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  • The formative years of a communist organiser | Joydip Ghosal
    9 March 2024

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    An Education for Rita A Memoir 1975-1985
    by Brinda Karat
    Leftword, January 2024
    (Paperback) ISBN 978-93-92018-21-3
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    Brinda Karat, a former member of Rajya Sabha is one of the founders of All India Democratic Women’s Association. A member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India( Marxist) she penned down a memoir titled An Education for Rita, A Memoir 1975-1985. She dedicated the memoir to her comrades in (…)

  • Teresa Huhle. Review of Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II by Rebecca Herman
    20 April 2024

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    Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America
    by Rebecca Herman
    Oxford University Press
    2022. 320 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-753187-7
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    During World War II, the United States Army deployed aircrafts and troops in sixteen Latin American countries, utilizing existing defense sites, but more importantly, constructing numerous new bases. Focusing on (…)

  • Smith on Moseley, ’Marx’s Theory of Value in Chapter 1 of Capital: A Critique of Heinrich’s Value-Form Interpretation’
    7 September 2024

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    Marx’s Theory of Value in Chapter 1 of Capital: A Critique of Heinrich’s Value-Form Interpretation
    by Fred Moseley
    Palgrave Macmillan 2023. xxix + 167 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-3-031-13209-4.
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    Reviewed by Jason E. Smith (Art Center College of Design)
    Marx and Method
    For the past few decades, Fred Moseley, a professor of economics at Mount Holyoke College until his recent retirement in 2016, has been a leading figure (…)

  • Alice Oates. Review of Grossman, Sara J., Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy
    15 March 2024

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    by Alice Oates
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    Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy
    by Sara J. Grossman
    Duke University Press 2023. Illustrations. 264 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-2502-3 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4780-2005-9
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    Immeasurable Weather is the story of “how settler colonialism, white supremacy, and heteropatriachal power informed, upheld, and bolstered meteorological science and data (…)

  • Review of Kaplan and Illouz’s ’What is Sexual Capital?’’
    12 April 2024

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    What is Sexual Capital?
    by Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz
    Polity Press, Cambridge 2022. 140 pp., pb ISBN 9781509552320
    Reviewed by Emily Laurent-Monaghan
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    Beginning with a note of irony, What is Sexual Capital? poses a seemingly straightforward question: ’what is sexual capital?’ The authors Dana Kaplan and Eva Illouz begin by taking stock of recent sociological efforts to pursue the task of doing sociology more (…)

  • Review of Markus Rediker et. al. (eds.) A Global History of Runaways | Mark Dunick
    6 April 2024

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    A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism 1600-1850
    by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, Matthias van Rossum, eds.
    University of California Press 2019. Pages: 280 ISBN: 9780520304369.
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    Workers on the Run during the Rise of Capitalism
    The rise of the European empires between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries led to the creation of an increasingly global economic system based on long-distance trade, commodity production, and (…)

  • It’s All About Modi, Only Modi | Papri Sri Raman
    6 April 2024, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

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    India’s Soul Possessed
    by L K Sharma
    Kindle Edition
    Notion Press
    July 18, 2023 | 471 pages | ASIN : B0CF53VX53
    via Amazon
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    The writer of the book, India’s Soul Possessed: New India

  • Lukas Ley’s Review of The Pulse of the Earth by Adam Bobbette
    12 April 2024

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    Duke University Press 2023. 248 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4780-2708-9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-2505-4 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4780-2007-3
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    Dandy Volcanoes
    The Pulse of the Earth by Adam Bobette invites readers to get up close to the formation of the earth. This book is about active volcanoes in Indonesia, whose craters animate both (…)

  • Freeman’s Review of Elizabeth Flock. The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice
    4 May 2024

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    Reviewed by Jo Freeman
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    The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice by Elizabeth Flock
    Harper 2024. 293 pp. ISBN: 9780063048805 ISBN 10: 0063048809
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    Women Who Fight Back
    The author’s quest to find women who fought back began when she was raped by a tour guide in Rome after he slipped her a sedative. She did not report the incident because she did not think anyone would believe her. But it consumed her thoughts for (…)

  • 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 (…)