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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 →

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

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 →

Martina Tazzioli, Border abolitionism: Migrants’ containment and the genealogies of struggles and rescue – Manchester University Press, July 2023 Just an expensive hardback and e-book at the moment, unfortunately. Building on an abolitionist perspective, this book offers an essential critique … Continue reading →