Political Economy in 60 Seconds

To higher-degree research students within the School of Social and Political Sciences,

We are soon commencing a project launching a series of podcasts on Progress in Political Economy (PPE) and would like to have you as participants of this exciting project!

The aim of our project is to produce a series of podcasts by higher-degree research students in the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS). This involves two applied podcast training workshops that will be led by Miles Martignoni, Podcast Producer at Guardian Australia. We will then create teams to draft, record and edit a series of 5 podcasts themed around the concept of “space”, with each being 60 seconds long. The podcast series will be published in the Progress in Political Economy Blog.

We will have 10-15 project participants and we will ensure that our cohort is diverse in terms of research progression and domestic/international students, as well as diversity in terms of class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. If you are exploring spatial dimensions of political economy in your research and you are keen to learn about podcast production, please send an e-mail to Sirma Altun (sirma.altun@sydney.edu.au) by March 22 introducing yourself and your research.

We will have our first introductory meeting with recruited participants on March 29 (with those recruited participants informed about the time and location of the meeting by email).

Thank you,

Sirma Altun

Author: Sirma Altun

Sirma Altun is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Her research interests lie in the political economy of contemporary China, specifically in social welfare transformation and urban poverty. She is also interested in looking at the question of hegemony in China from a critical socio-spatial perspective.

Jennifer Robinson, Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development

Over the last year, the Past & Present Reading Group has taken a spatial turn, with a triad of three books of spatial theory from different disciplinary and theoretical...

Accumulation in a Post-Industrial Ecology

Review of: Pamela Odih, Adsensory Urban Ecology (2 vols.), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2019. HB 978-1-5275-2468-2

This is raw political economy. Odih, a ...

Doreen Massey: Spatial Divisions of Labour

Discussing the analytical and political challenges

It is important to have a spatial or geographical dimension to political economic analysis, just as it is important...

Imagining England, Imagining the Centre

The idea of centrist politics as associated with moral ideals such as temperance is one which has become increasingly attractive to those who feel threatened by political polar...