Type: New Book

OUT NOW FROM DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism By Sara R. Farris In this book Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women’s rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the

Announcing Catalyst, a beautiful print journal published by Jacobin and edited by Robert Brenner and Vivek Chibber. You can subscribe to a four-issue subscription to Catalyst for just $40 a year: https://jacobinmag.com/store/cart/add/n41?redirect=https://jacobinmag.com/store/checkout Does the world need another journal? Well, maybe one more. We are launching Catalyst at a time of enormous tumult. The political order is being questioned on a scale we haven’t

OUT NOW FROM VERSO: THE AUTONOMOUS CITY: A HISTORY OF URBAN SQUATTING By Alexander Vasudevan A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city https://www.versobooks.com/books/2435-the-autonomous-city ————— The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for

  Social Sciences for an other politics: Women theorising without parachutes  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)  edited by ANA CECILIA DINERSTEIN, with Foreword by K.J.GIBSON GRAHAM    This book is dedicated to Berta Cáceres and Jo Cox, two great women brutally silenced for their resistance to power and their hope in a world that can contain many worlds in it. This book

The Political Economy of Emerging Markets: Varieties of BRICS in the Age of Global Crises and Austerity Edited by Richard Westra The Political Economy of Emerging Markets situates the BRICS phenomena in the global economic context of advanced economies continuing to languish in recession and hovering over a deflationary abyss several years after the meltdown. A key question

Marx Worldwide: On the Development of the International Discourse on Marx since 1965 Jan Hoff. Translated by Nicholas Gray In his study Jan Hoff charts the unprecedented global boost that has been experienced by critical Marxism since the mid-1960s. In particular Hoff shows the development of interpretations of Marx’s method; of critical social theory oriented

OUT NOW FROM VERSO:  THE RISE OF HINDU AUTHORITARIANISM: SECULAR CLAIMS, COMMUNAL REALITIES By Achin Vanaik   The definitive analysis of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India and the challenges for the radical Left   https://www.versobooks.com/books/2413-the-rise-of-hindu-authoritarianism   —————   With the Hindu nationalist BJP now replacing the Congress as the only national political force, the communalization

Landscape between Ideology and the Aesthetic: Marxist Essays on British Art and Art Theory, 1750–1850 Andrew Hemingway, University College London At a time of growing interest in relations between Marxism and Romanticism, Andrew Hemingway’s essays on British art and art theory reopen the question of Romantic painting’s ideological functions and, in some cases, its critical purchase.

Where Are The Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe   Edited by Sian Lazar The first book to compare the anti-neoliberal uprisings in Latin America (‘Turn to the Left’), the Middle East and North Africa (‘Arab Spring’), and Europe (anti-austerity movements) Offers a global perspective on the formation

Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers Costas Lapavitsas, SOAS, University of London The collected papers of Costas Lapavitsas are a pathway to Marxist monetary theory, a field that continues to attract strong interest. The papers range far and wide, including markets and money, finance and the enterprise, power and money, the financialisation of capitalism, finance and profit,

Communes and Workers’ Control in Venezuela: Building 21st Century Socialism from Below Dario Azzellini, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria In Communes and Workers’ Control in Venezuela: Building 21st Century Socialism from Below, Dario Azzellini offers an account of the Bolivarian Revolution from below. While authors on Venezuela commonly concentrate on former president Hugo Chávez and government politics,

NEW FROM VERSO: RADICAL THINKERS SET 14   THE LAST RESISTANCE by Jacqueline Rose    A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times.   https://www.versobooks.com/books/2395-the-last-resistance   In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literature in