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Political Theory
The People's Choice
How the Voter Makes Up His Mind in a Presidential Campaign Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson, and Hazel Gaudet
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The People’s Choice is a landmark psychological and statistical study of American voters during the 1940 and 1944 presidential elections, originally published in 1948. It constituted the first systematic effort to trace voters’ behavior across the duration of a presidential campaign and to follow up on this data years later.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19795-3 2021 224 pages
LEGACY EDITIONS
The Way Out
How to Overcome Toxic Polarization Peter T. Coleman
The social psychologist Peter T. Coleman explores how conflict resolution and complexity science provide guidance for dealing with seemingly intractable political differences. The Way Out is a vital and timely guide to breaking free from the cycle of mutual contempt in order to better our lives, relationships, and country.
$27.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19740-3 2021 296 pages 38 illus. 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
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 344 pages 22 illus.
INSURRECTIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION, POLITICS, AND CULTURE
Histories of Racial Capitalism
Edited by Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy
The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. By theorizing and testing the concept of racial capitalism in different historical circumstances, this book shows its analytical and political power for today’s scholars and activists.
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19075-6 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-19074-9 2021 288 pages 5 illus.
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF U.S. CAPITALISM
Twilight Capitalism
Karl Marx and the Decay of the Profit System Murray E. G. Smith, Jonah Butovsky, and Joshua J. Watterton
Twilight Capitalism offers a wide-ranging analysis of the origins, implications, and scope of the “combined” social crisis of 2020 and
beyond. Murray E. G. Smith, Jonah Butovsky, and Joshua J. Watterton compellingly argue that Karl Marx’s critical analysis of capitalism, along with his program of class-struggle socialism, is essential to understanding and addressing the most important social, economic, and ecological problems of our time.
$37.00 paper 978-1-77363-419-7 2021 272 pages
Capitalism and Dispossession
Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad Edited by David P. Thomas and Veldon Coburn
This edited collection brings together a broad range of case studies to highlight the role of Canadian corporations in producing, deepening, and exacerbating conditions of dispossession both at home and abroad. Contributors do not present the cases as exceptional instances of greed or malice, but rather as expected and inherent consequences of contemporary capitalism (and in some cases, settler colonialism).
$26.00 paper 978-1-77363-478-4 October 2021 240 pages
FERNWOOD PUBLISHING
COVID-19 and the Future of Capitalism
Postcapitalist Horizons Beyond NeoLiberalism Efe Can Gürcan, Ömer Ersin Kahraman, and Selen Yanmaz
The authors in this collection posit that COVID-19 could be a turning point for global capitalism. They argue that resistance in the pandemic age may lead to the ultimate defeat of capitalism or its neoliberal incarnation—but only if a new postcapitalist framework is built on new values, and not on the same values and beliefs that are foundational to current-day consumer capitalist society.
$20.00 paper 978-1-77363-257-5 2021 140 pages
Media Capture
How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News Edited by Anya Schiffrin
This book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics on the changing nature and the peril of media capture—that is, how formerly independent institutions fall under the sway of governments, plutocrats, and corporations. Contributors examine the role played by new media companies and funders, showing how the confluence of the growth of big tech and legacy media’s falling revenues has led to new forms of control.
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18883-8 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-18882-1 2021 352 pages
Praxis and Revolution
A Theory of Social Transformation Eva von Redecker Translated by Lucy Duggan
Eva von Redecker reconsiders critical theory’s understanding of radical change in order to offer a bold new account of how revolution occurs. She argues that revolutions are not singular events but extended processes: beginning from the interstices of society, they succeed by gradually rearticulating social structures toward a new paradigm.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19823-3 $145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-19822-6 2021 296 pages
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
Not Exactly Lying
Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History Andie Tucher
From fibs in America’s first newspaper about royal incest to social-media-driven conspiracy theories about Barack Obama’s birthplace, Andie Tucher explores how American audiences have argued over what’s real and what’s not and why that matters for democracy.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18635-3 $115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-18634-6 March 2022 352 pages
Spin Doctors
How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic Nora Loreto
This book meticulously documents the root causes of the struggles amplified by the pandemic and challenges media and politicians who justify the status quo.
$35.00 paper 978-1-77363-487-6 November 2021 368 pages
FERNWOOD PUBLISHING
Sexuality
The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures Michel Foucault
Edited by Claude Doron General Editor: François Ewald English Series Editor: Bernard E. Harcourt Translated by Graham Burchell Foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt
Michel Foucault’s interest in the history of sexuality began as early as the 1960s, when he taught two courses on the subject. These lectures offer crucial insight into the development of Foucault’s thought yet have remained unpublished until recently. This book presents Foucault’s lectures on sexuality for the first time in English.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19507-2 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19506-5 2021 400 pages
FOUCAULT LECTURE SERIES
The Sustainable City
Steven Cohen and Guo Dong Second Edition
The Sustainable City provides a broad and engaging overview of the urban systems of the twenty-first century. This second edition dives deeper into the financing of sustainable infrastructure, reviews current trends in urban inequality, and features many more examples and new international case studies spanning the globe.
$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19655-0 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19654-3 2021 352 pages The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush
Edited by G. Pascal Zachary
The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. Edited by Bush’s biographer, G. Pascal Zachary, this collection presents more than fifty of Bush’s most important works across four decades.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-11643-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-11642-8 January 2022 384 pages
Unnatural Disasters
Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed Gonzalo Lizarralde
Unnatural Disasters offers a new perspective on our most pressing environmental and social challenges, revealing the gaps between abstract concepts like sustainability, resilience, and innovation on the one hand and the real-world experiences of the people living at risk on the other.
$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19810-3 2021 328 pages 24 illus.
What Really Counts
The Case for a Sustainable and Equitable Economy Ronald Colman
What Really Counts is an essential, firsthand story of the promise and the challenges of accounting for social, economic, and environmental benefits and costs. Ronald Colman recounts two decades of working with three governments to adopt measures that more accurately and comprehensively assess true progress.
$30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-19098-5 2021 376 pages Albert O. Hirschman
An Intellectual Biography Michele Alacevich
In this intellectual biography, the economic historian Michele Alacevich explores the development and trajectory of Albert O. Hirschman’s approach to social-scientific questions. Alacevich traces the many strands of Hirschman’s thought and their place in his multifaceted body of work, considering their limitations as well as their strengths.
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19982-7 2021 352 pages 16 illus.
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 288 pages Hermeneutics as Critique
Science, Politics, Race, and Culture Lorenzo C. Simpson
Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only for critical theory but also for addressing many of the urgent issues of today. He shows its utility for unpacking intractable debates in the philosophy of science, multiculturalism, social epistemology, and racial and social justice.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19685-7 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19684-0 2021 256 pages
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
Critique of Latin American Reason Santiago Castro-Gómez Translated by Andrew Ascherl Foreword by Linda Martín Alcoff
Introduction by Eduardo Mendieta
Critique of Latin American Reason is one of the most important philosophical texts to have come out of South America in recent decades. First published in 1996, it offers a sweeping critique of the foundational schools of thought in Latin American philosophy and critical theory.
$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20007-3 $130.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20006-6 2021 352 pages A Constitution of the People and How to Achieve It
What Bosnia and Britain Can Learn From Each Other Aarif Abraham
Britain does not have a written constitution. By contrast, Bosnia’s constitution was written overnight in Dayton to conclude a devastating war. What might these seemingly unrelated countries be able to teach each other? Using Bosnia and Britain as a centerpiece, this book sets out examples for other plural, multiethnic polities to follow.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8382-1516-7 2021 312 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
Out of the Dark Night
Essays on Decolonization Achille Mbembe
In Out of the Dark Night, Achille Mbembe offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment that points toward new liberatory models of community and humanity. In a nuanced consideration of the African experience, Mbembe makes sweeping interventions into debates about citizenship, identity, democracy, and modernity. He ranges across European and African thought to provide a powerful assessment of common ways of writing and thinking about Africa.
$30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-16028-5 2021 288 pages 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
Recognition and Ambivalence Edited by Heikki Ikäheimo, Kristina Lepold, and Titus Stahl
This book brings together leading scholars in social and political philosophy to develop new perspectives on recognition and its role in social life. It begins with a debate between Axel Honneth and Judith Butler, the first sustained engagement between these two major thinkers on this subject.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17761-0 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-17760-3 2021 352 pages
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
Perilous Medicine
The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War Leonard Rubenstein
Leonard Rubenstein—a human rights lawyer who has investigated atrocities around the world—offers a gripping and powerful account of the dangers health workers face during conflict and the legal, political, and moral struggle to protect them. Along the way, he shares the stories of people who have been attacked while seeking to serve patients.
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19246-0 2021 416 pages Crisis Under Critique
How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations Edited by Didier Fassin and Axel Honneth
Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and an assembly of leading thinkers examine how people experience, interpret, and contribute to the making of and the response to critical situations. Featuring analysis from below as well as above, from the inside as well as the outside, Crisis Under Critique is a singular intervention.
$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20433-0 $160.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-20432-3 February 2022 408 pages
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
Regardless of Frontiers
Global Freedom of Expression in a Troubled World Edited by Lee C. Bollinger and Agnes Callamard
This volume brings together leading experts from a variety of fields to critically evaluate the extent to which global norms on freedom of expression and information have been established and which actors and institutions have contributed to their diffusion.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19699-4 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19698-7 2021 440 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 prison notebook devoted to the theme of subaltern social groups. It includes a critical apparatus that clarifies Gramsci’s history, culture, and sources and contextualizes these ideas against his earlier writings and letters.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19039-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19038-1 2021 256 pages
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Education
A Global Compact for a Time of Crisis Edited by Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco
This book calls for a new global approach to education to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Contributors emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20435-4 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-204347 February 2022 304 pages
Soft-Power Internationalism
Competing for Cultural Influence in the 21st-Century Global Order Edited by Burcu Baykurt and Victoria de Grazia
This book is a global comparative history of how “soft power” came to define the interregnum between the celebration of global capitalism in the 1990s and the recent resurgence of nationalism and authoritarianism. It brings together case studies from the European Union, China, Brazil, Turkey, and the United States.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19545-4 $145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-19544-7 2021 352 pages The Long Year
A 2020 Reader Edited by Thomas J. Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom
In The Long Year, some of the world’s most incisive thinkers excavate 2020’s buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future.
$22.95 / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-20453-8 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-20452-1 December 2021 560 pages
