Geography Archives: Global

In a review of a new book about the ‘Professional Managerial Class’, James Foley says middle-class activists dress up conformity as a war on cultural backwardness.

We need a model of ownership that recognizes the collective interest we have in how personal data is used, avoids the costs of private exploitation by individual firms, and does not slip into authoritarian forms of state control.

In this book Ajl covers most of the big questions facing rational, ecosocialist design: nationalization vs localism, modernization vs degrowth, techno-scientific solutions vs indigenous knowledge.

Discussions in the forthcoming COP26 should focus on democratisation of climate finance that enables procedural climate justice.

I think Matt Cooper takes a too narrow definition of “metabolism” as a rather dull process of material exchange that occurs within a cell. From my reading, as a non-specialist, Marx was using the term in a broader sense as the material and ultimately purposeless means by which complex order emerges from disordered matter.

Everything is always different, yes, fine–but everything is really different now.

The work performed by women, particularly work in the household and in the health sector, has received much attention in feminist and left-wing debate in recent years.

Without a doubt, the global pandemic of COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on the economy and, consequently, on the population.

Pro-Israel groups have attacked the move because many of the directors support BDS.

The seriousness of the situation was confirmed by the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report showing that a record 2.9 percent of the workforce quit their jobs in August, which is equivalent to 4.3 million resignations.

When COP26 is held in Glasgow, the world will be watching to see if an international agreement is reached on the scale and speed of co-ordinated action that is needed to tackle the deepening climate catastrophe.

On 5 October, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a historic, non-legally binding resolution that ‘recognises the right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a human right that is important for the enjoyment of human rights’.

A discussion with John Bellamy Foster, one of the world’s leading figures in Marxian ecological theory.

In his essay, researcher and filmmaker Alejandro Pedregal traces back to the early days of cinema. The new art form emerged during a capitalist era which had fundamentally altered our perception of time.

World Health Organization urges ‘rapid and ambitious action to halt and reverse the climate crisis’.

After a summer of record heat waves, droughts and forest fires, dangerous hurricanes and floods, and melting glaciers and permafrost, the scientific explanations for the climate crisis have gained wider support.

In the 19th Century, “hypothecations” provided investors with valuable information on sovereign fiscal resources.

The scale of the climate crisis has driven a new generation of radical young activists to demand “system change, not climate change”.

Healy’s exquisite book applies several recent frameworks of alienation to two groups of workers–IT workers and academics.

Journalists from the U.S. and Europe have warned that the summer of 2021 should be a wakeup call on climate catastrophe. Rightfully so.