New Books in Critical Theory
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1826
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
1827
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
1828
Tina Sikka, "Climate Technology, Gender, and Ju...
How can feminist theory help address the climate crisis?
38 min
1829
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
1830
Kate Ervine, "Carbon" (Polity, 2018)
Kate Ervine provides an accessible and trenchant introduction to the severity of our situation and the international climate politics of the past 30 years...
48 min
1831
Natalie Koch, "Critical Geographies of Sport: S...
In Critical geographies, Koch joins other scholars to address a wide range of sports issues, including the demolition of South Korea’s Dongdaemun baseball stadium, professional wrestling in the territorial era in the United States, and the identity politics of the Gaelic Athletic Association...
66 min
1832
Farhana Shaikh, "From Imposter to Impact: Arts ...
What are the characteristics of the 21st Century arts leader?
32 min
1833
Martin Demant Frederiksen, "An Anthropology of ...
Frederiksen's book is an “exploration of what goes missing when one looks for meaning."
40 min
1834
Jacob Johanssen, "Psychoanalysis and Digital Cu...
How can insights from psychoanalysis help us understand digital culture?
34 min
1835
Jocelyn M. Boryczka, "Suspect Citizens: Women, ...
Boryczka explores the fraught position that women find themselves in as citizens of the United States...
48 min
1836
Oded Nir, "Signatures of Struggle: The Figurati...
Nir shows how the postmodern turn in the 1980s expressed a crisis of social and historical imagination...
44 min
1837
Catherine Baker, “Race and the Yugoslav Region:...
Catherine Baker’s fascinating new book poses a deceptively simple question: what does race have to do with the Yugoslav region?
61 min
1838
David Ray Papke, "Containment and Condemnation:...
The law does things, writes David Ray Papke, and it says things...
28 min
1839
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, "State Capture: How...
In State Capture, Hertel-Fernandez focuses on the development and political power of three inter-locking interest groups...
21 min
1840
B.R. Ambedkar, "Annihilation of Caste: The Anno...
This landmark speech by Dr. B.R. Ambedakar is the pinnacle of his scholarly work and cements his legacy alongside Mahatma Gandhi in Indian politics...
67 min
1841
Matthew Longo, "The Politics of Borders: Sovere...
The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) is not simply about the border because, as the book makes clear, borders are in no way simple...
52 min
1842
Steven Attewell, "People Must Live by Work: Dir...
There’s lot of talk these days, at least in some circles on the left, of a Universal Basic Income...
46 min
1843
Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison, "The Class Ce...
Who gets in to top professions? Find out...
36 min
1844
Rosalind Fredericks, "Garbage Citizenship: Vita...
The production and removal of garbage, as a key element of the daily infrastructure of urban life, is deeply embedded in social, moral, and political contexts...
48 min
1845
Marcia Morgan, "Black Women Prison Employees: T...
This book offers added insight into not only the prison system as a place of employment, but also for any white-male-dominated organization...
46 min
1846
Arnika Fuhrmann, "Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexual...
A perennially popular theme in Thai cinema is that of haunting by a female ghost...
40 min
1847
Katie Beswick, "Social Housing In Performance: ...
How has the council estate been represented on stage?
40 min
1848
Clarence Taylor, "Fight the Power: African Amer...
Clarence Taylor looks at black resistance to police brutality in the city, and institutional efforts to hold the NYPD accountable, since the late 1930s and '40s.
40 min
1849
Shanna de la Torre, "Sex for Structuralists: Th...
What might Levi-Strauss and structuralism have to offer to psychoanalysis beyond the incest prohibition and the Oedipus complex?
60 min
1850
M. Evans, S. Moore, and H. Johnstone, "Detectin...
How can detective fiction explain the social world?
38 min