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Book Review | Age of the City
In Age of the City, Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin examines transformation in cities around the world from ancient China to the industrial age in the West and through to the present day. The book is a...
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Book Review | A Political Theory of Money
In A Political Theory of Money, Anush Kapadia examines money’s political, social, and economic dimensions, from its hierarchical nature to its interconnection with state politics and global power...
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Book Review | (Not) Kidding: Politics in Online Tabloids
In (Not) Kidding: Politics in Online Tabloids, Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer examines the role of online tabloids in shaping political discourse.This book challenges dominant perceptions of tabloid...
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Book Review | The Manufacturing of Job Displacement
Laura López-Sanders‘ The Manufacturing of Job Displacement is an ethnographic study examining how racial capitalism shapes labour inequality in a company based in South Carolina, US. Though limited by...
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Who is we? Of mice and men in longevity science | Book Reviews
The re-election of Donald Trump to the US presidency this year has brought focus on pseudoscience in healthcare and the search for ‘silver bullets’ in health and longevity research. Jason Fletcher...
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Book Review | Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues
Ross Perlin‘s Language City, winner of the British Academy Book Prize 2024, explores the global crisis of endangered languages by focusing on the extraordinary linguistic diversity of New York City....
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Book Review | Ukraine: Russia’s War and the Future of the Global Order
Ukraine: Russia’s War and the Future of the Global Order, edited by Michael Cox explores the causes and nature of Russia’s war in Ukraine, triggered by the 2022 invasion, and its impacts on the global...
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Book Review | Policing Patients
In Policing Patients, Elizabeth Chiarello examines the role of prescription drug monitoring programmes (PDMPs) in the opioid crisis in the US, arguing that they transform healthcare into patient...
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Book Review | Vulture Capitalism
Grace Blakeley‘s Vulture Capitalism critiques the alliance of corporations, finance, and states underpinning the capitalist system that drives inequality, stifles democracy and enriches elites....
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Book Reviews | How the super-rich shape economies and societies
Are governments doing enough to address today’s widening inequalities, or are they pandering to the wealth elite? Max Steuer‘s Dangerous Guesswork in Economic Policy and Sarah Kerr‘s Wealth, Poverty...
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Book Review | Politicizing Political Liberalism
How should liberal democracies respond to the rise of right-wing populism? In this timely book, Politicizing Political Liberalism, Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti draw on and extend the influential...
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Book Review | Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
In Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit, Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie explore the transformative potential and existential dilemmas involved in AI’s rapid...
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Book Review | Homeland Insecurity: The Rise and Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism...
Conor Gearty‘s Homeland Insecurity explores the global rise of anti-terrorism legislation in the 20th and 21st centuries. Gearty probes the historical contexts and political forces – from colonial...
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Book Review | Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money
Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money by Dariusz Wojcik and co-authors is a visual exploration of global finance, blending history, geography, economics and politics across a diverse...
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Book Review | The Open Society as an Enemy
J. McKenzie Alexander‘s The Open Society as an Enemy revisits Karl Popper’s foundational work on the concept of the “open society” in relation to contemporary threats to democratic values, from the...
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Book Review | The Abraham Accords
Elham Fakhro‘s The Abraham Accords examines Gulf-Israel relations leading up to and since the Abraham Accords, a set of bilateral diplomatic agreements between Israel, Bahrain and the UAE signed in the...
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Book Review | Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins
How much of our identity is shaped by genetics, and how much by society? In Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins, Shoumita Dasgupta examines how genetic science can be distorted by social biases in areas...
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Book Review | Propaganda and Power in the Age of Globalization
Simon Sherratt‘s Propaganda and Power in the Age of Globalization critiques global corporate influence on democracy, exploring the intersection of finance, technology, and politics. The book’s...
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Book Review | War, Data, and Ecology after Nonhuman Witnessing
Michael Richardson’s War, Data, and Ecology after Nonhuman Witnessing reimagines the act of witnessing in the age of AI as a human-nonhuman relational process, exploring technological warfare,...
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