In this age of unchecked emphasis on national security, even liberal democracies seem prone to forgetting the histories of political policing and surveillance undergirding what we think of as our safe
Our urban spaces today struggle to thrive in the face corporate greed, increasing privatization, and rising inequality. Unlocking Sustainable Cities offers a way forward, challenging the unsustainable
Few figures on the left are as widely heralded as George Orwell. Yet his actual politics are poorly understood. Hope Lies in the Proles corrects that, offering a sympathetic yet critical account of Or
Few figures on the left are as widely heralded as George Orwell. Yet his actual politics are poorly understood. Hope Lies in the Proles corrects that, offering a sympathetic yet critical account of Or
In 1919, in the wake of World War I, for a brief period Hungary was a Soviet Republic. The republic didn’t last, but the incredible effusion of art, music, film, theater, and literature that it
Marxist analysis has traditionally been built on a two-class framework: workers and capitalists. With Managerial Capitalism, Gerard Duménil and Dominique Lévy mount a powerful argument t
A beautiful, tragic, and award-winning book from Lebanese writer and illustrator Lamia Ziad? Blending the author's years of research with a personal memoir and more than 300 illustrations, this compelling history of the modern Arab world explores the major thinkers, struggles, and turning points that have shaped the Middle East as we know it today. Ziad?begins in South Lebanon, the 'land of martyrs, ruins and passion', before taking the reader further afield, to Beirut, Damascus, and Gaza. The book moves from 1967 to 2006 tracing the Arab world's downturn and the derailing of dreams and possibilities caused in large part by Western imperialism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the rise of an especially intolerant wave of Islam. Within these pages, there are the blasts of explosions, blood, tears and tragedy, wreaths, flowers and ribbons, refugees, and paradise. Ziad?unearths the buried memory of resistance fighters and their lost ideals. She celebrates the progressive, bold, revol
Children of the Welfare State uses the case of Denmark—employed as emblematic of the European state—to consider the ways in which children are “civilized” within child-focused institutions, such as sc
