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New Books in Critical Theory

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Justin Parkhurst, “The Politics of Evidence: From Evidence-Based Policy to the Good Governance of Evidence” (Routledge, 2016)
2017/1/30

What is the role of evidence in the policy process? In The Politics of Evidence: From Evidence-Based

Manisha Sinha, “The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition” (Yale UP, 2016).
2017/1/6

Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She was born

Matt Houlbrook, “Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook” (U. of Chicago Press 2016)
2016/12/19

How should we understand the interwar years in Britain? In Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True

Bill V. Mullen, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line,” (Pluto Press, 2016)
2016/12/17

Born just five years after the abolition of slavery, W. E. B. Du Bois died the night before Martin L

Paul Benneworth et al., “The Impact and Future of Arts and Humanities Research” (Palgrave, 2016)
2016/12/13

What is the future for Arts and Humanities in Europe? The podcast discusses these questions with Pau

Banu Bargu, “Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons” (Columbia UP, 2016)
2016/12/10

What is the relationship between state power and self-destructive violence as a mode of political re

Sarah Jaffe, “Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt” (Nation Books, 2016)
2016/12/7

Sarah Jaffe has written Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt (Nation Books, 2016). Jaffe is a Nati

Tom Mills, “The BBC: Myth of a Public Service” (Verso, 2016)
2016/12/2

The BBC is often thought to be a great, impartial, defender of British values and society. In The BB

Kirsty Sedgman, “Locating the Audience: How People Found Value in National Theatre Wales” (Intellect Books 2016)
2016/11/19

The value of the arts is a constant and vital question in contemporary culture. In Locating the Audi

Paul C. Taylor, “Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics” (Wiley Blackwell, 2016)
2016/11/15

Why is it controversial to cast light-skinned actress Zoe Saldana as the lead character in a film ab

Patrick Wolfe, “Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race” (Verso, 2016)
2016/11/7

Widely known for his pioneering work in the field of settler colonial studies, Patrick Wolfe advance

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, “Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)
2016/11/6

How did the preeminent theorist and philosopher Michel Foucault experience and observe the Iranian r

Charlotte Mathieson, ed. “Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600-Present” (Palgrave, 2016)
2016/10/27

What is the relationship between the sea and culture? In Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the S

Andrew Cole, “The Birth of Theory” (U. of Chicago Press, 2014)
2016/10/27

Was Hegel a medieval thinker? In The Birth of Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2014), Andrew Col

Matthew MacWilliams, “The Rise of Trump: America’s Authoritarian Spring” (Amherst College Press, 2016)
2016/10/22

NB: Because Amherst College Press is open-access, this book is available free for download here. Jus

McKenzie Wark, “Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene” (Verso, 2015)
2016/10/10

McKenzie Wark’s new book begins and ends with a playful call: “Workings of the world untie! You have

Stevphen Shukaitis, “The Composition of Movements to Come: Aesthetics and Cultural Labor after the Avant-Garde” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
2016/10/5

How is the notion of the avant-garde in art relevant today? What can contemporary social movements l

Stuart Elden “Foucault’s Last Decade” (Polity Press, 2016)
2016/9/21

Why did Michel Foucault radically recast the project of The History of Sexuality? How did he work co

Mary Hawkesworth, “Embodied Power: Demystifying Disembodied Politics” (Routledge, 2016)
2016/9/16

How can we explain the “occlusion of embodied power” and “lack of attention to race, gender, and sex

Darian M. Parker, “Sartre and New Child Left Behind: An Existential Psychoanalytic Anthropology of Urban Schooling” (Lexington, 2015)
2016/9/12

Darian M. Parker joins the New Books Network to discuss his recently published book, Sartre and No C