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  • Book Review: Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism | ACG
    11 December 2020

    Review by Anarchist Communist Group (ACG)
    November 23, 2020
    Darch, Colin. Nestor Makhno and rural anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921. Pluto Press.238 pages. £17.99
    I approached this book with some enthusiasm. A new book on the Makhnovist movement using sources previously unreferenced in the English language world. I was sorely disappointed. I should have read Darch’s doctoral thesis on Makhno, where his bias against Makhno and anarchism is immediately apparent. An example of that (…)

  • Review: Raghavan on ’New threats to human security in the Anthropocene’ by UNDP
    2 December 2022, by G Narasimha Raghavan

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    New threats to human security in the Anthropocene:
    Demanding greater solidarity
    United Nations Development Programme New York: UNDP - 2022, viii+175 pages
    Available at: https://hdr.undp.org/content/2022-special-report-human-security __0__
    The renowned cognitive psychologist, Steven Pinker, said that we are all visual creatures. Images, rather than sound, impact us more. There are three images during the most recent period (an unofficial unit (…)

  • Will the Sun Shine Again in Manipur? | Arup Kumar Sen
    22 June 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

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    Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur Was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained Silent
    by Nandita Haksar
    Speaking tiger (5 January 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354477011 | ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354477010
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    Manipur is burning with hate and violence since May 2023. We the outsiders do not know what triggered this vicious cycle of violence. Nandita Haksar’s recently published book, Shooting the Sun: Why (…)

  • Choices, Priorities, Freedoms and Mahbub ul Haq | Aijaz Ahmed
    25 May 2024

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    Reflections on Human Development Edited by Mahbub ul Haq
    Oxford University Press Inc. UK
    1996, 272 pages Price: 34 pounds
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    The central theme of Mahbub ul Haq’s book, Reflections on Human Development, revolves around a novel development paradigm centered on human well-being. It argues that while income growth is important, it should not be seen as the sole indicator of development nor as the ultimate goal of human life. (…)

  • Review: Switala on A Social Ecology of Capital by Eric Pineault
    25 August 2023

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    Reviewed by Leon Switala
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    A Social Ecology of Capital by Éric Pineault
    Pluto Press 2023. 176 pp. Paperback ISBN: 9780745343778 eBook ISBN: 9780745343792 __0__
    In a recently held presentation, the Canadian sociologist Éric Pineault stated that he was writing his book to show that on a theoretical and empirical basis ‘there is nothing between degrowth and green growth’. He gives systematic arguments that neither position for a growth perspective seems to be (…)

  • Review of Alpa Shah’s The Incarcerations | Anand Chakravarti
    4 May 2024, by Anand Chakravarti

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    The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India
    by Alpa Shah
    HarperCollins Publishers India 2024, xxii + 561pp. Rs.699 P-ISBN 978-93-5489-986-7 (Paperback)
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    This is a book by a scholar of conscience – one who is deeply affected by the perverse use of state power to incarcerate sixteen persons accused of conspiring against the state in the infamous Bhima Koregaon case (henceforth BK case, and (…)

  • Review of Svetlana Alexievich’s Zinky Boys | John Lloyd
    23 March 2024

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    ZINKY BOYS: The Record of a Lost Soviet Generation
    by Svetlana Alexievich
    translated by Julia Whitby and Robin Whitby.
    Chatto, 192 pp., January 1992 0 7011 3838 6
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    Among the many thoughts which this sad, sometimes unreadably sad book suggests is this: did the Afghan war mark the beginning of the most dramatic military event of our time, the dissolution of the Soviet Armed Forces? Did the crumbling of belief and will (…)

  • Review of Leach, Melissa; Fairhead, James, Naturekind: Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human | Louise Westling
    10 April

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    Naturekind:
    Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human
    by Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
    Princeton University Press
    2025. 272 pp.
    (paper) ISBN 978-0-691-27066-1
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    Reviewed by Louise Westling (University of Oregon)
    Melissa Leach and James Fairhead offer a bold new perspective of

  • Commanding prescription for furthering justice through privileging politics over economics | Vijay Kumar
    25 May 2024, by Vijay Kumar

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    Justice by Means of Democracy
    by Danielle Allen
    Indian Print by Satyam Books Pvt. Ltd. 2023 Page 282 Price Rs.995/-
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    The ‘Theory of Justice’ by John Rawls was published in 1971, and since then has been holding the reign of most original work, at least in the post-second World War. The fundamental of Rawlsian paradigm was challenged first time by Prof. Amartya Sen in ‘Idea of Justice’ in 2009 by shifting the focus from (…)

  • A poignant docu-memoir on the Sikhs of Kashmir | Joydip Ghosal
    2 November 2024

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    Those Who Stayed, The Sikhs of Kashmir by Bupinder Singh Bali
    Manjul Publishing House Pvt Ltd 2024, 308 pages ISBN-10 ? : ? 9355436297 ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-9355436290
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    Those Who Stayed, The Sikhs of Kashmir by Bupinder Singh Bali is a poignant narrative on the Sikhs of Kashmir. In this deeply personal saga, he interweaved their past, present and future which stared at deep abyss of uncertainty. In mainstream media and (…)