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Book Review | The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power,...
In The Divine Economy, Paul Seabright examines how faith shapes modern societies and economies, recognising the resilience and inclusivity fostered by religious communities. Taking an interdisciplinary...
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Book Review | Making Information Matter: Understanding Surveillance and...
In Making Information Matter, Mareile Kaufmann proposes a methodology for studying information practices as a living process, developing her argument through four case studies. Employing a theoretical...
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Book Review | Against Better Judgment
Anthropologists have often explained human behaviour as though people predictably act in their own interests. But in Against Better Judgment, Patrick McKearney and Nicholas H. A. Evans compile research...
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Book Review | Working Assumptions
In Working Assumptions, Julia Hobsbawm examines the impacts of Covid-19 and generative AI on the future of work. Exploring debates around how flexible working impacts productivity, the rising number of...
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Book Review | Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a...
In Significant Emotions, Ashley Frawley critiques the trend of pathologising distress caused by socio-economic problems (like cost-of-living pressures and insecure, low-paid employment) as “mental...
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Book Review | An Introduction to Inclusive Healthcare Design
In An Introduction to Inclusive Healthcare Design, Denise M. Linton and Kiwana T. McClung compile insights exploring how healthcare settings and services can be made more inclusive, focusing on equity,...
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Book Review | Geopolitics and Democracy: The Western Liberal Order from...
In Geopolitics and Democracy, Peter Trubowitz and Brian Burgoon explore the declining support for liberal internationalism in Western democracies since the end of the Cold War. Highlighting how the...
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Book Review | Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution
In Arise!, Christina Heatherton explores the global radicalism of the early 20th century, focusing on the Mexican Revolution. Heatherton centres and humanises marginalised figures involved in the...
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Book Review | Junk Food Politics
In Junk Food Politics, Eduardo J. Gómez considers how junk food industries, in collusion with states, shape public policy in developing countries to expand their markets while regulation such as “sugar...
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Book Review | Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional...
In Roe v. Dobbs, Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone assemble leading scholars of the US constitution to examine the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade with the 2022 ruling in Dobbs v....
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Book Review | The AI Mirror
In The AI Mirror, Shannon Vallor explores AI from a moral-philosophical perspective, cautioning against an overreliance on machines at the expense of human empathy and creativity. Sarah Richmond posits...
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Book Review | Warmonger: Vladimir Putin’s Imperial Wars
Alex J. Bellamy‘s Warmonger considers the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine in the context of other conflicts Putin has orchestrated or supported, from Chechnya and Crimea to Georgia and Syria....
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Book Review | What Really Went Wrong
In What Really Went Wrong, Fawaz Gerges analyses the Middle East’s politics from the Cold War to the present and argues that Western interventionist policy (with particular flashpoints in Iran, Egypt,...
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Book Review | Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
Crystal Wilkinson‘s Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts illuminates the lives and culinary culture of Black Appalachians over five generations through a blend of family recipes, memoir and regional...
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Book Review | Dead Men’s Propaganda
In Dead Men’s Propaganda, Terhi Rantanen explores the founding of Comparative Communications Studies between 1918-1945 by focusing on figures whose key contributions are underacknowledged. In...
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Book Review | Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the...
In Survivors, Hannah Durkin tells the stories of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the US in 1860, decades after such importations were federally...
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Book Review | The Policing Machine
In The Policing Machine, Tony Cheng scrutinises the NYPD’s Neighborhood Policing model, revealing how police use public input as a tool to maintain control and legitimacy. Based on in-depth...
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Book Review | Should Gorbachev have learned from state-capitalist China?
Vladislav Zubok‘s influential book, Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union, argues that Gorbachev’s failed attempt at restructuring the USSR could have been more successful had he emulated China’s...
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