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Mattie Fitch, The People, the Workers, and the Citizens: Antifascist Cultures and the Popular Front in France, 1934–1939 – Routledge, December 2025 Very expensive hardback and e-book only at the moment. In the 1930s, activists with France’s Popular Front mobilized … Continue reading →

Stephen C. E. Hopkins, Translating Hell: Vernacular Theology and Apocrypha in the Medieval North Sea – Manchester University Press, May 2026 In the Middle Ages, hell was useful because it was vaguely defined. Canonical scriptures scarcely mention hell, leaving much … Continue reading →

Ben Garlick and Dubravka Sekulić eds. Geography with John Berger: Questions of Space and Practice – Bloomsbury, June 2026 Exploring John Berger’s political and creative praxis for scholarship on space, place, landscape and spatial experience, Ben Garlick and Dubravka Sekulic critically engage … Continue reading →

Felix Berenskötter ed. Concepts in International Relations: A New Introduction – Sage, November 2025 How can we better understand global issues? And what does it mean to do international relations theory today? Concepts in International Relations offers a fresh and accessible introduction to IR … Continue reading →

A.J.A. Woods, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West –Verso, April 2026 update August 2026: New Books network discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh – thanks for dmf for the link The … Continue reading →

Louise Ridden, Nonviolent Encounters: Unarmed Civilian Protection through Bodies, Spaces and Times – Edinburgh University Press, April 2026 (print and open access) Studies nonviolence as a way of knowing, doing and being in armed conflict This book takes the emerging … Continue reading →

Nicole M. Rizzuto, Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature across Air, Land, and Sea, 1926–2014 – Oxford University Press, June 2026 Expensive hardback only at the moment It is a truism that the last one hundred years have been defined by the accelerated … Continue reading →

Sonia Lavaert, Democratic Thought from Machiavelli to Spinoza: Freedom, Equality, Multitude – trans. Albert Gootjes, Edinburgh University Press, October 2024, paperback April 2026 In the latter half of the seventeenth century, Spinoza effected a reversal in the relationship between philosophy, … Continue reading →

Sandrine Bergès, No Place Like Home: Women Philosophers’ Struggles with Domesticity – Oxford University Press, June 2026 Why should we think about the home? Most would agree that it is central to children’s development-a healthy, stable, and hopefully loving environment … Continue reading →