Category Archives: Frantz Fanon

Matthew Beaumont, How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body – Verso, March 2024, and discussion at the Verso podcast

Matthew Beaumont, How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body – Verso, March 2024 You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that our standing, walking body holds the social traumas … Continue reading

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Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Haymarket, September 2023

Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Haymarket, September 2023 Now in paperback: What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In Urban Revolutions, Stefan Kipfer shows … Continue reading

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Richard Horton, ‘Frantz Fanon and the origins of global health’, The Lancet (open access)

Richard Horton, ‘Frantz Fanon and the origins of global health’, The Lancet (open access)

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My favourite academic books of 2018

My favourite academic books of 2018. As with previous years – 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 – these are shaped by my interests, books that are sent to me, ones from publishers I review for, etc. etc. I’ve not read all the … Continue reading

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Books received – Chevalier & Greacen on Foucault, Fanon x 2, McCormack, Baring on Derrida

Philippe Chevalier and Tim Greacen (eds.), Folie et justice: Relire Foucault; Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks; Derek McCormack, Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Environmental Envelopment; Edward Baring, The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968 and Frantz Fanon, Alienation and Freedom. Derek’s book was sent … Continue reading

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Frantz Fanon, Alienation and Freedom – translated collection of previously unpublished writings forthcoming from Bloomsbury

Frantz Fanon, Alienation and Freedom – forthcoming from Bloomsbury Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon’s work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists from the 60s to the present day. Alienation … Continue reading

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Frantz Fanon: Concerning the Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism of Violence – Warwick, 17 March 2015

Frantz Fanon: Concerning the Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism of Violence 18th March 2015, 1pm to 7pm University of Warwick (A0.28, Millburn House) Frantz Fanon, the son of Martinique who first fought for colonial France in World War Two and then against … Continue reading

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Books received – Verso (3 of 3)

Some of these I’ve read already due to Verso’s excellent e-book bundling. I wish more publishers would do this.  

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Books received

Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (really wanted this to re-read Sartre’s preface); Michael Mack’s How Literature Changes the Way we Think; Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou’s Disposession; David Chandler’s Freedom vs Necessity in International Relations; an old New Left … Continue reading

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Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography

  Update 27 March 2013 – an updated version of this bibliography is available here. This is an incomplete bibliography, but includes the pieces I’ve read while writing a piece on questions of territory in relation to Boko Haram (see … Continue reading

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