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Don Watson joins Dr Emma Shortis on this episode of After America to discuss the cult-like support Donald Trump has manufactured, the “mad” AUKUS agreement, and his latest Quarterly Essay, ‘High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink’.

This discussion was recorded on Friday 20 September 2024 and things may have changed since recording.

Guest: Don Watson, author of ‘High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink’

Host: Emma Shortis, Senior Research for International & Security Affairs, the Australia Institute // @EmmaShortis

Show notes:

‘High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink’ by Don Watson, Quarterly Essay (September 2024)

American Journeys by Don Watson (January 2018)

‘Enemy Within: American Politics in the Time of Trump’ by Don Watson, Quarterly Essay (September 2016)

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To mark PPE@10 this feature continues a series of posts to celebrate ten years of Progress in Political Economy (PPE) as a blog that has addressed the worldliness of critical political economy issues since 2014. 

I have always been fascinated by the place of mining in capitalist development. Growing up West Australian in the 2000s, I witnessed first-hand the incredible wealth generated next to the inequality, violence and environmental devastation of the last mining boom. I soon came to understand that studying mining sharpens our focus on a bigger tension at the heart of global capitalism – the ever-present tension between modernisation and destruction mediated by social conflict and resistance.

Supporters and detractors of mining both recognise the rapid economic, social and political change that mining brings can completely transform societies. If this is true in Australia, it is certainly so in Indonesia, where the research for my new book Undermining Resistance: The governance of participation by multinational mining corporations took place.

My research for the book was motivated by a simple question: How can people affected by mining shift the uneven distribution of impacts and benefits?

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