Rio Tinto has been in the news again for its egregious disregard for Aboriginal heritage and sites of cultural significance. Rio Tinto’s long list of alleged human rights violations had another addition with the blasting of Juukan Gorge in Western Australia (WA). The blasts were a part [...]
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Marxist analysis of law is perhaps one of the most fascinating and protean contributions to legal theory. The volatility of Marx’s analyses emerges from the fact that the wellspring of his theory of law is in historical materialism, a factor that makes it less of a legal theory amongst the [...]
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When Vivek Chibber’s Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (PTSC) – a rigorous critique of the work of Ranajit Guha, Partha Chatterjee, and Dipesh Chakrabarty – made its appearance in 2013, it met with a highly polarised reception. For some Marxist critics, the book constituted a [...]
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Epistemologies of the South: Mapping New Directions in Australian Social Sciences
When: Thursday 14 April 2016, 9:00 – 5:00pm
Venue: Conference Room, 174 City Road, Darlington Centre, University of Sydney
Convenors: Raewyn Connell / Fran Collyer
Calls to [...]
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‘Post’ Interventions: Poststructuralism, Postcoloniality and Questions of ‘After’ in World Politics
Call for papers for the 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, 23–26 September 2015, Giardini Naxos, Italy.
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For thirty-odd years, American historian Marcus Rediker (University of Pittsburgh) has been writing about the sea, deep-sea sailing ships, seafaring proletariats, and seafaring rebels, during the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries. Internationally, his landmark study of [...]
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Up to the Greek insurrection Turkey was, to all intents and purposes a terra incognita, and the common notions floating about among the public were based more upon the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments than upon any historical facts . . . It is true that during the last thirty years much has [...]
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