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Call for proposals: World Congress. Foucault: 40 years after (2023-2024)

Proposals for activities should be sent to: foucault40after@gmail.com to the Coordinator of the International Scientific Committee: Prof. Rodrigo Castro. Information about activities should include: a) The title of the activityb) A short description (5 lines)c) The city and country in which the activity … Continue reading

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Charlotte Lydia Riley, Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain – Penguin, August 2023 and New Books discussion

Charlotte Lydia Riley, Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain – Penguin, August 2023 After the Second World War, Britain’s overseas empire disintegrated. As white settlers from Rhodesia returned home to a country they barely recognised, Commonwealth citizens … Continue reading

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Marie Allitt, Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (print and open access)

Marie Allitt, Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (print and open access)

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Teresa Degenhardt, War as Protection from Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’ – Routledge, September 2023

Teresa Degenhardt, War as Protection from Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’ – Routledge, September 2023 This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold War military interventions through three main case … Continue reading

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Andrea Pavoni and Simone Tulumello, Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere – Roman & Littlefield, September 2023

Andrea Pavoni and Simone Tulumello, Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere – Rowman & Littlefield, September 2023 Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and security … Continue reading

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Zdenka Sokolíčková, The Paradox of Svalbard: Climate Change and Globalisation in the Arctic – Pluto, July 2023 and New Books discussion

Zdenka Sokolíčková, The Paradox of Svalbard: Climate Change and Globalisation in the Arctic – Pluto, July 2023 There is a New Books discussion with Stentor Danielson here. Thanks to dmf for this link. The town of Longyearbyen in the high … Continue reading

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T. Corey Brennan, The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome’s Most Dangerous Political Symbol – Oxford University Press, November 2022

T. Corey Brennan, The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome’s Most Dangerous Political Symbol – Oxford University Press, November 2022 “Fascism” is a word ubiquitous in our contemporary political discourse, but few know about its roots in the ancient past … Continue reading

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Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice – University of Nebraska Press, December 2022

Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice – University of Nebraska Press, December 2022 I’m late in noticing the second part of this biography – the first part Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist was … Continue reading

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Midlands Conference in Critical Thought 2024

Midlands Conference in Critical Thought 2024 Centre for Policy, Citizenship and Society + Department of Social and Political Sciences, Nottingham Trent University April 5th to April 6th, 2024 Call for Stream Proposals – new extended deadline September 25th 2023

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Michele Lancione, For a Liberatory Politics of Home – Duke University Press, November 2023 (and open access Introduction)

Michele Lancione, For a Liberatory Politics of Home – Duke University Press, November 2023 The Introduction is open access at the Duke site. In For a Liberatory Politics of Home, Michele Lancione questions accepted understandings of home and homelessness to offer … Continue reading

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