Riki Scanlan

they/them.

[Riki Scanlan @RikiScanlan]

@sophfyfe I am a solid 0.3% or so of your downloads!

[Riki Scanlan @RikiScanlan]

@NoLuckLopez @EvComrade @Ozwobbly I’m interested in writing more haha!

[Riki Scanlan @RikiScanlan]

@NoLuckLopez @EvComrade @Ozwobbly But it doesn’t wash together Gina Rinehart with a cleaner in a regional town!

[Riki Scanlan @RikiScanlan]

@NoLuckLopez @EvComrade @Ozwobbly This lets you give specificity to the different permutations of the settler-colonial project, since settler landed property is mutable in individual size, function, etc, and it lets you talk directly about one of the key actors who make and remake settler societies.

[joma @ka_joma_]

Thrilled to share that my first publication has been accepted and will be out soon with one of my favorite academic journals of all time @ROAPEjournal (review of African political economy). Will let folks know when it’s live.

[Riki Scanlan @RikiScanlan]

I want to say for the record that Honi did not in fact fetch my Thai

[Honi Soit @honi_soit]

We can confirm Riki has received their Thai! Everyone say we love you Riki

[Riki Scanlan @RikiScanlan]

@Helenreflects I think there’s good reason why silent reading is _unheard_ of!

[Riki Scanlan @RikiScanlan]

@kmunro_econ @wobblymole At the same time that mapping exercise can lead to problems, since it is essentially analysis by analogy, and analogies will fail us at some point. Where I end up, I have a restrained optimism about these ‘good concepts built from bad histories’.

[Riki Scanlan @RikiScanlan]

@kmunro_econ @wobblymole I think that where it is correct (or good or useful), it is correct (ditto) in spite of bad history etc. This might be intellectual luck, or the ahistoric mapping of ideas ‘in the air’ of capitalism onto a feudal / transition history.

[Riki Scanlan @RikiScanlan]

@sophfyfe From: Shikaki, Ibrahim. ‘The Political Economy of Dependency and Class Formation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Since 1967’. In Political Economy of Palestine : Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives. https://t.co/mgMEwg1yqQ

[Riki Scanlan @RikiScanlan]

@sophfyfe This seems quite similar !

[David Brophy @Dave_Brophy]

Out supporting the @NTEUnion strike at @SAEInstituteAUS. They’ve had 2yrs of negotiations and still no EA + insulting pay offer of 1c/hour above the award.

[Riki Scanlan @RikiScanlan]

@Hesketh1981 What's your top three under-examined works from him?

[Riki Scanlan @RikiScanlan]

@grugstan This waveform view is essentially how Neil Smith looks at it in The New Urban Frontier – an expanding wave of rent gaps between actual and potential rents. And this is a general phenomenon within property, but takes on a particular bent when it washes thru working-class suburbs.

[Riki Scanlan @RikiScanlan]

Rent controls = a Speed Limit for Rents – we keep kids safe around schools with speed limits, why not keep renters (and renting families) safe with speed limits on rent increases?

[Jenny Leong MP 梁珍妮 @jennyleong]

And renters need more than this budget offers them (i.e. nothing material) - Labor could provide immediate relief without spending a cent by controlling rents and finally ending unfair no grounds evictions.

[Riki Scanlan @RikiScanlan]

@LeoPatRoss From @DrCameronMurray The Great Housing Hijack, a convenient visual illustration of ways density and zoning can vary.

[Riki Scanlan @RikiScanlan]

@LeoPatRoss I think your intuition is right – it's basically a function of land values vs house/unit values, with each storey adding a lump of fixed costs. But whether the proportionate take-up declines with distance from city centre etc is contingent on zoning rules.

[Matt Ryan @mattdjryan]

In the 19th century we had "blackbirding". Today Australian fossil fuels are drowning the Pacific. How little has changed...

Here I introduce my recent article, https://t.co/NhNUCBWJEe. Click through to @ppesydney for the TL;DR.