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Bite to the City: Carlos Fuentes and Vlad
Debates on the ‘right to the city’ are proceeding apace with the recent publication of David Harvey’s Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution [2012]. In Harvey’s hands, the...
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Within the Marxism Reading Group in the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of Nottingham we have just finished David Harvey’s Rebel Cities: From the Right to...
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The Architecture of Passive Revolution
I have just returned from presenting at an excellent conference organised by Faruk Yalvaç and hosted at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. The event was the First Spectrum...
View ArticleThe Making of Global Capitalism
Last week the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of Nottingham hosted its Annual Lecture with the additional financial assistance of the local association of...
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#8. On Victor Serge and Absolute Power: Memoirs of a Revolutionary
David Harvey famously opined that Paris was ‘a capital city being shaped by bourgeois power into a city of capital’, hence his focus on the organisation of relations of space in Paris, Capital of...
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The River and the Rage: Dispossession and Resistance in the Narmada Valley
The attention recently granted to the Grand Renaissance dam in Ethiopia, costing more than $4.3bn, forming Africa’s largest hydroelectric plant and raising controversy with Egypt over access to the...
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Spaces of Uneven Development and Class Struggle in Bolivia
Following our last post on Cuba (available here), we now turn attention to detailing the content of our joint paper that was presented at the 16th international conference on ‘New Political Science’...
View ArticleTen books that have stayed with me
Following Stuart Elden’s lead on Progressive Geographies I thought it would be fun to engage in listing my own top ten books that have stayed with me. The point with this exercise is not to spend too...
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Spaces of Capital and Rosa Luxemburg
During our time at the University of Nottingham, Andreas Bieler and I have collaborated in forming the Marxism Reading Group within the School of Politics and International Relations at the University...
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What the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom?
This year marks the 70th anniversary of Friedrich von Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and will no doubt generate much congratulatory back slapping and warmth from the cognoscenti of the right-wing...
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The Spatial Resources of Radical Sydney
What better way to become acquainted with my new position at the University of Sydney than to familiarise myself with some of the radical past of the city itself? With that aim in mind I recently...
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From subalternity to autonomy
In this new text published in Pluto Press’ “Reading Gramsci Series”, Massimo Modonesi seeks to explore the theoretical genesis of three core concepts that make up the title of the book—namely,...
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Planet of Slums, Rebel Cities, Radical Cities
With the anticipated publication of Justin McGuirk’s Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture, this blog post carries an earlier focus of mine on Mike Davis’ Planet of...
View ArticlePiketty Digest #6: The Capital/Income Ratio over the Long Run
With all the furore surrounding Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century my aim here is to carry a weekly focus on the book via For the Desk Drawer. The purpose is modest. There is already in...
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#8. On Victor Serge and Absolute Power: Memoirs of a Revolutionary
David Harvey famously opined that Paris was ‘a capital city being shaped by bourgeois power into a city of capital’, hence his focus on the organisation of relations of space in Paris, Capital of...
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The River and the Rage: Dispossession and Resistance in the Narmada Valley
The attention recently granted to the Grand Renaissance dam in Ethiopia, costing more than $4.3bn, forming Africa’s largest hydroelectric plant and raising controversy with Egypt over access to the...
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Piketty Digest #17: The Question of the Public Debt
With all the furore surrounding Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century my aim here is to carry a weekly focus on the book via For the Desk Drawer. The purpose is modest. There is already in...
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From subalternity to autonomy
In this new text published in Pluto Press’ “Reading Gramsci Series”, Massimo Modonesi seeks to explore the theoretical genesis of three core concepts that make up the title of the book—namely,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Planet of Slums, Rebel Cities, Radical Cities
With the anticipated publication of Justin McGuirk’s Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture, this blog post carries an earlier focus of mine on Mike Davis’ Planet of...
View ArticlePiketty Digest #6: The Capital/Income Ratio over the Long Run
With all the furore surrounding Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century my aim here is to carry a weekly focus on the book via For the Desk Drawer. The purpose is modest. There is already in...
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