Over the past decade, the evident failures of many international peacebuilding interventions to attain their governance and development objectives, or sometimes even to reduce violence, has led to considerable soul-searching among scholars and some practitioners. The result has been a [...]
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The governance of urban security (or, in American English, public safety) constitutes a privileged angle to study the relations among government, public action, socio-economic trends and urban dynamics. On one hand, security, and its governance, are a nodal dimension of the way public policy [...]
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2017 Political Economy Seminar Series
Kurt Iveson (University of Sydney) ‘Crowds, clouds, and digital labour: Further adventures in the commodification of everyday urban life’Date: Thursday 11 May 2017
Time: 4pm-5.30pm
Location: Darlington Centre Boardroom, [...]
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For growing numbers of urban inhabitants, smartphones and their mobile apps have become essential tools for everyday life.
In the decade since smartphones first became popularised, many millions of people in cities around the world have grown used to using apps for finding and making [...]
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Some fifteen years ago, Leonie Sandercock made the case for the need to engage with what she dubbed the “political economies of urban fear”. Arguing that “planning and urban management discourses are, and always have been, saturated with fear”, she proposed to explore the connections between [...]
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In a recent conversation on ‘the power of ideas’ that took place at the LSE, David Harvey pointed out to Michael Storper that urban economics is a most despised field in mainstream economics. The ‘best economists’, Harvey claimed, don’t do urban economics. The crowd, mostly pro-Harvey, [...]
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Under capitalism, how does the state organise space in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet?
This was the question that animated my ‘Sydney Insights’ (or Professorial Inaugural Lecture) that was delivered on [...]
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My latest article in Environment and Planning D examines the issue of non-capitalist space within the global political economy. Why is this important? A common starting point for radical critiques of our present society is to focus on the dynamics of capitalism. The rationale for this is [...]
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