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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Over the last decade, there has been a dramatic increase in engagements with Marx’s concept of relative surplus populations (RSPs). The RSP describes the portion of the working-age population surplus to the immediate needs of capital for waged labour at any given place and time. Revived [...]
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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 collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work.
In collaboration with Stuart Elden, we are pleased to present Lefebvre’s key works on rural questions, including the first half of his book [...]
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This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Milton Santos, The Nature of Space, trans. Brenda Baletti (Duke University Press, 2021).
Our discussions will commence with the first meeting to [...]
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Institute of Australian Geographers & New Zealand Geographical Society Combined Conference
6-9 July, 2021, University of Sydney
The Institute of Australian Geographers and New Zealand Geographical Society Combined Conference will take place at the University of Sydney on [...]
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“Western thought is marked by a will to architecture that is reiterated and renewed at times of crisis.” – Kojin Karatani
The Challenge of Architecture (as Metaphor):
There is a spectre haunting capitalist societies, the spectre of that which is repressed by “the will to [...]
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Department of Anthropology Symposium, University of Sydney
Theme and goals
In the present period of political instability and uncertainty, symbols of community and faction have regained public presence as tools for political manoeuvring and mobilisation. This is very noticeable [...]
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