New Books in Critical Theory

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...

Kira Huju, "Cosmopolitan Elites: Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cosmopolitan Elites: Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Kira Huju narrates the birth,...

Hannah Forsyth, "Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 (Cambridge UP, 2023) explores the rise of the pr...

Daniel Scott Souleles et al., "People before Markets: An Alternative Casebook" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

People before Markets:: An Alternative Casebook (Cambridge UP, 2022) presents twenty comparative case studies of important global questions, such as ...

Michael V. Singh, "Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The unintended consequences of youth empowerment programs for Latino boys Educational research has long documented the politics of punishment for boys...

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)

15 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren L...

Jessica Calarco, "Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net" (Portfolio, 2024)

15 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do unequal societies function? In Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net (Portfolio, 2024), Jesscia Calarco, an Associate ...

Christopher William England, "Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Henry George’s Progress and Poverty was one of the best-selling books of the 19th century, and his ideas were taken up by by powerful figures as d...

Lydia Walker, "States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Lydia Walker's deeply researched and carefully narrated debut monograph, States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization (Cambr...

Nivedita Menon, "Secularism As Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South" (Duke UP, 2024)

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we speak to Nivedita Menon about her new book, Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South (Duke Universit...

Critical Muslim Studies: Decoloniality

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An interview with Salman Sayyid about decoloniality and its place in Critical Muslim Studies.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

Laura Gómez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture, yet many people instinctively regard them as recent immigrants rat...

Mark Stoll, "Profit: An Environmental History" (Polity Press, 2022)

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Profit ― getting more out of something than you put into it ― is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored...

Margaret A. Hagerman, "Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump's America" (NYU Press, 2024)

09 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kids are at the center of today's "culture wars"--pundits, politicians, and parents alike are debating which books they should be allowed to read, whi...

Jean Petrucelli et al., "Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives" (Routledge, 2022)

08 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Routledge, 2022) joins luminaries in contemporary psychoanalysis with pioneers of femini...

Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

08 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (Cambridge University Press, 2020) a brilliant but shocking account of the cr...

Jason Read, "The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work" (Verso, 2024)

08 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery – working harder, do...

Alan H. McGowan, "The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist" (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2024)

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alan McGowan delves into Franz Boas’s dual identity as both a scientist and a political activist, shedding light on how his work transcended academi...

Critical Muslim Studies: Post-Postivism

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An interview with Prof. Salman Sayyid on one of the theoretical constructs that underpins Critical Muslim Studies: Post-Positivism.  Interviewer: Hiz...

Amrita Ghosh, "Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts" (Lexington Books, 2023)

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Amrita Ghosh's book Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts (Lexington Books, 2023) is an interdisciplinary book that studies li...

Margot Weiss, "Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures" (Duke UP, 2024)

01 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This field-defining volume of queer anthropology foregrounds both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life and the ways qu...

Ronald R. Sundstrom, "Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction" (Oxford UP, 2024)

01 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is widely acknowledged that the United States is in the grip of an enduring housing crisis. It is less frequently recognized that this crisis amoun...

Anthony Heath and Yaojun Li, "Social Mobility" (Polity Press, 2024)

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is social mobility? In Social Mobility (Polity Press, 2023), Anthony Heath, an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford an...

Anne Kim, "Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor" (The New Press, 2024)

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poo...

Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique" (Stanford UP, 2020)

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020) anthropologist and activist Sa’ed Atshan explores the Palesti...

The Social Acceptance of Inequality

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On this episode of International Horizons, Francesco Duina, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Bates College and Luca Storti, Associate Profess...

Lamia Karim, "Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)

26 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh (U Minnesota Press, 2022) examines how female garment workers experience thei...

Tad Delay, "Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change" (Verso, 2024)

26 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The age of denial is over, we are told. Yet emissions continue to rise while gimmicks, graft, and green-washing distract the public from the climate v...

Premilla Nadasen, "Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" (Haymarket Books, 2023)

25 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

During the COVID pandemic, billions of dollars in relief aid was sent out to help us ride out the storm, although many people who struggled through it...

Netta Avineri and Patricia Baquedano-López, "An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be" (Routledge, 2023)

25 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be (Routledge, 2023) is designed to provide the who, what, whe...

Jeffrey Reiman and Paul Leighton, "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison" (Routledge, 2023)

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren't t...

Sunaura Taylor, "Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert" (U California Press, 2024)

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance. Deep below...

Anjali Arondekar, "Abundance: Sexuality’s History" (Duke UP, 2023)

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Abundance: Sexuality’s History (Duke UP, 2023), Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a su...

Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society" (Norton, 2024)

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In his latest book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society (W. W. Norton, 2024), Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz rethinks the natur...

Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd, "Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2024)

19 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age (U California Press, 2024)​ explores the creative range of Black digital u...

Mona Simion, "Resistance to Evidence" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

19 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We have increasingly sophisticated ways of acquiring and communicating knowledge, but efforts to spread this knowledge often encounter resistance to e...

Todd Mcgowan, "Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves" (Repeater, 2024)

18 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation? We often think of our exi...

Ban Wang, "At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical Ecology in Modern China" (Duke UP, 2022)

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In his latest book At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical Ecology in Modern China (Duke UP, 2022), Ban Wang uses an ecocritical lens to ...

Sony Coráñez Bolton, "Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines" (Duke UP, 2023)

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines (Duke UP, 2023), Sony Coráñez Bolton examines t...

Amy Schiller, "The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It" (Melville House, 2023)

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Amy Schiller's The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It (Melville House, 2023) makes an attempt to rescue philanthrop...

Kevin Woodson, "The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

America's elite law firms, investment banks, and management consulting firms are known for grueling hours, low odds of promotion, and personnel practi...

Pamela Aronson and Matthew R. Fleming, "Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life" (Routledge, 2023)

12 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life (Routledge, 2023) by Dr. Pamela Aronson and Matthew R. Fleming caref...

Kate Maclean, "Cash, Clothes, and Construction: Rethinking Value in Bolivia's Pluri-economy" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

11 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do alternative economic ideas and practices develop? In Cash, Clothes, and Construction: Rethinking Value in Bolivia’s Pluri-economy (U Minnes...

Alissa Quart, "Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream" (Ecco Press, 2023)

11 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The promise that you can "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is central to the story of the American Dream. It's the belief that if you work hard an...

Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Trere, "Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power" (MIT Press, 2024)

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What are the tactics needed for a world of platforms and algorithms? In Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power (MIT Pre...

Julia Havas, "Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television" (Wayne State UP, 2022)

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While American television has long relied on a strategic foregrounding of feminist politics to promote certain programming's cultural value, Woman Up...

Salar Mameni, "Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2023)

05 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke UP, 2023), Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongsid...

Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac, "The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality" (Harvard UP, 2023)

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In many countries, property law grants equal rights to men and women. Why, then, do women still accumulate less wealth than men? Combining quantitativ...

Nietzsche Now! with Glenn Wallis

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What would Nietzsche say… about today’s divisive issues and debates? I spoke with Glenn Wallis, author of the new book, Nietzsche Now!, on how th...

Justin O’Connor, "Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common" (Manchester UP, 2024)

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

According to Dr. Justin O’Connor, culture is at the heart of what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded...

Adia Harvey Wingfield, "Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It" (Amistad Press, 2023)

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, key aspects of work—from getting a job to workplace norms to a...

Andil Gosine, "Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean" (Duke UP, 2021)

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean (Duke UP, 2021), Andil Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality ...

Ariella Aisha Azoulay, "Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism" (Verso, 2019)

28 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ariella Aisha Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history ...

Karyne Messina, "Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis: The Unfortunate Reality of a Nation Plagued by Racism, Patriarchy, and Stark Hypocrisy" (Pi Press, 2024)

28 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis (Pi Press, 2024) is not merely a book but a call to action-a rallying cry for societal introspection a...

Natalia Grincheva and Elizabeth Stainforth, "Geopolitics of Digital Heritage" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

27 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How are digital platforms transforming heritage? In Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge UP, 2023), Dr Natalia Grincheva, Program Leader of...

Kathryn Telling, "The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education: Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige" (Policy Press, 2023)

27 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is the future of higher education? In The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education: Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige (Policy Press, 2023), D...

Andrea Wenzel, "Antiracist Journalism: The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News" (Columbia UP, 2023)

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Journalists have a long history of covering race and racism in the United States, telling stories that shed light on protest, activism, institutional ...

Danielle Taschereau Mamers, "Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art" (Fordham UP, 2023)

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state’s capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such...

Vaia Touna and Richard Newton, "Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

21 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists (Bloomsbury, 2023) introduces students to the so-called classics of the...

Emily S. Lee, "A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity-In-Difference" (Lexington Books, 2024)

20 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can we understand the changing power of race and gender to shape our reality? How shared is reality? Can narratives of experience help us develop ...

Heather Parry, "Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism" (404 Ink, 2024)

20 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the future, we’ll all be having sex with robots… won’t we? Roboticists say they’re a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films ...

Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio, "Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya" (U Toronto Press, 2024)

20 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya (University of Toronto Press, 2024) tells the story of how settler colonialis...

Guido Alfani, "As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West" (Princeton UP, 2023)

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This provocative and interesting book has received considerable attention. Roaring reviews and interviews include  The Financial Times (UK), The...