“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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Discussing the analytical and political challenges
It is important to have a spatial or geographical dimension to political economic analysis, just as it is important to recognise its temporal dimension. In the real world, all human activity occurs in both space and time. Any [...]
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The question may appear redundant and misguided. Urban violence is, seemingly, everywhere, in dusty border towns and concrete inner cities, sprawling informal settlements and secluded gated communities, dark alleyways and busy demonstrations, fast-gentrifying neighbourhoods and dilapidated [...]
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In 2011, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde praised Brazil for finding the ‘enviable sweet spot’ between sustained growth and reduced external vulnerability, allowing it to become ‘one of the world’s leading emerging markets’. This statement reflected the enthusiasm of the international [...]
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Shakespeare has long been seen as a writer with something to say about the economic. Karl Marx famously uses Timon of Athens to discuss the “power of money” in his 1844 Manuscripts and Capital Volume I. There are crucial economic questions in The Merchant of Venice, not only in the character [...]
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How can we best account for the recent formation of Sydney’s metropolitan planning authority, the Greater Sydney Commission (GSC)?
This question guided my Honours research last year into the latest evolution of Sydney’s planning regime. My argument situates the Greater Sydney [...]
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David Harvey’s pioneering book Social Justice and the City (1973) takes its readers on a fascinating journey, from a mainstream liberal view of the city to a radical political economic alternative. The transition is developed through engagement with an array of complex analytical issues – [...]
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