Author Archives: stuartelden

Shaina Potts, Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire – Duke University Press, September 2024 Introduction open access at this link In Judicial Territory, Shaina Potts reveals how the American empire has benefited from the post-World War II … Continue reading →

Manon Mathias, Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine – Routledge, April 2024 Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine offers a new way of conceptualizing food in literature: not as social or cultural symbol … Continue reading →

Luke O’Sullivan, Categories: A Study of a Concept in Western Philosophy and Political Thought – Edinburgh University Press, July 2024 Just an expensive hardback and e-book at the moment.

Maan Barua, Plantation Worlds – Duke University Press, August 2024 The Introduction is open access at this link In Plantation Worlds, Maan Barua interrogates debates on planetary transformations through the histories and ecologies of plantations. Drawing on long-term research spanning fifteen years, Barua … Continue reading →

Paula Landerreche Cardillo and Rachel Silverbloom (eds.), Political Bodies: Writings on Adriana Cavarero’s Political Thought – SUNY Press, 2024 The Editors’ Introduction is open access The first edited volume solely dedicated to the philosophy of Adriana Cavaero. “Landerreche Cardillo and Silverbloom are right to … Continue reading →

Andrew Krinks, White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass Criminalisation – NYU Press, August 2024 Uncovers the inherently religious structure of the criminalization of Black, Indigenous, and dispossessed peoples Most popular critical accounts of mass … Continue reading →

Shakespeare and the Reactionary Mind: Counterrevolution, Fascism, Militarism – Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, 31 August 2024 Coming up soon… Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton Court Road, Hampton, TW12 2EJ, United Kingdom Speakers – John Gillies, Amy Lidster, Björn Quiring, Jennifer … Continue reading →