Feminist ethics can help us with the study of violence and war because of two reasons. First, by drawing attention to everyday activities that has an impact on conflict. This will help connect the dots between private experiences of violence and the public sphere of war. Second, by [...]
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This year, I coordinated a unit, as part of the Honours program in Political Economy at the University of Sydney, titled ‘Reproducing Capitalism’. The unit explored conceptual debates on the socio-ecological reproduction of capitalism and historical and contemporary transformations [...]
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International workforces underpin contemporary security operations—many of these forces originating from the global South. Similarly, miltarised households supporting these operations have also gone global. But what can military households tell us about global military operations and global [...]
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Free open access to my article in Journal of Latin American Studies featured in this post is now, currently, available. You can download it as a PDF, or save it to your Kindle, Google Drive, or Dropbox through this link HERE.
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The death of Heather [...]
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I wrote Morality and Power: On Ethics, Economics and Public Policy out of a growing frustration caused by the constricted universe of discourse around what passed for public policy debate in countries described as pursuing a neoliberal path. A particular passage in a 2009 book by James [...]
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As I tell my students, nothing gets a mainstream economist frothing at the mouth quite like mentioning Karl Polanyi.
Or at least it used to, when mainstream economists actually knew who Polanyi was and grasped—however dismissively—what he wrote about the history of [...]
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My latest book Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A History critically analyses the theorising of imperialism over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present. Analysis of Marxist engagement with imperialism during this period reveals three distinct phases of theorising. The [...]
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The left’s strategic setbacks in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina since 2015 have rekindled the debate about how leftist Latin America’s governments really have been. This debate has been dominated by two broadly defined positions: Traditional-Marxist and liberal-democratic. [...]
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