Author Archives: stuartelden

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 →

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 →

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 →