Scott Timcke, "Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life" (Bristol UP, 2021)
As the US contends with issues of populism and de-democratization, this timely study considers the impacts of digital technologies on the country’s politics and society. In Algorithms and the End of P...
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Eve Worth, "The Welfare State Generation: Women, Agency and Class in Britain Since 1945" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
How should we understand the history of post-war Britain? In The Welfare State Generation Women, Agency and Class in Britain since 1945 (Bloomsbury, 2022), Eve Worth, a Research Fellow on the Changing...
28 Mars 202241min
Hil Malatino, "Trans Care" (U of Minnesota Press, 2020)
What does it mean for trans people to show up for one another, to care deeply for one another? How have failures of care shaped trans lives? What care practices have trans subjects and communities cul...
25 Mars 202235min
Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt, "Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E. T. Kingsley" (U British Columbia Press, 2021)
People with disabilities have always struggled to make ends meet. Finding a job you can actually do, a housing situation you can afford that meets your needs, and simply going about the various daily ...
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John Bellamy Foster, "The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology" (Monthly Review Press, 2021)
It is slowly becoming clear that we are heading towards a deep ecological catastrophe. Our societies carbon footprint and its impact have been known for some time, and already we are starting to see t...
23 Mars 20221h 39min
Jonathan M. Katz, "Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Jonathan Katz’s Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire (St. Martin’s Press, 2022) tells the story of the birth and maturation of modern A...
23 Mars 20221h 29min
Martin Shuster, "How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism" (Indiana UP, 2021)
What can the history of Jewish philosophy teach us about modern life? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism (Indiana UP, 2021), Martin Shuster, an Associate Professor of Philosophy and D...
22 Mars 202239min
Natasha Iskander, "Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Skill—specifically the distinction between the “skilled” and “unskilled”—is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar...
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