AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco 2016 Paper Session: The Mont Pelerin Plague? Revisiting and Rethinking Neoliberalism ORGANISERS Kean Birch (York University, Canada) Simon Springer (University of Victoria, Canada) OUTLINE From its initial conceptualization in Mont Pelerin… Read More »CfP: AAG2016 The Mont Pelerin Plague? Revisiting and rethinking neoliberalism
I have a new short piece out in the latest issue of Discover Society called “How to think like a neoliberal”. Here’s the introduction, in which I discuss selling grades to my students! I’d suggest… Read More »New article in Discover Society: “How to think like a neoliberal”
I was in Chicago two weeks back for the annual Association of American Geographers conference – helped to organize a session on biofuels, bioenergy and the emerging bioeconomy if anyone is interested – and decided… Read More »My trip to the heartland of neoliberalism
So far I’ve only seen two reviews of my new book We Have Never Been Neoliberal: A Manifesto for a Doomed Youth from Zer0 Books. One positive, by Katherine Trebeck on Bella Caledonia website. And… Read More »Reviews of my book so far
Just got a new piece out in ROAR magazine called “Ponzi property: the neoliberal delusion of homeownership”. Here’s the start: “The dream of homeownership has led many in the US and UK to buy into… Read More »New article in ROAR Magazine: “Ponzi property: the neoliberal delusion of homeownership”
This is my contribution to the climate change consultation in Ontario, which, unfortunately, ends today. Go to the Environmental Registry to submit your own comments! At base, we need to reduce the use of fossil… Read More »Ontario’s climate change consultation
How to understand the financial crisis and stop the top 1% all at the same time. This book critiques the view that neoliberal theories and ideas caused the ongoing financial crisis. Publishing 27th February 2015… Read More »Press release: We Have Never Been Neoliberal
I probably need to provide some background to this blog post. It represents my contribution to restructuring processes started by senior administrators at York University, my Employer, over a year ago and still ongoing. As… Read More »Restructuring York University: My contribution to ongoing debates at the University (Part 1)
… a review essay, of sorts, for Antipode Foundation dealing with a book about the historical origins of the corporate form; I briefly discuss how I think the book helps explain the emergence of the… Read More »Review essay: “Corporate Sovereignty” by Joshua Barkan
Global Life Science and Bionetworking Conference, held at Centre for Bionetworking, University of Sussex on 11-12 November 2014. A bit of background … this is my first attempt to outline the concept of rentiership, which… Read More »Workshop presentation: Rentiership in the bio-economy: