This panel will address the gender implications of salary freezes, pay reductions and other cost cutting measures in public institutions. There is an emerging wave of proposals for reducing public sector wage bills in federal and state governments, as well as universities. The differential impact of such policy urgently needs to be assessed. The COVID-19…
Continue readingDepartment of Anthropology Symposium, University of Sydney Theme and goals In the present period of political instability and uncertainty, symbols of community and faction have regained public presence as tools for political manoeuvring and mobilisation. This is very noticeable in the abrupt resurgence of national symbols in the public sphere of many countries (for instance,…
Continue readingDepartment of Political Economy Seminar Debating the Green New Deal in Australia: Labour, Nature and the Role of the State Speakers: Natasha Heenan and Anna Sturman When: 12-1.30pm, Tuesday 3 March, 2020 Where: Social Sciences Building Room 341, University of Sydney Abstract: This seminar will consider the theoretical and political questions provoked by discussions of a…
Continue readingCall for papers for the 14th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, 16–19 September 2020, Msida, Malta. Political Economy Beyond Boundaries, a new EISA PEC standing section, is inviting paper, panel and roundtable proposals. The section aims to develop a sustained research network of scholars working in and beyond International Studies to promote critical research on the…
Continue readingWhat’s Next? Critical Political Economy at the End of Neoliberalism? Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) mid-term workshop – Call for Papers Friday 19 – Saturday 20 June 2020 University of Limerick, Ireland For some, the rise of a populist-nativist political turn represents the end of neoliberalism. Certainly, the period of neoliberal growth has come to…
Continue readingScholars, policymakers, advocates and activists are invited to submit abstracts for papers related to one or more of the thematic areas outlined below for the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) 2020 conference in Brisbane (Monday 28 to Wednesday 30 September 2020). Abstracts (250–300 words) should be submitted to the Local Organising Committee (LOC) via the…
Continue readingThe ‘HAVES’ and the ‘HAVE YACHTS’: Socio-Spatial Struggles in London between the ‘Merely Wealthy’ and the ‘Super-Rich’ In the decade between 2007 and 2017 London changed fundamentally. This lecture is about how the actions of the transnational über-wealthy — the “have yachts” — impinged on the life-worlds of the “merely wealthy” — “the haves.” The…
Continue readingAfter an overview of early Latin American independence struggles from the slave revolution in Haiti (1791-1803), immortalised by C.L.R. James in The Black Jacobins, we examine in this course on Modern Revolutions in Latin America at WEA Sydney the history and influence of seven iconic twentieth-century revolutions in chronological order: Mexico (1910-1920), Bolivia (1952), Cuba (1959-present), Chile…
Continue readingCall for participants for the ANZSEE 2019 Ecological Economics: Solutions Now and in the Future conference The 2019 Australia New Zealand Society of Ecological Economics conference will address the great challenges of our times: environmental crises and how we can live more sustainably on our planet. KEYNOTES: Joshua Farley (University of Vermont, Burlington, US) Jon…
Continue readingPluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary Book Launch | Gleebooks | Wednesday 9th October, 6:00pm for 6:30pm RSVP: HERE After decades of so-called ‘development’, the world is in crisis. Crucial conditions for life on Earth are failing, and people’s expectations for their own and children’s futures are uncertain. The dimensions of this crisis are environmental, economic, social,…
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