Monthly Archives: January 2024

Md Azmeary Ferdoush, Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border – Cambridge University Press, May 2024 The former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India existed as extra-territorial spaces since 1947. They were finally exchanged and merged as host … Continue reading →

Daniele Lorenzini, Jacques Maritain and Human Rights: Totalitarianism, Anti-semitism and Democracy (1936–1951) – trans. C. C. Godfrey-Howell, St Augustine’s Press, March 2024 The influence of Jacques Maritain in the post-war era’s embrace of human rights is undeniable. Scholars, however, overlook a … Continue reading →

James A. Tyner, The Apathy of Empire: Cambodia in American Geopolitics – University of Minnesota Press, March 2024 The Apathy of Empire reveals just how significant Cambodia was to U.S. policy in Indochina during the Vietnam War, broadening the lens to … Continue reading →

Angela Y. Davis, Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1 – Haymarket, January 2024 A major collection of essays and  speeches from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. DavisFor over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective … Continue reading →

Yan Slobodkin, The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France’s Colonies – Cornell University Press, November 2023

Geotheory book series with Edinburgh University Press Editors: Paul Kingsbury and Arun Saldanha The earth is a hot topic. Accelerating crises have steadily replaced the fantasy of a global village with dreadful anticipation of the geographies of destitution, paranoia and … Continue reading →

Adam Kotsko, Things I’d like to work on before the world ends at An und für sich

Andy Merrifield, Gramsci’s Animality “I want to plunge into animality to draw from it new vigor” — Gramsci, New Year’s Day, 1916 One of the central “living” attractions of Testaccio’s Non-Catholic cemetery is its stray cats, a colony of twenty-five or … Continue reading →