The 21st BIEN Congress will be a hybrid event, involving a mixture of online and face-to-face events. The main face-to-face event will take place in Brisbane, Australia in the form of a one-day symposium on Monday 26th September 2022.
BIEN 2022 will be jointly hosted by BIEN [...]
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December 7-9, 2021 via Zoom This Conference brings together the latest research on energy transitions from across several countries. It involves institutes, researchers and key participants in the process of energy transition, to learn from experience and to reflect on obstacles and [...]
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The Prize Committee is delighted to announce that the article by Melissa Johnston, “Frontier finance: the role of microfinance in debt and violence in post-conflict Timor-Leste,” published in the journal, Review of International Political Economy has won the 2021 Australian International [...]
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An array of exploitative practices harm workers in contemporary workplaces. In this blog piece, I focus on the issue of exploitation in detail by considering a group that is often affected by workplace infringements, namely migrant workers. Their exploitation has been raised as a concern in the [...]
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China’s Belt and Road is not an infrastructure project. With the external industrial policy International Capacity Cooperation being now unwound and Belt and Road floundering as the guiding foreign economic policy, the intercontinental containerised China Rail Express (CR Express) is sitting on [...]
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Over the last decade, there has been a dramatic increase in engagements with Marx’s concept of relative surplus populations (RSPs). The RSP describes the portion of the working-age population surplus to the immediate needs of capital for waged labour at any given place and time. Revived [...]
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How can we develop a program and movement for climate justice that will address the pathologies of our toxic capitalist present? How can we overcome a pervasive capitalist realism that insists that ‘there is no alternative’, and rise to the challenge of imagining and enacting a political [...]
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Sirens of our times are pregnant with urgency — unprecedented floods, fires, species extinctions and the Covid-19 pandemic — all linked one way or the other with capitalism, global heating and the ways we live. In 2020, I published my most successful article to date, if success can be [...]
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