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David Aviles
@davidaviles.bsky.social
PhD in Political Economy from USyd. Economic Geography Postdoc at SMI-UQ. Lecturer at UTFSM, Valparaíso.
Researching Critical Minerals, Energy Transition, Commodity Frontiers, State Theory, 🇨🇱+🇦🇺
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Do you know #artists who are working on a creative project and could benefit from a free stay on the beautiful hills close to Verona and Lake Garda, Italy?
Our brand new Artist in residence program Casa Dell’Angelo could be for them! Info and applications here: www.casadellangelo.org
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September 14, 2025 at 7:32 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
@feministonmarx.bsky.social
and many more!
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September 8, 2025 at 6:19 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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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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“Hothousing for development: Sorting out the mixed economy” with @davidaviles.bsky.social is now out in Volume 57 Issue 5, of @economyandspace.bsky.social and Open Access 👇🏽
Hothousing for Development: sorting out the mixed economy and state capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy...
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August 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Edited by Frank Stilwell, the latest issue of Journal of Australian Political Economy celebrates 50 years of Political Economy at the University of Sydney as a discipline. More events later in the year!
50 YEARS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN AUSTRALIA: A NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
The first full program of courses in political economy at an Australian university began in 1975. It was in the product of a long struggle by a dissident student-staff movement at the University of Sy...
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August 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Economy and Space Vol. 57, No. 5 is now available online! It features articles on a number of topics, from financialization and land values to decommodification strategies and mass displacement. Link and ToC below:

journals.sagepub.com/toc/epna/57/...
August 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Capitalism is coming to the UK! It wasn't easy to pull this off--but here is my take on capitalism's global history. In a bookstore near you this fall.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...
Capitalism
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert situat...
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May 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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New article by me on professional women as a ‘commodity frontier’ in the history of capitalism: The massive influx of women to white collar professions in the 1990s was the culmination of around a century of women’s efforts.

But then…

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Frontiers of human capital? women and the professions in the Angloworld
This article explores the place of professional women in the history of capitalism. I do this using three intersecting lenses, the third, commodity frontiers, being the most important. Low-cost com...
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August 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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July 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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"Hothousing for development: Sorting out the mixed economy in Mexico and Chile" by David Avilés and Adam David Morton:

#importsubstitutionindustrialisation #LatinAmerica #mixedeconomy #primitiveaccumulation #statecapitalism

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May 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Returning to the University of Sydney in August is @iliasalami.bsky.social speaking on 'Towards an International Political Economy of Raced Finance' - details below!! 👇
@ppesydney.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social
Towards an International Political Economy of Raced Finance - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
International Political Economy (IPE) as a discipline increasingly acknowledges the significance of racial oppression and inequalities. Yet these are often seen as separate from, or coinciding with, f...
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July 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Very excited to give this talk in Sydney in early August, presenting new research (conducted with @vincentguermond.bsky.social and @alibhagat.bsky.social) on race and finance.
July 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Book No.10 in the @manchesterup.bsky.social series Progress in Political Economy (PPE) by team @alfnilsen.bsky.social on nascent forms of inter-imperial rivalry and emerging powers in the global South @abieler.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @angelawigger.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social
Emerging Powers and/in the Southern Interregnum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How do we understand our age of crisis from a distinctly Southern perspective? That is the question at the heart of the newly published book Southern Interregnum: Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, S...
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June 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Happy to share my latest article in Radical Americas exploring the contested understandings of plurinationalism in Bolivia - journals.uclpress.co.uk/ra/article/p... @morton.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
What’s at stake in the plurinational state debate? The case of Bolivia
The idea of a plurinational state is one that has gained currency in parts of Latin America in recent decades. Driven by the demands of Indigenous social movements and communities, countries such as B...
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April 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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A three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work on "The Climate Economy: Emerging Strategies for Australia" with @garethbryant.bsky.social and Sophie Webber. A wonderful opportunity👇

www.ppesydney.net/postdoctoral...
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Australia's Climate Economy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Full time (Part Time negotiable), Fixed term for 3 years Work with a team of interdisciplinary researchers and doctoral students building a conceptual and empirical map of the emerging Climate Economy...
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May 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Rather than getting mixed-up in mixed economy arguments, our latest article in EPA builds on the emerging analysis of state capitalism to advance a class-relational account of development banks in Mexico and Chile during the mid-twentieth century hothousing for development
Hothousing for Development: sorting out the mixed economy and state capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy...
www.ppesydney.net
May 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The Global Conference on Economic Geography 2025 is starting at Mechanics Hall in Worcester.
I am looking forward to the next 4 days of discussion! #GCEG2025 @clarkuniversity.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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New open access article co-authored with @davidaviles.bsky.social in Environment and Planning A, refocuses attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" mixed economy + state capitalism debates @llchristyll.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
Hothousing for Development: sorting out the mixed economy and state capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy...
www.ppesydney.net
May 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
A legend!
Emeritus Prof Frank Stilwell teaching Political Economy at USyd
March 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Legendary Prof Frank Stilwell back on the tools on ECOP1001
March 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David @morton.bsky.social, Historical Materialism. Now available online first and open access. brill.com/view/journal...
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March 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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December 14, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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Beyond Intersectional Political Economy, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2024/12/beyo... @morton.bsky.social
December 26, 2024 at 11:12 AM