Monthly Archives: January 2024

Gerard Toal, Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe – Oxford University Press, February 2024

Posted on January 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Gerard Toal, Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe – Oxford University Press, February 2024 A powerful explanation of why geopolitical competition makes implementing effective climate change policies so difficult. As the Russia-Ukraine war has shown, great-power competition … Continue reading →

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Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou (eds.), Indigeneous People and Borders – Duke University Press, January 2024

Posted on January 10, 2024 by stuartelden

Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou (eds.), Indigeneous People and Borders – Duke University Press, January 2024 The legacies of borders are far-reaching for Indigenous Peoples. This collection offers new ways of understanding borders by departing from statist approaches to territoriality. Bringing together … Continue reading →

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Radical online collections and archives – New Historical Express

Posted on January 9, 2024 by stuartelden

Radical online collections and archives – New Historical Express I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self – trans. Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, January 2024

Posted on January 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, and Arnold I. Davidson, translated by Clare O’Farrell, University of Chicago Press, January 2024 Newly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment, and the … Continue reading →

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Open Access e-books from Pluto Press

Posted on January 8, 2024 by stuartelden

Open Access e-books from Pluto Press – here

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Ananya Agustin Malhotra, Tran Duc Thao’s Anticolonial Phenomenology: In Theory and in Practice – JHI blog

Posted on January 7, 2024 by stuartelden

Ananya Agustin Malhotra, Tran Duc Thao’s Anticolonial Phenomenology: In Theory and in Practice – JHI blog In February 1946, before the outbreak of the first Indochina War, the Vietnamese Marxist philosopher Tran Duc Thao (1917–93) outlined for the French reading … Continue reading →

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In Conversation: Achille Mbembe and David Theo Goldberg on ‘Critique of Black Reason’ – Theory, Culture & Society, 2017 (open access)

Posted on January 6, 2024 by stuartelden

In Conversation: Achille Mbembe and David Theo Goldberg on ‘Critique of Black Reason’ (2017) Achille Mbembe, The Critique of Black Reason. Duke University Press, 2016

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Achille Mbembe, Brutalism – Duke University Press, January 2024 (open access Introduction)

Posted on January 6, 2024 by stuartelden

Achille Mbembe, Brutalism – Duke University Press, January 2024 In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida, Hospitality – two volumes of the seminar, November 2023 and April 2024

Posted on January 5, 2024 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, Hospitality – two volumes, University of Chicago Press Volume I, translated by E. S. Burt, edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf, November 2023 Volume II, translated by Peggy Kamuf, edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf, April … Continue reading →

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Nivedita Menon, Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South – Duke University Press, May 2024

Posted on January 5, 2024 by stuartelden

Nivedita Menon, Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South – Duke University Press, May 2024 In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hyper-visualizes women and religion while obscuring other related … Continue reading →

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