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The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty y...

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Now that Trump has turned the United States into a global climate outcast, will China take the le...

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Half a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rat...

As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that...

Can Israelis and Palestinians end their long conflict? The shocking violence of current events un...

With an entire discipline devoted to political science, what is distinctive about political socio...

This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided wit...

What happens when one of Germany's most important writers, himself a Muslim, immerses himself in ...

Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are num...

The quest for sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, tr...

In nine short days, Taliban forces destroyed two decades of American armed statebuilding in Afgha...

Social mobility has long been one of the central topics of sociology. It has been the subject of ...

Hunting stories will usually glorify the hunters, since it is the hunters who write the stories. ...

China and India are becoming increasingly influential, powerful and prominent countries - but wha...

The third edition of Jill Steans' popular and highly respected text offers a comprehensive and up...

Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine's highest office...

In this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrop...

Nietzsche's reputation, like much of Europe, lay in ruins in 1945. Giving a platform to a philoso...

In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh...

On 22 July 2011 a young man named Anders Behring Breivik carried out one of the most vicious terr...

Certain philosophers of Antiquity compared the world to a large animal; but if the world were an ...

The individual that the social sciences take as an object is most often studied in a particular c...

How do human beings become human? This question lies behind the so-called 'human sciences.' But t...

The pursuit of wealth has captivated people's attention for centuries. Yet, as a topic of social ...

The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political i...

France is the most-visited country in the world. It attracts millions of tourists, most of whom c...

From the rise of terrorism to the uncertainties associated with economic crisis and recession, ou...

Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin's dictatorship. A society utterly wre...

Increasingly age appears to be the key dividing line in contemporary politics. Young people acros...

At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of...

In 2005, the international community made a landmark commitment to prevent mass atrocities by una...

The Russian word that is most frequently spoken throughout the world isn't Lenin, gulag or perest...

Stabilizing the world's climates means cutting carbon dioxide pollution. There's no way around it...

After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austeri...

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platf...

Confucian political philosophy has recently emerged as a vibrant area of thought both in China an...

This second volume of a new three-part series of Antonio Negri's work is focussed on the conseque...

Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We s...

What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem that global capitalism has cre...

'Everything is sad,' wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, proj...

The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue a...

Is economics a neutral scientific field, or is it riddled with eurocentric biases that stem from ...

'In the decades following the 9 11 attacks, complex webs of anti-terrorism laws have come into pl...

The rise of the far-right, the impacts of Covid-19, and the mediated evidence of racist police vi...

Utilitarianism - a commitment to 'the greatest happiness for the greatest number' - has been the ...