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GalleryBook Review: Policy Change, Public Attitudes and Social Citizenship: Does neoliberalism matter?
Neoliberal reforms have both revealed and effected a radical shift in government thinking about social citizenship rights around the […]
GalleryBook Review: Climate Change and Human Development by Hannah Reid
Climate Change and Human Development offers a compendium of real life scenarios and brings home the realities of how poor […]
GalleryBook Review: Art, Culture and International Development: Humanizing social transformation by John Clammer
This exciting book aims to place the arts at the centre of debates in development studies by introducing new ways […]
GalleryBook Review: Diplomatic Afterlives by Andrew F Cooper
Andrew F. Cooper provides an in-depth study of the motivations, methods, and contributions made by former leaders as they take […]
GalleryBook Review: Women of Power: Half a Century of Female Presidents and Prime Ministers Worldwide by Torild Skard
Women of Power is an ambitious project, one which attempts to map the contribution of all 73 female presidents […]
GalleryEditor’s Column: ten favourite book reviews from 2014
Through 2014 LSE Review of Books has published hundreds of reviews, covering new social science titles from across the disciplines. In […]
GalleryBook Review: The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman
In The Myth of Race, Robert Sussman aims to explore how race emerged as a social construct from early biblical […]
GalleryBook Review: Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research edited by Donatella della Porta
This collection aims to offer a practical, how-to approach to researching social movement studies, with each author writing on a method […]
GalleryBook Review: Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy by Amy Larkin
Amy Larkin’s book seeks to explore environmental damages and pin their costs on the actors who caused them. This new, […]
GalleryBook Review: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein
In her latest book, Naomi Klein, author of global bestsellers The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, looks to tackle the war our economic […]
GalleryBook Review: Journalism: A Very Short Introduction by Ian Hargreaves
In a world where many consumers are unhappy to pay for news and entertainment content, what is the future […]
GalleryBook Review: Towards a Better Global Economy: Policy Implications for Citizens Worldwide in the 21st Century by Franklin Allen et al.
This collection aims to consider how improvements in official global governance, coupled with and reinforced by rising activism of ‘global […]
GalleryBook Review: Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present, edited by Alison Bashford
Medicine at the Border looks to explore the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease in the nineteenth, […]
GalleryBook Review: The Violence of the Image: Photography and International Conflict, edited by Liam Kennedy and Caitlin Patrick
The Violence of the Image is a thought-provoking book that examines the roles of image producers and the functions of photographic imagery […]
GalleryBook Review: Coffee by Gavin Fridell
Coffee is one of the most valuable Southern exports, generating billions of dollars in corporate profits each year, yet the […]
