These days we are witnessing a growing interest in Karl Polanyi’s framework to explain the organic crisis of neoliberalism, including the populist reaction; while Antonio Gramsci has always been popular within a wide range of movement studies from different disciplines. My recently published [...]
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The Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2022
Armidale, NSW, 5-8 July
Call for abstracts for panel on ‘Repairing Australia’s climate economy’
Organised by Sophie Webber and Gareth Bryant, the University of Sydney
Australia’s carbon and [...]
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The Iranian theocratic state for long has been conceptualised as an ‘exceptional’ entity. Two sets of theorisation have hugely contributed to this understanding. Because the 1979 revolution is mostly interpreted as an ‘exceptional’ revolution that can’t be grasped through classical social [...]
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Görkem Altınörs and Ümit Akçay analyse the political economy of regime change in Turkey. The AKP's 'authoritarian fix' strategy was a response to multiple crises in the 2010s. Now, it has led to an attempt at authoritarian consolidation.
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I find the constant coining of new terms tiresome. But in writing Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy, I felt the need to re-define my nonmarket socialist position in a more constructive and less reactive way as ‘real valuism’, with ‘real value’ as a basic economic term. I hasten to add [...]
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This blog post discusses an article that was part of the Special Issue entitled ‘Politicizing Artistic Pedagogies: Publics, Spaces, Teachings’ published in late 2021 in the journal Art & the Public Sphere, edited by myself and Mel Jordan. In doing so, I finally managed to write about my [...]
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The role of water in ongoing settler-colonialism is re-emerging as a key issue in colonial and settler-colonial theory. In Australia, the renewed focus on water is linked to discussion of water and colonialism in the public debate. Two recent and seemingly different stories illustrate this [...]
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The Period Poverty initiative was subsequently featured in national media, and became the basis of a recently-published journal article in a Special Issue of Art & the Public Sphere where we draw on our shared lecturer/student experiences to collectively reflect on the initiative and consider [...]
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