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Ernesto Laclau is best known for co-authoring Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, with Chantal Mouffe. Politically active in the social and student mo...

Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figu...

As one of Louis Althusser’s most brilliant students in the 1960s, Etienne Balibar contributed to the theoretical collective masterpiece of Reading ...

A manifesto for a new, democratic left: a political programme poised to transform EuropeSince 2011, Pablo Iglesias has led Podemos, a new radical l...

From authors including National Book Award winner Pete Hautman, Deadly Ink 2007 winner Darrell James, and renowned social commentator turned short-...

Considered to be the founding father of British cultural theory, Williams was concerned throughout his life to apply a materialist and socialist an...

Populism raises awkward questions about modern forms of democracy. It often represents the ugly face of the people. It is neither the highest form ...

The shock and horror that gripped America on September 11, 2001, has given way to a culture of pathological worry. Ignited by the terrorist attacks...

“A rich and lovely exploration of art history” from the world-renowned art critic behind Ways of Seeing (Slate)!A diverse cast of artists comes to ...

An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life.The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably ...

An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life.The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably ...

An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life.The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably ...

Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular bec...

Whether its ultimate resting-place is deemed to be Fukuyama’s liberal democracy or Baudrillard’s hyperreality, history, according to a number of pu...

Postmodern Geographies stands as the cardinal broadcast and defence of theory’s “spatial turn.” From the suppression of space in modern social scie...

A passionately urgent call for all of us to unlearn imperialism and repair the violent world we share, from one of our most compelling political th...

Analyses of bureaucratic power and privilege have an academic pedigree but have also long preoccupied socialists. The collapse of communist rule in...

Proposes a provocative reinterpretation of poststructuralist theory of powerThe “structuralist” theories of power show that the subject is produced...

The argument for a revolution in the ownership of our national energy system, from a leading industry insider.The energy crisis of the early 2020s ...

A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic GamesThe Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political h...

In this book, the most comprehensive analysis of Central America ever to be published, James Dunkerley provides a detailed account of the history o...