Book Reviews
Prepublication reviews from Thesis Eleven Journal. You can find the final published versions here
Book Review: The Distortion of Nature’s Image
Damian Gerber,
The Distortion of Nature’s Image: Reification and the Ecological Crisis (SUNY, 2019)
Reviewed by Francisco Gelves-Gomez
Book Review: Revolution Today, The New Authoritarians, Into the Tempest
Chamsy el-Ojeili reviews:
Susan Buck-Morss, Revolution Today (Haymarket Books, 2019)
David Renton The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right (Haymarket Books, 2019);
William I. Robinson Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2018)
Book Review: Reimagining Nations and Rethinking Futures
Divya Anand
Reimagining Nations and Rethinking Futures: Contemporary Eco-Political Controversies in India and Australia (Primus Books, 2019)
Reviewed by Haris Qadeer
Book Review: Debt and Guilt: A Political Philosophy
Elettra Stimilli, Debt and Guilt: A Political Philosophy, Stefania Porcelli (trans.) (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Reviewed by Scott Robinson
Book Review: Two For the Road
Zygmunt Bauman, Making the Familiar Unfamiliar – A Conversation with Peter Haffner (Polity, 2020)
Hartmut Rosa, The Uncontrollability of the World (Polity, 2020)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Book Review: The Crisis Paradigm
Andrew Simon Gilbert
The Crisis Paradigm: Description and Prescription in Social and Political Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
Reviewed by J.F. Dorahy
Book Review: Foucault’s last Decade and Foucault and the Politics of Rights
Stuart Elden
Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity, 2016)
Ben Golder Foucault and the Politics of Rights (Stanford University Press, 2015)
Reviewed by Mitchell Dean
Book Review: The Distance
Ivan Vladislavić
The Distance (Umuzi/Penguin Random House, 2019)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Book Review: Downtown Revitalisation and Delta Blues in Clarksdale Mississippi
John Henshall
Downtown Revitalisation and Delta Blues in Clarksdale Mississippi: Lessons for Small Cities and Towns (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Reviewed by Melissa Kennedy
Book Review: Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis: Eurasian Explorations
Johann P Arnason and Chris Hann (eds)
Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis: Eurasian Explorations,
SUNY Press (2018)
Reviewed by Jeremy Smith
Book Review: Antonio Gramsci – Towards an Intellectual Biography
Alastair Davidson
Antonio Gramsci – Towards an Intellectual Biography (Brill, Historical Materialism, 2017)
Reviewed by Peter Beilharz
Book Review: Multicultural Politics of Recognition and Postcolonial Citizenship
Rachel Busbridge
Multicultural Politics of Recognition and Postcolonial Citizenship
(Routledge, 2017)
Reviewed by Nicolas Pirsoul
Book Review: Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right
Walden Bello
Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right
(Practical Action Publishing, 2019)
Reviewed by Erwin Rafael
Book review: National Populism (2018) and The New Populism (2019)
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
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
