New Books in Critical Theory
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2001
Manu Karuka, "Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Natio...
What does anti-imperialism look like from the vantage point of North America?
64 min
2002
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
2003
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
2004
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
2005
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
2006
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
2007
Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship between the ‘oriental’ and the ‘ornamental’...
33 min
2008
Kimberly Chong, "Best Practice: Management Cons...
What do management consultants do, and how do they do it?
43 min
2009
Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, "Inclusive Young Adult...
Does publishing have a diversity problem?
36 min
2010
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
2011
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
2012
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
2013
Emily Dawson, "Equity, Exclusion and Everyday S...
Who is excluded from science?
47 min
2014
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
2015
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
2016
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
2017
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
2018
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
2019
Tina Sikka, "Climate Technology, Gender, and Ju...
How can feminist theory help address the climate crisis?
38 min
2020
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
2021
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
2022
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
2023
Farhana Shaikh, "From Imposter to Impact: Arts ...
What are the characteristics of the 21st Century arts leader?
32 min
2024
Martin Demant Frederiksen, "An Anthropology of ...
Frederiksen's book is an “exploration of what goes missing when one looks for meaning."
40 min
2025
Jacob Johanssen, "Psychoanalysis and Digital Cu...
How can insights from psychoanalysis help us understand digital culture?
34 min