Politics

Accidental Agents

Ecological Politics Beyond the Human Martin Crowley

Martin Crowley argues that a new conception of agency as both distributed and decisive is necessary in the Anthropocene. A major intervention into ongoing debates in posthumanism, political ecology, and political theory, Accidental Agents reshapes our understanding of political agency in and for a more-than-human world.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20403-3 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20402-6 February 2022 312 pages

INSURRECTIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION, POLITICS, AND CULTURE

We Testify with Our Lives

How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter Terrence L. Johnson

Terrence L. Johnson argues that the Black radical tradition derives its force from its unacknowledged ethical and religious dimensions. We Testify with Our Lives traces Black religion’s sustained influence from SNCC to the present, reconstructing a radical lived ethics of freedom and justice.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20045-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20044-8 2021 312 pages Subaltern Social Groups

A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 Antonio Gramsci Edited and translated by Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green

This volume presents the first complete translation of Antonio Gramsci’s notes on the concept of subalternity, including the entirety of Prison Notebook 25 devoted to the theme of subaltern social groups. It includes a critical apparatus that clarifies Gramsci’s history, culture, and sources, and considers these ideas in the context of his earlier writings and letters.

$24.00 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-19039-8 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-19038-1 2020 288 pages

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM

Universality and Identity Politics

Todd McGowan

This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political thought and action. Through a wide range of examples in contemporary politics, film, and history, Universality and Identity Politics offers an antidote to the impasses of identity and an inspiring vision of twenty-first-century collective struggle.

$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19770-0 2020 272 pages

Ecce Humanitas

Beholding the Pain of Humanity Brad Evans

Foreword by Jake Chapman

Through a critical exploration of violence and the sacred, Ecce Humanitas recasts the fall of liberal humanism. Brad Evans offers a rich analysis of the changing nature of sacrificial violence, from its theological origins to the exhaustion of the victim in the contemporary world.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18463-2 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-18462-5 2021 352 pages 22 illus.

INSURRECTIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION, POLITICS, AND CULTURE

America’s Public Philosopher

Essays on Social Justice, Economics, Education, and the Future of Democracy John Dewey

Edited and with an introduction by Eric Thomas Weber

John Dewey was America’s greatest public philosopher. This book gathers the clearest and most powerful of Dewey’s public writings and shows how they continue to speak to the challenges we face today. It includes fortysix essays on topics such as democracy in the United States, political power, education, economic justice, science and society, and philosophy and culture.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19895-0 $95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-19894-3 2021 352pages

Capitalism on Edge

How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia Albena Azmanova

Capitalism on Edge offers a novel diagnosis of the current moment to reveal that the potential for sweeping transformation must come from an unexpected direction. Albena Azmanova demonstrates that capitalism is not on its deathbed, revolution is not in the cards, and utopianism cannot steer us toward a brighter future—but radical change can manifest from within capitalism itself.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19537-9 $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19536-2 2020 272 pages

NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY

The Arab and Jewish Questions

Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond Edited by Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh

This book brings together leading scholars to consider how the “Jewish Question” and the “Arab Question” are entangled historically and in the present day. It offers critical analyses of Arab engagements with the question of Jewish rights alongside Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish considerations of Palestinian identity and political rights.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19921-6 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19920-9 2020 320 pages

RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE

The Sublime of the Political

Narrative and Autoethnography as Theory Dean Caivano and Sarah Naumes

Dean Caivano and Sarah Naumes argue that storytelling in the form of narrative and autoethnography creates an emancipatory potential through its ability to theorize from below, welcoming marginalized and excluded voices. They offer a new assessment of political texts to challenge who can write and disseminate political ideas—and how.

$110.00 cloth 978-3-8376-4772-3 2021 200 pages

TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING

Bodies of Democracy

Modes of Embodied Politics Amanda Machin

Amanda Machin considers six embodied modes of democratic politics: identification, deliberation, disagreement, protest, occupation, and counsel. Drawing on diverse thinkers, she offers an absorbing illustration of the ways that human bodies are not only the disciplined objects of politics but also the generative subjects of democracy.

$110.00 cloth 978-3-8376-4923-9 2021 200 pages

TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING

In Statu Nascendi

Journal of Political Philosophy and International Relations 2021/1 Edited by Piotr Pietrzak

In Statu Nascendi is a peer-reviewed journal that encompasses original academic research dedicated to the intersection of political philosophy, cultural studies, theory of international relations, foreign policy, and the political decision-making process.

$50.00 paper 978-3-8382-1559-4 2021 210 pages

IBIDEM PRESS

Power, Piety, and People

The Politics of Holy Cities in the Twenty-First Century Michael Dumper

In Power, Piety, and People, Michael Dumper explores the causes and consequences of contemporary conflicts in holy cities. He explains how common features of holy cities, such as powerful autonomous religious hierarchies, income from religious endowments, the presence of sacred sites, and the performance of ritual activities that affect other communities, can combine to create tension.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18477-9 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18476-2 2020 384 pages

Conspiring with the Enemy

The Ethic of Cooperation in Warfare Yvonne Chiu

In Conspiring with the Enemy, Yvonne Chiu offers a new understanding of why and how enemies work together to constrain violence in warfare. Chiu argues that what she calls an ethic of cooperation is found in modern warfare to such an extent that it is often taken for granted.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18245-4 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-18244-7 2019 360 pages Displacement and Citizenship

Histories and Memories of Exclusion Edited by Vijaya Rao, Shambhavi Prakash, Mallarika Sinha Roy, and Papori Bora

This book seeks to explore the multiplicity of memories and experiences of belonging and exclusion in a range of societies that have been marked by displacement. The volume draws from the wide fields of literature, humanities, and social sciences to reflect on the questions of displacement and citizenship from different vantage points.

$52.00 / £40.00 cloth 978-81-939269-5-6 2020 336 pages

TULIKA BOOKS

In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West Wendy Brown

WINNER, CHOICE, OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE Wendy Brown explains the hard-right turn in Western politics. She argues that neoliberalism’s intensification of nihilism, coupled with its accidental wounding of white male supremacy generates an apocalyptic populism willing to destroy the world rather than endure a future in which this supremacy disappears.

$25.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19385-6 $75.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-19384-9 2019 264 pages

THE WELLEK LIBRARY LECTURES

On the Idea of Humanitarian Intervention

A New Compartmentalization of IR Theories Piotr Pietrzak

This study examines the nature of the concept of humanitarian intervention, focusing on its primary function, protection of the endangered civilian populations who find themselves at risk of genocide. The book provides a deep ontological inquiry into the nature, origin, and genesis of the idea of humanitarian intervention.

$60.00 paper 978-3-8382-1592-1 December 2021 382 pages

IBIDEM PRESS