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Anthropology & Sociology

Border Vigils

by Jeremy Harding
Searing reportage and analysis of the new politics of immigration in both Europe and America.
27 posts
Buda’s Wagon

by Mike Davis
The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of the “poor man’s air force,” the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction
13 posts
Building the Commune

by George Ciccariello-Maher
Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy
25 posts
The Burning Forest: India’s War Against the Maoists

by Nandini Sundar

An empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, and homes and communities destroyed

2 posts

The Business of Books

by André Schiffrin

“A riveting chronicle of the rise and fall of the American reader.”—Village Voice

6 posts
Canaries on the Rim

by Chip Ward
A quest to understand the secret history of ecocide in Utah.
Chasing the Harvest

Edited by Gabriel Thompson

Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States

3 posts
The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life

by Andrew Ross

The return of Malthusian ideas about scarcity, in the name of environmentalism.

4 posts

Church Fathers, Independent Virgins

by Joyce Salisbury
Salisbury explores the relationship between Church doctrines and the position of women.
3 posts
Cinderella Goes to Market

by Barbara Einhorn
Assessing the position of women before and after the fall of state socialism.
4 posts
Cinema and Desire

Edited by Tani E. Barlow and Jing Wang

Dal Jinhau's commentary on Chinese cinema, culture and politics.

7 posts
The Circular Structure of Power

by Torben Bech Dyrberg

A challenging investigation into the concept of power.

1 post

Cities Under Siege

by Stephen Graham
A powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life.
17 posts
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies

17 posts
City of Segregation

by Andrea Gibbons

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles

3 posts
Class, Race, and Marxism

by David R. Roediger

Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationship

23 posts

Classes

by Erik Olin Wright
“A major breakthrough in the conceptualization of class relations.”—American Journal of Sociology
4 posts
Claude Lévi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought

by Maurice Godelier

One of the world’s leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology

1 post
Climate Leviathan

by Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright

How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse

8 posts
Close to Home

by Christine Delphy
Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism
28 posts