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New Books in Critical Theory

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Bruno Chaouat, “Is Theory Good for the Jews?: French Thought and the Challenge of the New Antisemitism” (Liverpool University Press, 2017)

2018/6/11

“Is Theory Good for the Jews?” asks author Bruno Chaouat, professor of French at the University of M

Kyla Schuller, “The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century” (Duke UP, 2017)

2018/6/1

Beginning with a discussion about Black Lives Matter may seem like an unlikely place to start a book

Christina Scharff, “Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work: The Classical Music Profession” (Routledge, 2018)

2018/5/29

What sort of inequalities characterize classical music today? In Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural

Dieter Vandebroeck, “Distinctions in the Flesh: Social Class and the Embodiment of Inequality” (Routledge, 2017)

2018/5/22

How is class inequality intertwined with the body? In Distinctions in the Flesh: Social Class and th

Mark Rifkin, “Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination” (Duke UP, 2017)

2018/5/11

Mark Rifkin’s Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination (Duke Univ

Sarah Schulman, “Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair” (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016)

2018/5/4

Sarah Schulman’s Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of

Leah Bassel and Akwugo Emejulu, “Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain” (Policy Press, 2017)

2018/4/27

What is the impact of austerity on minority women? How has this impacted on already long standing fo

Aimi Hamraie, “Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability” (U Minnesota Press, 2017)

2018/4/25

The Americans with Disability Act passed in 1990, but it was just one moment in ongoing efforts to c

Sigrid Schmalzer, et. al., “Science for the People: Documents from America’s Movement of Radical Scientists (UMass Press, 2018)

2018/4/23

“What is needed now is not liberal reform or withdrawal, but a radical attack, a strategy of opposit

Anamik Saha, “Race and the Cultural Industries” (Polity, 2018)

2018/4/9

How do the media make race? This question is at the heart of Race and the Cultural Industries (Polit

Stephen Monteiro, “The Fabric of Interface: Mobile Media, Design, and Gender” (MIT Press, 2017)

2018/4/6

Sewing, knitting, quilting, the crafts related to fabric making, are usually not what we think about

Lana Lin, “Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer” (Fordham UP, 2017)

2018/4/3

In April 1923 Sigmund Freud detected a lesion in his mouth that turned out to be cancerous. From dia

Natchee Blu Barnd, “Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism” (Oregon State UP, 2017)

2018/3/29

In Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism (Oregon State University Pres

Martijn Konings, “Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason” (Stanford UP, 2018)

2018/3/28

Today I was joined by Martijn Konings from Australia where he is Associate Professor of Political Ec

Christopher B. Patterson, “Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific” (Rutgers UP, 2018)

2018/3/26

Christopher B. Patterson‘s book Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific (Rut

Stephen Cummings, et al., “A New History of Management” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

2018/3/21

Did Abraham Maslow actually ever draw a pyramid of hierarchy of needs? Did Kurt Lewin devote substan

Claudio Sopranzetti, “Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility and Politics in Bangkok” (U California Press, 2017)

2018/3/9

When the army brutally dispersed Red Shirts protestors in Bangkok’s busy commercial district in May