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GalleryBook Review: Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy by Rachel O’Neill
In Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, Rachel O’Neill examines the construction of intimacy under neoliberalism through an ethnographic exploration of […]
GalleryBook Review: The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
In The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, Mehrsa Baradaran studies the crucial role that financial structures […]
GalleryBook Review: The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to be Privileged by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison
In The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged, Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison offer a unique and […]
GalleryBook Review: Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain by Mohan Ambikaipaker
In Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain, Mohan Ambikaipaker offers a new ethnographic study using an ‘activist anthropology’ approach that draws on […]
GalleryBook Review: Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
In Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, Arlie Russell Hochschild explores the ‘deep story’ behind […]
GalleryAuthor Interview: Mary Evans, Sarah Moore and Hazel Johnstone on Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction
In their new book, Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction, Mary Evans, Sarah Moore and […]
GalleryBook Review: Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography by Laura Vaughan
In Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography – available to download here for free – Laura Vaughan offers an analysis […]
GalleryLSE RB Year in Review: The Top 12 Book Reviews of 2018 (Part Two)
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What were you reading in 2018 on LSE Review of Books? Following Part One, which counted down from […]
GalleryLSE RB Year in Review: The Top 12 Book Reviews of 2018 (Part One)
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What were you reading in 2018 on LSE Review of Books? In Part One of our review […]
GalleryFeature Essay: The Case of Brexit, Expertise and Linguaphobia: Cosmopolitanism, Language and the Politics of Value by Sarah Burton
In this feature essay, The Case of Brexit, Expertise and Linguaphobia: Cosmopolitanism, Language and the Politics of Value, Sarah Burton argues […]
GalleryMateriality of Research: The General Theory of Failure: Thoughts on the Material Culture of Failure by Timothy Carroll, David (Jeeva) Jeevendrampillai and Aaron Parkhurst
In this feature essay, Timothy Carroll, David (Jeeva) Jeevendrampillai and Aaron Parkhurst introduce recent edited collection, The Material Culture of Failure: When Things Do […]
GalleryBook Review: Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi): Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism edited by Hermione Spriggs
In Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi): Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism, editor Hermione Spriggs brings together visual and verbal documentation of five art-anthropology exchange […]
GalleryBook Review: Stepping into the Elite: Trajectories of Social Achievement in India, France and the United States by Jules Naudet
In Stepping into the Elite: Trajectories of Social Achievement in India, France and the United States, Jules Naudet draws […]
GalleryBook Review: My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File by Katherine Verdery
In My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File, Katherine Verdery offers insight into the history of communism […]
GalleryReading List: 15 Recommended Reads on Colonial Histories, Colonial Legacies
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In this reading list, […]
