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Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Sadi Shanaah, The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism: Liberal Democracy, Civil Society, and Countering Radicalization – Oxford University Press, June 2025

Posted on July 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Charlotte Heath-Kelly and Sadi Shanaah, The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism: Liberal Democracy, Civil Society, and Countering Radicalization – Oxford University Press, June 2025 The Politics of Preventing Violent Extremism explores how counter-radicalization policies have come to dominate European counterterrorism and security. … Continue reading →

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Elaine Stratford, The Drowned: Elements of Loss and Repair – Palgrave, August 2025

Posted on July 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Elaine Stratford, The Drowned: Elements of Loss and Repair – Palgrave, August 2025 This book concerns the elemental geographies and lives and deaths of the drowned to confront enduring forms of oppression. Elaine Stratford documents with penetrating compassion and acumen how human … Continue reading →

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Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism – Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers, July 2025

Posted on July 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism – Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers, July 2025 How today’s dominant political forms—right-wing populism, progressivism, and liberalism—offer differentiated responses to shared conditions of uncertainty. The Politics of Feeling argues that politics has … Continue reading →

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“For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston. 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science”, Luca Sciortino, The British Journal for the History of Science, 2025 (open access)

Posted on July 4, 2025 by stuartelden

“For a history of human rationality: an interview with Lorraine Daston. 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science“, Luca Sciortino, The British Journal for the History of Science, 2025 On 21 November 2024, in Rome, the historian … Continue reading →

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Paulina Tambakaki, Grieving Democracy: Navigating the Loss of Affect – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025

Posted on July 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Paulina Tambakaki, Grieving Democracy: Navigating the Loss of Affect – Edinburgh University Press, May 2025

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Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury – Yale University Press, paperback May 2025

Posted on July 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare in Bloomsbury – Yale University Press, paperback May 2025 For the men and women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence and a creative benchmark. Not only the works they intended for publication—the novels, biographies, … Continue reading →

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Andrew Hartman, Karl Marx in America – University of Chicago Press, May 2025 and JHI blog interview

Posted on July 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Andrew Hartman, Karl Marx in America – University of Chicago Press, May 2025 JHI blog interview with Alec Israeli The vital and untold story of Karl Marx’s stamp on American life. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created … Continue reading →

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Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on July 1, 2025 by stuartelden

Nubar Hovsepian, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual – The American University in Cairo Press, June 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, but there is now a New Books Network discussion with Tugrul Mende. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 37 (Spring 2025)

Posted on June 30, 2025 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 37 (Spring 2025) (via Foucault News) This issue of Foucault Studies is the first to be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press: https://www.pennpress.org/journals/journal/foucault-studies/. The journal retains its full intellectual independence and keeps publishing according to a diamond open access … Continue reading →

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Six Months of ‘Sunday Histories’ – weekly short essays on Progressive Geographies

Posted on June 30, 2025 by stuartelden

At the beginning of 2025 I decided to try to post a short essay each week on Progressive Geographies. I felt the blog had become too much of a noticeboard, sharing information about interesting books, talks or shorter pieces by … Continue reading →

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