From the shores of present-day Namibia via Heide Gerstenberger, Slavoj Žižek and Byung-Chul Han, what can a real picture postcard reveal about the specificity of past and present forms of market and v...

From the shores of present-day Namibia via Heide Gerstenberger, Slavoj Žižek and Byung-Chul Han, what can a real picture postcard reveal about the specificity of past and present forms of market and v...

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of slavery and colonialism on the history of international capitalism. In this classic book, Rodn...

What is the structured totality of global capitalism shaping public health - especially HIV - during war in Ukraine today and how can a political economy of health advance understandings of conflict, ...

The Dark Emu author rails against Christianity, capitalism and colonialism – and Shakespeare and Charles Dickens cop a serve too. He’s ready for blowback

This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis and starting in October 2026, our next text which is: Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti and Univers...

“The four horsemen of the apocalypse are coming for the global economy.” says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...

On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...

Across the UK, the People’s Emergency Briefing is currently being screened to large audiences. It is intended as a wake-up call just in tim...

Across multiple theoretical traditions that treat economies as geographically differentiated, the notion of totality has come under attack from those who dismis...

On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...

On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...

I’ve mentioned this before, but the Henri Lefebvre who wrote Les unités perdues (2004, 2011), translated by David L. Sweet as The Missing Pieces (2014), is not the Henri Le…

The political thinker became famous for declaring the triumph of liberal democracy. Thirty-seven years on, he explains what he really meant and why he made the rare journey from right to left

South Africa has an abandoned mines problem. These mines pose serious risks to lives and the environment and raise questions of what degrowth may look like in parts of the Global South that are con...

Given all his other achievements, Edward Said’s role in bringing Foucault’s work to an anglophone audience is perhaps understated today. His 1971 essay “Abecedarium culturae”, in Northwestern’s lit…

Australia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders

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