Signed by 124 Labour Market, Employment Relations and Labour Law Researchers For the last several years, Australian wages have experienced an unprecedented slowdown. Nominal wages have been growing at only about 2% per year since 2015. That’s barely half the traditional pace of growth experienced over the preceding 50 years – and the slowest sustained…
Continue readingTo higher-degree research students within the School of Social and Political Sciences, We are soon commencing a project launching a series of podcasts on Progress in Political Economy (PPE) and would like to have you as participants of this exciting project! The aim of our project is to produce a series of podcasts by higher-degree…
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 readingThe University of Sydney is seeking to appoint two postdoctoral research fellows in the Department of Political Economy. These are full time two-year fixed term positions. Successful candidates will work on one of the following projects: “Women and the Future of Work” or “Asset Ownership and the New Inequality”. The teaching load will be set…
Continue readingAlternative Futures and Regional Prospects Symposium Working across Differences, beyond Carbon, Capital and Commodity Date: Thursday 22nd & Friday 23rd of November 2018 Venue: UTS City Campus, Building 8 , Level 5 – Room 2 (CB08.05.002): 14-28 Ultimo Rd, Ultimo NSW 2007 Organisers: The University of Newcastle Alternative Futures Network, University of Technology Sydney, Common…
Continue readingJoin Australian Feminist Studies (AFS) and the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) at the University of Sydney for the launch of AFS’ special issue on ‘Money’. The issue asks: how is money a feminist issue? Speakers include: Lisa Adkins (Head of School, Social and Political Sciences) whose editorial explores how “the new monetary order…
Continue readingJanaka Biyanwila, ‘Sports and the Global South: Work, Play and Resistance in Sri Lanka’ This talk is about reimagining the pleasures of sports from a Global South perspective. It will explore how the celebration of ‘sportive nationalism,’ promoting sports markets in the Global South, in places like Sri Lanka, reinforces patriarchal ethno-nationalist authoritarian sports cultures….
Continue readingDepartment of Political Economy Seminar Series Seeing like a bank, calculating like a state Ben Spies-Butcher (Macquarie) and Gareth Bryant (Sydney) When: 4.00-5.30 Thursday 20th September Where: Merewether 498, University of Sydney Abstract This paper explores changes in the ways advanced capitalist states manage and govern social policy. It builds on the financialisation literature to…
Continue reading‘We Don’t Need Another Hero’: Problematising Property Financialisation Masterclass with Rachel Weber (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Brett Christophers (Uppsala University) In this seminar we discuss the burgeoning literature in geography and urban studies on the financialisation of assets in general and property assets in particular. Our aim is to identify and critically reflect…
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