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In No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy (Verso Books, 20
The earthquake that shook Haiti on January 12, 2010 killed and destroyed the homes of hundreds of th
How can academics respond to the rise of social media? Or should they respond at all? In Social Medi
Eben Kirksey new book asks and explores a series of timely, important, and fascinating questions: Ho
What is enjoyment and what can contemporary critical theory tell us about it? In Enjoying It: Candy
What is the experience of young homeless people? What does this experience tell us about space, plac
The origins of world music can be found in early ethnographic recordings as anthropologists and ethn
The competition seems to be a crucial part of the classical music world. In Performing Civility: Int
Affect is a weighty and consequential problem in psychoanalysis. People enter treatment hoping for r
How is the medical profession regulated in a ‘risk society’. This is the core question of John M. Ch
How can we de-colonize critical theory from within, and reimagine the way it grounds its normative c
Nadim Bakhshov joins the New Books in Network to discuss his book Against Capitalist Education: What
With the growth of social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, we are increasingly
The experience of the African American middle class has been an important area of research in the US
Finn Brunton‘s Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (MIT Press, 2013) is a cultural history of tho
What is cultural taste? How is it formed, imagined and patterned? In Understanding Cultural Taste: S
What stories do we tell about finance? How does financial print culture shape our lives? Our guest t
Every city seems to be ‘creative’, whether because it has a creative brand, a creative quarter or is
What does it mean to be free? How can paying attention to the relationship between freedom and slave
In Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015), author Jaso
