New Books in Critical Theory
Episodes
Danny Sriskandarajah, "Power to the People: Use Your Voice, Change the World" (Headline Press, 2024)
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Power to the People: Use Your Voice, Change the World (Headline Press, 2024) is Danny Sriskandarajah‘s radical manifesto for change designed to ins...
Karl Marx, "Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1" (Princeton UP, 2024)
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. Th...
Decolonial Muslim Political Activism and Thought in Britain
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hizer Mir in conversation with Yahya Birt who speaks on decolonial Muslim political activism and thought in Britain. Learn more about your ad choices....
Melissa Osborne, "Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why do people go to college? In Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility (U Chicago Press, 2024), Melissa Osborne, an associat...
Josh Cowen, "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers" (Harvard Education Press, 2024)
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
School vouchers are often framed as a way to help students and families by providing choice, but evidence shows that vouchers have a negative impact o...
Are We Experiencing a Crisis of Culture?
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey spoke with Olivier Roy, professor of social and political sciences at the European...
Red Chidgey and Joanne Garde-Hansen, "Museums, Archives and Protest Memory" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Museums, Archives and Protest Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), Red Chidgey and Joanne Garde-Hansen address the emergence of ‘protest memory’...
Jess Whatcott, "Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics" (Duke UP, 2024)
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics (Duke UP, 2024), Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability in...
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, "Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine" (NYU Press, 2024)
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine (NYU Press, 2024) digs into the experiences of young Jewish Americans who engage ...
David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations a...
David Lay Williams, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx" (Princeton UP, 2024)
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Political Theorist David Lay Williams has a new book that traces the problem of economic inequality through the thought of many of the canonical think...
Andy Clarno et al., "Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chicago is a city with extreme concentrations of racialized poverty and inequity, one that relies on an extensive network of repressive agencies to po...
How Mechanisms of Psychoanalytic Defense Perpetuate Racism in America
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The third podcast in this series focuses on an article written by Dr. Dionne Powell who participated in the 2014 documentary, “Black Psychoanalysts...
Karyne E. Messina, "The Power of Community: A 45 Day Action Plan to Stop Trump from Turning Our Democracy into His Autocracy" (PI Press, 2024)
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An Amazon # 1 top release Kindle book during its debut, The Power of Community: A 45 Day Action Plan to Stop Trump from Turning Our Democracy into Hi...
Beth Driscoll, "What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
31 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is reading? In What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2024) Beth Driscoll, an Associate Professor...
Tadashi Dozono, "Discipline Problems: How Students of Color Trouble Whiteness in Schools" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
31 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Angel, a Black tenth-grader at a New York City public school, self-identifies as a nerd and likes to learn. But she’s troubled that her history clas...
Susan Greenhalgh, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
31 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powe...
Ronnie Grinberg, "Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals" (Princeton UP, 2024)
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly m...
Bhaskar Sunkara, "The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality" (Basic Books, 2020)
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality (Basic Books, 2020), Bhaskar Sunkara explores socialism's ...
Ludovico Silva, "Marx's Literary Style" (Verso, 2023)
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Marx’s Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx’s work results from ...
Matt Brim, "Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University" (Duke UP, 2020)
28 Aug 2024
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...
Nazmul Sultan, "Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought" (Harvard UP, 2024)
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Indians, their former British rulers asserted, were unfit to rule themselves. Behind this assertion lay a foundational claim about the absence of peop...
Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle, "Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us" (Duke UP, 2024)
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us (Duke UP, 2024) explores the key role video games play within the race makings of ...
Jennifer Ponce de León, "Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" (Duke UP, 2021)
23 Aug 2024
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...
Claire Carter et al., "Contemporary Vulnerabilities: Reflections on Social Justice Methodologies" (U Alberta Press, 2024)
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Contemporary Vulnerabilities: Reflections on Social Justice Methodologies (U Alberta Press, 2024) centres on critical reflections about vulnerable mo...
Bessie N. Rigakos and Wesley R. Bishop, "Liberating Fat Bodies: Social Media Censorship and Body Size Activism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Using a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach, Liberating Fat Bodies: Social Media Censorship and Body Size Activism (Palgrave Macmillan, 20...
Literatures beyond the West
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Salman Sayyid talks to Ian Almond about his work in world literature, including his 2021 book World Literature Decentered which look...
Joachim C. Häberlen, "Beauty Is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe" (Penguin, 2023)
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague, Milan to Wroclaw, ordinary people took to the str...
Karen Patel, "Craft as a Creative Industry" (Routledge, 2024)
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can we diversify the creative industries? In Craft as a Creative Industry (Routledge, 2024), Karen Patel, an Associate Professor in Media an...
Peter Allen, “The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are” (Oxford UP, 2018)
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who is in charge? In The Political Class: Why It Matters Who Our Politicians Are (Oxford University Press, 2018), Peter Allen, a Reader in Comparati...
Raj Jayadev, "Protect Your People: How Ordinary Families Are Using Participatory Defense to Challenge Mass Incarceration" (New Press, 2023)
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over two million Americans are currently in prison or jail. Another 4.5 million are on probation or parole. And nearly one in two Americans have a fam...
Sudhir Kakar, "The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations" (Karnac, 2024)
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Ashis Roy (Psychoanalyst (IPA) and author of the recently published book Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-Mus...
Matthew Archer, "Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability" (NYU Press, 2024)
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, companies have felt the pressure to be transparent about their environmental impact. Large documents containing summaries of yearly e...
Decoloniality
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is the third one this series where we look back over the first principles of the ReOrient project. In previous episodes we have discussed...
Policing and White Power with Daniel Kryder and David Cunningham (JP, EF)
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This June 2020 episode, originally part of a Global Policing series, was Recall this Book's first exploration of police brutality, systemic and pers...
Anthony Abraham Jack, "Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price" (Princeton UP, 2024)
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes. But wh...
Tehila Sasson, "The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire" (Princeton UP, 2024)
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organisations. Utilising existi...
Miguel Montalva Barba, "White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space" (Policy Press, 2024)
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space (Policy Press, 2024) examines the connections between race, place, and spac...
Craig Gent, "Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work" (Verso, 2024)
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers ar...
Soar and Chill
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why do certain musical sounds move us while others leave us cold? Are musical trends simply that—or do they contain insights into the culture at lar...
Spencer Piston, “Class Attitudes in American Politics: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It has long been a truism that Americans’ disdain for poor people–our collective sense that if they only worked harder or behaved more responsibly...
Frederick Luis Aldama, "Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities" (U Arizona Press, 2020)
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An early wave of research helped make visible the complex dynamics of sexuality and gender norms in Latino life, but a new generation of scholars is b...
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 2
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Co...
Jacob Soll, "Free Market: The History of an Idea" (Basic Books, 2022)
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The...
Alice Mah, "Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation" (Duke UP, 2023)
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is a green future possible? In Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation (Duke UP, 2023), Alice Mah, a Professor in U...
The Role of Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense; What They Are and How They Work
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Using one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s major ideas as a springboard for their discussion, “The truth will set you free,” the host and co-host...
Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Gray Fischer speaks about her path to and through research, including how sex workers informed her analysis of policing and state violence, the...
Douglas Greene, "The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade's Revenge" (Routledge, 2024)
04 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Returning to the New Books Network is Doug Greene, here to discuss his book The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky (Routledge, 2024). Sp...
Susan Stryker, "When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader" (Duke UP, 2024)
03 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Stryker is a foundational figure in trans studies. When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader (Duke UP, 2024) showcases the development of St...
Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
03 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is Orwell still relevant today? In Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century (Norton, 2024), Laura Beers, a Professor of Histor...
Neoliberalism and the University, Part 1
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Co...
Bernard E. Harcourt. "Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory" (Columbia UP, 2023)
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—coopera...
Jan Eeckhout, "The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work" (Princeton UP, 2021)
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a society we want successful, profitable companies because, as Jan Eeckhout says in The Profit Parado...
Musa al-Gharbi, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" (Princeton UP, 2024)
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status--without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged. Society ...
Jonathan Branfman, "Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy" (NYU Press, 2024)
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many mi...
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward, "Fascism in America: Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Has fascism arrived in America? In Fascism in America: Past and Present (Cambridge UP, 2023), Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered ex...
Arie Perliger, "American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism" (Columbia UP, 2020)
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks ori...
Lucia Hulsether, "Capitalist Humanitarianism" (Duke UP, 2023)
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to th...
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution (Verso, 2020), Breanne Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from t...
Ujju Aggarwal, "Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actua...
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s book is: Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit (U Chicago Press, 2024), by Dr. Robin Bernste...
Mahjabeen Dhala, "Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fatima, the daughter of Prophet Muhammad, has an interesting legacy, one that is often shaped by sectarian differences and tensions. The sermon of Fa...
Michael Willrich, "American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2023)
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or pri...
Kevin Leo Nadal, "Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System" (Lexington Book, 2020)
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout US history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of ...
Mónica A. Jiménez, "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico" (UNC Press, 2024)
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Myths about the powers held by the United States are often supported by the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, which derives its logic from the interp...
Matt Houlbrook et al., "Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A History for the Present" (Manchester UP, 2024)
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does the history of men tell us about life today? In Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: A History for the Present (Manchester UP, 2024), ...
Maya Wind, "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom" (Verso, 2024)
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sour...
Wendy Matsumura, "Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire (Duke UP, 2024) Wendy Matsumura interrogates the erasure of...
Joanne Leow, "Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise" (Liverpool UP, 2024)
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise (Liverpool UP, 2024) draws from a body of Anglophone and multilingual cultural texts created in co...
Sasha Warren, "Storming Bedlam: Madness, Mental Health, and Revolt" (Common Notions, 2024)
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mental health care and its radical possibilities reimagined in the context of its global development under capitalism. The contemporary world is overs...
Paul Rekret, "Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis" (Goldsmiths Press, 2024)
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The emergence of the popular music industry in the early twentieth century not only drove a wedge between music production and consumption, it also un...
Premal Dharia et al., "Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change" (FSG Originals, 2024)
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, a searching national conversation has called attention to the social and racial injustices that define America’s criminal system. T...
Laura Robson, "Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work" (Verso, 2023)
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Americans and other citizens of advanced capitalist countries think of humanitarianism, they think of charitable efforts to help people displaced...
Jonathan Tran, "Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approach...
Jonathan Judaken, "Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism" (Columbia UP, 2024)
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite its persistence and viciousness, anti-Semitism remains undertheorized in comparison with other forms of racism and discrimination. How should ...
Samira Mehta, "The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging" (Beacon Press, 2023)
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging (Beacon Press, 2023) is an unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings...
Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, "In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South" (Stanford UP, 2023)
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality, pr...
Racism as Power Relation: A Discussion with Adaner Usmani (EF, JP)
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do we understand racism as the primary driving engine of American inequality? Or do we focus instead on the indirect ways that frequently hard-to-disc...
Oneka LaBennett, "Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond" (NYU Press, 2024)
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Previously ranked among the hemisphere’s poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises ...
Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva, "Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva’s Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia (Palgrave MacMil...
Feng-Mei Heberer, "Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) explores a multilingual archive of contemporary quee...
Kehbuma Langmia, "Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga" (Anthem Press, 2024)
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Langmia's book Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga (Anthem Press, 2024) examines the conundrum that has haunted the Black and White ances...
Race, Social Reproduction, and Capitalist Totality
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: capi...
Bayley J. Marquez, "Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space" (U California Press, 2024)
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teachers, administrators, and policymakers fashioned a system of industrial education that attempte...
Michael Sonenscher, "Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word" (Princeton UP, 2022)
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it?...
Joshua Schuster, "What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals" (Fordham UP, 2023)
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Exti...
Christina M. García, "Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking" (U Florida Press, 2024)
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christina M. García’s book, Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking (University Press of ...
Shyam Ranganathan, "Yoga - Anticolonial Philosophy: An Action-Focused Guide to Practice" (Singing Dragon, 2024)
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Providing a decolonial, action-focused account of Yoga philosophy, Yoga - Anticolonial Philosophy: An Action-Focused Guide to Practice (Singing Drag...
Post-Orientalism Revisited: A Conversation with Salman Sayyid
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The third episode of this season of Radio ReOrient continues our project this season of returning to the first principles of Critical Muslim Studies. ...
Thomas Hendriks, "Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession" (Duke UP, 2021)
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we are joined by Thomas Hendriks, an anthropologist studying capitalism and resource extraction in the Democratic Republic of Congo. H...
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, "Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2024)
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2024), Jerry Rafiki Jenkins examines four types of human mo...
Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and c...
A Psychoanalytic Overview of Racism in America
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The first podcast in this series was inspired by a documentary film made in 2014 called “Black Analysts Speak” as well as some of the findings i...
Pinky Hota, "The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) offers an unprecedented firsthand account o...
Adrian Johnston, "Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital" (Columbia UP, 2024)
22 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marxism and psychoanalysis have a rich and complicated relationship to one another, with countless figures and books written on the possible intersect...
Jennifer S. Clark, "Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation" (U California Press, 2024)
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How have women resisted sexism in TV? In Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation (U California Press, 2024), Jennife...
Slava Greenberg, "Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship" (Indiana UP, 2023)
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While many live-action films portray disability as a spectacle, "crip animation" (a genre of animated films that celebrates disabled people's lived ex...
Johanna Oksala, "Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology" (Northwestern UP, 2023)
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can capitalism be made ecologically sustainable? Can it be good for women? What theoretical approaches help us to grapple with these questions in ways...
Critical Muslim Studies: Post Orientalism
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Prof. Salman Sayyid on post-orientalism, what it means and its place in Critical Muslim Studies. Learn more about your ad choices....
Aziz Rana, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a pathbreaking retelling of the American experience, Aziz Rana shows that today’s reverential constitutional culture is a distinctively twentieth...