Whilst much ink has been spilt trying to grapple with where it all went wrong, Rowan Lubbock’s Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty offers a novel reading of the most vexatious case of Venezuela under Hugo Chávez.
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The 18th Annual Wheelwright Lecture in Political Economy was held at the University of Sydney on 10 September 2025.
The 2025 event, part of a suite of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, was delivered by Emerita Professor Raewyn [...]
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Cultivating Socialism by Rowan Lubbock is a particularly valuable contribution for those of us who work on the characteristics of sovereignty and on the global historical sociology of state formation from a macro-sociological perspective.
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How can Applied Political Economy assist our pedagogical experiences in the classroom? This post reflects on its potential to address the multitude of economic paradigms and enable students to both engage with them and learn important skills.
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The Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney warmly invites you to a special event commemorating its 50th anniversary. This occasion marks five decades of pioneering scholarship, critical inquiry, and public engagement in Political Economy.
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Rowan Lubbock’s Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA and the Politics of Food Sovereignty is an important book for understanding the agrarian dimensions of Venezuela’s socialist experiment and the ALBA regional integration project at both the theoretical and empirical levels.
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The Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney is advertising a continuing education focused position, to be appointed at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level. This position is part of the University of Sydney Horizon Educators program.
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First post of a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book Cultivating Socialism, which focuses on how peasants, workers, and states attempted to redress the inequities of commercial agriculture across the Latin American region through the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA).
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