One of the most striking features of Victor Serge’s writings has to be the way he captures spatial arbiters that shape the practices of empowerment and containment within the territorial form of the city. As argued in my latest journal article published here in [...]
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Under capitalism, how does the state organise space in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet?
This was the question that animated my ‘Sydney Insights’ (or Professorial Inaugural Lecture) that was delivered on [...]
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In my research on the Monument to the Revolution, as one of the foremost commemorative spatial sites of state power in Mexico City, now published in Journal of Latin American Studies, I have previously blogged on:
1) how a focus on monuments enables a way of revealing the history of [...]
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I argue in a recent article in Journal of Latin American Studies that the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City stands as an ambiguous carrier of utopian promise, which links past and present generations of struggle. Specifically, my concluding point was that this architectural space [...]
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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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In a recent conversation on ‘the power of ideas’ that took place at the LSE, David Harvey pointed out to Michael Storper that urban economics is a most despised field in mainstream economics. The ‘best economists’, Harvey claimed, don’t do urban economics. The crowd, mostly pro-Harvey, [...]
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Under capitalism, how does the state organise space in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet?
This was the question that animated my ‘Sydney Insights’ (or Professorial Inaugural Lecture) that was delivered on [...]
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Stuart Elden (PAIS) and Adam David Morton (Political Economy, University of Sydney) have been awarded a small grant from the Independent Social Research Foundation on the project ‘Henri Lefebvre’s writings on Rural Sociology, Ground Rent and the Politics of [...]
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