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A new edition of W.E.B. Du Bois’ classic work of Black history and politics, featuring an introduction by award-winning poet and novelist Honorée F...

A new edition of W.E.B. Du Bois’ classic work of Black history and politics, featuring an introduction by award-winning poet and novelist Honorée F...

A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identityElizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years o...

Isaiah Berlin once argued that the concept of the intelligentsia was “Russia’s greatest contribution to world civilization.” Since the mid-nineteen...

Stanley Donwood and the enigmatic Dr Tchock are the elusive duo responsible for Radiohead’s artwork. Containing paintings they have produced in the...

A groundbreaking new analysis of the making of modernity, sexuality and raceIf race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does...

Cosmopolitics, the concept of a world politics based on shared democratic values, is in an increasingly fragile state. While Western democracies in...

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s book Empire has been hailed as a latter day Communist Manifesto. Its ability to develop a theoretical framework r...

In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of ‘literature’ has been something of a poor relation. This ...

"Walter Rodney was a pioneering scholar who provided new answers to old questions and posed new questions in relation to the study of Africa."–Prof...

"Walter Rodney was a pioneering scholar who provided new answers to old questions and posed new questions in relation to the study of Africa."–Prof...

Why Palestinians resist—a vital intervention in global movements resisting state violence, settler colonialism, and the erasure of Indigenous lifeA...

With the demise of apartheid in South Africa and the movement towards a post-apartheid society in South Africa, questions concerning the nature of ...

From the Armenian communities of Venice Beach and Paris, to Turkey and Armenia, Deep Mountain is a nuanced and moving exploration of the living his...

The institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the nineteenth century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the twenty...

“I’m in it to win. That’s my attitude to life and to politics.”—Neil Kinnock, December 1989Defeat from the Jaws of Victory takes the reader behind ...

Déjà vu, which doubles and confuses our experience of time, is a psychological phenomenon with peculiar relevance to our contemporary historical ci...

Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of “postmodern” fragmentation, “difference,” and con-tingency can barely a...

“Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo...

HOW AN IRON FIST DONNED DEMOCRACY’S VELVET GLOVEThe history of universal suffrage is best understood as a conflict between liberal elites and democ...

Roberto Mangabeira Unger is widely regarded as one of the leading social thinkers of our time. In Democracy Realized Unger gives detailed content t...

The majorconflicts between the Global North and the South can be expected toresult from the confrontation of alternative conceptions of democracy,m...

What if our financial system were organized to the benefit of the many rather than simply empowering the few?Robert Hockett and Fred Block argue th...

Worker representation is the first step toward democratizing the economyAlthough contemporary Western societies refer to themselves as “democratic,...