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Steven Lukes, The Diversity of Morals, Princeton University Press, 2025 NDPR review by Jussi Suikkanen When we speak of morals, what are we speaking of? Is morality singular (as many philosophers tend to assume, even if they don’t agree on what it is) … Continue reading →

Gabriella Soto, Border Afterlives: Migrant Deaths, Forensic Investigations, and the Politics of Haunting – University of Ariona Press, March 2026 Border Afterlives begins with the undocumented individuals who die crossing the U.S.-Mexico border—deaths that are both preventable and politically produced. Drawing on over … Continue reading →

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 The definitive history of a dangerous right-wing conspiracy theory  “Cultural Marxism” is one of the far right’s favorite buzzwords. … 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 →