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Adam David Morton
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Co-editor of Progress in Political Economy (PPE) https://www.ppesydney.net/ | Professor of Political Economy | University of Sydney | Own Views | Reposts ≠ endorsements |

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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 10h
My latest column, on economic gloom and doom. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
Alex Callinicos: Dark times as four horsemen ride out
“The four horsemen of the apocalypse are coming for the global economy.” says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 1d
Short overview with @chrishesketh.bsky.social on our article in Progress in Human Geography on why the Marxist notion of totality must be defended @alexcallinicos.bsky.social
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From Locality to Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...
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Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social · 2d
A short introduction to our new article ‘Totality must be defended’ written with @morton.bsky.social

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Engaging with recent work by @mattthompson.bsky.social and @davidharvey.org among others
From Locality to Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...
www.ppesydney.net

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 2d
By contrast, our article makes an intervention in economic geography debates to make the case for an explicitly open notion of concrete totality, which is especially useful for understanding our contemporary conjuncture of crisis 4/4 @jamiepeck.bsky.social
Totality must be defended - Chris Hesketh, Adam David Morton, 2026
Across multiple theoretical traditions that treat economies as geographically differentiated, the notion of totality has come under attack from those who dismis...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 2d
This tension is a springboard for our article in Progress in Human Geography on how the notion of totality has come under attack from those who dismiss it as an authoritarian concept, a Eurocentric idea, or insist that it cannot grasp the inherently pluriversal character of everyday life 3/

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 2d
This text by Quijano is at the centre of Ruy Mauro Marini's critique in Dialéctica de la dependencia [1973] to assert that analysis identifying a “marginal pole” in Latin American societies was already drifting away from how class contradictions are polarised there 2/

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 2d
Blogging on our article "Totality must be defended* with @chrishesketh.bsky.social published in Progress in Human Geography, we make available Aníbal Quijano's text Redefinición de la dependencia y proceso de marginalización en América Latina @ingridhk.bsky.social 1/
From Locality to Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...
www.ppesydney.net

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 2d
How Karel Kosík's classic *Dialectics of the Concrete* assists in parsing contemporary debates on conjuncturalism and totality in and beyond economic geography - blogging with @chrishesketh.bsky.social on our new article in Progress in Human Geography @stuartelden.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social
From Locality to Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...
www.ppesydney.net