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Genevieve Lloyd, Reading Spinoza in the Anthropocene – Edinburgh University Press, May 2024

Rhys Machold, Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel – Stanford University Press, September 2024 Homeland security is rarely just a matter of the homeland; it involves the circulation and multiplication of policing practices across borders. Though the term … Continue reading →

Neal Alexander and David Cooper (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies – Routledge, August 2024 The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies provides a comprehensive overview of recent research and a range of innovative ways of thinking literature and geography together. … Continue reading →

This is a good innovation. The third edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place updates many entries from earlier editions, removes some and adds many entirely new ones. The editors have made the removed entries available online open access. … Continue reading →

Uday Chandra, Resistance as Negotiation: Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India – Stanford University Press, June 2024 “Tribes” appear worldwide today as vestiges of a pre-modern past at odds with the workings of modern states. Acts … Continue reading →

Cary J Nederman & Guillaume Bogiaris (eds.), Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought – Edward Elgar, 2024 This insightful Handbook reviews the key frameworks guiding political scientists and historians of political thought. Comprehensive in scope, it covers historical … Continue reading →

Peter E. Gordon, A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity – University of Chicago Press, January 2024 A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno’s work as a critique animated by happiness. “Gordon’s confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a … Continue reading →

John Breuilly, Introduction The three texts published here were written in the mid-1970s…. Here I explain how these came about. Back in 1974, I was teaching on a Modern Politics and History degree at Manchester. This involved modern historians from the … Continue reading →