Monthly Archives: September 2026

Meha Dixit and Saranjam Baig eds. Territory and Turmoil: Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan – Routledge, September 2026

Meha Dixit and Saranjam Baig eds. Territory and Turmoil: Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan – Routledge, September 2026 This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intertwined cultural, historical, and geopolitical landscape of Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) – two regions separated by … Continue reading

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Thom Brooks, Political Philosophy: The Fundamentals – Wiley-Blackwell, 2025 and review at NDPR

Thom Brooks, Political Philosophy: The Fundamentals – Wiley-Blackwell, April 2025 review at NDPR by Simone Gubler

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Julian Go and Stuart Schrader eds. Imperial Entanglements of Policing – Duke University Press, November 2026

Julian Go and Stuart Schrader eds. Imperial Entanglements of Policing – Duke University Press, November 2026 Introduction open access at the above link. In recent years, people across the world have protested the violence of policing and its intrusion into … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, Dits et écrits. Une anthologie, introduction by Frédéric Gros, Chronology by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, notes and index by Dan di Razza Dilasser – Bibliothèque de la Pléiade October 2026

Michel Foucault, Dits et écrits. Une anthologie, introduction by Frédéric Gros, Chronology by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, notes and index by Dan di Razza Dilasser – Bibliothèque de la Pléiade October 2026 I’ve mentioned this collection before, but thanks to Foucault News for … Continue reading

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No, not that Henri Lefebvre – The Missing Pieces

I’ve mentioned this before, but the Henri Lefebvre who wrote Les unités perdues (2004, 2011), translated by David L. Sweet as The Missing Pieces (2014), is not the Henri Lefebvre who wrote The Production of Space and The Critique of Everyday Life, among many other works.  For one thing, … Continue reading

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Carlo Ginzburg-Perry Anderson correspondence in New Left Review

The current issue of New Left Review has some of the correspondence between Perry Anderson and Carlo Ginzburg, with an introduction by Anderson (requires subscription).

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Frederic Jameson, The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism and Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature – new editions, Princeton University Press, September 2026

Frederic Jameson, The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism – new edition, Princeton University Press, September 2026 Foreword by Caleb Smith and Paul North (the sample material online appears to be from Marxism and Form instead). In The Prison-House of … Continue reading

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Jeremy Adelman, The Capitalist Era: The Making—and Unmaking—of the Global Mind – Princeton University Press, September/November 2026

Jeremy Adelman, The Capitalist Era: The Making—and Unmaking—of the Global Mind – Princeton University Press, September/November 2026 In The Capitalist Era, leading global historian Jeremy Adelman puts the world’s current unwinding in much-needed historical perspective. Combining political, economic, intellectual, and environmental … Continue reading

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Livia K. Stone, Without Masters: Autogestión, Anarchist Ethics, and Mexico City Punk – Duke University Press, September 2026

Livia K. Stone, Without Masters: Autogestión, Anarchist Ethics, and Mexico City Punk – Duke University Press, September 2026 Introduction open access at the above link Without Masters is an anthropological history of the radical ethical and political principle of autogestión as … Continue reading

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Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Michael Quinlan, Unfree Workers: Insubordination and Resistance in Convict Australia, 1788–1860 – Palgrave, 2022 and New Books discussion

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Michael Quinlan, Unfree Workers: Insubordination and Resistance in Convict Australia, 1788–1860 – Palgrave, 2022 New Books discussion with Hannah Forsyth – thanks to dmf for the link This book examines how convicts played a key role in the … Continue reading

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