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The promise of the New Economy gone, we have regressed into the age of techno-feudalismThe rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new e...

What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of eno...

What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of eno...

Property will cost us the earthThe science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street...

"In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Beaumont reminds us that walking is far from a neutral activity. With the help of Frantz Fanon, Beaumon...

One of the “Best Books of the Year”: Guardian • Financial Times • Times Higher Education A major collection of essays that questions whether contem...

One of the “Best Books of the Year”: Guardian • Financial Times • Times Higher Education A major collection of essays that questions whether contem...

The authoritative first-hand account of contemporary Venezuela, Hugo Chávez places the country’s controversial and charismatic president in histori...

HOW GLOBAL HUMANITARIANISM TURNS REFUGEES INTO CHEAP LABORHistorian Laura Robson unveils the dark heart of our purportedly humanitarian internation...

A pithy and readable challenge to the concept of human rightsWhat are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of th...

What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of histo...

Winner of the 2023 International Political Sociology Book AwardThe seamy underside of humanitarianismWhat does it mean when humanitarianism is the ...

A radical call for solidarity between humans and non-humansWhat is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries b...

A radical call for solidarity between humans and non-humansWhat is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries b...

Why were Hungarians, including those who would be considered radical in the West, happy to see the introduction of a market economy? Why was there ...

A collection of 10 “striking” short stories on the dangers of climate change—featuring works by Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Kim Stanley Robins...

A Nobel Peace Prize winner reflects on poverty, injustice, and the struggles of Mayan communities in Guatemala, offering “a fascinating and moving ...

A Nobel Peace Prize winner reflects on poverty, injustice, and the struggles of Mayan communities in Guatemala, offering “a fascinating and moving ...

Ibn Khaldun, the most celebrated thinker of the Muslim Middle Ages, is the subject of this intriguing study. Lacoste opens with a general descripti...

John Locke’s foundational place in the history of British empiricism and liberal political thought is well established. So, in what sense can Locke...

John Locke’s foundational place in the history of British empiricism and liberal political thought is well established. So, in what sense can Locke...

Ideologies of Theory, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson’s l...

Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact, and so little understood as a concept, as it is today. In this now classic work, orig...