March 5: Re-reading Capital again
March 5, 2012
Rereading ‘Capital’, again: new research in Marxist political economy
Special Issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE)
To be published December 2012
Marxism has been making a modest come-back in recent years. Political,
economic and environmental crises, alongside the return of political
struggle in the United States, Europe, North Africa and the Middle
East, have heightened the desire for something other than business-as-
usual.
This has involved the recirculation of Marx’s key-work ‘Capital’ in
the academy, reading groups, and political organisations and networks.
Alongside this, major works seeking to reread Capital for the present
have been published — Terry Eagleton’s ‘Why Marx Was Right’, Fredric
Jameson’s ‘Representing Capital’ and David Harvey’s two recent volumes
exploring ‘Capital’ itself and its relevance to the present conjuncture.
We invite papers responding to the conjuncture — both domestic and
international — with the stipulation that a familiarity with Marx’s
‘Capital’ must anchor responses (directly or indirectly). The three
major areas we are seeking contributions around are: (i) the
methodologies of ‘Capital’ and historical materialism; (ii) the
consequences of empirical analysis for the methodologies of ‘Capital’
and historical materialism; (iii) and empirical analysis arising from
the framework of ‘Capital’, in particular as it relates to Australia.
Articles should be between 4,000-7,000 words and submitted by 31 March
2012 for refereeing.
For further information, or to discuss an idea or to submit an
article, please contact the Special Issue editors Elizabeth Humphrys (lizhumphrys@me.com
) or Jonathon Collerson (jonathoncollerson@gmail.com).
