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Anitra Nelson

Associate Professor, School of Global Studies Social Science and Planning at RMIT University

Summary

An interdisciplinary researcher and lecturer in the social sciences, specifically community-based sustainability, environmental and housing studies, Anitra also has an Advanced Diploma of Professional Screenwriting (RMIT) and has won minor awards for her short film, Mercury Stole My Fire (2005). Co-editor of Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (2011, Pluto Press, London), editor of Steering Sustainability in an Urbanizing World: Policy, Practice and Performance and author of Marx's Concept of Money: The God of Commodities, Anitra is a Visiting Scholar in the Economics Department of the New School for Social Research in New York in the first half of 2012.

Experience

  • Associate Professor, School of Global Studies Social Science and Planning, RMIT University – present

Education

  • La Trobe University, PhD Humanities Area of Revolutionary Studies, 1995
  • La Trobe University, BA History Hons, 1979