Modern Colonial Geographies in Latin America: The Mirage of the Civilising City and the Archaic Countryside “Wanting to be modern seems crazy: we are condemned to be so, given that the future and the past are prohibited” — Octavio Paz (1966: 5)
Invitation to [...]
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Winner of the 2017 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) — Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize
The prize committee is delighted to announce that Samanthi Gunawardana’s article ‘“To Finish, We Must Finish”: Everyday Practices of Depletion in [...]
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In my research on the Monument to the Revolution, as one of the foremost commemorative spatial sites of state power in Mexico City, now published in Journal of Latin American Studies, I have previously blogged on:
1) how a focus on monuments enables a way of revealing the history of [...]
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This second volume in the five-part series on A Political Economy of Australian Capitalism offers seven contributions all revolving around the role of the state in diverse aspects of capitalist development in Australia. Readers can access the complete text ESSAYS IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF [...]
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I argue in a recent article in Journal of Latin American Studies that the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City stands as an ambiguous carrier of utopian promise, which links past and present generations of struggle. Specifically, my concluding point was that this architectural space [...]
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Materialism and dialectics have given us totality and difference, as well as the structural link which subjectively unites them . . . It remains insufficient as long as this structure, this totality is not internally split, as long as we do not succeed in grasping not the structural [...]
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Symposium: “Disaster Capitalism”
Submissions Due: January 15, 2018
Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice issue 30 (2): Disaster Capitalism
How does power profit from disaster? How can resistance make change? This issue of Peace Review will focus on exploring the [...]
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Free open access to my article in Journal of Latin American Studies featured in this post is now, currently, available. You can download it as a PDF, or save it to your Kindle, Google Drive, or Dropbox through this link HERE.
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The death of Heather [...]
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