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Recent Publications:
Soundings 38 Cultures of Capitalism Contributors include Jonathan Rutherford on the culture of capitalism, Zygmunt Bauman on happiness in a society of individuals, Andrew Cooper and Michael Rustin on changes in the welfare state, Michael Fielding on the personalisation agenda in education, and George Shire on race in neo-liberal times.
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Earthographies: Ecocriticism and Culture
This special issue of new formations brings together a selection of essays which demonstrate the range of contemporary ecocritical thought in challenging a variety of political and theoretical neo-liberal doctrines.

Anarchist Studies Vol 16 no1
Contributors include Allan Antliff on abstract art,
Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos on Leo Tolstoy and
Charles Thorpe and Ian Welsh on anarchism, science and technology.

 

Imagined Nation
Edited by Mark Perryman
Imagined Nation explores the possibilities for England after Britain - as a multicultural nation, capable of addressing the legacies of history, yet confident enough to construct an inclusive future.

 

Agreement!
The state, conflict and change in Northern Ireland
Beatrix Campbell
Published ten years after the Good Friday Agreement, this book is about the people, ideas and movements that created it. But it is also about its limits; how the Agreement's promise was frequently betrayed by an establishment that found it difficult to give up its dominance.

Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora: The Thought of Stuart Hall Edited by Brian Meeks
The essays in this collection are a tribute to Stuart Hall, and to the outstanding contribution he has made to contemporary cultural, social and political thought. Some essays reflect and comment on Hall's work; others continue to develop some of his key themes. But most share a focus on reconnecting his work with Jamaica - his birthplace - and the wider Caribbean.

Read some of Stuart's essays in our Reading Room.

Race, Identity & Belonging This collection brings together insightful writers from the forefront of current debates, to think together about questions such as living with difference, changing definitions of equality, muslim identities, cosmopolitanism, gun crime, and the wider relationship between neoliberalism and racial power. Contributors: Zygmunt Bauman, Farhad Dalal, Paul Gilroy, Bilkis Malek, Tariq Modood, Roshi Naidoo, Amir Saeed, George Shire, Ejos Ubiribo, Patrick Wright, Nira Yuval-Davis.

Marx in London
Marx lived in London from 1849 until 1883 and this book links his story to the places in the capital where he lived and worked, including Soho, Kentish Town, the British Museum Reading Room, Covent Garden and Hampstead Heath. Includes maps and illustrations.

After Identity Jonathan Rutherford's new book on the individual and ethical life. Introduction
'There has been thus far no better inventory made of the human consequences of individualisation, and the price which individuals are required to pay for their freedom of self-assertion in a world vacated by the past and denying hospitality to the future. Rutherford has set and furnished the stage on which all debate of the present-day human condition and its prospect will need to be conducted.' Zygmunt Bauman

After Blair: Politics after the New Labour Decade
Edited by Gerry Hassan
This book asks what the future holds for progressive politics as the Blair era draws to a close. An over-arching story of a commitment to socialism once made the compromises of government worthwhile or bearable. After Blair asks whether progressives still have a story that can sustain their faith in the future. Published in association with Compass.