Displacements in Global Capitalism Masterclass with Professor Susanne Soederberg (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada) The main aim of our Masterclass is to think through the material, institutional and socio-spatial dimensions of displacements in contemporary capitalism. In so doing, we will interrogate the structural violence underpinning social dislocations by discussing the strengths and weaknesses of various…
Continue readingBehavioral economics, as an academic discipline, reoriented the foundations of neoclassical economics’ theory of the subject. This project gives a cultural history of the behavioral economic narrative mode as it entered popular American discourse and participated in the construction of common sense. In this mode, friendly masculine explainers tell entertaining stories about the economy, or,…
Continue readingA common protest heard from the asset poor is one of ‘no future’. Here, income contingency and asset-based growth (in particular house price inflation) are understood to have combined to produce a specific temporal universe in which a distinctive politics of the future has opened out. In this universe, the asset poor have few mechanisms…
Continue readingPlease join Brett Heino, together with Joellen Riley Munton and Eugene-Schofield Georgeson, for the launch of the paperback version of his book Regulation Theory and Australian Capitalism: Rethinking Social Justice and Labour Law. WHEN 3 September, 20195:30 pm – 7:00 pm Registrations & Networking from 5:30pm, Book Launch from 6pm WHERE UTS Faculty of Law Boardroom…
Continue readingHow can we close the widening gap between rich and poor? Political economist Frank Stilwell will discuss economic inequality, expose the scale of the problem and provide alternative strategies for a fairer society. Event detailsDate and time: Tuesday 10 September, 6:00pm – 7:30pmVenue: Lecture Theatre 200, Social Sciences BuildingThe University of Sydney (Camperdown/Darlington Campus)Entry: free and open to…
Continue readingThis is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Raewyn Connell and Terry Irving, Class Structure in Australian History (Second edition, 1992). As previously, we will meet Fridays, 1:00-2:00, with our meetings to be held at University of Sydney, Social…
Continue readingWhen: Wednesday 8 May 2018, 5.30-7.00pm Where: Sydney Trades Hall Auditorium, 4-6 Goulburn St Sydney Speakers: Frank Stilwell, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney Helen Szoke, Chief Executive Officer, Oxfam Australia John Graham, MLC, Vice President, Evatt Foundation Chair: Christopher Sheil, Senior Fellow in History, UNSW and President, Evatt Foundation Hosted by Unions…
Continue readingCall for presenters Bringing life’s work to market: A symposium on practices and spaces of marketised social reproduction 16-17 December 2019, University of Auckland, New Zealand (Aotearoa) Confirmed speakers: · Beverley Mullings (Queen’s University, Canada) · Christian Berndt (University of Zurich, Switzerland) · Dan Cohen (Concordia University, Canada) · Emily Rosenman (Penn State University, USA) · Gareth Bryant (University of…
Continue reading‘Keeping up with Our Rated Selves: On Credit, Sharing, and Self-Esteem’ The renowned philosopher and cultural theorist, Michel Feher, will present a double-lecture on the social and affective implications of the increasing assetisation of the economy. If governing others, as Michel Foucault claims, involves acting on their actions so as to modify their conduct, then…
Continue readingA Debate Between Jim Stanford and Michel Feher The deleterious social consequence of the contemporary asset economy are well-documented. Households are shouldering levels of mortgage debt that appear increasingly unsustainable both to themselves and the wider economy. Alternatively, a growing number of people are locked out of the property market altogether and relegated to a…
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