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Adam David Morton
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Co-editor of Progress in Political Economy (PPE) https://www.ppesydney.net/ | Professor of Political Economy | University of Sydney | Own Views | Reposts ≠ endorsements |
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My commentary on Brett Heino’s wonderful new book *Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland*
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Mapping the World of David Ireland - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
In Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland, subtitled “An Australian Atlas”, Brett Heino has delivered a classic book on political economy, space, and literature. It is highly original and ...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Brilliant overview by Brett Heino on his new book *Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland* launched @gleebooks.bsky.social @springer.springernature.com
Launching the Literary Geographies of David Ireland - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Launched on 31 October 2025 at Gleebooks, Sydney, this post focuses on the book by Brett Heino, Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland, which will be followed next week by a commentary fro...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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This frustrates the hell out of me. Differences between first and second imprint. Then different book sizes within the second imprint (volume two is smaller in height) and then different font sizes on the spine for the completed trilogy (with volume three). Agggh! @dukepress.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Now out! Although not got to Volume II yet and reckon I need to go back to reread the first in the trilogy to do it all justice @ianbruff.bsky.social
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The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III: A Novel
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November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social
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Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?
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November 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Why the past, present and future struggle for political economy is so important, by Evan Jones
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Fifty Years of Political Economy at the University of Sydney - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
In July 2025 the Journal of Australian Political Economy published a special issue (JAPE No.95) devoted to recollections and implications of 50 years of Political Economy courses at the University of ...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Nearly finished on this set of books.
October 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Review of Kevin B. Anderson’s latest book, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-... @morton.bsky.social
The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Review of Kevin B. Anderson’s latest book.
In his recent book The Late Marx’s Revo-lutionary Roads (Verso, 2025), Kevin B. Anderson reveals Marx as a flexible, inquisitive thinker, w...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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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-...
September 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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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 ...
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September 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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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...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Brett Heino, Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland: An Australian Atlas - Springer, 2025
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book launch in Sydney with @morton.bsky.social
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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.
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September 23, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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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...
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September 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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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
September 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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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 👇🏽
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September 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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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:

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September 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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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
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and many more!
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September 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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“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
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September 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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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👇🏽

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September 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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“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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September 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Books finished on this trip #EISABologna2025
September 1, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Turbocharging the sex trafficking trade
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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
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August 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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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*
August 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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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”.
August 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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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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August 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM