The attention granted to the Grand Renaissance dam in Ethiopia, costing more than $4.3bn, forming Africa’s largest hydroelectric plant and raising controversy with Egypt over access to the waters of the river Nile poses anew some questions of geopolitical economy surrounding multipurpose dam [...]
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Across several of the political economy courses, or units, I teach at the University of Sydney the one set of issues often repeated to my students revolves around essay writing best practice. Rather than reciting these tips afresh from course to course, the following aims to outline some of [...]
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Delivering searing criticism on the psychosis of absolute power, Victor Serge’s second novel to be featured in my new article in Annals of the American Association of Geographers is a masterly work. The Case of Comrade Tulayev was written in 1942 and is situated [...]
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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 Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space.
As previously, we will meet Fridays, 1:00-2:00, with our meetings in Semester 2 to be held at Abercrombie [...]
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One of the most striking features of Victor Serge’s writings has to be the way he captures spatial arbiters that shape the practices of empowerment and containment within the territorial form of the city. As argued in my latest journal article published here in [...]
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Rather than evoke a notion of ‘great transformations’ shaping the rise and fall of market economy in the tradition of Karl Polanyi, Economic Ideas in Political Time by Wesley Widmaier offers an enticing argument on the construction of political economic orders across time.
Focusing on [...]
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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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This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron and Stephen Healy, Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities.
As previously, we will [...]
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