New Books in Critical Theory
Irfan Ahmad, “Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace” (UNC Press, 2017)
Irfan Ahmad
Religion as Critique
Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace
University of North Carolina Press, 2017

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 1, 2018 SherAli Tareen

In the last few decades, questions relating to Islam’s compatibility with liberal secular democracy, or the question of why Islam remains incompatible with Western liberal norms of thought and politics have generated considerable commentary in both scholarly and journalistic communities. Among the central assumptions driving such compatibility talk relates to... Read More
Nick Hubble, “The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question” (Edinburgh UP, 2017)
Nick Hubble
The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question

Edinburgh University Press, 2017

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books Network September 21, 2018 Corey Gibson

Nick Hubble’s The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) is a thrilling, and timely challenge to the orthodoxy that proletarian and high-modernist literatures ought to be understood in opposition to one another. Featuring writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Naomi Mitchison, D. H. Lawrence, John Sommerfield,... Read More
Michael Levien, “Dispossession Without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Michael Levien
Dispossession Without Development
Land Grabs in Neoliberal India
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network September 20, 2018 Madhuri Karak

Historically ubiquitous at least since the 15th century and integral to the rise and consolidation of capitalism, land dispossession has re-emerged as a hot button issue for governments, industries, social movements and researchers. In his first book Dispossession Without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India (Oxford University Press 2018), Michael Levien explores the... Read More
Steven Stoll, “Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia” (Hill and Wang, 2017)
Steven Stoll
Ramp Hollow
The Ordeal of Appalachia
Hill and Wang, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network September 19, 2018 Chelsea Jack

As you’ll hear in this interview with Steven Stoll, his latest book Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia (Hill and Wang, 2017) is “really a book about capitalism.” Specifically, it’s about how the people of the southern mountains––meaning, the area between southern Pennsylvania and southern West Virginia––lost their land. Though the... Read More
Kurt Dopfer, “Modern Evolutionary Economics: An Overview” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Kurt Dopfer, et al.
Modern Evolutionary Economics
An Overview
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 14, 2018 Andrea Bernardi

This week we met Prof. Kurt Dopfer (Universität St Gallen, Switzerland) to talk about Modern Evolutionary Economics: An Overview (Cambridge University Press, 2018), a book he co-authored with eight other economists. Kurt attended in Nice the 30th annual edition of the EAEPE conference, the sponsor of the Economics channel at NBN. The European Association for... Read More

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