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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 →

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 →

Pierre Déléage, Inventing Writing: Prophets, Shamans, and the Transmission of Ritual Discourse in North American Indigenous Cultures, 1600–1900 – trans. Victoria Bergstrom and Matthew H. Evans, HAU, March 2026 Print book distributed by University of Chicago Press, and open access direct … Continue reading →

Bassam Sidiki, Parasitic Empires: Infection, Insularity, Inter-Imperiality, 1880-2022 – The University of North Carolina Press, November 2026 No empire is an island  Real and imagined versions of the island and the microbe come together to tell a new story about … Continue reading →

Haig Patapan, The Modern Tyrant: Authoritarian Leadership in Theory and Practice – Edinburgh University Press, March 2026