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• Review: Emily Laurent-Monaghan on ‘Pleasure Erased’ by Catherine Malabou
  23 December 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Emily Laurent-Monaghan
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  Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought by Catherine Malabou
  Polity 2022. 150 pp. ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509549935 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1509549931
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  Unlike ‘woman’ or ‘sex’, the clitoris is not an overdetermined signifier. On the contrary, in Pleasure Erased, Catherine Malabou argues that the clitoris, despite its forcible erasure, persists, waiting to be thought. Arguably one of the most dynamic philosophers thinking today, Malabou (…)

• Review: Fighting the Left | Matthew A. Hall
  7 July 2023

  BOOK REVIEW
  Reviewed by Matthew A. Hall (University of California, San Diego)
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  Anti-Leftist Politics in Modern World History: Avoiding "Socialism" at All Costs
  by Philip B. Minehan
  Bloomsbury Academic 2022 - Illustrations. 288 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-17064-3 (paper), ISBN 978-1-350-22979-2
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  When Francisco Franco and other officers rose against the Spanish Republic in July 1936, it was above all the working class that fought the attempted coup d’etat to a (…)

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

  BOOK REVIEW
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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 (…)

• US Internment in the Second World War | Jean-Michel Turcotte
  3 June 2022

  Reviewed by Jean-Michel Turcotte (Leibniz Institute for European History) __0__
  Marilyn Grace Miller. Port of No Return: Enemy Alien Internment in World War II New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021. 296 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8071-7527-9.
  John E. Schmitz. Enemies among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. (…)

• All-encompassing Economic History of Indian Peasantry
  26 December 2009, by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

  BOOK REVIEW
  Peasant History of Late Pre-Colonial and Colonial India by Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri; Pearson Education, New Delhi; 2008; pp. xxv+939.
  It is always difficult to review a book by a teacher. Such a review always tends to become a tribute rather than a critical analysis of the content and arguments of the book. And I will not even try to pretend that I have been able to avoid that pitfall here, for I learnt my first lessons in the economic history of India from Professor Binay (…)

• Book Review: Subramanian on Moulik’s ’Rogues among the Ruins’
  18 June 2021

  ‘Rogues among the Ruins’
  by Achala Moulik
  December 2021 | 312 pages
  ISBN: 978-93-89136-69-2
  Olive Turtle - Niyogi Books
  The novel by Achala Moulik titled ‘Rogues among the Ruins’, Neogi Publishers, was debated recently at a book discussion at the IIC New Delhi. I was among the five discussants, including the distinguished author who explained why she wrote the novel. The discussion was stimulating.
  The author was educated abroad and took a degree from the London University. She (…)

• Review: Thakuria on Marriott’s edited volume, India through Hindu Categories
  7 January 2023

  Review by Trishna Mani Thakuria __0__
  India through Hindu Categories
  by McKim Marriott (ed.)
  New Delhi: Sage
  1990. Xvi+209 pp. Plates, Maps, References, Errata, Index. Rs. 450 (hardback)
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  This book is an ambitious attempt in the form of collective effort of academic intellectuals to understand social behaviour of people from cultural categories, splitting out from the bias of general social science which analyses social behaviour and configuration under certain fixed (…)

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

  Reviewed by G Narasimha Raghavan __0__
  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 (…)

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

  BOOK REVIEW
  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 (…)

• Dwindling Loyalty of India
  9 August 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Secession of the Successful: The Flight out of New India
  by Sanjaya Baru
  Penguin/Viking
  Pages: xxix + 289
  Price: Rs 799