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A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work has been published by University of Minnesota Press.

Stuart Elden (PAIS) and Adam David Morton (University of Sydney) have edited Lefebvre’s key works on rural questions, including the first half of his book Du rural à l’urbain and supplementary texts. On the Rural reveals the production of the rural as a key site of capitalist development and as a space of struggle.

The book was translated by Robert Bononno, with one essay each by Matthew Dennis (formerly ÌÇÐÄTV Philosophy) and Sîan Rosa Hunter Dodsworth. Stuart and Adam edited the texts, add detailed notes, and wrote a substantial introduction.

Further details of the book here -

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just issued the

This research represents a global consensus on climate mitigation, sources of emissions, progress towards meeting targets, and the impact of national climate pledges on long-term emissions goals.

The report cites PAIS scholars, including six papers by Simon Caney and four by Caroline Kuzemko. Their work explores, and highlights the importance of, ethical considerations and political institutions respectively.

Ben Clift’s finds UK technocratic fiscal policy-making to be a more social and political process than many advocates of economic rules-based policy acknowledge. The article delineates a yawning gap between the theory and practice of technocratic economic governance, which is saturated with politics. Fiscal rules engender new forms of contested politics and elite statecraft and expert technocracy.as rules are circumvented, breached or changed.

A related blog post analyses OBR commentary on the Chancellor’s spring statement:

Tom Long's new article "Issue-Areas, Sovereignty Costs, and North Americans’ Attitudes Toward Regional Cooperation" has been published by Global Studies Quarterly. In the article, Tom and coauthors Malcolm Fairbrother (Umea University) and Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz (Bates College) examine how people's views of regional cooperation in North America diverge from their attitudes toward trade integration alone. Connecting the study of public opinion with more multifaceted approaches of comparative regionalism, they argue that public attitudes are shaped by citizens’ perceptions of the asymmetric patterns of national-level benefits and vulnerabilities created by regional cooperation.

You can read the article here:

On Monday 28th February the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a major report on the effects of climate change, who is most vulnerable, and prospects for adaptation to climate change, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (). This drew on research by six members of the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS). In particular it cited the research of Dr Morten Fibieger Byskov, Prof Simon Caney, Prof Keith Hyams, and Prof Ed Page on the demands of climate justice. And it cited research by Prof Caroline Kuzemko and Prof Mat Watson on the political economy of energy.