New Books in Critical Theory

Interviews with Scholars of Critical Theory about their New Books

Science
Social Sciences
1501
Chandra Russo, "Solidarity in Practice: Moral P...
Russo explores how solidarity activists contest the practices of the US security state both within its borders and abroad. Russo follows three social movement organizations...
43 min
1502
Bryan McCann, "The Mark of Criminality: Rhetori...
The Mark of Criminality positions the work of key gangsta rap artists--Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur--as well as the controversies their work produced...
60 min
1503
Clare Daniel, "Mediating Morality: The Politics...
"Mediating Morality" is a contemporary exploration of the construction of teen pregnancy in legal events, activism, media campaigns, television, film, and across many domains of popular-political culture since the dismantling of the welfare state, which Daniel definitively places in the year 1996...
59 min
1504
Daniel HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes, "Producers...
52 min
1505
Manu Karuka, "Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Natio...
What does anti-imperialism look like from the vantage point of North America?
64 min
1506
Abigail De Kosnik and Keith P. Feldman, "#Ident...
De Kosnik and Feldman bring together a broad array of chapters that dive into multiple perspectives on social media engagement, especially around hashtag activism and the ways that individuals think about and interact with others via Twitter in regard to social movements and political involvement...
58 min
1507
Niall Geraghty, "The Polyphonic Machine: Capita...
What options for resistance are left to the author of fiction in a nation structured by totalizing political and economic violence?
33 min
1508
John Pat Leary, "Keywords: The New Language of ...
John Pat Leary chronicles the rise of a new vocabulary in the twenty-first century...
42 min
1509
Zachary Kramer, "Outsiders: Why Difference is t...
Kramer outlines the way that a right to personality, combined with an accommodation-focused inquiry, could update and refresh our approach to civil rights...
54 min
1510
Dia Da Costa, "Politicizing Creative Economy: A...
In a world where heritage, culture, creativity, and the capacity to imagine are themselves commodified and sold under the banner of neoliberal freedom, (how) can art be harnessed for anti-capitalist agendas?
58 min
1511
Jinhua Dai (ed. Lisa Rofel), "After the Post-Co...
Dai interrogates the truly historic events unfolding in today’s China to ask what these mean for history itself...
60 min
1512
Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship between the ‘oriental’ and the ‘ornamental’...
33 min
1513
Kimberly Chong, "Best Practice: Management Cons...
What do management consultants do, and how do they do it?
43 min
1514
Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, "Inclusive Young Adult...
Does publishing have a diversity problem?
36 min
1515
David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How B...
We are living in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and binge eating to pornography and opioid abuse...
41 min
1516
Robin Truth Goodman, "The Bloomsbury Handbook o...
The Bloomsbury Handbook is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought...
55 min
1517
Ann Gleig, "American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Mo...
Gleig focuses on meditation-based convert Buddhist lineages in North America, and in particular she is interested in the generational changes underway in these groups...
86 min
1518
Emily Dawson, "Equity, Exclusion and Everyday S...
Who is excluded from science?
47 min
1519
Leta Hong Fincher, "Betraying Big Brother: The ...
Hong Fincher makes the case that the subjugation of women is a key component of the authoritarian state...
47 min
1520
Jamila Lee-Johnson, and Ashley Gaskew, "Critica...
Jamila and Ashley talk to us about the importance of centering voices and perspectives that have been traditionally marginalized in the academy...
49 min
1521
Mickey and Dick Flacks, "Making History/Making ...
As active members of the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s, and leaders in today’s social movements, the Flacks' stories are a first-hand account of progressive American activism from the 1960s to the present.
78 min
1522
Laurence Cox, "Why Social Movements Matter: An ...
Cox highlights how social movements have shaped the world we live in and their importance for today’s social struggles...
33 min
1523
John Komlos, "Foundations of Real-World Economi...
Komlos argues that the 2008 financial crisis, the rise of Trumpism and the other populist movements which have followed in their wake ‘have grown out of the frustrations of those hurt by the economic policies advocated by conventional economists....
32 min
1524
Tina Sikka, "Climate Technology, Gender, and Ju...
How can feminist theory help address the climate crisis?
38 min
1525
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min