The news of the death of Joseph A. Buttigieg on January 27, 2019 was greeted with sadness among the communities of scholars, researchers and students who have been deeply touched by his life and work. Among many other accomplishments, Joe was a central figure in the world of those [...]
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‘Social Justice’ is a powerful concept, evoking ideas of equality, democracy, freedom from violence and fairness. However, social justice has almost always been thought of through a human lens, as a way to achieve fairer outcomes within human societies. Campaigns to save rainforests or end [...]
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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 Doreen Massey, Spatial Divisions of Labour: Social Structures and the Geography of Production.
As previously, we will meet Fridays, [...]
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There is general agreement that the Eurozone crisis has had a devastating impact on countries in Europe’s periphery, especially in the south. This is expressed in record levels of unemployment, social inequality and widespread social deprivation. However, there is little agreement amongst [...]
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Marx’s method of political economy offers a critique of the political economy of capitalism in relation to its historical, social and material foundations, and this contributes to understanding and explaining the nature and functioning of capitalism, as well as the root causes of social [...]
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It is with great sadness that we heard of the passing of Erik Olin Wright, Honorary Professor to the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney since 2015 but with ties going back much longer, on 22 January 2019.
In 2015 Erik delivered the 8th annual [...]
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In his book Theory As History, Jairus Banaji makes the claim that we should not reduce a particular mode of production to one specific form of exploitation, such as the capitalist mode to wage labour. ‘Relations of production are simply not reducible to forms of exploitation, both [...]
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Following the publication of my article on ‘The Urban Revolution in Victor Serge’, in Annals of the American Association of Geographers, my thinking has returned to collating a series of posts I had previously written on the novelist. These will now be collected on Progress in [...]
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