All posts by Adrienne Roberts

Why we need to look beyond Justin Trudeau’s ‘Scandalous’ feminism

Adrienne Roberts | April 11, 2016

Being both a Canadian and a feminist, I cannot help feeling just a little bit proud every time Justin Trudeau, Canada’s newly elected Prime Minister, proclaims that he is a feminist. When asked about his reasons for appointing a cabinet that was 50% women, Trudeau infamously responded: [...]

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Gendering The Making of Modern Finance?

Adrienne Roberts | November 12, 2015

Samuel Knafo’s The Making of Modern Finance is a thoroughly compelling historically-grounded interrogation of liberal financial governance. I should qualify straight away that I am no expert on financial governance, the gold standard or the history of central banking. Nonetheless, there was [...]

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Three Theories of Underdevelopment

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Marx’s method of political economy

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Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch

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Beyond the Stereotype: How Dependency Theory Remains Relevant

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What is Constructivism For?

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10 talking points from Jason W. Moore’s ‘Capitalism in the Web of Life’

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Coronavirus, Crisis and the End of Neoliberalism

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Marxist Theories of Imperialism

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Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space