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In this episode, Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak talk about th
Whether it's pumping oil, mining resources or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their mea
In Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity (Duke UP, 2025), Franck Billé examine
From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory sha
What would happen if policing disappeared? Would we be safe? This book imagines a world without poli
How has the rise of digital platforms changed domestic labour? In The Return of the Housewife: Why W
Liberalism is in trouble. As a set of ideas, it has lost much of its historical authority in guiding
If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That’s not us,'
Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2025) is a
Gangnam is an exclusive zone of privilege and wealth that has lured South Korean pop culture industr
In uncertain times, confronting pressing problems such as racial oppression and the environmental cr
What does transphobic oppression have to do with sexism, heterosexism, and racism? How does a decolo
In the UK’s fully outsourced “immigration detainee escorting system,” private sector security employ
In Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing (Duke UP, 2025)
Wage stagnation, growing inequality, and even poverty itself have resulted from decades of neolibera
In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century (Duke UP, 2024), Mingwei Hua
Leaders who introduce anti-racist approaches to their organizations often face backlash. In What Mig
How do young people use digital platforms? In The Kids are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realiti
In The Promise of Beauty (Duke UP, 2024), Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between the conc
