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Anthropology & Sociology

The Debate on Classes

by Erik Olin Wright

Leading thinkers' critiques of Classes, as well as Wright’s subsequent responses and reformulations.

4 posts
Mechanic Accents

by Michael Denning

“One of the most illuminating, theoretically informed accounts of popular fiction.”—Terry Eagleton

2 posts
DiY Culture

Edited by George McKay
“The most uplifting and empowering book you’ll read in a long time.”—Irvine Welsh
1 post
Classes

by Erik Olin Wright
“A major breakthrough in the conceptualization of class relations.”—American Journal of Sociology
4 posts

No Sweat

Edited by Andrew Ross
Shocking investigations into the sweatshops producing today’s high street clothing.
1 post
The Circular Structure of Power

by Torben Bech Dyrberg

A challenging investigation into the concept of power.

1 post
Cynicism and Postmodernity

by Timothy Bewes
A critical assessment of the preoccupations of contemporary society and the political crisis posed by cynicism.
1 post
Mexican Postcards

by Carlos Monsiváis
A wide-ranging, vivacious portrait of contemporary Mexican life and culture.
1 post

Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas

Edited by Marit Melhuus and Kristi Anne Stølen
The true picture of gender relations in Latin America.
2 posts
Heathcliff and the Great Hunger

by Terry Eagleton
Reading Irish culture in the light of the socio-political history that conditioned it.
1 post
The War of Gods

by Michael Löwy

How liberation theology has brought politics and religion together in Latin America.

7 posts
What Should Legal Analysis Become?

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Roberto Mangabeira Unger brings together his work in legal and social theory.

2 posts

Anything But Mexican

by Rodolfo F. Acuña

“Will stand amongst the classics in Chicano Studies.”—Teresa Cordova, University of New Mexico

9 posts
Media Manifestos

by Régis Debray
A tool-kit with which to rethink the whole business of mediation.
3 posts
Enforcing Normalcy

by Lennard J. Davis

A challenge to expand our thinking about disability and oppression.

1 post
Out of the Garden

by Stephen Kline
“Alerts and sensitises one to things that should have been obvious but weren’t.”—Observer

The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life

by Andrew Ross

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

4 posts
A Millennium of Family Change

by Wally Seccombe
A powerful study of the changing structure of families.
5 posts
Reversed Realities

by Naila Kabeer
Why development organizations are failing women in poverty.
5 posts
Interrogating Inequality

by Erik Olin Wright
Perceptive and thoughtful essays on the future of socialism and Marxism.
4 posts