CERN Sydney

CERN-Sydney meets face-to-face (plus Zoom) for one day each month to discuss drafts of each other’s writing and recent publications. There’s also an emphasis on food, conviviality and long-walks. This CERN group has been going for almost fifteen years. What follows is a selection of published works that the group has been reading in recent years (though much of the time they are reading drafts of each other’s writing). 

CERN Sydney members also participate in an online CERN Writing Group, on the first Friday of each, 10am to 1 pm (Sydney time). This writing group is run with CERN-New Zealand. We use the Pomodoro Technique of writing in 25 minute blocks of time, followed by short breaks. At the outset we share information about what we are working on and we conclude with participants sharing screens to show what they achieved. Even though we sometimes don't achieve all that we want, we know that we have achieved 3 hours more of writing than when the session started!

2023 Selected Readings

Cash Ahenakew, 2019, Towards Scarring our Collective Soul Wound. Click here. 

George DeMartino. 2022. The Tragic Science: How Economists Cause Harm (Even as They Aspire to Do Good). The University of Chicago Press. Click here.

2022 Selected Readings

Caroline Hossein (ed.). 2018, The Black Social Economy in the Americas: Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets. Palgrave Macmillan. Click here.

Anisah Madden, forthcoming. ‘Participation and Facilitation in International Food Governance.’

J.K. Gibson-Graham. 2003. ‘An Ethics of the Local.’ Rethinking Marxism. 15:1 (49-74). Click here.

Richa Nagar, in Journeys with Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan and Parakh Theatre. 2019. Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability. University of Illinois Press. Click here. 

Annemarie Mol. 2021. Eating in Theory: Experimental Futures. Duke University Press. Click here.

2021 Selected Readings

Ethan Miller. 2019. Reimagining Livelihoods: Life beyond Economy, Society, and Environment. University of Minnesota Press. Click here. 

Elizabeth Barron, Laura Hartman and Frederik Hagemann. 2020. ‘From Place to Emplacement: The Scalar Politics of Sustainability.’ Local Environment. 25:6 (447-462). Click here.

2020 Selected Readings

Peter North. 2020. Building Back Better: What Role for the Liverpool City Region Economic Recovery Panel? Policy Briefing 009. Click here. 

Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcou, Maliha Safri and Katherine Gibson. 2021. Calculating the value of the commons: Generating resilient urban futures. Environmental Policy and Governance. 31 (159–174). Click here.