How can we close the widening gap between rich and poor? Political economist Frank Stilwell will discuss economic inequality, expose the scale of the problem and provide alternative strategies for a fairer society.
Event detailsDate and time: Tuesday 10 September, 6:00pm – [...]
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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 Raewyn Connell and Terry Irving, Class Structure in Australian History (Second edition, 1992).
As previously, we will meet Fridays, [...]
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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 Jennifer Robinson, Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development.
As previously, we will meet Fridays, 1:00-2:00, with our meetings [...]
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Delivering searing criticism on the psychosis of absolute power, Victor Serge’s fifth novel to be featured in my series is a masterly work. The focus of a new article in Annals of the American Association of Geographers , The Case of Comrade Tulayev was written in 1942 and is situated in [...]
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It was E.P. Thompson who stated, in The Making of the English Working Class, that:
When we encounter some sonorous phrase such as “the strong ebb and flow of the trade cycle” we must be put on our guard. For behind this trade cycle there is a structure of social relations, [...]
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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 Doreen Massey, Spatial Divisions of Labour: Social Structures and the Geography of Production.
As previously, we will meet Fridays, [...]
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Recommencing my series of posts on the novels of Victor Serge, I focus now on what Richard Greeman has recognised as the ‘cycle of resistance’ in the second informal trilogy comprising Midnight in the Century [1939], The Case of Comrade Tulayev [1942], and The Long Dusk [1946]. [...]
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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 Annals of the [...]
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