Book Review: Masters of the Universe, Slaves of the Market
Offering an alternative account of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, Masters of the Universe, Slaves of the Market analyses how bankers and […]
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Kathleen Chiappetta welcomes Fishers and Plunderers: Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea as a valuable introductory overview of the supply […]
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Book Review: Immigration Detention: The Migration of a Policy and its Human...
The collection Immigration Detention: The Migration of a Policy and its Human Impact, edited by Amy Nethery and Stephanie J. Silverman, gives an overview of the practice and human impact of detention...
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The Monthly Roundup: October 2015
Image Credit: Autumn Conker (Ian Hindmarsh) Most Read: Waging War: A New Philosophical Introduction. 2nd Edition. Ian Clark. Oxford University Press. 2015. Ian Clark offers a far-reaching engagement...
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Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations...
In The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, editors Joachim A. Koops, Norrie MacQueen, Thierry Tardy and Paul D. Williams offer a major reference work that provides factual...
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LSE Lit Fest 2016 Reading List: Eight Must-Read Books On and Around the Theme...
Image Credit: Batik banner at the US Social Forum in Atlanta, GA (Brooke Anderson) Today, Monday 22nd February 2016, marks the launch of LSE’s 8th Space for Thought Literary Festival. Inspired by the...
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Book Review: The Presidentialization of Political Parties: Organizations,...
Edited by Gianluca Passarelli, new collection The Presidentialization of Political Parties: Organizations, Institutions and Leaders, explores why the level of party presidentialisation varies between...
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Book Review: Asia’s New Battlefield: The US, China and the Struggle for the...
In Asia’s New Battlefield: The US, China and the Struggle for the Western Pacific, Richard Javad Heydarian addresses how changing relations between the US and China have impacted on their rivalry in...
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Book Review: Free Speech after 9/11 by Katharine Gelber
In Free Speech After 9/11, Katharine Gelber compares three liberal democracies – the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia – to consider the ways in which Western governments have placed new...
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Book Review: Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges: How Foreign Aid...
In Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges: How Foreign Aid Became a Casualty of War, Peter Gill examines the increasing politicisation of the provision of foreign aid and the devastating...
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Book Review: A Few Hares to Chase: The Economic Life and Times of Bill...
LSE economist and inventor Bill Phillips became world famous for The Phillips Curve. Yet, as A Few Hares to Chase: The Economic Life and Times of Bill Phillips shows, Phillips’s time at the London...
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Book Review: Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation by Jennifer...
In Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation, Jennifer Loureide Biddle focuses on the emergence of an avant-garde Indigenous aesthetics in ‘remote’ Australia in the context of the parallel...
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The Materiality of Research: Sinking into the Sand: Explorations of the Coast...
In this feature essay, Nick Osbaldiston proposes the notion of a sociology of the coast, linking pre-modern divisions between the ‘known’ land and ‘unknown’ sea to more contemporary anxieties as the...
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Reading List: 7 Must-Read Books about Art Ahead of the Turner Prize 2016
Image Credit: London Artist’s Studio (THOR CC BY 2.0) Tonight, the evening of Monday 5 December 2016, sees the announcement of the winner of the Turner Prize 2016. The Turner Prize is awarded to a...
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Book Review: Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life by...
Written in the early 1970s by renowned anthropologist Marilyn Strathern, the manuscript for Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life has remained in storage for four decades....
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Book Review: Close Calls: Managing Risk and Resilience in Airline Flight...
In Close Calls: Managing Risk and Resilience in Airline Flight Safety, Carl Macrae offers a new study of organisational learning in the civil aviation industry, examining how crucial insights are...
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Reading List: 8 Books on Indigenous Research Methods recommended by Helen Kara
Image Credit: Indigenous Graduate Reception, February 2017, University of the Fraser Valley (University of the Fraser Valley CC BY 2.0) In this reading list, Helen Kara recommends 8 books for those...
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Book Review: The Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and...
In The Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars and Neoliberal Ideology, John Smyth offers a critical reading of the pathological state of higher education today, diagnosing this as the...
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Book Review: Meta-Regulation in Practice: Beyond Normative Views of Morality...
In Meta-Regulation in Practice: Beyond Normative Views of Morality and Rationality, F.C. Simon offers a critique of the theory of meta-regulation, drawing upon the twenty-first-century experience of...
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Author Interview: Q&A with Sharon Crozier-De Rosa on her book, Shame and the...
In this author interview, we speak to Sharon Crozier-De Rosa about her new book, Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920, which examines the use of shame as an...
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