Australia has until recently been somewhat insulated from the turbulence in the global political economy. In large measure, this can be attributed to the buoyant international demand for Australian iron ore, coal and gas, but this situation is being severely challenged. Reining in the [...]
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The Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2022
Armidale, NSW, 5-8 July
Call for abstracts for panel on ‘Repairing Australia’s climate economy’
Organised by Sophie Webber and Gareth Bryant, the University of Sydney
Australia’s carbon and [...]
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The 14th E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Memorial Lecture was delivered on 25 November 2021 by Kim Stanley Robinson. The annual lecture is hosted by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, together with the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) and the Political [...]
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December 7-9, 2021 via Zoom This Conference brings together the latest research on energy transitions from across several countries. It involves institutes, researchers and key participants in the process of energy transition, to learn from experience and to reflect on obstacles and [...]
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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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Climate change caused by anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) has risen to the top global threat of the 21st century. Although developed countries contributed the most to historical emissions, since the mid-2000s developing countries have overtaken developed countries as the main [...]
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When writing interventions on contemporary events, one’s best hope is that comrades of all stripes will engage with them closely and critically. I have recently written two –Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century and How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning [...]
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“How green is your pension?” asked the Financial Times a few weeks ago, opening up a series of issues for readers to consider such as: How are you incorporating your ethics into your personal investment strategy? How are you managing financial, as well as other risks, as you look to the [...]
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