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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 11d

Perhaps the biggest gig in Sydney for Political Economy this year: the 50th anniversary celebration of the Department of Political Economy!! www.ppesydney.net/celebrating-...

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 12d

The first in the series by @chrishesketh.bsky.social focused on the state and passive revolution 2/2

The State of the Revolution - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

First post of a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book Cultivating Socialism, which focuses on how peasants, workers, and states attempted to redress the inequities of commercial agriculture across the Lat...

www.ppesydney.net

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 12d

Second forum post on "Cultivating Socialism" by Kyla Sankey that engages with Rowan Lubbock's book *Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA and the Politics of Food Sovereignty*, discussing issues of class and dependency 1/2

Class and Dependency in Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Rowan Lubbock’s Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA and the Politics of Food Sovereignty is an important book for understanding the agrarian dimensions of Venezuela’s socialist experiment and the ...

www.ppesydney.net

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 17d

JOB!
Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Political Economy (Education Focused) - University of Sydney - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney is advertising a continuing education focused position, to be appointed at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level. This position is pa...

www.ppesydney.net

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 19d

Brett Heino, Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland: An Australian Atlas - Springer, 2025
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
book launch in Sydney with @morton.bsky.social
gleebooks.com.au/event/brett-...

Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland

This book uses the work of author David Ireland as a unique unique entry point into the spatial structures of Australian capitalism.

link.springer.com

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 19d

Further details on the forum are available here

Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

www.ppesydney.net

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 19d

First post in a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book *Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty*, with the engagement started by @chrishesketh.bsky.social -- more to follow in subsequent weeks!!

The State of the Revolution - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

First post of a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book Cultivating Socialism, which focuses on how peasants, workers, and states attempted to redress the inequities of commercial agriculture across the Lat...

www.ppesydney.net

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 23d

😊💥😊💥

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Elliot Dolan-Evans @therealelliotde.bsky.social · 23d

Making War Safe for Capitalism is out in a week with @brisunipress.bsky.social!

I'm honoured to share this endorsement from the fantastic Ukrainian scholar and sociologist Dr Volodymyr Ishchenko

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 23d

Just received!
Brett Heino’s new book on the spatial unconscious in literature. Brimming with original insights. Book launch soon at Gleebooks for those in Sydney 👇🏽
gleebooks.com.au/event/brett-...
@stuartelden.bsky.social @danieljhartley.bsky.social

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 10

Odd that there’s seemingly less focus on Adventures of the Dialectic?

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · Sep 10

Fascinating little-known story of an Australian man who fought and died supporting Jakob Marengo's uprising against German colonial rule in Namibia in 1905:

namibian-studies.com/index.php/JN...

namibian-studies.com

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 8

Now out:

Special Issue: Value Theory in the Country and the City

Environment and Planning F

Ten articles by Dallas Rogers @monicaclua.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @davidaviles.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @davidjmadden.bsky.social
@feministonmarx.bsky.social
and many more!

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 6

“At a time when self-declared Nazis are using the internet to mobilise, new information systems are rapidly transforming the nature of work and traditional models of communication are crumbling, properly resourced sociology departments are what the public desperately needs”.

To Australia’s university fat cats, who may yet face job cuts not of their own making – don’t forget to wash your underwear | Van Badham

It’s been decades since parasitic consultancies began advising our tertiary institutions, at exorbitant cost

www.theguardian.com

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 5

A fantastic opportunity to discuss economy and space in the literary work of David Ireland with Brett Heino @gleebooks.bsky.social on 31 October. Register here👇🏽

gleebooks.com.au/event/brett-...

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Cold War II” (Fred Halliday) or a “structural Cold War” (Robert W. Cox) or a “Cold War of the mind” (Ken Booth) or the Cold War “annexation of the social sciences” (Pınar Bilgin and yours truly) that has never disappeared?

Come and find out at the next AIPEN 2026 with @shaharhameiri.bsky.social

Call for Papers: 2026 AIPEN Workshop: The International Political Economy in the Second Cold War - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

After decades of deepening economic integration, the world economy is increasingly challenged by rising geopolitical and geoeconomic rivalry, notably, but not only, between the United States and China...

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 1

But what’s the image?

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Sep 1

Books finished on this trip #EISABologna2025

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Aug 30

Turbocharging the sex trafficking trade
@sarameger.bsky.social @drmeljohnston.bsky.social

UK anti-slavery commissioner launches investigation into ‘pimping websites’

Eleanor Lyons will interview women who say they have been trafficked into sex work and advertised online

www.theguardian.com

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Aug 28

Coming out now in hardcopy edited by yours truly with Dallas Rogers and Cameron McAuliffe in Environment and Planning F on *Value Theory in the Country and the City*

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Aug 26

What a brilliant read this was with its focus, from the Vermont landscape to the wider American west of the twentieth-century, on the inequality and dispossession of capitalism. The hell scape appears “crimson as the landscape seen through the red cellophane strip on cigarette packs”.

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · Aug 25

The two articles are summarised here: www.ppesydney.net/all-that-has... The writing of this, among many things in my life, was inspired by @ultha.bsky.social

All that has never been true: the dismal ruins of the neoliberalism = free markets assumption - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

What are the philosophical and empirical dimensions of the association of neoliberalism with free markets and why are they so hard to shake off? My latest articles argue that we need to dispel the neo...

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Aug 15

"Whilst many of the reflections that follow this preface will touch on Political Economy’s colourful past, we should not neglect its value to us in the present and its importance to our nation in the future" -- Anthony Albanese, as one of the voices of former Political Economy students 👇

50 YEARS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN AUSTRALIA: A NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The first full program of courses in political economy at an Australian university began in 1975. It was in the product of a long struggle by a dissident student-staff movement at the University of Sy...

www.ppesydney.net

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Aug 14

And thus a timely occasion to join us at the University of Sydney to reflect on such issues with Raewyn Connell for the 2025 Wheelwright Lecture 2/2

2025 Wheelwright Lecture | Raewyn Connell | Should we abolish universities? - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

In the last generation there has been heavy criticism of what universities have become, in an era of commercialism and managerial control. This lecture will discuss the main points of criticism, wheth...

www.ppesydney.net

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Aug 14

University life as grant grubbing, less ivory tower more pyramid scheme, site of super-exploitation and management bullying - perfect material for a novelistic descent into the demonium of academia today 1/2

Katabasis by RF Kuang review – a descent into the hellscape of academia

The bestselling author’s sixth novel is far from perfect, but this journey into the underworld is delivered with heretical glee

www.theguardian.com

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · Aug 14

Politicising Commodification: book review of Erne et al (CUP, 2024) see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/07/poli... @morton.bsky.social

Politicising Commodification: book review of Erne et al

In their major monograph Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emerg...

andreasbieler.blogspot.com

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · Aug 12

Announcing the 2025 Wheelwright Lecture in Political Economy at the University of Sydney - Raewyn Connell: "Should we abolish universities?" www.ppesydney.net/2025-wheelwr...

2025 Wheelwright Lecture | Raewyn Connell | Should we abolish universities? - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

In the last generation there has been heavy criticism of what universities have become, in an era of commercialism and managerial control. This lecture will discuss the main points of criticism, wheth...

www.ppesydney.net

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Aug 1

Straight on to my reading list for ECOP3613 Global Capitalism: Uneven Development

Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · Jul 31

My new piece for Alternautas considers the revival of dependency theory - building on recent contributions by @ingridhk.bsky.social and Felipe Antunes de Oliveira (among others) journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/al...

thanks to @morton.bsky.social for comments on earlier draft

Towards a new dialectics of dependency theory | Alternautas

journals.warwick.ac.uk

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Jul 2

Returning to the University of Sydney in August is @iliasalami.bsky.social speaking on 'Towards an International Political Economy of Raced Finance' - details below!! 👇
@ppesydney.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social

Towards an International Political Economy of Raced Finance - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

International Political Economy (IPE) as a discipline increasingly acknowledges the significance of racial oppression and inequalities. Yet these are often seen as separate from, or coinciding with, f...

www.ppesydney.net

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