The Political Economy Reading Friends (PERF) is a group of grad students and faculty that has been meeting monthly since 2014 – first at Concordia, now at Simon Fraser – to discuss a reading loosely situated within the fields of political economy or political ecology. During the semester we read an article; over summer and winter break we often read a book. See the sample list of past readings below. If you’re interested in joining us, please email Rosemary Collard: rosemary(dot)claire(at)gmail(dot)com.
Recent readings
- Jennifer Telesca’s (2020) Red Gold: The Managed Annihilation of Blue Fin Tuna
- Liz Hennessey’s (2019) On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden
- Stuart Hall (1996) “Race, articulation, and societies structured in dominance” in Black British cultural studies: A reader
- Silvia Federici (2004) Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
- Judith Butler (2010) “Performative agency” in The Journal of Cultural Economy
- Samir Amin (2001) “Imperialism and globalization” in Monthly Review
- Ruth Gilmore (2002) “Fatal Couplings of Power and Difference: Notes onRacism and Geography” in The Professional Geographer, and Julie Guthman (2016) “Lives Versus Livelihoods? Deepening the Regulatory Debates on Soil Fumigants in California’s Strawberry Industry” in Antipode
- Lisa Lowe (2015) Introduction chapter to The intimacies of four continents
- Timothy Mitchell (1991) “The Limits of the State” in The American Political Science Review
- Timothy Mitchell (2006) Carbon Democracy
- Karl Polanyi (1944) The Great Transformation
- Emilie Cameron & Tyler Levitan (2014) “Impact and benefit agreements and the neoliberalization of resource governance and indigenous-state relations in northern Canada” in Studies in Political Economy
- Bronwyn Parry (2012)”Economies of bodily commodification” in the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography
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