Category Archives: Uncategorized

Sergei Prozorov, Biopolitics After Truth: Knowledge, Power and Democratic Life – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (print and open access)

John Brewer, Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions – Yale University Press, November 2023 A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. … Continue reading →

Susan Bredlau and Talia Welsh (eds.), Normality, Abnormality, and Pathology in Merleau-Ponty, SUNY Press, August 2022 Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work draws our attention to how the body is always our way of having a world and never merely a thing in … Continue reading →

Jared D. Margulies, The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade – University of Minnesota Press, November 2023 Cacti and succulents are phenomenally popular worldwide among plant enthusiasts, despite being among the world’s most threatened species. The … Continue reading →

Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures – Duke University Press, November 2023 The Introduction is open access here. In Residual Governance, Gabrielle Hecht dives into the wastes of gold and uranium mining in South Africa to explore … Continue reading →

Jean-Paul Demoule, The Indo-Europeans: Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West – Oxford University Press, May/August 2023 The OUP site shows a hardback in May 2023, and paperback in August. It is a translation by … Continue reading →

Christopher S. Browning, Nation Branding and International Politics – McGill-Queen’s University Press, October 2023 Nation branding is regarded as essential for competitiveness among countries, but the idea of branding nations is often derided as lacking seriousness. While nation branding has … Continue reading →

Susan Slyomovics (ed.), Ordering Imperial Worlds: From Late Medieval Spain to the Modern Middle East, Edinburgh University Press, November 2023