By Sophie Chao
COVID-19 has prompted a renewed awareness of how we use our bodies under “normal” circumstances. For instance, some of us have noticed when and how often we wash our hands or touch our faces. We become conscious of the everyday tactile contact we make with human others. The close ones we embrace or kiss, or the colleagues and peers we shake hands with.
by Göran Therborn
The pandemic has been, and is, an experience of suffering and loss for millions of people around the planet. For us, privileged survivors, it has been a life-engraving learning experience. It has shown us the historical impact of contingency, the planetary commons and its eradicable divisions, a sharpening of social and political alternatives, and an acceleration of the current dynamic of the world, towards inegalitarian deglobalization, and possibly to a geopolitical US-China war.
John Henshall
Downtown Revitalisation and Delta Blues in Clarksdale Mississippi: Lessons for Small Cities and Towns (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Reviewed by Melissa Kennedy
A special memorial edition of Thesis Eleven celebrating the life and work of our close friend and colleague Keith Tester and more
Johann P Arnason and Chris Hann (eds)
Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis: Eurasian Explorations,
SUNY Press (2018)
Reviewed by Jeremy Smith
Alastair Davidson
Antonio Gramsci – Towards an Intellectual Biography (Brill, Historical Materialism, 2017)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Rachel Busbridge
Multicultural Politics of Recognition and Postcolonial Citizenship
(Routledge, 2017)
Reviewed by Nicolas Pirsoul
Walden Bello
Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right
(Practical Action Publishing, 2019)
Reviewed by Erwin Rafael
Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin
National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy
(Pelican Books, 2018);
Marco Revelli
The New Populism: Democracy Stares Into the Abyss
(Verso, 2019)
Reviewed by: Chamsy el-Ojeili, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Book Review: Social Theory Now – Claudio E. Benzecry, Monika Krause and Isaac Ariail Reed (eds.) (The University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Reviewed by: Rachel Busbridge
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