Monthly Archives: January 2018

On Kings by Marshall Sahlins & David Graeber (Hau Press, distributed University of Chicago Press, 2017, 534 pp.) is available as open access pdf in this link; physical copy to buy here. In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of … Continue reading →

Dario Melossi and Massimo Pavarini’s classic book The Prison and the Factory has been reissued as a 40th Anniversary Edition. This new edition of The Prison and the Factory, a classic work on radical criminology, includes two new, long essays from the … Continue reading →

Rob Kitchin, Rules for making decisions on requests for academic work Some very interesting discussion of how to decide what to do, and what not to do, Last week I posted on my personal blog about the volume of requests I receive … Continue reading →

Pluto Books Radical Geography series is on sale, with 50% off the three books in the series – Katharyne Mitchell, Making Workers; Stephen Crossley, In their Place and Paul Routledge, Space Invaders. One of the series editors, Danny Dorling, has an introduction here: What is Radical … Continue reading →

Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism, edited by Robin van den Akker, Alison Gibbons and Timotheus Vermeulen, now out with Rowman and Littlefield Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, Depth brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and … Continue reading →

Richard C. Powell, Studying Arctic Fields: Cultures, Practices and Environmental Sciences – now out with McGill-Queen’s University Press. In recent years the circumpolar region has emerged as the key to understanding global climate change. The plight of the polar bear, … Continue reading →