New Books in Critical Theory
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1951
Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison, "The Class Ce...
Who gets in to top professions? Find out...
36 min
1952
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
1953
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
1954
Arnika Fuhrmann, "Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexual...
A perennially popular theme in Thai cinema is that of haunting by a female ghost...
40 min
1955
Katie Beswick, "Social Housing In Performance: ...
How has the council estate been represented on stage?
40 min
1956
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
1957
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
1958
M. Evans, S. Moore, and H. Johnstone, "Detectin...
How can detective fiction explain the social world?
38 min
1959
Robin Marie Averbeck, "Liberalism is not Enough...
Through ideological laden invocation of pluralism, the “culture of poverty,” and faith in the workings of democratic institutions, liberals shared with conservatives support for an individualistic and racist social order...
55 min
1960
Alf Gunvald Nilsen, "Adivasis and the State: Su...
This longue-durée approach allows Alf Gunvald Nilsen to unravel the Indian state's everyday tyranny against its adivasi citizens...
39 min
1961
Tania Li, "Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on ...
f you want to read just one book to properly understand capitalism, let it be Tania Li’s award-winning 2014 book Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (Duke University Press, 2014).
63 min
1962
Andrea Micocci and Flavia Di Mario, "The Fascis...
In their words, they claim that capitalism is based on a false logic in which all facts and ideas are reduced to a consideration of their ‘feasibility’ within the capitalist system...
38 min
1963
Irmak Karademir Hazir, "Enter Culture, Exit Art...
How has European culture changed since the 1960s?
34 min
1964
Victoria Cann, "Girls Like This, Boys Like That...
How does cultural taste regulate our lives?
38 min
1965
Hannah Holleman, "Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperia...
None of the climate news that we’re getting is good right now, especially now that a number of governments are reversing or failing to meet commitments they made as part of the Paris Climate Accord...
56 min
1966
Sarah Banet-Weiser, "Empowered: Popular Feminis...
What is the relationship between popular misogyny and popular feminism?
37 min
1967
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
61 min
1968
Julian Meyrick, Robert Phiddian and Tully Barne...
How should we value culture?
32 min
1969
Llerena Searle, "Landscapes of Accumulation: Re...
Few who have visited India in the past two decades will have failed to noticed the sudden and spectacular urban transformation that has taken place in many of its cities...
44 min
1970
Catherine Russell, "Archiveology: Walter Benjam...
50 min
1971
Oli Mould, "Against Creativity" (Verso, 2018)
32 min
1972
Grant Farred, "The Burden of Over-Representatio...
Today we are joined by Grant Farred, Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University.
57 min
1973
Keisha Lindsay, "In a Classroom of Their Own: T...
52 min
1974
Jeong-Hee Kim, "Understanding Narrative Inquiry...
62 min
1975
Julie L. Rose, "Free Time" (Princeton UP, 2018)
55 min