On April 23, 2020, the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced an austerity plan to confront the health and economic crisis provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. These measures secured, among other things, a series of controversial megaprojects in the South-Southeast of [...]
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On July 1, 2018, Mexico elected a left-of-center president for the first time since Lázaro Cárdenas was elected in 1934. Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) won the elections by a landslide: 53.2% of the vote and 64.3% of citizen participation, [...]
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In May 2017, the Congreso Nacional Indígena [National Indigenous Congress] together with the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional [EZLN] named a Concejo Indígena de Gobierno (CIG) [Indigenous Governing Council] and an indigenous woman, María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, presidential [...]
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My recent monograph with the University of Georgia Press (Geographies of Social Justice and Transformation series), seeks to give empirical grounding to Henri Lefebvre’s famous statement that, ‘Today, more than ever, the class struggle is inscribed in space.’ An overarching focus on issues [...]
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In reflecting on the ‘dual perspective’ of force and consent, Antonio Gramsci recognised that ‘two things are absolutely necessary for the life of a State: arms and religion . . . force and consent, coercion and persuasion, State and Church, political society and civil society, politics and [...]
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As part of his speaking commitments ahead of the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) conference hosted at La Trobe University, Alan Knight (Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford) gave two talks at the University of Sydney.
The first was on ‘The Great Depression in [...]
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Capitalism does not have an ecological dimension; it is an ecology: capitalism is a world-making system. This is the main argument of Jason W Moore’s latest book, Capitalism in the Web of Life. The premise is simple: nature is not an object or a factor, but a matrix. Capitalism develops [...]
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In his latest book entitled Chronicles: On Our Troubled Times Thomas Piketty argues that the Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes paints a revealing portrait of Mexican capitalism in his work. Just as Karl Marx said it was by reading Honoré de Balzac that one could [...]
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