Symposium: “Disaster Capitalism” Submissions Due: January 15, 2018 Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice issue 30 (2): Disaster Capitalism How does power profit from disaster? How can resistance make change? This issue of Peace Review will focus on exploring the varied definitions, interpretations, and implications of disaster capitalism from a wide range of perspectives….
Continue reading2017 Political Economy Seminar Series (Co-organised with the Department of Anthropology) Chris Gregory (Australian National University), ‘What is patrimonial capitalism? Some lessons from central India’ Date: Thursday 12 October 2017 Time: 3:00pm-5.00pm Location: RC Mills Seminar Room 148, University of Sydney Abstract: Piketty’s study of income inequality in Europe heralds the return of ‘patrimonial capitalism,’…
Continue readingThe 36th International Labour Process Conference, 2018 ‘CLASS AND THE LABOUR PROCESS’ Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, 21-23 March 2018 Call for Streams The International Labour Process Conference (ILPC) is broadly focused on work and employment relations in the context of the broader political economy, with an emphasis on workers perspectives and…
Continue reading2017 Political Economy Seminar Series Sophie Webber (University of Sydney), ‘The new “gold standard”: experimentalism, behaviouralism, and marketisation for development’ Date: Thursday 21 September 2017 Time: 4:00pm-5.30pm Location: Merewether Seminar Room 398, University of Sydney Abstract: Development economics and institutions have a new ‘gold standard’: the randomized control trial, or RCT. An RCT is an evaluation technique…
Continue readingAt the next World Congress of the International Sociological Association in Toronto/Canada (15-21 July 2018), I am organising a panel on the topic ‘Free Trade, Labour Movements and the Search for Alternatives’. This call for Papers is open until 30 September and you can submit your proposals online HERE. Title: Free Trade, Labour Movements and the…
Continue reading2017 Political Economy Seminar Series Toby Rogers (University of Sydney), ‘The Political Economy of Autism’ Date: Thursday 7 September 2017 Time: 4:00pm-5.30pm Location: Merewether Seminar Room 498, University of Sydney Contact: Gareth Bryant, gareth.bryant@sydney.edu.au Upcoming seminars: https://sydney.edu.au/arts/political_economy/about/seminars/seminar_series.shtml All welcome!
Continue reading2017 Political Economy Seminar Series Martin Thomas and Dick Bryan, ‘Crisis and sequels: capitalism and the new economic turmoil since 2007’ Date: Wednesday 30 August Time: 12:00-2:00pm Location: Abercrombie Business School room 2130, University of Sydney Abstract: Like every crisis, 2008’s surprised. By collating a series of discussions, conducted with a variety of left-wing economists in real…
Continue reading2017 Political Economy Seminar Series Rod O’Donnell (University of Technology Sydney), ‘Keynes and Marx: Towards constructive Dialogue’ Date: Thursday 24 August 2017 Time: 4pm-5.30pm Location: Merewether Seminar Room 398 Abstract: Both Keynes and Marx were philosopher-economists, creative thinkers, and theoretical and practical revolutionaries. This presentation revisits the complex question of the relationships between their philosophies, economic theories…
Continue reading2017 Political Economy Seminar Series Jane Andrew (University of Sydney) ‘“Getting a good score”: The case management work of private prison officers’ Date: Thursday 10 August 2017 Time: 4pm-5.30pm Location: Merewether Seminar Room 398 Abstract: For almost forty years governments around the world have experimented with forms of privatisation within the prison sector. Despite claims of cost…
Continue readingPrehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy Presentation by Karl Widerquist, Associate Professor of political philosophy at SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University Before public lecture on ‘Why we need a universal basic income’ – https://ppesydney.net/need-universal-basic-income-karl-widerquist-sydney-lecture/ Date: Wednesday 16 August 2017 Time: 2pm-4.00pm Location: Darlington Centre Boardroom, University of Sydney About the presentation The book, Prehistoric Myths in Modern…
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