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Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler and Bonnie Honig, Towards a Feminist Ethics of Non-Violence – Fordham University Press, 2021 Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together major feminist thinkers to debate Cavarero’s call for a postural ethics of nonviolence and a … Continue reading →

Saiba Varma, The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir – Duke University Press, October 2020 The Introduction is open access here. In The Occupied Clinic, Saiba Varma explores the psychological, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence in Indian-controlled … Continue reading →

Federico Italiano (ed.), The Dark Side of Translation – Routledge, 2020 We tend to consider translation as something good, virtuous and bright, but it can also function as an instrument of concealment, silencing and misdirection—as something that darkens and obscures. … Continue reading →

Join us for a special virtual panel discussion about the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. The “frozen conflict” in Nagorno Karabakh is no longer “frozen”. Fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh … Continue reading →

Mira L. Siegelberg, Statelessness: A Modern History – Harvard University Press, 2020 The story of how a much-contested legal category—statelessness—transformed the international legal order and redefined the relationship between states and their citizens. Two world wars left millions stranded in … Continue reading →

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David Harvey, The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles – Pluto, October 2020 Amidst waves of economic crises, class struggle and neo-fascist reaction, few possess the clarity and foresight of world-renowned theorist, David Harvey. Since the publication of his…

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Antoine Traisnel, Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition, Minnesota University Press, 2020 University of Minnesota Press | 368 pages | September 2020ISBN? 978-1-5179-0964-2 | paper | $27.00 ISBN? 978-1-5179-0963-5 |…

Peter Brooks, Balzac’s Lives – NYRB, October 2020 Balzac, more than anyone, invented the nineteenth-century novel, and Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac had invented the nineteenth century. But it was above all through the wonderful, … Continue reading →