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Eunsong Kim, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property – Duke University Press, August 2024 Open access introduction at the link above In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise … Continue reading →

Kristof Smeyers, Supernatural Bodies: Stigmata in Modern Britain and Ireland – Manchester University Press, September 2024 This book is the first in-depth study of the changing perceptions and receptions of supernatural bodies in modern Britain and Ireland. It focuses on … Continue reading →

Jacob Chamberlain, Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory’s Exclusions – University of Georgia Press, March 2025 Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal details the story of Migrant Justice, a migrant rights organization led … Continue reading →

Christopher Falzon, Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence: Freedom, Nature and Agency – Bloomsbury, August 2024 In an original approach to Foucault’s philosophy, Christopher Falzon argues for a reading of Foucault as a philosopher of finite transcendence, and explores … Continue reading →

Marta Dyczok, Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine – Cambridge University Press, November 2024 pdf free online until 13 December 2024 This Element is a historical tour of Ukraine from the medieval Kyivan prince Volodymyr the Great through to Ukraine’s twenty-first-century rock … Continue reading →

Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024 No description on the EUP website, so here’s the table of contents – shame about the price. [Update May 2026, a paperback edition is now available] Introduction: … Continue reading →

Michael Hardt, The Subversive Seventies – Oxford University Press, September 2023 Discussion with Hardt at the New Books Network with Morteza Hajizadeh. Thanks to Dave Beer for the links. A thought-provoking reconsideration of how the revolutionary movements of the 1970s set … Continue reading →

Cristina Vatulescu, Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and their Challenges – Stanford University Press, November 2024 The opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the “archival revolution” due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. … Continue reading →