Back in 2011, with a view to engaging students through different teaching methods, we launched a poetry competition on the core MA module "Theories and Concepts in International Relations" at the University of Nottingham. After all, Roland Bleiker has himself emphasised the role of the poetic [...]
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The Australian literary firmament recently lost a giant when David Ireland passed away at the age of 94. Ireland’s literary career, spanning the best part of fifty years, can essentially be broken into two halves. From his literary breakout in 1968 to the early 1980s, Ireland was very much the [...]
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Nivedita Majumdar’s book The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism promises to analyse postcolonial literature from a standpoint of radical universalism. In six of her seven chapters she fulfills this promise.
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It was both an honour and a delight to contribute to the Special Issue of Art & the Public Sphere edited by Ian Bruff and Mel Jordan. The focus on disrupting the relations between art, politics, and pedagogy provided a wonderful provocation to reconsider and critique some of my own teaching [...]
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The Department of Political Economy and The Novel Network, both at the University of Sydney, co-hosted a roundtable focus on Space, Place and Capitalism: The Literary Geographies of The Unknown Industrial Prisoner by Brett Heino, which represents the first time that a literary economy approach [...]
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The majority of the posts in the section of this blog entitled ‘Literary Geographies of Political Economy’ draw theoretical insights from the field of critical political economy to shed interpretive light on literary texts, and/or draw out the insights that fictional worlds can provide into the [...]
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The Department of Political Economy and The Novel Network, both at the University of Sydney, co-hosted a roundtable focus on Space, Place and Capitalism: The Literary Geographies of The Unknown Industrial Prisoner by Brett Heino, which represents the first time that a literary economy approach [...]
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A new article in Political Geography extends my ongoing research at the intersection of political economy, literature, and geography to delve into the constitution of frontier space in the work of Cormac McCarthy. Drawing from archival research at The Wittliff Collections with an [...]
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