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 Raewyn Connell and Terry Irving, Class Structure in Australian History (Second edition, 1992).

As previously, we will meet Fridays, 1:00-2:00, with our meetings to be held at University of Sydney, Social Science Building, Room 370. Our first meeting will be on Friday 16 August.

The previous fifteen 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:

Riki Scanlan on Jennifer Robinson, Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development;
Frank Stilwell on Doreen Massey, Spatial Divisions of Labour: Social Structures and the Geography of Production;
Sirma Altun on Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space;
Oliver Mispelhorn on J.K. Gibson-Graham et al., Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities;
Natasha Heenan on Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation;
Mark Kelly on Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Rancière, Reading Capital: The Complete Edition;
Gareth Bryant on Jason W. Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital;
Joe Collins on Suzanne de Brunhoff, Marx on Money;
Gareth Bryant on Susanne Soederberg, Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population;
Luis F. Angosto-Ferrández on Nicos Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism;
Martijn Konings on Samuel Knafo, The Making of Modern Finance: Liberal Governance and the Gold Standard;
Bill Dunn on Charles Post, The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877;
Adam David Morton on Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America;
Claire Parfitt on Costas Lapavitsas, Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All; and
Adam David Morton on Peter Thomas, The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism.

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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