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Enforcing Normalcy
Disability, Deafness, and the Body
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against “ableist” discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself.
Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of...
by Allyson Pollock
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2020
In 2010, weeks after the election, the Coalition government started to dismantle the National Health Service, in an ideological assault disguised as austerity. Since its foundation in 1946, the NHS has been at the center of the welfare state, but now it lies in tatters, the result of costcutting and...
Crashing the Party
From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A leading activist-scholar on what’s next in the Sanders revolution
Bernie Sanders shocked the political establishment by winning 13 million votes and a majority of young voters in the 2016 Democratic primary. Since that upset, repeated polls have judged this democratic socialist to be the...
Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property
Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
A collection of essays on class politics in America
In popular retellings of American history, capitalism generally doesn’t feature much as part of the founding or development of the nation. Instead, it is alluded to in figurative terms as opportunity, entrepreneurial vigor, material abundance,...
Comrade
An Essay on Political Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
When people say 'comrade', they change the world
Between mass participation in two world wars and mass participation in Communist parties, in the 20th century millions of people across the globe addressed each other as 'comrade'. Now, it's more common to hear talk of 'allies' on the left than...
by Seumas Milne
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Margaret Thatcher branded the leaders of the 1984-85 miners strike “the enemy within.” With the publication of this book, the full irony of that accusation became clear. Seumas Milne revealed for the first time the astonishing lengths to which the government and its intelligence machine were prepared...
Empire of Borders
The Expansion of the US Border Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
The United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad—and essentially expanding its borders in the process
The twenty-first century has witnessed the rapid hardening of international borders. Security, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who travel where...
Separate and Dominate
Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures
Feminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions féministes with Simone de Beauvoir in the 1970s and became one of the most influential figures in French feminism. Today, Delphy remains...
by Richard Porton
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Bearded bomb-throwers, self-indulgent nihilists, dangerous subversives—these characteristic clichés of anarchists in the popular imagination are often reproduced in the cinema. In Film and the Anarchist Imagination, the first comprehensive survey of anarchism in film, Richard Porton deconstructs...
Flass Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship
Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
Why great powers decline, from Spain to the United States
The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains why the United States will not be able to sustain...
by Dorothy Thompson, E.P Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This is the first collection of essays on Chartism by leading social historian Dorothy Thompson, whose work radically transformed the way in which Chartism is understood. Reclaiming Chartism as a fully-blown working-class movement, Thompson intertwines her penetrating analyses of class with ground-breaking...
Russia Without Putin
Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
How the West's obsession with Vladimir Putin prevents it from understanding Russia
It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world, and dominates Western media...
Claude Lévi-Strauss
A Critical Study of His Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
One of the world’s leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology
As a young man, Maurice Godelier was Claude Lévi-Strauss’s assistant. Since then, Godelier has drawn on this experience to develop a profound and intimate grasp on the writings of his...
Philosophies of Defeat
The Jargon of Finitude
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2021
How radical thought has internalized the experience of defeat
A rising star of contemporary critical theory offers an expansive critique on a prominent tradition of thought, 'the jargon of finitude.' Associated with Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida, over the past few decades this tradition...