From the Archive: Lone Riisgaard and Bjørn Thomassen, 'Powers of the Mask: Political Subjectivation and Rites of Participation in Local-Global Protest'. (2016) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
ICYMI: Matthew Abbey, 'Calculating Deaths, Dystopic Futures: Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer' - seeks to learn from filmmaker Bong Joon Ho’s depiction of a statistically dependent world through a close analysis of the film 'Snowpiercer'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
ICYMI: Erich Hörl and Premesh Lalu, 'Unseating Mastery: The University and the Promise of the New' - focuses on efforts to link discordant temporal and spatial encounters with the idea of the university. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
From the Archive: Heidi Kellett, '‘Skin Portraiture’ in the Age of Bio Art: Bodily Boundaries, Technology and Difference in Contemporary Visual Culture'. (2018) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
From the Archive: Nicholas Gane, Couze Venn and Martin Hand, 'Ubiquitous Surveillance: Interview with Katherine Hayles' - focused on new forms of surveillance that were emerging through radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies. (2007) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
From the current issue of Body & Society: Meredith Bessey and Carla Rice, ' A feminist neomaterialist exploration of bariatric surgery in Canada'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
Latest book review: Yuxiang Duan and Zhen Wang review Franka Schäfer’s 'Discourse: Event: Practice. Research Program based on the Concept of Events to Overcome the Dichotomy between Theories of Discourse and Practice'. (Free to read) theoryculturesociety.org/blo…
ICYMI: Carlos Spoerhase, 'The ‘Scholarship Boy’: Autobiographical Narratives of Social Mobility' - examines the ‘scholarship boy’, a working-class individual who gains access to elite education through government assistance. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
From the Archive: Alberto Romele and Marta Severo, 'The Economy of the Digital Gift: From Socialism to Sociality Online' - discusses the value of gift exchange in online social media. (2016) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
ICYMI: Nicholas Gane, 'Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism' - reviews a lecture series by Gillian Rose on Frankfurt School critical theory, which was delivered at the University of Sussex in 1979 and is now published under the title 'Marxist Modernism'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
From the Archive: Clare Birchall, 'Transparency, Interrupted: Secrets of the Left' - asks whether the value ascribed to transparency limits political thinking, particularly for the radical and socialist Left. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
From the Archive: Amy Hinterberger, ' Investing in Life, Investing in Difference: Nations, Populations and Genomes' - explores the scientific practice of human genome science in light of Michel Foucault’s articulation of the problem of population. (2012) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
Latest issue: L. Plate, V.J. Fisher, F. Nabibaks and M. Feenstra, 'What bodies: Dance, affect, and the Dutch colonial past' - reports on dance theatre work bringing bodily affectivity concerning Dutch colonial slavery into focal awareness. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
From the Archive: Lily Kong, 'Transnational Mobilities and the Making of Creative Cities' - focuses on the literature on creative cities, paying attention to the ways transnational mobilities contribute significantly to the making of such cities. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
ICYMI: Shoko Yoneyama, 'Miyazaki Hayao’s Animism and the Anthropocene' - proposes that the animism presented by Miyazaki Hayao of Studio Ghibli opens a new perspective on responding to the climate crisis and the Anthropocene. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
ICYMI: Haram Lee, 'The Antinomy of the Anthropocene: The Narrative of Enlightenment in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Ecological Theory' - examines Chakrabarty’s ecological theory concerning human agency in Anthropocene discourse. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
From the Archive: Julian Henriques, 'Rhythmic Bodies: Amplification, Inflection and Transduction in the Dance Performance Techniques of the “Bashment Gal"' - explores the rhythmic body with the example of the embodiment of the ‘bashment gal’. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
Online First: Tiziana Terranova and Denise Ferreira da Silva, 'A Treatment of the Idea(l) of the Commons: A Conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva' - addresses the intrinsic limitations of the theme of the commons. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
From the latest issue of Body & Society: Matteo Di Placido and Giuseppe Giordan, 'Multiple habitus: Italian Buddhism, neoliberalism, and embodiment'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…