image for this post is ‘City’ by Celine Meisser

Author: Adam David Morton

Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (2007); Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (2011), recipient of the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG); and co-author of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (2018) with Andreas Bieler. The volume Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography is out in 2022 with University of Minnesota Press, co-edited with Stuart Elden.

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