In February of this year, congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a Green New Deal resolution into the United States Congress. The resolution outlined a 10 year plan for the decarbonisation of the American economy in the tradition of FDR’s 1930s New Deal, but rewritten for the [...]
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The question of who controls water and for what purpose makes water inherently political. Whether it’s water sources, water production such as desalination plants and waste treatment, or water services, private industry and financial markets are approaching water as the “it” commodity of [...]
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How does capitalism condition the ways in which we measure, imagine and weaponise time – and what does this mean for our future?
It’s Davos time again. Our overlords are arriving at the Alpine resort for the World Economic Forum (WEF). But the ski slopes all [...]
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James Richard O’Connor (Apr 20, 1930 – Nov 12, 2017)
The passing of James O’Connor marks a significant moment in the history of Marxist scholarship and politics. Born in 1930 and growing up in Boston, a short stint in the merchant marine introduced him to a world beyond the oppressive [...]
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Monday 6 – Wednesday 8 November 2017 Holme Building | University of Sydney
Organised by the Sydney Environment Institute
Call for papers
In 1997, the University of Melbourne hosted a major international conference on ‘Environmental Justice: Global [...]
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The debate about our ecological predicament is heating up and, as it turns out, the Marxian critique of political economy is at the center of that debate.
Much of the discussion right now concerns the Anthropocene, the idea that the current geological age—overlapping with or, [...]
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Capitalism does not have an ecological dimension; it is an ecology: capitalism is a world-making system. This is the main argument of Jason W Moore’s latest book, Capitalism in the Web of Life. The premise is simple: nature is not an object or a factor, but a matrix. Capitalism develops [...]
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Ariel Salleh (University of Sydney), 'Climate, Water, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Can a Post-Development Political Ecology do Better?'
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