This is my talk on “Is there common ground between identity politics and class struggle?” given at the 2018 Historical Materialism Sydney conference.
This talk is underpinned by a commitment to the global struggle for a fairer, more just world, for transformative change, for a [...]
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Melinda Cooper’s Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and New Social Conservatism (Zone Books, 2017) tracks the politics of kinship in the era of neoliberalism, placing the centrality of “family values” discourse within the broader context of American social thought and post-Fordist [...]
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‘Poverty’ is one of those issues that receives extended and diverse attention globally. After all, the reduction and eradication of extreme poverty have been at the top of the global ‘development agenda’ since the 1990s. The United Nations enshrined the global community’s commitment to [...]
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I am honored to receive the 2017 Australian International Political Economy Network Richard Higgott Journal article prize. I would like to thank all who voted in the long listing process and the Selection Committee for their recognition. I also note that research of this nature is an ongoing [...]
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11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations (Barcelona, Spain, 13-16 September 2017)
Jacqui True and Aida Hozic are soliciting proposals for the EISA section on Scandalous Economics of Gender in Conflict and Post-Conflict. They are particularly interested in papers [...]
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Two spectres haunt this thoughtful and thought-provoking collection. The first, prominent throughout, is the spectre of transnational business feminism: the book directly addresses the dismal prospect that however questionable its foundations, it will play a part in rescuing neoliberalism [...]
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I was very fortunate to be invited to join Women’s Economic League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in Sarajevo in June 2016 for a workshop to discuss a political economy perspective on WILPF’s proposed reparations program for survivors of the Bosnian war. And I also joined the solidarity [...]
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It’s 2016 and we are moving backwards on work, care and family policies. Governments focused on balanced budgets rather than balanced lives have stymied support for workers with caring responsibilities – mostly women. This is at a time of increased global attention on gender, [...]
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