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The Anti-Security Collective, The Security Abolition Manifesto – Red Quill Books, August 2024 Introduction open access at this link Security is the monstrous idea that we are alone and locked into competition over scarce resources, that private property is a … Continue reading →

Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire – Duke University Press, October 2024 In Soldier’s Paradise, Samuel Fury Childs Daly tells the story of how Africa’s military dictators tried and failed to transform their societies into martial … Continue reading →

Sean Sayers, The Making of a Marxist Philosopher: A Memoir – Routledge, July 2024 The Making of a Marxist Philosopher is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from renowned Marxist philosopher Sean Sayers. His father was the son of … Continue reading →

Malika Dekkiche (ed.), A History of Diplomacy, Spatiality, and Islamic Ideals – Routledge, August 2024 Just a very expensive hardback, unfortunately. Inspired by the “spatial turn,” this volume links for the first time the study of diplomacy and spatiality in the … Continue reading →

Colin Flint, Near and Far Waters: The Geopolitics of Seapower – Stanford University Press, July 2024 Seapower has been a constant in world politics, a tool through which powerful countries have policed the seas for commercial advantage. Political geographer Colin … Continue reading →

Darin Weinberg, On Addiction: Insights from History, Ethnography, and Critical Theory – Duke University Press, September 2024 The introduction is open access here. Mainstream addiction science sees addiction either as a biomedical disease that renders one incapable of self-control or … Continue reading →

Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon, The Spectre of State Capitalism – OUP, July 2024 (print and open access) The state is back, and it means business. Since the turn of the 21st century, state-owned enterprises, sovereign funds, and policy banks have … Continue reading →

I’m really pleased to have an article in the new issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas: Stuart Elden, “Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity”, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol 85 No 3, July 2024, 571-600 The … Continue reading →

Theory and Social Inquiry – relaunch of Theory and Society as open access journal Theory and Social Inquiry is dedicated to analyzing all facets and dimensions of social life, from micro-level interactions between individuals to the durable institutions that organize societies … Continue reading →