How is culture embedded in social process? Can we understand change in our foci of collective meaning production in relation to transformations of property regimes and social relations? And is there a social logic behind the phenomenon of defetishisation of environments that the expansion of [...]
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Zoonotic disease pandemics such as COVID-19 present us with an opportunity to reframe how we understand capitalism by visibilising the role animals are forced to play in its processes, and the forms and spaces of human-animal contact that are dominant in our world. The [...]
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The future of coal is in doubt. Declining coal production and major challenges to coal mine approvals in Australia are now established trends. Renewable energy is set to become over half of the nation’s domestic electricity production by 2030.
This is good news for human and [...]
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Welcome to the third post in our #7CheapThings blog series! Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore’s A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things focuses on seven areas that are the foundation of modern commerce: nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives. How has the cheapening of these [...]
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Welcome to the second post in our #7CheapThings blog series! Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore’s A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things focuses on seven areas that are the foundation of modern commerce: nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives. How has the cheapening of these [...]
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Welcome to the first post in our #7CheapThings blog series! Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore’s A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things focuses on seven areas that are the foundation of modern commerce: nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives. How has the cheapening of these [...]
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A glance at emerging forms of resistance in the current era of globalisation and ecological crisis suggests that the appropriate ‘agents of history’ may now be ‘meta-industrial workers’, rather than the industrial proletariat. In exploring this thesis, I will not [...]
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Over the past decade, the notion of ‘climate change adaptation’ has become the conceptual lynchpin of institutional responses to global climate change. Nowhere is this more evident that in the field of international development where adaptation and its compelling imagery of impending [...]
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