The revolutionary events of late 2010 in Tunisia not only reinvigorated mass emancipatory politics in the Arab world but also inspired social movements all around the globe. For many, particularly on the left, the Arab Uprising – the term often used for these revolutionary waves – was not [...]
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Movements that change the world also change the ways in which we know and understand the world. Activists produce knowledge as they try to find answers to the questions they face in struggle – questions about the issues they mobilise around, about the opposition that they face from above, [...]
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This text was first published in Avanti!, Turin edition, from Antonio Gramsci’s column “Sotto la Mole,” January 1, 1916.
Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s day.
That’s why I hate these New Years that fall like [...]
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The Department of Political Economy, together with the Department of Anthropology, hosted an outstanding seminar by Professor Sujatha Fernandes to a packed audience at the University of Sydney on 13 October 2016.
Professor Fernandes spoke about her notion of the ‘political [...]
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Since the publication of the updated paperback edition of my book Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development, the organisation Academic Trailers has put together this great feature on the book. The short YouTube video captures some of the essential [...]
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On 17 August, Erik Olin Wright hosted a specific international workshop on ‘What has Sociological Marxism ever done for us?’ at the University of Sydney. Participants were from Chile, Austria, nationally across Australia, and various universities within Sydney including Macquarie [...]
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Some paths to an event seem particularly labyrinthine, which only adds to the joy once a project reaches an unexpected destination.
When Adam David Morton arrived to take up his Professorship at Sydney in 2014, it coincided with a merging and re-foundation of a number of local Capital [...]
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How do subaltern groups negotiate and resist dispossession, disenfranchisement and stigma in neoliberal India? This is the question at the heart of a recently published volume, which I have co-edited with Srila Roy, entitled New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance [...]
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