Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Wrestling with Monsters: Critique, Climate Change, and Comets
Published 2024We live, as the Chinese saying supposedly goes, in interesting times. Žižek (2012) argues that our times constitute a state of permanent crisis. This sense of crisis is felt across material domains through climate change ...Book chapter -
The Good University? Colourful Histories, Ongoing Troubles, and Changing Contexts
Published 2024During the strict COVID restrictions in 2020, the ‘Critical Theory, Education and Social Work Reading Group’ based at the University of Sydney met via Zoom to discuss Raewyn Connell’s The good university (2019). The crisis ...Book chapter -
Success and failure in nuclear proliferation network strategies
Published 2021All proliferation networks use a menu of strategies, with varying success, to get around the attempts of non-proliferators to stop them. In this paper, I use a theory based on the economic geography of illicit transnational ...Open AccessConference paper -
Hybrid Newtorks and the Future of Proliferation
Published 2019The days of a state pursuing nuclear weapons using its own state prerogatives and resources are over. Instead, the state must rely on cooperation with private individuals and firms around the world, and form proliferation ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Value of News: Aligning Economic and Social Value From an Institutional Perspective
Published 2023-11-22Journalism is considered essential to a functioning democracy. However, the continued viability of commercial news production is uncertain. News producers continue to lose advertising revenue to platform businesses dominating ...Open AccessArticle