Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme
@idemamba.bsky.social
Hard working Political Economist at Kingston University. Views are my own. "It should not have to happen to you, for it to matter to you."
I forget how long I have been working on this, I started it during lockdown and have worked on it sporadically over the summers since then.
Transformative Economics Education: Decolonising Economics Through a Multidimensional Approach
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Transformative Economics Education: Decolonising Economics Through a Multidimensional Approach
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Transformative Economics Education: Decolonising Economics Through a Multidimensional Approach
This paper presents a comprehensive framework for decolonising economics education by synthesising Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy with Pan-African thought. Using Kingston University's EC4002 module ...
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June 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I forget how long I have been working on this, I started it during lockdown and have worked on it sporadically over the summers since then.
Transformative Economics Education: Decolonising Economics Through a Multidimensional Approach
osf.io/4sp8y/
Transformative Economics Education: Decolonising Economics Through a Multidimensional Approach
osf.io/4sp8y/
The family business. www.theguardian.com/profile/zaki...
Zakiya McKenzie | The Guardian
<p>Dr Zakiya Mackenzie is a Jamaican writer and researcher based in Bristol, UK</p>
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The family business. www.theguardian.com/profile/zaki...
"The greatness of this people was once that they believed in God; now this greatness is that they believe in themselves." _Hannah Arendt "The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition,"
February 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"The greatness of this people was once that they believed in God; now this greatness is that they believe in themselves." _Hannah Arendt "The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition,"
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Sounding the Egenis #jobklaxon again! 3 year #sts postdoc investigating entanglements of race, biomedicine and genomics, working in collaboration with #philsci #philbio colleagues, including the fabulous @celsoneto.bsky.social. Come and join us!
🚨JOB ALERT 🚨
Are you a social scientist (broadly construed) with expertise in race and science? We are offering a 3.5 years postdoctoral position at Egenis (University of Exeter). Applications due February 27!
Please share widely!
#STS
#philsky
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Are you a social scientist (broadly construed) with expertise in race and science? We are offering a 3.5 years postdoctoral position at Egenis (University of Exeter). Applications due February 27!
Please share widely!
#STS
#philsky
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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February 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Sounding the Egenis #jobklaxon again! 3 year #sts postdoc investigating entanglements of race, biomedicine and genomics, working in collaboration with #philsci #philbio colleagues, including the fabulous @celsoneto.bsky.social. Come and join us!
Rwanda vying for the title of the Israel of Africa.
February 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Rwanda vying for the title of the Israel of Africa.
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Delighted to be included in this NYRB review essay. Even if atm I'm longing to have the economists back.
Too Close for Comfort | Caitlin Zaloom
Why are economists are in the US today uniquely able to exercise such sway over the state?
www.nybooks.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Delighted to be included in this NYRB review essay. Even if atm I'm longing to have the economists back.
Praising Billionaires who give Nazi Salutes. Nuff said!
January 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Praising Billionaires who give Nazi Salutes. Nuff said!
PhD studentships at Kingston University are now being advertised: www.kingston.ac.uk/research/res...
PhD studentships for 2025 - Research degrees - Kingston University London
Kingston is seeking to make substantial investment in new PhD studentships for awards beginning in 2025. The competition for these prestigious research studentships is now open to students who wish to...
www.kingston.ac.uk
January 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
PhD studentships at Kingston University are now being advertised: www.kingston.ac.uk/research/res...
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Have you wanted to know more about philosopher Hannah Arendt, but not known where to start. Here is an excellent @britishacademy.bsky.social 10 Minute Talk from @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social which gives you some of the key concepts and why they matter today
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/hannah-...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/hannah-...
Hannah Arendt's lessons for our times: the banality of evil, totalitarianism and statelessness
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the most influential political theorists and philosophers of the 20th Century. Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA explores three of Arendt's key concepts – totalita...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 30, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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These kind of oligarchs have long existed in US society. The top 1% believe it’s their destiny to rule while we serve them
In the 1850s they were the southern enslavers who would secede in 1862 starting a war that would kill more than 600,000
#history #EduSky #AcademicSky #americanoligarchy
1/14
In the 1850s they were the southern enslavers who would secede in 1862 starting a war that would kill more than 600,000
#history #EduSky #AcademicSky #americanoligarchy
1/14
November 29, 2024 at 2:52 PM
These kind of oligarchs have long existed in US society. The top 1% believe it’s their destiny to rule while we serve them
In the 1850s they were the southern enslavers who would secede in 1862 starting a war that would kill more than 600,000
#history #EduSky #AcademicSky #americanoligarchy
1/14
In the 1850s they were the southern enslavers who would secede in 1862 starting a war that would kill more than 600,000
#history #EduSky #AcademicSky #americanoligarchy
1/14
New Preprint Alert | "Theorising the Hyper-Capitalist Urban Node: Financial Capitalism and Urban Transformation in Twenty-First Century London"
With Christian Koutny
- understanding how financial capitalism transforms contemporary cities.
Feedback welcome!
#Research osf.io/preprints/so...
With Christian Koutny
- understanding how financial capitalism transforms contemporary cities.
Feedback welcome!
#Research osf.io/preprints/so...
OSF
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November 19, 2024 at 1:54 AM
New Preprint Alert | "Theorising the Hyper-Capitalist Urban Node: Financial Capitalism and Urban Transformation in Twenty-First Century London"
With Christian Koutny
- understanding how financial capitalism transforms contemporary cities.
Feedback welcome!
#Research osf.io/preprints/so...
With Christian Koutny
- understanding how financial capitalism transforms contemporary cities.
Feedback welcome!
#Research osf.io/preprints/so...
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UK Universities Funding Crisis
Of the 66 institutions known to be making redundancies or taking cost-cutting measures, 43 gave their vice chancellor a pay rise last year.
#UKUnis #HigherEd #EduSky #AcademicSky
Of the 66 institutions known to be making redundancies or taking cost-cutting measures, 43 gave their vice chancellor a pay rise last year.
#UKUnis #HigherEd #EduSky #AcademicSky
How vice chancellors at UK universities took pay rises last year
Of the 66 institutions known to be making redundancies or taking cost-cutting measures, 43 gave their vice chancellor a pay bump.
www.dailymail.co.uk
August 26, 2024 at 10:25 PM
UK Universities Funding Crisis
Of the 66 institutions known to be making redundancies or taking cost-cutting measures, 43 gave their vice chancellor a pay rise last year.
#UKUnis #HigherEd #EduSky #AcademicSky
Of the 66 institutions known to be making redundancies or taking cost-cutting measures, 43 gave their vice chancellor a pay rise last year.
#UKUnis #HigherEd #EduSky #AcademicSky
Wallerstein. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLvs...
Immanuel Wallerstein on the end of Capitalism
YouTube video by moleverde
www.youtube.com
August 24, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Wallerstein. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLvs...
"Yes, the class interest of the petty bourgeoisie are the same or at least are tied in with the class interest of international monopoly capital; and therefore we have in Africa a class struggle within the African continent and a struggle against imperialism.
(“Marxism and African Liberation”)
(“Marxism and African Liberation”)
August 17, 2024 at 6:56 PM
"Yes, the class interest of the petty bourgeoisie are the same or at least are tied in with the class interest of international monopoly capital; and therefore we have in Africa a class struggle within the African continent and a struggle against imperialism.
(“Marxism and African Liberation”)
(“Marxism and African Liberation”)
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We’re in a strange world where the so-called liberal Conservative leadership candidate Tom Tugendhat is ready to pull the UK out of the European Court of Human Rights and his right wing rival Priti Patel is against it, as she explains in The Times today (also saying she’s not right wing).
August 10, 2024 at 10:08 AM
We’re in a strange world where the so-called liberal Conservative leadership candidate Tom Tugendhat is ready to pull the UK out of the European Court of Human Rights and his right wing rival Priti Patel is against it, as she explains in The Times today (also saying she’s not right wing).
Nigel Farage was rehabilitated by ITV when it paid him £1.5m to appear on I’m A Celeb.
He is also joint-second for most appearances on BBC Question Time.
When I say the *entire* media class is complicit in the normalisation of Islamophobic & anti-migrant rhetoric, I mean it. _Zarah Sultana
He is also joint-second for most appearances on BBC Question Time.
When I say the *entire* media class is complicit in the normalisation of Islamophobic & anti-migrant rhetoric, I mean it. _Zarah Sultana
August 9, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Nigel Farage was rehabilitated by ITV when it paid him £1.5m to appear on I’m A Celeb.
He is also joint-second for most appearances on BBC Question Time.
When I say the *entire* media class is complicit in the normalisation of Islamophobic & anti-migrant rhetoric, I mean it. _Zarah Sultana
He is also joint-second for most appearances on BBC Question Time.
When I say the *entire* media class is complicit in the normalisation of Islamophobic & anti-migrant rhetoric, I mean it. _Zarah Sultana
ColdWarSteve.
August 8, 2024 at 12:27 PM
ColdWarSteve.
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Very excited to post this. The first instalment of a three-part interview with Duncan Foley by John Clegg and David Calnitsky on the labor theory of value.
Part I: The commodity law of exchange
www.ppesydney.net/reconstructi...
Part I: The commodity law of exchange
www.ppesydney.net/reconstructi...
Reconstructing the Labor Theory of Value: An Interview with Duncan Foley (Part 1: The Commodity Law ...
Marxists tend to like the labor theory of value because it provides a vivid account of exploitation and highlights a basic antagonism at the core of capitalism: capitalists and workers are locked in a...
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October 23, 2023 at 9:02 PM
Very excited to post this. The first instalment of a three-part interview with Duncan Foley by John Clegg and David Calnitsky on the labor theory of value.
Part I: The commodity law of exchange
www.ppesydney.net/reconstructi...
Part I: The commodity law of exchange
www.ppesydney.net/reconstructi...
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Zia Yusuf, the 37-year-old multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur, is Reform’s new chairman. He describes himself as a “Muslim Patriot”.
He’s blamed Labour for the “violent thuggery” of the riots.
He’s blamed Labour for the “violent thuggery” of the riots.
Zia Yusuf: the Muslim mega-donor who just became Reform's new chair
Farage believes the once-leftwing student and former finance bro, 37, is the next big thing for his right-wing populist party. Katie Strick charts his steep rise to the heart of politics
apple.news
August 6, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Zia Yusuf, the 37-year-old multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur, is Reform’s new chairman. He describes himself as a “Muslim Patriot”.
He’s blamed Labour for the “violent thuggery” of the riots.
He’s blamed Labour for the “violent thuggery” of the riots.