by Elizabeth Humphrys | Jun 19, 2015 | Gramsci
This post was first published at Progress in Political Economy, the blog of the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Click here for the audio of my talk on Soundcloud. *** Some paths to an event seem particularly labyrinthine, which only adds...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Mar 17, 2015 | Accord, Neoliberalism
The 14th Biennial National Labour History Conference, ‘Fighting Against War: Peace Activism in the Twentieth Century’ was held at Queen’s College, University of Melbourne, 11-13 February 2015. My paper on ‘The Accord after Thirty Years: Corporatism...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Feb 20, 2015 | Anti-politics, Neoliberalism
We live in anti-political times. After a twentieth century in which Western societies experienced the rise and entrenchment of mass representative institutions, where hundreds of millions of people accepted that politics was the main way to have their social interests...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Dec 9, 2014 | Anti-politics
In November I co-organised (with Tad Tietze) a panel discussion on ‘Anti-politics, social movements & the practical critique of the state’ at the London Historical Materialism Journal conference. It featured three papers (abstracts below) and you can hear the...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Nov 1, 2014 | Australian History, Neoliberalism
Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine (2007) is one of the most widely read critical accounts of neoliberalism. Klein argues that governments have used ‘disasters’ of various kinds to implement neoliberal policies. Transformation occurs through ‘eventful temporality’,...
