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“The best book I have read on the politics of reproduction. It raises complex theoretical and strategic questions, in a clear and accessible way, a...

How feminists across Latin America, Africa, and Europe are making self-managed abortion available to all–and the strong transnational feminist move...

A contemporary philosophical masterwork from “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals ” (New York Review of Books) Philosophical materia...

A contemporary philosophical masterwork from “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals ” (New York Review of Books) Philosophical materia...

In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the West and the territories...

The collapse of communism, the rise of identity politics, and struggles over global governance have combined to create new challenges for the Left:...

The alliance of critical theory between Frankfurt and ParisAdorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West argues that critical theory continues to o...

A new beginning for Marxism might just be on the horizon of a landscape despoiled by Soviet communism and a now wobbling world capitalism. The atte...

An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and litera...

Afflicted Powers is an account of world politics since September 11, 2001. It aims to confront the perplexing doubleness of the present’s lethal mi...

In this provocative study, Stephen Howe traces the sources and ancestries of the Afrocentric movement, and closely analyses the writings of its lea...

Contemporary policing reflects the turn from welfare to domestic warfare as the chief means of regulating the excluded and oppressedThe historic up...

"After Black Lives Matter should be commended both for the clarity of its message and the bravery of its convictions."–Jay Caspian Kang,  New Yorke...

The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was met by the deepest mourning of the twentieth century. Two and a half billion people worldwide watched th...

What if the people seized the means of climate production?The window for action on climate change is closing rapidly. We are hurtling ever faster t...

In recent years, three of the main sites of liberation struggle in the world—Palestine, El Salvador, and South Africa—appear to have been transform...

The fall of Communism has been an epoch-making event. The distinguished contributors to After the Fall explain to us the meaning of Communism's met...

After the Party is the explosive story of the power struggles dominating South African politics and a crucial analysis of the ANC’s record in power...

A timely manifesto for a feminist post-work politicsDoes it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a...

Seventy years after the Chinese Revolution of 1949, what remains of Mao’s communist legacy?Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from ov...

A powerful manifesto for a world without borders from two immigration policy experts and activistsBorders harm all of us: they must be abolished. B...