In 2017, Ariel Salleh published the second edition of her book Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern (Zed Books, 2017). In her outstanding engagement with multiple oppressions within the capitalist global economy, she convincingly argues that patriarchal oppression is [...]
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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 Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics [1922] (MIT Press, 1971).
Our meetings will commence next month, with [...]
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In a recent paper co-authored with László Bruszt and published in a Special Issue of Review of International Political Economy, we identify a developmental state in the least likely of times – the period of hegemonic neoliberalism in the 1990s and early 2000s – and the least likely of [...]
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In an interesting reply by Ronaldo Munck to my review of his book Rethinking Global Labour he misunderstands the implications of my conceptual criticisms. Rather than pointing to my empirical work in the area of Global Labour Studies since 2008, I will make two conceptual points in [...]
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Peter Thiel is many things. A staunch libertarian, he is the billionaire Founder of PayPal and Palintir, an early investor in Facebook, and confidant to the likes of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The small group of colleagues he had at PayPal’s inception left to form companies like YouTube, [...]
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“Western thought is marked by a will to architecture that is reiterated and renewed at times of crisis.” – Kojin Karatani
The Challenge of Architecture (as Metaphor):
There is a spectre haunting capitalist societies, the spectre of that which is repressed by “the will to [...]
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This is the transcript of an interview Sheritha Brace from International Affairs Forum conducted with Alf Nilsen (Professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria) on the COVID-19 Crisis.
You’ve written that World Bank poverty metrics that show an overall world decline don’t [...]01184
Zoonotic disease pandemics such as COVID-19 present us with an opportunity to reframe how we understand capitalism by visibilising the role animals are forced to play in its processes, and the forms and spaces of human-animal contact that are dominant in our world. The [...]
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