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Anthropology & Sociology

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
13 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
14 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
24 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
17 posts
Invisibility Blues

by Michele Wallace

Classic work of black feminism

39 posts

Building the Commune

by George Ciccariello-Maher
Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy
23 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?

16 posts
Annihilation of Caste

by B.R. Ambedkar

The classic analysis of the caste system with an extensive introduction by Arundhati Roy

11 posts

Traces of History

by Patrick Wolfe

How race rose and spread across the globe

22 posts
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy

by Gabriella Coleman

“Essential reading.” – Glenn Greenwald

19 posts
Understanding Class

by Erik Olin Wright
Leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalism
7 posts
The Man Who Closed the Asylums

by John Foot

“A portrait of imperfect people who had the passion and pragmatism to put an end to a brutal and broken system.” – Financial Times

10 posts