Book Review: The sociological Interpretation of Dreams
Bernard Lahire (trans. Helen Morrison), The Sociological Interpretation of Dreams (Wiley, 2020)
Reviewed by John Lechte (Macquarie University)
Our Starburst World, with thanks to Ross Gibson
by Alison Young
With the news of Ross Gibson’s death on Thursday March 2nd 2023, some of the light has gone out of our ‘starburst world’ (2012).
Issue 174, February 2023 – Undetermined Social Theory: Futures, Presents, Pasts
Contributors: Peter Wagner, Frédéric Vandenberghe, Florence Chiew, Domonkos Sik, Nicholas Holm, Tyson E. Lewis, Todd Madigan, Brad West, Jon Piccini, Claire Colebrook and Brooke Wilmsen
Article: “You all ok?” The Impossibility of Being Alright amid Mass Violence
by Christopher G. Robbins
In response to the 17th mass shooting in only 14 days of February 2023, or the 71st mass shooting in 45 days of 2023 in the U.S, this time at Michigan State University, my friend who lives a world away in Australia wrote a short, caring message, “You all ok? Re Lansing?” I live approximately 60 miles away from Lansing and have colleagues who work there and close friends whose children attend school there.
Some contexts of Jeremy Beckett 1931-2022
by Tim Rowse
Jeremy Beckett died in Sydney 8 December 2022. Thesis Eleven is proud to honour his memory with this appreciation of Jeremy and his work, revised by Tim Rowse from an earlier version published in Encounters with Indigeneity: Writing about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. We are grateful to both Tim Rowse and Aboriginal Studies Press for the opportunity to republish this work in celebration of Jeremy’s life and work
Review Essay: Singular sociology? On the work of the German sociologist Andreas Reckwitz
Reviewed by Christine Magerski (University of Zagreb)
Book Review: Between Gaia and Ground
E. A. Povinelli, Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism (Duke University Press, 2021)
Reviewed by Angie Sassano (Deakin University)
Book Review: On fascism: 12 lessons from American history
Matthew C. MacWilliams, On fascism: 12 lessons from American history (St Martin’s Publishing Group, 2020)
Reviewed by Zak Kizer (Iowa Lakes Community College)
Book Review: The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanisation of Rural China
Nick R. Smith, The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanisation of Rural China (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Reviewed by Brooke Wilmsen (La Trobe University)
Issue 173, December 2022 – Fighting with the Other
Contributors: Emre Amasyalı, John A. Hall, Mohammed Sulaiman, Kalli Drousioti, Marianna Papastephanou, María Esperanza Casullo, Rodolfo E. Colalongo, Loïc Wacquant, Michael Wayne, Elizabeth S. Goodstein, Austin Harrington, Thomas Kemple, Nicola Marcucci, Christine Magerski, Angie Sassano, J.F. Dorahy
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