Standing in the centre of Plaza Murillo (La Paz) in the middle of September of 2019, I faced towards the National Congress of Bolivia. In front of the building, alongside the traditional Bolivian tricolour of red, yellow and green, flew the wiphala, the multi‐coloured, chequered flag that [...]
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There are many things going on in Social Movements in Latin America. Mapping the Mosaic. I especially appreciated the critical discussions of cultural political economy, of autonomy, of left critiques of progressive but extractivist governments, and the plea to account for the [...]
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This Global Crisis: Capitalism In And Beyond The Pandemic
The Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, together with the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) and the Political Economy Student Society (ECOPSoc) hosted the 13th Annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright [...]
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In Gran Sabana, southern Venezuela, an ongoing process of enclosure is generating social transformations comparable to the ones associated with primitive accumulation: this process leads to the transformation of land into capital and accentuates the conditions that have for decades spurred [...]
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My new edited volume A Research Agenda for Critical Political Economy has just been published. The book’s chapters explore different dimensions of political economy and different ways of doing political economy. Issues range across inequality, growth and development, money, trade, land, time [...]
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The selection committee for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2020 prize, as voted on by AIPEN members.
The prize will be awarded to the best article published in 2019 [...]
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Australia is currently undergoing what is acknowledged to be the fastest energy transition in the world. In the face of this rapid and uncertain transformational change, the federal government is pushing for a ‘gas-led recovery’ and a Technology Investment Roadmap that explicitly excludes [...]
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Some two years ago I was invited to contribute to a volume on Latin American Extractivism that Steve Ellner has edited and is about to come out. In my contribution I set to explain why resource nationalism receives mass support as the engine of development projects in Latin American [...]
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