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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The year 2021 represents an important milestone in Australian literary history – the fiftieth anniversary of David Ireland’s Miles Franklin Prize-winning novel The Unknown Industrial Prisoner. This anniversary comes at a time of unprecedented economic, political and social dislocation, as the [...]
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In a previous post on Progress in Political Economy, I discussed how David Ireland’s Miles Franklin prize-winning novel The Unknown Industrial Prisoner is particularly relevant for an analysis at the crossroads of political economy, radical geography and literary theory. In that same piece I [...]
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In 1848 The Communist Manifesto argued that the bourgeoisie ‘for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions…has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.’ This did not remain Marx’s view of the bourgeoisie, however, at least of the English bourgeoisie as he [...]
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One of the most special moments you can have as a scholar is for a particular project to irresistibly place itself at the centre of your attention. You think about it, obsess about it, lose sleep over it, sure in the knowledge that you must pursue it wherever it may lead. I was lucky enough [...]
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We share a common desire to understand the interlocking relations of race and space in Latin America. While in graduate school at the University of Minnesota—where Joel Wainwright wrote his PhD (Geography) on the colonisation of the Maya in Belize, Joshua Lund (Spanish) wrote on theories of [...]
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