Monthly Archives: February 2021

Confronting the Long Arc of U.S. Border Policy THE CELEBRATORY CLAMOR surrounding President Joe Biden’s 100-day deportation moratorium was short-lived, as a federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the pause on deportation within a few days of its announcement. Even though … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Etienne Balibar, Spinoza, the Transindividual, translated by Mark G. E. Kelly, Edinburgh University Press, September 2020 One of the most important books on Spinoza to appear in the last 30 years, written by one of…

Paul Simpson, Non-Representational Theory – Routledge, January 2021 Non-representational Theory explores a range of ideas which have recently engaged geographers and have led to the development of an alternative approach to the conception, practice, and production of geographic knowledge. Non-representational Theory … Continue reading →

Henri F. Ellenberger, Ethnopsychiatry, edited by Emmanuel Delille, translated by Jonathan Kaplansky, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021 What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the … Continue reading →

Christopher S. Browning, Pertti Joenniemi, and Brent J. Steele, Vicarious Identity in International Relations: Self, Security, and Status on the Global Stage – Oxford University Press, March 2021 Vicarious identification, or “living through another” is a familiar social-psychological concept. Shaped … Continue reading →

Rob Kitchin, Data Lives: How Data are Made and Shape Our Lives – Bristol University Press, February 2021 Companion website with some open access material, discount codes and a lot of endorsements. The word ‘data’ has entered everyday conversation, but … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980), edited by Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, University of Minnesota Press, December 2020 [updated: April 2021] Founded by Michel Foucault and others in 1970–71,…