As discussed in part one, situating China’s Belt and Road Initiative historically and conjuncturally within the global capitalist system provides an alternative understanding of the BRI as a product of uneven geographical development. Here, part two considers how the BRI can also be [...]
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A review of Sheldon Krimsky. GMOs Decoded: A Skeptic’s View of Genetically Modified Foods. Cambridge, MA and London, England: MIT Press. 2019.
No new technology has ever been as controversial or divisive as food biotechnology, says Sheldom Krinsmsy in GMOs Decoded. He offers a [...]
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As established in my first blog post, Egypt has been undergoing a complex transformation process exacerbated by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s ever-growing authoritarianism. As a result, I argued that we were not only required to analyse the various soft and hard methods of repression [...]
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‘A high-stakes geopolitical game plan to augment and fortify Chinese power.’ – Will Doig, journalist.
‘China’s predatory approach to investment.’ – US National Security Council.
‘Debt-trap diplomacy.’ – US Vice President Mike Pence.
According to the [...]
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Egypt has been undergoing a complex transformation process exacerbated by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s ever-growing authoritarian tendencies culminating in his control over local media outlets, his prosecution of journalists and activists, and his crackdown on civil society. Against the [...]
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2019 12th Annual Wheelwright Lecture in Political Economy
Professor Susanne Soederberg (Department of Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario)
Eastern Avenue Auditorium, University of Sydney
17 October, 2019: 6:00 [...]
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In Sri Lanka, as throughout most of South Asia, low-waged temporary labour migration into regional hubs of growth and accumulation is a longstanding livelihood practice, internally and internationally. Patterns of uneven development, their roots extending far back into colonial [...]
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The philosopher Michel Feher is one of the most insightful observers of financialized capitalism writing today. Many English-speaking readers would have first encountered Feher’s thinking with the article “Self-Appreciation: or, the Aspirations of Human Capital,” a masterpiece of [...]
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