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GalleryBook Review: Gore Capitalism by Sayak Valencia
In Gore Capitalism, Sayak Valencia explores how hyperconsumerist neoliberal capitalism has transformed violence into a commodity to be traded […]
GalleryBook Review: Emotional Choices: How the Logic of Affect Shapes Coercive Diplomacy by Robin Markwica
In Emotional Choices: How the Logic of Affect Shapes Coercive Diplomacy, Robin Markwica explores how emotions play a key role in foreign […]
GalleryBook Review: The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files by Marc Becker
In The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files, Marc Becker brings together and analyses an extensive documentary history of FBI, […]
GalleryBook Review: Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio’s Garbage Dump by Kathleen M. Millar
In Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio’s Garbage Dump, Kathleen M. Millar offers a new ethnographic study of Jardim Gramacho, […]
GalleryBook Review: On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis edited by George Yancy
In On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis, George Yancy brings together scholars to reflect on how race […]
GalleryFeature Essay: Praise for the Lorde by Tricia Wombell
Sister Outsider, written by Audre Lorde, is the book club selection for the 2018 Women of the World (WOW) […]
GalleryLSE Festival Beveridge 2.0 Reading List: 7 Recommended Reads on Housing and Urban Development
Image Credit: Mumbai, India, 2010 (Sunghwan Yoon CC BY SA 2.0)
75 years after the publication of the Beveridge report, LSE Festival […]
GalleryBook Review: Grassroots Activism and the Evolution of Transitional Justice: The Families of the Disappeared by Iosif Kovras
In Grassroots Activism and the Evolution of Transitional Justice: The Families of the Disappeared, Iosif Kovras looks at the varying […]
GalleryThe Best Bookshops in Bogotá, Colombia
Daniel Osorio takes us on a tour of the best bookshops in Bogotá, Colombia. If there’s a bookshop that […]
GalleryBook Review: Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
In Black Skin, White Masks – first published in 1952 – Frantz Fanon offers a potent philosophical, clinical, literary […]
GalleryBook Review: Popular Democracy: The Paradox of Participation by Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ernesto Ganuza
In Popular Democracy: The Paradox of Participation, Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ernesto Ganuza examine contemporary forms of participatory governance by tracing […]
GalleryBook Review: Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership and Institutional Change by Lee J. Alston, Marcus André Melo, Bernardo Mueller and Carlos Pereira
In Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership and Institutional Change, Lee J. Alston, Marcus André Melo, Bernardo Mueller and Carlos […]
GalleryBook Review: Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania and Mexico by Prakash Kashwan
In Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania and Mexico, Prakash Kashwan contributes to […]
GalleryReading List: 8 Books on Indigenous Research Methods recommended by Helen Kara
Image Credit: Indigenous Graduate Reception, February 2017, University of the Fraser Valley (University of the Fraser Valley CC BY […]
GalleryBook Review: Populism: A Very Short Introduction by Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
With Populism: A Very Short Introduction, Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser offer a short but densely packed volume exploring […]
