Siobhan Neyland

Siobhan Neyland wrote her honours year in 2014 about the role of race and whiteness in Australian refugee discourses. Since then she has interned at the Australian Institute of International Affairs, travelled and worked in South America, worked as a politics tutor at ANU, and is currently working as a project officer at the Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership in Melbourne. She is interested in the idea of democratising the economy as a strategy in the local and global struggle for climate justice.

A Way Out of Capitalism

A Way Out of Capitalism

Increasingly, in the books I’m reading and the conversations I’m having—about climate change, about automation and the future of work, about the many current and coming crises—the conversation keeps spiraling back to ‘capitalism is the problem’. And most of the time,...
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  • Placeless Proletariat

    Placeless Proletariat

    ‘It is the rule of the border in general that the refugee challenges … it is the justice of national sovereignty itself that the body of the asylum seeker refutes.’[1] The poor often find themselves at society’s boundaries, borders and margins. Their bodies hover at...
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