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@SwarnabhGhosh

5 months

“Harvard University we know what side you’re on. Remember South Africa, remember Vietnam.”

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4 months

Live from the People’s Commencement @HarvardOOP

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The President of Harvard has literally written up, in crystal clear language, the famous “Palestine exception to free speech” and sent it to the whole university. What a time to be alive.

Mo Torres

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11 months

Harvard students have been doxxed and harassed in recent weeks for speaking out against Israel's genocide in Gaza. President Claudine Gay has not protected these students but today she emailed the campus to "condemn" the phrase "from the river to the sea." Here is my reply:

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3 years

It’s here!! @AdamDavidMorton @StuartElden @UMinnPress

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Favorite book dedication

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Live from Harvard

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1 year

This invaluable (and moving) new essay by Kanishka Goonewardena ( @iDialectic ) should be required reading for anyone interested in David Harvey and the history of Marxist geography.:

David Harvey, geography and Marxism

This essay engages with David Harvey: A Critical Introduction to his Thought by Noel Castree, Greig Charnock and Brett Christophers (CCC), the most panoramic, rigorous and insightful study of the l...

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2 years

Every time I re-read Clyde Woods’ Development Arrested, the more I’m convinced that it represents the very best political-intellectual potentials, possibilities, and horizons of “urban and regional planning” scholarship, even as it totally transcends its disciplinary location.

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2 years

It seems like a good moment to plug @_TimBarker ’s excellent review of ‘A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism’:

Transition Theory | Phenomenal World

Capitalism is either eternal or it isn’t. There are people who defend the first view, or something close to it—the multivolume 2014 Cambridge History of Capitalism opens in Babylonia, circa 1000...

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2 years

New paper alert! Neil Brenner ( @UrbanTheoryLab ) and I write about processes of planetary urbanization, agro-industrial restructuring, and the political ecologies of emergent infectious disease in our new @economyandspace paper.

UrbanTheoryLab

@UrbanTheoryLab

2 years

@SwarnabhGhosh and I have been slow-cooking this article on planetary urbanization and emergent infectious disease since the start of the COVID pandemic--now published. Link here (please DM us) if you need a PDF):

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In this new chapter, Neil Brenner ( @UrbanTheoryLab ), @NikosKatsikis , and I develop a historical geography of the "global industrial feedlot matrix." We trace the metabolic genealogy of industrialized livestock production in relation to its conditions of possibility... [1/6]

UrbanTheoryLab

@UrbanTheoryLab

2 years

Thanks @charleswaldheim and Jeffrey S Nesbit for your work on this volume--honored to have co-produced a chapter on the "global industrial feedlot matrix" with comrades @SwarnabhGhosh and @NikosKatsikis --including a discussion of this visualization (co-produced with @grgabasic

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6 months

Worth revisiting in light of the Eco-Marxist degrowth/ productivism debates. @UrbanTheoryLab

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3 years

Day 3 of #HarvardOnStrike was IMMENSE!! @hgsuuaw

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8 months

Geography is when you’re intellectually socialized with David Harvey, get dissatisfied with him, explore another powerful tradition of immanently spatialized Marxian political economy for several years only to then discover that Harvey was right all along.

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4 years

Just out! In our new @USJ_online paper, @ayanhme and I contribute to the planetary urbanization debate by drawing connections between the concept of extended urbanization and related yet distinct concepts from critical agrarian studies.

Urban Studies Journal

@USJ_online

4 years

New #DebatesPaper by @SwarnabhGhosh and @ayanhme : ' #ExtendedUrbanisation and the #agrarian question: Convergences, divergences and openings'

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6 months

Grateful for this book and also for its arrival *before* the completion of my dissertation.

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4 months

The ICC has the opportunity to do something really funny rn

BRICS News

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4 months

JUST IN: 🇮🇱 Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu says charging me for crimes in Gaza is like charging "George Bush after 9/11."

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I’m in awe of @WKCRFM . Meanwhile at Harvard, @thecrimson has conducted itself shamefully, displaying near constant antagonism toward the protests/ protestors in addition to *extremely* shoddy sourcing and reporting.

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2 years

One of my favorite things I've published—a chapter in the volume "Non-Extractive Architecture" on the political economy/ labor process of building construction—is unfortunately not easily available. Several people have requested PDFs, now available here:

Toward a Critique of Labor-in-Construction

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.

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4 years

Excited to see this in print! And very happy to be published alongside friends and comrades in this edited volume. My essay is titled “Toward a Critique of Labor-in-Construction” and the book is available for purchase on the @SternbergPress website.

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2 years

Never not surprised by how even the most modest claims about unequal exchange, hyperexploitation, and expropriation get rendered as vulgar claims about the existence of some kind of Northern labor aristocracy tout court by some sections of the US Left. 1/3

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2 months

@kiangoh That they would use Beinecke to make this point is hilariously self-defeating.

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11 months

It took an insane rank and file push but it happened!

Harvard Grad Students Union-UAW Local 5118

@hgsuuaw

11 months

Our local has voted by a membership-wide asynchronous vote to sign on to two letters regarding current events in Palestine. We will join the UAW rank-and-file call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and United Electrical’s call for a ceasefire. Links in thread.

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“I am writing in my capacity as the President of the Ontario Federation of Labour, which represents 54 unions and one million workers in Ontario […] if you decide to move against the students, you’ll have to go through the workers first.” 🔥

OFL

@OFLabour

4 months

Open letter from OFL President @waltonmom to @UofT President Meric Gertler: "If you move against the students, you’ll have to go through workers first." @occupyuoft @uoftsu @TheVarsity @utfaculty @cupe3902 @usw1998 @torontolabour @OCUFA @CAUT_ACPPU

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THE CAPITALIST OVERCONSUMPTION OF NATURE AND LABOR POWER HAS HISTORICALLY RELIED UPON FORCED UNDERCONSUMPTION IN THE COLONIZED WORLD AND THIS IS BOTH A PRODUCT AND PRODUCER OF WORLDWIDE CLASS STRUGGLE

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2 years

This is truly one of the best things I’ve heard on recent/ ongoing ecosocialist debates. Also a very helpful elaboration of some of the points @KaiHeron makes in his recent @NewLeftReview Sidecar essay.

Kai Heron

@KaiHeron

2 years

I had a lot of fun talking to @sehpriano in this informal and wide-ranging conversation. It's also a privilege to be part of @CosmonautMag 's excellent ecology series. Check the whole series out if you haven't already!

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2 years

Just out! In this new commentary essay in @DialoguesHG , I offer critical reflections on an interesting recent paper by Gillen, Bunnell, and Rigg that seeks to develop "ruralization" as a "generalizable geographical concept."

In what sense ruralization? - Swarnabh Ghosh, 2022

This commentary offers an analysis of Gillen et al.’s (2022) ‘Geographies of ruralization’. Through a reading of the authors’ conceptualization of ‘in-situ’ and...

journals.sagepub.com

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1 year

@owenjdowling The Dialectical Biologist by Levins and Lewontin

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2 years

Honored and grateful to have been awarded an IJURR Foundation studentship to conduct dissertation research!

IJURR.org

@IJURResearch

2 years

We are pleased to announce the IJURR Foundation has awarded 19 new writing up grants and studentships for the year 2022. The full list of awardees can be found here:

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1 year

I can't thank @anamarialeon enough for introducing me to Sergio Ferro's breathtaking essay "concrete as weapon"—a work that synthesizes labor history, the history of construction and technology, and Marxian political economy in a way I've never encountered before.

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5 years

Day 3! #contractnow #laborgsd @hgsuuaw

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3 years

Despite the miserable weather (still 1000x better than the snow/ sleet/ ice horrors of 2019), day 2 of #HarvardOnStrike was positively GRAND! @hgsuuaw

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It’s growing

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5 months

Day 2!

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2 years

This book is a gem! I read a few chapters this morning—all incredibly generative theoretical and methodological reflections—and I'm looking forward to reading more over the next few days and weeks.

Jamie Peck

@outtaKimbo

2 years

We made a book! We’ll be talking about this next week ⁦ @GCEG_Dublin2022 with Alex Piletić⁩ and others ⁦ @branhillier ⁩ ⁦ @MaxCohen93 ⁩

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4 months

New Sewell just dropped:

On the Emergence of Capitalism: Marx, Brenner, and the Troublesome Case of the Dutch | Critical...

Abstract Marx’s chapters on “primitive accumulation” identify two putative sites of capitalism’s emergence: sixteenth-century expropriation of English peasants and Dutch-led commercial exploitation...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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2 years

I can’t stop thinking about Mike Davis today. Reading Late Victorian Holocausts in college was life changing. Between LVH, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Planet of Slums, The Monster… I can’t think of another person whose work has been so formative in so many different ways.

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"Arrighi’s formulation reduces modern history to nothing more than a repeating timeless sequence" (Tooze).

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2 years

Very interesting to see just how intensely colonial anxieties about seasonality, productivity, and profitability were expressed in these increasingly complex data visualizations from the late-19th/ early-20th c.

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1 year

Hinterlands of the Capitalocene - cc @UrbanTheoryLab @NikosKatsikis

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11 months

*and to all alumni

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@SwarnabhGhosh

3 years

Only at Harvard would a modest, contract-mandated raise result in the *reduction* of overall pay. Veritas, baby!

Erik Baker

@erikmbaker

3 years

🚨🚨🚨Most Harvard grad teachers get a small "financial aid" payment on top of their teaching compensation (to match payment w/fellowships). First paychecks of the semester are in, and Harvard has surreptitiously SLASHED that amount to counteract our union-negotiated COLA raise.

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3 years

2019 2021 🤝 Voting YES to authorize a @hgsuuaw strike!

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3 years

@SheetalChabbers Rosa Luxemburg, Maria Mies, Utsa Patnaik, Doreen Massey, Jodi Dean

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2 years

@daniel_dsj2110 Ranajit Guha, 99 Romila Thapar, 91 Irfan Habib, 91

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5 months

A lot of words to say “I wish they would ask nicely”

Tommy Barone

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5 months

I've spent months thinking about the approach of the pro-Palestine movement at Harvard. I've finally written about it. Harvard’s Pro-Palestine Protesters Have to Stop Weakening Their Cause

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3 years

ABD!

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4 years

Remember this?

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3 years

Today’s as good a day as any to read this wonderful essay in @the_point_mag by Asad Haider on Stuart Hall’s insistent anti-essentialism and the significance of the new @DukePress edited collections.

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@SwarnabhGhosh

5 months

The Interim President of Harvard just sent out an email so full of lies that it would be comical if it weren’t so insidiously evil.

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5 years

Day 4 (at the GSD)! @hgsuuaw

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5 months

It would be interesting to learn how you became a world historical moron.

David Axelrod

@davidaxelrod

5 months

It will be interesting to learn how many of those arrested in Hamilton Hall at Columbia are actually students.

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Cambridge today

Harvard Undergraduate PSC

@HarvxrdPSC

5 months

After Harvard threatened hundreds of students with immediate suspension, @HarvardOOP led a march to Interim President Alan Garber’s house. The University can no longer be complicit in the murder of Palestinians. HANDS OFF RAFAH.

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11 months

Boston today

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4 months

This, by comrade Malm, is so good

Verso Books

@VersoBooks

4 months

Continuing the debate sparked by his essay, 'The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth', Andreas Malm responds to Matan Kaminer's recent critique of his position on supporting the Palestinian resistance.

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2 years

Tired/ wired

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@SwarnabhGhosh

4 years

I've been thinking a lot about Neil Smith's 1998 essay "Giuliani Time" in light of the events of the past several months (thanks to @UrbanTheoryLab for reminding me of it recently). A truly remarkable history of the present.

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@SwarnabhGhosh

3 years

At this very dangerous stage where I'm considering turning my dissertation into a long critical analysis of the Indian modes of production debate. A noble endeavor that will all but ensure I never get a job!

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@SwarnabhGhosh

3 years

Read everything Adam Hanieh writes including this brilliant new essay on the petrochemical revolution and the emergence and profusion of “synthetic” materials, goods, and products in the second half of the 20th c.

New Left Review

@NewLeftReview

3 years

What does it mean to see oil not just as an energy source, but as the basis for a synthetic world of things? Read Adam Hanieh’s history of capital and empire through the lens of the petrochemical industry, in NLR 130.

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3 years

It's MLK Day today. It's also, as @UrbanTheoryLab informed me, Muhammad Ali Day. As it happens, my family has a bit of history involving Ali. Thread (1/5)

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2 years

@faisal__hamadah This is controversial but most references to the spatial fix

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3 years

Day 1! @hgsuuaw #HarvardOnStrike

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2 years

Malm would save everyone (and me) a lot of trouble by finishing this book.

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@SwarnabhGhosh

1 year

Re-reading this by @UrbanTheoryLab and realizing how little engagement there is with Left critiques of state productivism in the ongoing ecosocialist/ ecomodernist debates:

Neil Brenner, “Henri Lefebvre’s critique of state productivism,” in Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan...

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@SwarnabhGhosh

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@sonali_dhanpal I handed in my MPhil thesis slightly early and didn’t attend the degree ceremony so now I get pulled aside every time I enter the UK because “the system” thinks I absconded without completing my degree (which I received with distinction lol).

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2 years

@faisal__hamadah Not sure what counts as *explicitly* Marxist but I would include CLR James, EP Thompson, Hobsbawm, Irfan Habib, and Chris Wickham.

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9 months

Not that it needs repeating but McMichael's "Settlers and the Agrarian Question" is a masterpiece.

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1 year

A bit late to this, and others have said it, but this is a beautiful essay by Owen Hatherley:

The Marx whisperer

The geographer David Harvey’s videos on Capital have made him an internet intellectual. But he has been observing the carnage of capitalism his whole life.

www.newstatesman.com

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4 years

What is your favorite Jairus Banaji essay and why is it "Capitalist Domination and the Small Peasantry: Deccan Districts in the Late Nineteenth Century" (1977)?

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Many years from now, some future US president will be celebrated for “acknowledging” the genocide that’s unfolding right now and American liberals will clap and write nice op-eds

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3 years

Boston turned up! #FreePalaestine

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2 years

Great to see our paper in this excellent issue! ToC👇🏽 @UrbanTheoryLab

EPA: Economy and Space

@economyandspace

2 years

Economy and Space Vol. 54, No. 5 is now available online! It features articles on infrastructure, planetary urbanization, platform capitalism, microinsurance, austerity, uneven development, education zones, borders, and more. Link and ToC below:

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2 years

I recently read this wonderful tribute to Woods, written by Ed Soja, which very helpfully contextualizes the institutional conditions under which DA was produced:

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@SwarnabhGhosh

6 months

Has anyone written the sorely needed "fossil capital =/= fossil capital*ism*" paper?

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1 year

Now undergraduates are getting targeted, doxxed and threatened by all manner of freaks as a result of the reactionary outrage whipped up by a section of the professoriate—ie *their teachers*—led by that boorish ghoul L*rry S*mmers.

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@SwarnabhGhosh

3 years

It is impossible to overstate the casual and routinized brutality of the American empire.

The New York Times

@nytimes

3 years

Crowds of people desperate to escape Afghanistan stormed Kabul’s international airport, rushing onto the tarmac. People clung to the sides of military planes, even as one taxied down the runway, in a bid to flee as the Taliban takes control.

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"... it’s clear that some sort of reversal or transformation of neoliberalism, and capitalism itself, is absolutely necessary." A very interesting, wide-ranging interview with the great Bill Sewell in @phenomenalworld :

Structures of History | Maya Adereth & Neil Warner

An interview with historian William Sewell.

www.phenomenalworld.org

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Danger terror

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on the front line of the campus safety crisis risking my life

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One of the perks of doing archival work in Chandigarh is to be surrounded by this.

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@kiangoh Beinecke, devoid of ornamentation; hostile toward craft; uninterested in the symbolic lol

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It's frankly hard to imagine a world without Mike Davis—the steadiest of comrades and sharpest of guides and a true intellectual giant of our times. Never has a person been so consistently right about so many things💔

Alexandro José Gradilla

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2 years

Please keep the great scholar activist Mike Davis and his family in your thoughts. He has chosen to go the route of palliative care. Thank you Mike for your work!!!

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The new Krzysztof Wodiczko exhibition at @HarvardGSD and @harvartmuseums is *so good.* Best viewed in conjunction with Neil Smith's "Contours of a Spatialized Politics: Homeless Vehicles and the Production of Geographical Scale" (1992).

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Swarnabh Ghosh

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2 years

Comrade Will has written a brilliant and, in my view, groundbreaking article that critically extends Nancy Fraser’s “expanded” theorization of capitalism through sustained engagements with @oikeios , heterodox strands of Marxist feminism, social reproduction theory and much more

William Conroy

@WilliamWConroy

2 years

1. NEW ARTICLE ALERT! I am extremely pleased to see that my article “Background check: spatiality and relationality in Nancy Fraser’s expanded conception of capitalism” is now online via @economyandspace . Link here:

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This isn’t a university attached to a hedge fund, they said.

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Love this place

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If there is one takeaway, it is that processes of depeasantization are not prior to urbanization but are constitutive of it. In post-liberalization India, agrarian "distress" and peasant immiseration are fully bound up with, internally related to urbanization and city-growth.

Swarnabh Ghosh

@SwarnabhGhosh

4 years

In light of ongoing events in India, replugging the paper @ayanhme and I recently published in @USJ_online seeking to deepen theoretical (and political) dialogue between critical urban studies and agrarian studies:

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Does anyone have a copy of Claude Meillassoux's (apparently unpublished) paper "imperialism as a mode of reproduction of labor power" (1974)? It's cited quite a bit in the late-1970s—always as unpublished or forthcoming or mimeographed—but seems impossible to find.

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Remember this is what universities are siccing cops on.

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Lefebvre in 1954 - "We might ask ourselves [...] if there is reason to add [...] a special category for commercial capitalism; its predominance is not separate from other survivals of ancient structures: artisanship, primitive agriculture, and feudalism...

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David Ludden is a legend (not just because of his academic work)!

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My prediction that we’re going to see a new modes of production debate emerge in 2023 is coming true.

William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸

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2 years

These frickin' guys!

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Can't wait to read this!

Tom Cowan

@termcern

2 years

My book 'Subaltern frontiers' will be published later this summer with @CUPAcademic , thanks to @RanaAnwesha for all their hardwork and support!

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Swarnabh Ghosh

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Solidarity with @GWCUAW on day 3 of #CUonStrike ! Their strike is bringing back many memories of the @hgsuuaw strike in 2019, including this one of Prof. @CornelWest at the picket line—one of a tiny handful of senior faculty who stood in solidarity.

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Swarnabh Ghosh

@SwarnabhGhosh

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Amidst this horror, it’s been heartening to witness a rising wave of labor solidarity with Palestine. To its eternal shame, my union @hgsuuaw has refused to participate; betraying not just the vast majority of its membership but also its union siblings and the labor movement.

UE 150 The Workers Union at UNC

@workersunionunc

11 months

In response to the recent escalation of violence in Israel/Palestine, and specifically, the ongoing US-backed genocide in the Gaza Strip, the UNC Chapel Hill Campus and Graduate Workers Union has endorsed the following three measures:

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Swarnabh Ghosh

@SwarnabhGhosh

4 years

Excited to see this! I have an essay titled "Toward a Critique of Labor-in-Construction" in this excellent edited volume. Out on March 15.

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Swarnabh Ghosh

@SwarnabhGhosh

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Lastly, we suggest that the 'right to the city' be rearticulated as a broader 'right to space' that acknowledges and centers past and ongoing struggles against capitalist urbanization in spaces beyond cities and metropolitan regions.

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Swarnabh Ghosh

@SwarnabhGhosh

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@_TimBarker A perhaps ungenerous take would be that this is symptomatic of a kind of longstanding, recurring sense of being surprised by the fact that capitalism just doesn’t work “as it should”

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Swarnabh Ghosh

@SwarnabhGhosh

4 years

In light of ongoing events in India, replugging the paper @ayanhme and I recently published in @USJ_online seeking to deepen theoretical (and political) dialogue between critical urban studies and agrarian studies:

Extended urbanisation and the agrarian question: Convergences, divergences and openings - Swarnabh...

The question of urbanisation ‘beyond the city’ has generated a lively debate in the fields of urban studies and geography in recent years. This paper brings a k...

journals.sagepub.com

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Swarnabh Ghosh

@SwarnabhGhosh

2 years

I will seriously lose my mind if I see another humblebrag about how many countries/ archives/ sites someone visited for their dissertation or book project.

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Swarnabh Ghosh

@SwarnabhGhosh

3 years

"[...] an ambiguity follows from what Le Corbusier and the members of the Bauhaus believed to constitute a revolution. We took them for Bolsheviks when actually they inaugurated capitalist space" (Lefebvre 2009 [1978]: 233)

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Swarnabh Ghosh

@SwarnabhGhosh

5 months

Meanwhile at Harvard

The Harvard Crimson

@thecrimson

5 months

BREAKING: Harvard Suspends Palestine Solidarity Committee Amid Wave of Protests on College Campuses Crimson News Staff reports.

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