Polity

Capitalism appears to be endlessly in crisis but without ever loosening its hold on our lives. New modes of racism and exclusion emerge, but the ol...

Capitalism appears to be endlessly in crisis but without ever loosening its hold on our lives. New modes of racism and exclusion emerge, but the ol...

With around 645 million people expected to be displaced Ð by wars and other catastrophes Ð by 2050, Virilio begins The Futurism of the Instant by l...

With around 645 million people expected to be displaced Ð by wars and other catastrophes Ð by 2050, Virilio begins The Futurism of the Instant by l...

What do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the eco...

What do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the eco...

One of the most important issues in public and academic debate is the concept of value and the difficulty in defining it. In this new book, the lea...

Long regarded as an empty and inhospitable environment, the deep ocean is rapidly emerging as an ecological hot spot with a remarkable diversity of...

Long regarded as an empty and inhospitable environment, the deep ocean is rapidly emerging as an ecological hot spot with a remarkable diversity of...

This is Elias's last great work in which he used his key ideas to analyse the development of the particular features of German personality, social ...

All of a sudden, everybody’s talking about the gig economy. From taxi drivers to pizza deliverers to the unemployed, we are all aware of the huge c...

All of a sudden, everybody’s talking about the gig economy. From taxi drivers to pizza deliverers to the unemployed, we are all aware of the huge c...

Many authors who discuss the idea of globalization see it as continuing pre-established paths of development of modern societies. Post-modernist wr...

The central paradox of the contemporary world is the simultaneous presence of wealth on an unprecedented scale, and mass poverty. Liberal theory ex...

The central paradox of the contemporary world is the simultaneous presence of wealth on an unprecedented scale, and mass poverty. Liberal theory ex...

Over the last several years, the debate about publics seems to have newly emerged. This debate critically reflects the Habermasian ideal of a (nati...

Over the last several years, the debate about publics seems to have newly emerged. This debate critically reflects the Habermasian ideal of a (nati...

This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from...

This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from...

Left-of-centre governments are currently in power in many countries. In greater or lesser degree, all have moved away from traditional doctrines an...

The world is changing dramatically and a vigorous public debate is under way about the nature and historical significance of these changes. At the ...

Globalization, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash. Derided by right-wing nationalists as a ‘globalist’ plot t...

Globalization, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash. Derided by right-wing nationalists as a ‘globalist’ plot t...

Video surveillance, public records, fingerprints, hidden microphones, RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillanc...