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Anthropology & Sociology

Homo Juridicus

by Alain Supiot

A provocative investigation of how law shapes everyday life

3 posts
The Bonds of Debt

by Richard Dienst

Indebtedness as the universal condition of modern life

9 posts
Storytelling

by Christian Salmon

The narrative spell cast over politics and society

7 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
14 posts

Late Victorian Holocausts

by Mike Davis

A magisterial melding of global ecological and political history, disclosing the nineteenth-century roots of underdevelopment in what became the Third World

15 posts
Planet of Slums

by Mike Davis
The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world’s slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live
27 posts
The Debate on Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital

Edited by Vivek Chibber and Rosie Warren

Leading thinkers’ critiques of award-winning Postcolonial Theory, as well as the author’s responses and reformulations

2 posts
Darkwater

by W.E.B. Du Bois

Essential reading for students of African-American history

21 posts

Invisibility Blues

by Michele Wallace

Classic work of black feminism

45 posts
Building the Commune

by George Ciccariello-Maher

Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy

25 posts
Close to Home

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

by David Madden and Peter Marcuse

In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?

18 posts