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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 →

Ignacio Mendiola, El poder y la caza de personas: Frontera, seguridad y necropolitica – Bellaterra, March 2022 Este libro propone un trasvase del mundo de la caza de animales al mundo de la caza de personas. A partir de este … Continue reading →

Philipp Ther, How the West Lost the Peace: The Great Transformation Since the Cold War, trans. Jessica Spengler – Polity, May 2023 When the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the … Continue reading →

Zygmunt Bauman, My Life in Fragments, ed. Izabela Wagner, trans. Katarzyna Bartoszyńska – Polity, June 2023 Zygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of … Continue reading →

Danny Dorling, Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State – Verso, September 2023 Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. In Shattered Nation, leading geographer and author of Inequality and the 1% shows … Continue reading →

Sharad Chari, Gramsci at Sea – University of Minnesota Press Forerunners, August 2023 Exploring how the crisis of the world ocean is produced by capitalism and imperialism This succinct work reads Antonio Gramsci’s writings on the sea, focused in his … Continue reading →