Angela Mitropoulos
Angela Mitropoulos is a Sydney-based academic, the author of Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia (2012), and has written on precariousness, borders and welfare policy over many years. Her current research project is ‘Infrastructure and Uncommon Forms’.
Twitter: @Mitropoulos_A
Articles by Angela Mitropoulos:
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Playing With Fire: Securing the Borders of a Green New Deal
Reviewing Naomi Klein's book "On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal", the author challenges Klein's view that the right can and should be useful in any challenge to ecological disaster.
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Workers of the World Unite
The use of Marx to justify nationalist leftism is a well worn genre. This explores the falsehoods this always rests on, including both empirical data on migration and their misreadings of Marx.
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The rise of N-UBIs (non-universal basic incomes) and a national-populist ‘commons’
While Labour's new UBI report is focused on one policy, it is also informed by long-simmering debates over the meaning, definitions and implications of ‘the commons which limit its universality.