Carol Bacchi, What’s the Problem Represented to Be? A New Thinking Paradigm, Routledge, 2025 Description Originally developed as a mode of critical policy analysis, ‘What’s the Problem Represented to Be?’: A New Thinking Paradigm extends the thinking behind the innovative ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WPR) approach to new areas of investigation. It poses …
Stephen Legg, Spaces of Anticolonialism. Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities, University of Georgia Press, 2025. Interview on the New Books Network, 23 January 2026 A historical geography of spaces of anticolonialism in the capital of contemporary India Spaces of Anticolonialism is the first book-length account of anticolonialism in Delhi, as the capital of Britain’s empire in India. …
Gilles Deleuze, Corso su Michel Foucault. Il sapere| Il potere| La soggettivazione, Ombre Corte, 2025 In occasione del centenario della nascita di Gilles Deleuze, tornano disponibili in un elegante cofanetto tutte le lezioni che il filosofo francese ha tenuto tra il 1985 e il 1986, nel corso dedicato all’opera dell’amico Foucault, a un anno dalla …
Clancy Wilmott, Mobile Mapping Space, Cartography and the Digital, Routledge, 2020 This book argues for a theory of mobile mapping, a situated and spatial approach towards researching how everyday digital mobile media practices are bound up in global systems of knowledge and power. Drawing from literature in media studies and geography — and the work …
Diana Stypinska, On the Genealogy of Critique Or How We Have Become Decadently Indignant, Routledge, 2020 Description On the Genealogy of Critique intervenes into both contemporary academic debates on critique, and today’s mainstream criticism, by reflecting upon the relationship between criticality and social change in the age of post-politics. What does it mean to be …
Tim Christiaens, Joost de Bloois, Stijn De Cauwer, An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought. From Posthumanism to Cyberfascism, Bloomsbury, 2025 Description Over the past three decades, Italian thought has emerged as a major field within continental philosophy. But what are the latest developments since Italian theory rose to a peak of popularity in the 2000s? …
Michel Serres, Hermes III: Translation, Translated by Randolph Burks, University of Minnesota Press, Publication date: February 17th, 2026 Unlocking the hidden patterns of knowledge—where science, art, and philosophy speak a common language Hermes III: Translation is the third volume in Michel Serres’s renowned Hermes series, an ambitious exploration of the deep interconnections among disparate fields …
Stephen W. Sawyer, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Eds.), Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018. Description Few philosophers have garnered as much attention globally as Michel Foucault. But even within this wide reception, the consideration given to his relationship to neoliberalism has been noteworthy. However, the debate over this relationship has given rise to a …
Nick Gallent, Menelaos Gkartzios, Mark Scott, Andrew Purves (Eds), Postcapitalist Countrysides. From commoning to community wealth building, UCL Press, 2025 Open access Postcapitalist Countrysides explores the tensions that arise from the established conventions of economic production and private accumulation, as they affect life, wealth and work in rural areas. Its premise is that capitalism, as …
Robin Hickman, Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility, UCL Press, 2025 Open access Achieving sustainable transport systems and travel behaviours is proving problematic in many cities, including contestation over strategies and projects. Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility challenges the dominant discourses of motorisation and the ineffective implementation of sustainable mobility, arguing that transport planning history is …
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