New Books in Critical Theory

David Scott, "For Abolition: Essays on Prisons and Socialist Ethics" (Waterside Press, 2020)

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

According to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) 'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.' Connecting the ...

Catharina Gabrielsson et al., "Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)

14 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has bee...

Nicholas Harrison, "Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education" (Liverpool UP, 2019)

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nicholas Harrison's Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education (Liverpool UP, 2019) is a fascinating examination of colonial educati...

William Walters, "State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary" (Routledge, 2021)

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary (Routledge, 2021), William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central plac...

Robert Ovetz, "Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives" (Pluto Press, 2021)

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"The point of studying the world – including the past and other’s writings – is not just to understand it but to use that understanding to chang...

Thomas D. Mullaney et al., "Your Computer Is on Fire" (MIT Press, 2021)

09 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking ...

Sara Rushing, "The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity" (Oxford UP, 2020)

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Political Theorist Sara Rushing’s new book, The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity (Oxford UP, 2020), examines...

Catalina M. de Onís, "Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2021)

07 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2021) provides an urgent and nuanced p...

Rahul Rao, "Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality" (Oxford UP, 2020)

06 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer right...

Monica Popescu, "At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War" (Duke UP, 2020)

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War (Duke UP, 2020), Monica Popescu traces the development of African litera...

Marco Checchi, "The Primacy of Resistance: Power, Opposition and Becoming" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

30 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is at the heart of political resistance? Whilst traditional accounts often conceptualise it as a reaction to power, this volume (prioritising rem...

Caroline Seymour-Jorn, "Creating Spaces of Hope: Young Artists and the New Imagination in Egypt" (AU in Cairo Press, 2021)

30 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It is now just over a decade since protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square started Egypt's chapter in the events of the Arab Spring. Much has been made in w...

Nuala Morse, "The Museum as a Space of Social Care" (Routledge, 2020)

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is the future for the museum? In The Museum as a Space of Social Care (Routledge, 2020), Nuala Morse, a Lecturer in Museum Studies at the Un...

Claire L. Jones, "The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Revolution" (Manchester UP, 2020)

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How does understanding business help us understand sex? In The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Rev...

Jane Gallop, "Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus" (Duke UP, 2019)

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Drawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop e...

Rocío Zambrana, "Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico" (Duke UP, 2021)

24 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What can debt reveal to us about coloniality and its undoing? In Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2021), Rocío Zambr...

C. Owens and S. Swales (Part 2), "Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch" (Routledge, 2019)

24 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is part two of a two part interview with Carol Owens and Stephanie Swales about their book Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: O...

Susan Crane, "Nothing Happened: A History" (Stanford UP, 2021)

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories and their ...

C. Owens and S. Swales (Part 1), "Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch" (Routledge, 2019)

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is part one of a two part interview with Carol Owens and Stephanie Swales about their book Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: ...

Gemma Commane, "Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

22 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What makes a woman 'bad' is commonly linked to certain 'qualities' or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. Bad Gir...

Victoria Canning and Steve Tombs, "From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction" (Routledge, 2021)

18 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Victoria Canning and Steve Tombs' book From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2021) outlines key developments in underst...

François Matarasso, "A Restless Art: How Participation Won, and Why it Matters" (CGF, 2019)

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It is almost twenty years since contemporary art took a ‘participation turn’. Now, just about every museum or theatre company has a participation ...

John B. Thompson, "Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing" (Polity, 2021)

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is the future of the book? In Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing (Polity, 2021) John Thompson, Professor of Sociology at the Univ...

David Arditi, "Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How does the record industry work? In Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), David Arditi, ...

Manon Garcia, "We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives" (Princeton UP, 2021)

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We are here today with Manon Garcia, the author of We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives, published this year, 2021, by ...

Jennifer Ponce de León, "Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" (Duke UP, 2021)

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War (Duke UP, 2021), Jennifer Ponce de León examines the roles that art c...

Neil Altman, "White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives" (Routledge, 2020)

08 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Neil Altman’s White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Routledge, 2020) is a slip (80 pages including references and the index) of a book th...

Hannah Jones, "Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism and Migration Control" (Zed Books, 2021)

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An elected politician is assassinated in the street by a terrorist associated with extreme political groups, and the national response is to encourage...

The Social Constructions of Race: A Discussion with Brigitte Fielder

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to br...

Sergio Benvenuto, "Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan" (Routledge, 2019)

03 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan (Routledge, 2019)brings a unique, non-partisan approach to the work of Jacques Lacan...

Heather Berg, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2021)

03 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to...

Democracy and Social Critique with Cornel West

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor at Union Theological Seminary. Professor West is among the nation’s most distinguished philosophers...

Bernard E. Harcourt, "Critique and Praxis: A Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Action" (Columbia UP, 2020)

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seek...

Zahi Zalloua, "Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The figure of the human looms large of the history of philosophy, from the ancient Greeks speculating about featherless bipeds to contemporary program...

Matthew Thompson, "Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives" (Liverpool UP, 2020)

27 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How can we develop solutions to the housing crisis? In Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives (Liverpo...

Jon Dean, "The Good Glow: Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good" (Policy Press, 2020)

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why do people give to charity? In The Good Glow Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good (Policy Press, 2020), Jon Dean, Associate Professor i...

Ana Honnacker, "Pragmatic Humanism Revisited: An Essay on Making the World a Home" (Palgrave, 2019)

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How can we feel at home in this world? Pragmatic Humanism Revisited: An Essay on Making the World a Home (Palgrave, 2019) offers a humanist re-read...

Gavin Arnall, "Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change" (Columbia UP, 2020)

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, J.J. Mull interviews Gavin Arnall, author of Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change (Columbia University Press...

Nicholas Freudenberg, "At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health" (Oxford UP, 2021)

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Freedom of choice lies at the heart of American society. Every day, individuals decide what to eat, which doctors to see, who to connect with online, ...

Heba Y. Amin, "The General's Stork" (Sternberg Press, 2020)

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 2013, Egyptian authorities detained a migratory stork for espionage. This incident is the focus of Heba Y. Amin’s The General’s Stork, an ongo...

Robin Celikates, "Critique as Social Practice: Critical Theory and Social Self-Understanding" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today I spoke with Robin Celikates about his book Critique as Social Practice: Critical Theory and Social Self-Understanding (Rowman and Littlefie...

Ellen Helsper, "The Digital Disconnect: The Social Causes and Consequences of Digital Inequalities" (Sage, 2021)

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What are digital inequalities? In The Digital Disconnect: The Social Causes and Consequences of Digital Inequalities (Sage, 2021), Ellen Helsper, a...

Toby Miller, "Violence" (Routledge, 2020)

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is violence? In Violence Toby Miller, Stuart Hall Professor of Cultural Studies, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana–Cuajimalpa, Mexico off...

L. Ayu Saraswati, "Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie" (NYU Press, 2021)

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Social media has become the front-and-center arena for feminist activism. Responding to and enacting the political potential of pain inflicted in acts...

Zoetanya Sujon, "The Social Media Age" (Sage, 2021)

18 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How has social media shaped contemporary society? In The Social Media Age (Sage, 2021), Zoetanya Sujon, a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director i...

Matthew Clair, "Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court" (Princeton UP, 2020)

18 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court (Princeton UP, 2020) by Matthew Clair is a powerful ethnographic study of the ...

Moya Bailey, "Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance" (NYU Press, 2021)

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Where racism and sexism meet—an understanding of anti-Black misogyny. When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways ...

Doron Taussig, "What We Mean by the American Dream: Stories We Tell about Meritocracy" (Cornell UP, 2021)

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Doron Taussig invites us to question the American Dream. Did you earn what you have? Did everyone else? The American Dream is built on the idea that A...

Cristina Beltrán, "Cruelty As Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

13 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cristina Beltrán has written a thoughtful and interrogating analysis of the concept of citizenship, particularly in the United States, and how the hi...

Daniel Jose Gaztambide, "A People's History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology" (Lexington Books, 2021)

11 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, host J.J. Mull interviews Daniel José Gaztambide about his book, A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation P...

Tim Jackson, "Post Growth: Life after Capitalism" (Polity, 2021)

07 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I spoke with Prof. Tim Jackson about his latest book: Post Growth, Life after Capitalism, published by Polity Books in 2021. The book starts with a r...

Michael L. Siciliano, "Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries" (Columbia UP, 2021)

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How should we understand creative work? In Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries (Columbia UP, 2021), Michael Sicilia...

Jillian C. York, "Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism" (Verso Book, 2021)

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond th...

Domenico Losurdo, "Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet" (Haymarket Books, 2021)

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche stands among the canon’s most-cited figures, with aphorisms dotting texts on a variety of to...

Danielle Child, "Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)

29 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) is the story of art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour...

Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom" (Indiana UP, 2021)

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How do race and sexuality intersect in the American sitcom? In The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom (Indiana University Press...

Itay Snir, "Education and Thinking in Continental Philosophy" (Springer, 2020)

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Itay Snir's book Education and Thinking in Continental Philosophy (Springer, 2020) draws on five philosophers from the continental tradition – The...

Prathama Banerjee, "Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South" (Duke UP, 2020)

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Prathama Banerjee's book Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South (Duke UP, 2020) studies the rise of modern politics in...

Ola Innset, "Reinventing Liberalism: The Politics, Philosophy and Economics of Early Neoliberalism (1920-1947)" (Springer, 2021)

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This year, more than 40 books will be published in English with 'Neoliberal' or 'Neoliberalism' in the title. For many in the academy, these words ha...

Candace Fujikane, "Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartography in Hawai'i" (Duke UP, 2021)

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i (Duke University Press, 2021), Candace Fuj...

Kas Saghafi, "The World after the End of the World: A Spectro-Poetics" (SUNY Press, 2020)

20 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I interview Kas Saghafi, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis, about his book The World After the End of t...

Perry Zurn, "Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry" (U of Minnesota Press, 2021)

20 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Is curiosity political? Does it have a philosophical lineage? In Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (University of Minnesota Press, 2021),...

Richard Jean So, "Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2020)

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is the story of race in American fiction? In Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (Columbia University Pr...

Michael D. Snediker, "Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I interview Michael Snediker, professor of English at the University of Houston, about his book, Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and...

Dana Mills, "Rosa Luxemburg" (Reaktion Books, 2020)

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Political Theorist and activist Dana Mill’s latest new book, Rosa Luxemburg (Reaktion Books, 2020), is part of an extensive series of books publis...

David Wills, "Prosthesis" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I interview David Wills, professor of French Studies at Brown University, about his book, Prosthesis, recently republished for its 2...

Morten T. Korsgaard, "Bearing with Strangers: Arendt, Education and the Politics of Inclusion" (Routledge, 2018)

13 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bearing with Strangers: Arendt, Education and the Politics of Inclusion (Routledge, 2018) looks at inclusion in education in a new way. By introduc...

Frank Ruda, "Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism" (U Nebraska Press, 2016)

12 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Frank Ruda's book Abolishing Freedom. A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism (University of Nebraska Press 2016) presents a compelling reading of...

Emile Bojesen, "Forms of Education: Rethinking Educational Experience Against and Outside the Humanist Legacy" (Routledge, 2019)

09 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emile Bojesen's book Forms of Education: Rethinking Educational Experience Against and Outside the Humanist Legacy (Routledge, 2019) analyses the te...

Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)

06 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America’s consumer culture was centralized in New York to an extent unparallel...

Peter Drucker, "Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism" (Brill, 2015)

05 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The last several decades have seen tremendous political and cultural strides forward for the LGBTQ+ community with both the legislative and cultural r...

Matt Brim, "Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University" (Duke UP, 2020)

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Duke UP, 2020), Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite e...

Caroline Ritter, "Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire" (UC Press, 2021)

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What role did culture play in the British Empire? In Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire Caroline Ritter, an Assistant ...

Victoria Shmidt and Bernadette N. Jaworsky, "Historicizing Roma in Central Europe: Between Critical Whiteness and Epistemic Injustice" (Routledge 2021).

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Central Europe, limited success in revisiting the role of science in the segregation of Roma reverberates with the yet-unmet call for contextualizi...

Robert Beshara, "Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Beshara’s Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis (Palgrave, 2021) is a guide through the textual relationship be...

Banu Gökarıksel, et al., "Feminist Geography Unbound: Discount, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures" (West Virginia UP, 2021)

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Feminist Geography Unbound: Discomfort, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures, edited by Banu Gökarıksel, Michael Hawkins, Christopher Neubert, and Sara...

Saher Selod, "Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror" (Rutgers UP, 2018)

29 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How does a specific American religious identity acquire racial meaning? What happens when we move beyond phenotypes and include clothing, names, and ...

Robbie Shilliam, "Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction" (Polity Press, 2021)

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robbie Shilliam’s new book for the Polity Press’s “Decolonizing the Curriculum” series explores how the discipline of political science was bo...

Justin O'Connor and Xin Gu, "Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China" (Intellect Books, 2020)

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China (Intellect Books, 2020) is an exploration of China’s cultural economy over the last twenty years, part...

Aaron G. Jakes, "Egypt's Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism" (Stanford UP, 2020)

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The story is a familiar one. In 1882, the British invaded Egypt to secure payment on the country’s crippling foreign debts and quash the movement fo...

Carol J. Adams, "The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory" (Bloomsbury, 2015)

19 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Carol J. Adams about two of her classic texts that have recently been republished. The first book we discuss, first published in 199...

Gert-Jan van der Heiden, "The Voice of Misery: A Continental Philosophy of Testimony" (SUNY Press, 2020)

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I interview Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Professor of Metaphysics and Philosophical Anthropology at Radboud University in Amsterdam, abou...

Benjamin L. McKean, "Disorienting Neoliberalism: Global Justice and the Outer Limit of Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2020)

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Disorienting Neoliberalism: Global Justice and the Outer Limit of Freedom (Oxford UP, 2020) takes on a number of different dimensions of neoliberali...

M. Fakhry Davids, "Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference" (Red Globe, 2011)

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What makes racist feelings and ideas objectionable? In his book Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference (Red Globe, 2011),...

R. A. Judy, "Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black" (Duke UP, 2020)

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I interview R.A. Judy, professor of Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, about his book Sentient Flesh: Th...

Cas Mudde, "The Far Right Today" (Polity, 2019)

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is the difference between Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front and Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president? Why should we understand Trump as...

Katie Hindmarch-Watson, "Serving a Wired World: London's Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital" (U California Press, 2020)

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How did telecommunications shape Victorian London? In Serving a Wired World London's Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capi...

Liat Ben-Moshe, "Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

12 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral fa...

Peter Hudis, ed., "The Letters Of Rosa Luxemburg" (Verso, 2013)

09 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rosa Luxemburg occupies a complex place in our history partly because there are several different Rosa's one can find scattered across the world; the ...

Frances Galt, "Women’s Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries" (Bristol UP, 2020)

05 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How can the history of women’s work in film and TV help address inequality today? In Women’s Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender...

Morton Schoolman, "A Democratic Enlightenment: The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics" (Duke UP, 2020)

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Morton Schoolman, Professor in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany, has published a new...

C. L. Estes and N. B. DiCarlo, "Aging A-Z: Concepts Toward Emancipatory Gerontology" (Routledge, 2019)

03 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s often said that the time in our lives can often pass without us noticing. Old age can come before we realize it, and it brings with it new elem...

J. Lahti and R. Weaver-Hightower, "Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film" (Routledge, 2020)

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The medium of cinema emerged during the height of Victorian-era European empires, and as a result, settler colonial imperialism has thematically suffu...

Dean Blackburn, "Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937–1988" (Manchester UP, 2020)

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why do books and publishing matter to the contemporary history of Britain? In Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1...

Patricia Hill Collins, "Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory" (Duke UP, 2019)

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Is intersectionality a critical social theory? What must intersectionality do to be both critical and a social theory? Must social justice be a guid...

Studying LBGT Organizing in China: A Conversation with Caterina Fugazzola

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode of Ethnographic Marginalia, Sneha Annavarapu talks with Dr. Caterina Fugazzola, Earl S Johnson Instructor in Sociology at the Un...

Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, "Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2020)

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez pens towards decolonial freedom. Her recently published book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic ...

How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy: A Discussion with Michael Hanchard

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As right-wing nationalism and authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals, and even some conservatives, worry that democratic prin...

Cassandra Falke, "The Phenomenology of Love and Reading" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016)

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I interview Cassandra Falke, professor of English Literature ad UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, about her book The Phenomenol...

Lexi Eikelboom, "Rhythm: A Theological Category" (Oxford UP, 2018)

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Philosophers have long approached the concept of rhythm as a significant tool for understanding the human experience, metaphysics, language, and the a...