We have been discussing radical history, prompted by a new book, Radical Newcastle (NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2015), discovering that its editors, James Bennett, Nancy Cushing, and Erik Eklund, neglected/ignored the tradition of radical history, including the series of recent books on [...]
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Kicking away the props
In recent years, in various places and on our blog ‘Radical Sydney/Radical History’ I have written, in collaboration with Terry Irving, about radical history. As radical historians we seek out, explore, and celebrate the diversities of alternatives and [...]
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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 lecture will address such issues as part of the Insights 2016: Lecture Series, organised by the Faculty of Arts and Social [...]
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Detroit has been famous for a long time for all the wrong reasons. Once the fourth great city of American Empire, the city has been wrecked by decades of deindustrialisation, depopulation and racial segregation. By 2013, about 50 percent of the population lived in poverty—an astonishing rise [...]
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Cormac McCarthy has been proclaimed as one of the greatest contemporary writers to herald from the United States and, also, as a writer that can be set historically alongside both John Williams (Butcher’s Crossing) and Oakley Hall (Warlock), in producing a pantheon of masterpieces addressing [...]
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With the publication of Justin McGuirk’s Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture, this blog post carries an earlier focus of mine on Mike Davis’ Planet of Slums, which was previously published in the journal Capital & [...]
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Back in 2012, within the Marxism Reading Group in the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of Nottingham we read David Harvey’s Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. I started reading this book [...]
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Organised by Elizabeth Humphrys, Ihab Shalbak, Philip Roberts and Richard Parkin, the graduate workshop, ‘On “Heroic Fury” and Questions of Method in Antonio Gramsci’ (University of Sydney, 29 May 2015), brought together scholars from the University of Sydney, the [...]
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