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Natasha Heenan @natashaheenan.bsky.social · 21h

So kind! Thanks Savannah :)

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 13d

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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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 29d

A nice article about friend and colleague Raewyn Connell in the SMH, including foreshadowing her new trans memoir. Pleased to see she's delivering this year's Ted Wheelwright lecture in political economy at Sydney University - one of the few universities to maintain political economy and Marxism.

Raewyn’s groundbreaking work changed how we think about men. Its origins were deeply personal

Raewyn Connell has a global reputation and is speaking at an event marking one of the PM’s intellectual influences.

www.smh.com.au

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · Aug 22

Robodebt: administrative harm and Australian social policy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Robodebt: administrative harm and Australian social policy

The Robodebt scheme was one of the most calamitous episodes in recent Australian public policy, with government agencies imposing hundreds of thousands of illegitimate debts on current and former w...

www.tandfonline.com

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Natasha Heenan @natashaheenan.bsky.social · Aug 21

tfw your joint intellectual project makes it out of the group chat. Thanks @kurtiveson.bsky.social for your astonishing write up of our work! We're merely picking up on the threads of spatial and environmental political economy laid down by yourself and many others!

Matt Ryan @mattdjryan.bsky.social · Aug 20

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The most special part of this story is that
@kurtiveson.bsky.social
has read our work as a collective project - which is precisely what it is. I guess this is what it looks like when a joint intellectual project makes it out of the group chat, and into the world.

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Matt Ryan @mattdjryan.bsky.social · Aug 20

50 Years of Political Economy. Some fantastic articles, but only one has brought me to tears.

@kurtiveson.bsky.social's generous contribution takes time to dwell on the PhD theses of @natashaheenan.bsky.social, Anna Sturman, and myself.

@ppesydney.bsky.social

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Issue 95 (Winter 2025) - 50 Years of Political Economy in Australia - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

SPECIAL ISSUE – 50 YEARS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN AUSTRALIA Complete issue JAPE95 complete Contents The Editors: Editorial Voices of Former Students of Political Economy: Anthony Albanese; Thalia Antho...

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · Aug 19

spectrejournal.com/the-price-of...

Hey y'all! This week we have Jordan Daniels reviewing @alybatt.bsky.social's Free Gifts ( @princetonupress.bsky.social ).

Read the review! Read the book!

The Price of Freedom – Spectre Journal

Jordan Daniels reviews Alyssa Battistoni's Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.

spectrejournal.com

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · Mar 3

🚨⛈️ BRISBANE AND SEQ: You do not have to do any activities or appointments for "mutual" obligations over the next week.

If you are due to report your job search before 12 March, you do not have to submit any job applications or meet your points target.

Stay safe ❤️

To provide people time to prepare for the potential impacts of Tropical Cyclone Alfred, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations will pre-emptively pause mutual obligation requirements for participants in Workforce Australia and Disability Employment Services, from Tuesday 4 March until Tuesday 11 March 2025 (inclusive) in the following employment regions:
• Wide Bay and Sunshine Coast
• Somerset
• Wivenhoe
• Brisbane South-east
• Gold Coast
• Darling Downs
• North coast.
The department continues to monitor conditions on the ground. Dependant on where or if Tropical Cyclone Alfred makes landfall, the department is ready to either extend the duration of the pause and/or include additional impacted areas if required.

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Natasha Heenan @natashaheenan.bsky.social · Feb 28

Thank you Matt, couldn't have done it without you!

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Matt Ryan @mattdjryan.bsky.social · Feb 28

Incredible work by one of the best, most generous scholars I know. A more nuanced and politically useful analysis of geoengineering than you'll find anywhere else. Highly recommended!!

Natasha Heenan @natashaheenan.bsky.social · Feb 11

My PhD on geoengineering, Producing the Climate, is now available to read via USyd library! Huge thanks to my wonderful supervisors @garethbryant.bsky.social and @kurtiveson.bsky.social as well as my generous examiners @geoffmann.bsky.social and Chantel Carr. ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...

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Natasha Heenan @natashaheenan.bsky.social · Feb 26

I return to this one a lot

Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · Feb 26

Abstractions also liberate.

Abstractions also Liberate with Anna Kornbluh

Anna Kornbluh joins Money on the Left to discuss the politics of form and literary realism as theorized in her provocative book, The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Sp…

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · Feb 12

As the Trusk regime is wrecking the state apparatus that brought us the IRA, it's more urgent than ever to understand the politics of green macrofinancial regimes.

Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Screenshot of the abstract of the linked paper.

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · Jan 30

I did a piece about the political economy of climate breakdown for @londonreview.bsky.social, pivoting off the essential new book by Andreas Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social.

Please give it a read!

Brett Christophers · So much for Paris: Climate Overshoot

All fossil fuel projects are politically constituted. Either they are state projects, controlled and administered by...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Natasha Heenan @natashaheenan.bsky.social · Feb 12

Ah thank you! That's so kind

Natasha Heenan @natashaheenan.bsky.social · Feb 12

Thank you :)

Natasha Heenan @natashaheenan.bsky.social · Feb 11

this reconceptualisation builds on the work of many critical scholars working on geoengineering and climate repair including @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social @duncanmclaren.bsky.social @wimcarton.bsky.social Andreas Malm and Chantel Carr

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Natasha Heenan @natashaheenan.bsky.social · Feb 11

My thesis considers geoengineering in the context of the emerging politics of climate repair in the 21st C. Rather than an intervention in an external nature, I argue that geoengineering is a way of producing the climate, bringing the social relations of production to the fore

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Natasha Heenan @natashaheenan.bsky.social · Feb 11

My PhD on geoengineering, Producing the Climate, is now available to read via USyd library! Huge thanks to my wonderful supervisors @garethbryant.bsky.social and @kurtiveson.bsky.social as well as my generous examiners @geoffmann.bsky.social and Chantel Carr. ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...

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Blanche Verlie @blancheverlie.bsky.social · Jan 28

Our research on community efforts to care for animals during the #BlackSummerBushfires is now out.

Read the short article in The Conversation: theconversation.com/as-the-black...

With gratitude to colleagues @seisydney.bsky.social and the Shoalhaven community who spoke with us.

As the Black Summer megafires neared, people rallied to save wildlife and domestic animals. But it came at a real cost

When authorities fight fires, they focus on human life and property. But animals are part of communities too – and disaster preparation should reflect this

theconversation.com

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · Nov 27

Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩

Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work!

Still 50 spots open! 🙋
go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3

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

Myself and @garethbryant.bsky.social have been editing the blog @ppesydney.bsky.social for 10 years now addressing the worldliness of critical political economy issues. So here's a thread celebrating its practical and theoretical diversity #HappyBirthdayPPE
www.ppesydney.net

Home - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Latest Blog Posts / Events Tags:AllaffectAgnes Helleragrarian questionAIPENAlfredo Saad-Filhoanarchismanimal welfareanti-capitalismanti-politicsAntonio GramsciArab SpringarchitectureArgentinaartAsiaas...

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Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social · Nov 19

Public forum at Sydney Uni on Strategies for a Just and Democratic Climate Economy with @katemac.bsky.social, @adriennebuller.bsky.social, Dan Sherrell (ACTU), Holly Creenaune (Sunrise Project) and @kurtiveson.bsky.social, presented by @seisydney.bsky.social
www.ppesydney.net/forum-strate...

Forum: Strategies for a just and democratic climate economy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Sydney Environment Institute presents Strategies for a just and democratic climate economy The economy is an increasingly significant terrain of climate politics. The climate debate has moved on from ...

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hello world - one of the many who are new here!

Thought I'd start by sharing something I've been working on the past few months: The Break Down, @the-breakdown.bsky.social, a new(ish) space for all things capitalism + climate and ecological crisis

www.break-down.org

The Break Down

The Break Down is dedicated to examining how capitalism has both shaped, and is being reshaped by, accelerating climate and ecological crisis. Launched in May 2024, we publish long-form interviews, or...

www.break-down.org

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Natasha Heenan @natashaheenan.bsky.social · Nov 14

Thanks Lee, hope to see you soon!

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Natasha Heenan @natashaheenan.bsky.social · Nov 14

Thanks Adam :)

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