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Gary Slater, Lisa Landoe Hedrick eds. Ethics Across Borders: Reimagining Religious, Political, and Ecological Divides – Routledge, December 2025 Ethics Across Borders assembles perspectives from geographers, historians, theologians, philosophers […]

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<p>Gary Slater, Lisa Landoe Hedrick eds. <em><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Ethics-Across-Borders-Reimagining-Religious-Political-and-Ecological/Landoe-Hedrick-Slater/p/book/9781032894577">Ethics Across Borders: Reimagining Religious, Political, and Ecological Divide</a></em>s – Routledge, December 2025</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ethics-across-borders.webp"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54384" height="255" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ethics-across-borders.webp?w=180" width="180" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p><em>Ethics Across Borders</em>&nbsp;assembles perspectives from geographers, historians, theologians, philosophers, and scientists to explore ethically relevant connections across multiple types of borders.</p> <p>The contemporary global order is fluid, increasingly unstable, and riven with borders at countless and complex points. Religious, political, and ecological borders hold particular significance, where interactions carry compounding social and environmental consequences. As the first collected volume to look at these three types of borders, both from an interdisciplinary perspective and as distinct forms, it demonstrates the value of thinking across borders as an ethical project. Taking Simone Weil’s perspective that every separation is a link, it posits that separations within sovereignty, species, and religion become links between political, ecological, and theological perspectives, and that boundaries within human life have taken on ecological significance in the age of the Anthropocene. In this framing, religion interacts with the political and the ecological in three ways: as foundational to sovereignty, as an influence on perspectives on contemporary boundaries, and as morally and philosophically implicated in the human/nonhuman interactions that ground environmental ethics.</p> <p><em>Ethics Across Borders&nbsp;</em>offers lessons on how to reimagine borders and how to engage more justly with ecological systems and human communities. It will appeal to readers in environmental and religious ethics, philosophy, and border studies.</p> </blockquote>
December 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn and Nicholas Draper, Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past – UCL Press, November 2025 (print and open access) This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research […]

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<p>Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn and Nicholas Draper, <em><a href="https://uclpress.co.uk/book/teaching-slavery/">Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past</a></em> – UCL Press, November 2025 (print and open access)</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/teaching-slavery.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54240" height="978" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/teaching-slavery.jpeg?w=652" style="width: 303px; height: auto;" width="652" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the classroom. It provides an essential framework for transforming how slavery is conceptualised and taught in British secondary schools by addressing three specific areas of concern: limits of teacher training on historical content and pedagogical approaches; the scarcity of high-quality, appropriate, research-based resources; and the lack of published material to guide teachers on the principles, knowledge and practice for ethical classroom engagement.</p> <p>Drawing on insights from a long-term partnership between historians and educators,&nbsp;<em>Teaching Slavery</em>combines sophisticated historical analysis with practical pedagogical guidance. The early part of the book offers thorough historiographical examination of key themes, including race, the gendering of slavery, resistance and rethinking abolition. These are followed by detailed guidance on overcoming the challenges of teaching these histories, including exemplar enquiries to help establish a classroom where teachers and students can confidently engage in dialogue about key ideas, including the construction of race and racism. Throughout, the authors emphasise the importance of historical specificity and the need to critically engage with Britain’s history of slavery and empire.</p> </blockquote>
December 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Michaela Fišerová and Jakub Mácha eds. Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking – Routledge, January 2026 Just a very expensive hardback listed at the moment. This volume offers a fresh and timely contribution to current […]

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<p>Michaela Fišerová and Jakub Mácha eds. <em><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Metaphysics-and-Aesthetics-of-Decoration-Ornamental-Thinking/Fierov-Mcha/p/book/9781041143864">Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration: Ornamental Thinking</a></em> – Routledge, January 2026</p> <p>Just a very expensive hardback listed at the moment.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ornamental-thinking.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54370" height="538" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ornamental-thinking.jpeg?w=350" style="width: 260px; height: auto;" width="350" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>This volume offers a fresh and timely contribution to current discussions of ornamentation, repetition, and affect in aesthetics and philosophy. It provides new insights into how ornamentation shapes artistic, philosophical, and social practices, positioning it as a dynamic force in contemporary thought.</p> <p>Through interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars, the volume interrogates ornamentation’s role in structuring metaphysics, aesthetics, and interspecies relations. It challenges the traditional notion that ornament is mere decoration and reframes it as a vital philosophical and cultural concept. Drawing on thinkers like Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, and Foucault, the contributors explore how ornamentation operates as a parergon, a site of affective repetition, or a marker of epistemological shifts. From critiques of Kantian hierarchies in craft to analyses of Baroque aesthetics and animal territoriality, the chapters reveal ornamentation as both a boundary and a bridge – simultaneously peripheral and essential to meaning-making. This volume offers new and unique perspectives on ornamentation’s universal and culturally specific dimensions.</p> <p><em>Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration</em>&nbsp;will&nbsp;appeal&nbsp;to scholars and advanced students interested in aesthetics, metaphysics, continental philosophy, and art theory.</p> </blockquote>
December 22, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Ana Maria Albulescu, Third-Party Mediation and Peace Processes in the Post-Soviet Space: Norms, Interests and Power – Routledge, December 2025 This book examines the success of third-party mediation in conflicts in the post-Soviet space. Third-party mediation is the subject of … Continue reading →
<p>Ana Maria Albulescu, <em><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Third-Party-Mediation-and-Peace-Processes-in-the-Post-Soviet-Space-Norms-Interests-and-Power/Albulescu/p/book/9781003510239">Third-Party Mediation and Peace Processes in the Post-Soviet Space: Norms, Interests and Power</a></em> – Routledge, December 2025</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/albulescu.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54359" height="535" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/albulescu.jpeg?w=350" style="width: 270px; height: auto;" width="350" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>This book examines the success of third-party mediation in conflicts in the post-Soviet space.</p> <p>Third-party mediation is the subject of an extensive literature dealing with the resolution of internal conflicts. This volume examines the conditions that contribute to the success or failure of third-party mediation, and the positions and interests of mediators involved in the resolution of intra-state internationalized conflict. These topics are addressed with regard to the frozen conflicts in Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Donbas and Nagorno-Karabakh. The book contributes timely research to a growing body of literature concerned with the resolution of intractable conflict in the post-Soviet space and deals primarily with the role of external actors in addressing these conflicts. It proposes a novel conceptual framework centred on norms, power and interests to cover the relationships developed between third-party mediators and primary parties in secessionist conflicts during negotiations for peace. The book’s core argument is that multiple competing proposals for settlement and the clashing interests of third parties often contribute to the increase in spoiling, hindering the opportunity to take advantage of the ripe moment for peace.</p> <p>This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, mediation, eastern European and Central Asian politics, and International Relations.</p> </blockquote>
December 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Jacques Derrida, Témoigner: Séminaire (1992-1993) – eds. Peggy Kamuf and David Wills, Seuil, November 2025 Des fantômes hantent ces pages, les fantômes de témoins disparus. Leur passage est annoncé par un propos du poète Paul Celan : « Nul ne … Continue reading →
<p>Jacques Derrida, <em><a href="https://www.seuil.com/ouvrage/temoigner-jacques-derrida/9782021591590">Témoigner: Séminaire (1992-1993)</a></em> – eds. Peggy Kamuf and David Wills, Seuil, November 2025</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/derrida-temoigner.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54428" height="600" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/derrida-temoigner.jpeg?w=382" width="382" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p> Des fantômes hantent ces pages, les fantômes de témoins disparus. Leur passage est annoncé par un propos du poète Paul Celan : « Nul ne témoigne pour le témoin. » C’est à partir de ces vers que Jacques Derrida demande ce que « témoigner » veut dire dans un<br />séminaire de l’année 1992-1993. Poursuivant la problématique ouverte l’année précédente ayant pour motif l’affaire du « secret », le philosophe questionne ici l’expérience de ce qui est pour lui l’acte le plus quotidien des êtres parlants — car « chaque fois que je parle je témoigne dans la mesure où tout énoncé implique “je te dis la vérité, je te dis ce que je<br />pense, je témoigne devant toi” ».<br />Témoigner devant un tribunal ne serait donc qu’un cas particulier de ce principe de fiabilité ou de crédibilité, d’engagement envers l’autre fondé sur la foi en l’autre, sur la structure du serment, que le nom de Dieu soit prononcé ou non, que cela ait lieu dans une situation judiciaire ou dans un engagement passionnel, voire une banale conversation. Le principe sera testé dans des circonstances diverses qui vont du grand paradigme qu’est la Shoah (représenté tant par la poésie de Celan que par le film de Claude Lanzmann) au procès de Rodney King (qui avait lieu à Los Angeles à l’époque), de l’énoncé « je t’aime » à des discussions sur Descartes, Husserl, Heidegger et Blanchot.<br />Au cœur de ces recherches se trouvent la distinction entre témoigner et prouver, la possibilité « nécessaire » du parjure, et le dilemme d’un moment unique que le témoin doit éprouver puis répéter en le racontant, dilemme retrouvé dans le témoignage vidéo et d’autres médiations modernes qui ne cessent de démontrer la contemporanéité et la pérennité des enjeux abondants du volume.</p> </blockquote>
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Magdalena Buchczyk, Martín Fonck, Tomás J. Usón and Tina Palaić eds., Unearthing Collections: Archives, time and ethics – UCL Press, November 2025 (print and open access) Unearthing Collections invites readers to reconsider the ethics of collections and archives through the lens … Continue reading →
<p>Magdalena Buchczyk, Martín Fonck, Tomás J. Usón and Tina Palaić eds., <em><a href="https://uclpress.co.uk/book/unearthing-collections/">Unearthing Collections: Archives, time and ethics</a></em> – UCL Press, November 2025 (print and open access)</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/unearthing-collections.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54244" height="978" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/unearthing-collections.jpeg?w=652" style="width: 275px; height: auto;" width="652" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p><em>Unearthing Collections</em>&nbsp;invites readers to reconsider the ethics of collections and archives through the lens of temporality. Drawing on case studies that range from community protests over glacial sampling to the ethical dilemmas of housing human remains in museum collections and acquiring ephemeral political art, the authors interrogate the urgent challenges of collecting, displaying and preserving traces.</p> <p>The book is framed around the concept of ‘unearthing’, the process of revealing hidden truths, excavating layers of history, and uncovering the unknown. It explores how the pursuit of knowledge often comes at the cost of displacement, exploitation, commodification, and the enduring legacies of imperialism and colonialism.</p> <p>Alongside critique of the extractive practices that shaped many collections and archives, the book proposes a shift towards ‘re-earthing’, a practice that reconfigures how we understand and engage with knowledge about traces. As a critical approach, re-earthing acknowledges the messy, entangled nature of traces of the past, rejecting attempts to purify or control them in collections and archives, so they may evolve into new forms of knowledge. This innovative perspective challenges scholars, archivists, artists, and collection practitioners to rethink their approach to time and trace, urging them to disrupt dominant chronologies and cultivate new ethical approaches for working with collections and archives.</p> </blockquote>
December 18, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Beata Dreksler, Jala Makhzoumi eds. Landscape Architecture in the Arab Middle East – Routledge, September 2025 This book explores the challenges facing landscape architecture in the Middle East. It supports the idea that landscape is a multifaceted […]

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<p>Beata Dreksler, Jala Makhzoumi eds. <em><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Landscape-Architecture-in-the-Arab-Middle-East/Dreksler-Makhzoumi/p/book/9781032866543">Landscape Architecture in the Arab Middle East</a> </em>– Routledge, September 2025</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/landscape-architecture-1.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54389" height="272" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/landscape-architecture-1.jpeg?w=180" width="180" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>This book explores the challenges facing landscape architecture in the Middle East. It supports the idea that landscape is a multifaceted idea, and examines landscapes architecture as an emerging profession in the region. The book also responds to the limitations of faulty translations of the English ‘landscape’ that, in turn, limit the professional potential in the region.</p> <p>The authors of the book see landscape as a way of beholding the world that is informed by place and culture. And because landscape is context specific, a landscape framing contextualizes a problem, be it community development, tourism, or nature conservation, to foster place and culture responsive perspectives. The nine chapters are grouped under four broad themes that reflect the multifaceted, ‘expansive’ framing that embraces landscape, natural and cultural heritage, people and livelihoods, and landscape and human rights.</p> <p>The authors recognize that a landscape framing is not the exclusive domain of landscape architecture, but can be applied by architects, planners, and environmentalists. The ideas advanced and issues discussed will be of interest to researchers, students, and practitioners in landscape architecture, architecture, planning, and urban design, as well as social and environmental scientists.</p> </blockquote>
December 18, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Samuel A. Moore, Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons – University of Michigan Press, September 2025 New Books discussion with Stephen Pinfield – thanks to dmf for the link Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move … Continue reading →
<p>Samuel A. Moore, <em><a href="https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market">Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons</a></em> – University of Michigan Press, September 2025</p> <p><a href="https://newbooksnetwork.com/publishing-beyond-the-market">New Books discussion with Stephen Pinfield</a> – thanks to dmf for the link</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/moore.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54375" height="515" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/moore.jpeg?w=368" style="width: 288px; height: auto;" width="368" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p><em>Publishing Beyond the Market</em>&nbsp;argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for scholarly communication. By deploying theoretical literature on science and technology studies, care ethics, and the commons, the book critically interrogates open access and reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing. A case study of Plan S—the multifunder European policy for open access publishing—explores its tendency to rehearse all the failures of commercialisation. Through critical engagement with the open access landscape, the book reveals the shortcomings of market-centric and policy-based approaches to open access book and journal publishing, particularly their tendency to reinforce conservatism, commercialism, and private control of publishing.</p> <p>Going forward,&nbsp;<em>Publishing Beyond the Market</em>&nbsp;explores the importance of collectivity and democratic governance within the transition to open access publishing. It suggests that developing a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape through a series of presses that are each managed by working academics could offer a productive counterpoint to marketised systems of open access and subscription publishing. In weaving themselves together in order to “scale small” these publishing initiatives would act as a counter-hegemonic project based on mutual reliance and care. By illustrating how these projects build toward a commons-based publishing future, and how they may complement other approaches to publishing within university presses and libraries, the book culminates in an argument for the infrastructures, policies, and forms of governance needed to nurture such a collective vision.</p> </blockquote>
December 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025
<p>Charles J. Stivale, <em><a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-unfolding-the-deleuze-seminars-1970-1987.html">Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary</a></em> – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/deleuze.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54170" height="750" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/deleuze.jpeg?w=500" style="width: 274px; height: auto;" width="500" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>A rich resource of Deleuze’s research that is unavailable in his published writing</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Includes summaries of 216 seminar sessions available in transcripts and recordings</li> <li>Summaries are based on research for the Deleuze Seminars project (co-directed by Charles J. Stivale and Daniel W. Smith), where full transcripts and translations, to which readers will have access for simultaneous or subsequent consultation, have been developed by an international team of scholar-translators</li> <li>Alongside summaries, an attached critical apparatus provides references to corresponding links within Deleuze’s writings, seminars, and other sources to facilitate additional research</li> </ul> <p>The texts in this volume &#8211; summaries of the 216 seminars taught by Gilles Deleuze &#8211; provide unique insight into the latter half of Deleuze’s teaching career. Deleuze understood his seminars as a laboratory for developing his ongoing research, and this volume is a guide to the creative becomings in the development of his philosophical works through teaching.&nbsp;<br /><br />From&nbsp;<em>Anti-Oedipus</em>&nbsp;(1972) to&nbsp;<em>The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque</em>&nbsp;(1987), Deleuze examined a wide range of philosophical perspectives in pursuit of successive thematic topics. These summaries and commentaries serve as incitement for further research, allowing readers familiar with Deleuze’s work to find new angles of approach and providing greater access to readers coming to his work for the first time.</p> </blockquote>
December 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Drew Flanagan, From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1955 – LSU Press, April 2026 After the collapse of the National Socialist regime in May 1945, France became one of four principal occupying powers in a … Continue reading →
<p>Drew Flanagan, <em><a href="https://lsupress.org/9780807186787/from-occupation-to-integration/">From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1955</a></em> – LSU Press, April 2026</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/flanagan.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54162" height="437" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/flanagan.jpeg?w=298" width="298" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>After the collapse of the National Socialist regime in May 1945, France became one of four principal occupying powers in a defeated Germany. Within their zone of occupation along the Upper and Middle Rhine, French occupiers participated in the Allied project to remake German society. In the process, they confronted the long history of Franco-German rivalry in the region and their country’s diminished power in the wake of World War II.</p> <p><em>From Occupation to Integration</em>&nbsp;explores how French ideas about civilization and the civilizing process shaped the practice of occupation in the French Zone and the early stages of European integration. The French Zone was set apart from the other Allied zones by the occupiers’ belief that Nazi “barbarism” was deeply rooted in German culture and history. In seeking to transform the Germans along their border into acceptable partners for France within a united western Europe, the French occupiers applied aspects of France’s universal “civilizing” mission, adapting strategies and practices developed in the country’s overseas colonies to fit a European population.</p> <p>Whether implementing counterinsurgency methods developed in French North Africa in the pacification and control of their zone or attempting to address what they perceived as the deep-rooted flaws of German culture through reeducation and propaganda, the French applied their civilizational thinking, using that vision to justify and guide the first postwar attempts at cross-border economic integration. Through both conflicts and cooperation with the German population, the French in occupied Germany negotiated a shared vision of western European civilization that they hoped would ensure French leadership in Europe.</p> <p>In this engaging study, Drew Flanagan deftly details and analyzes the entanglement between the Europeanization of the French Zone and decolonization in France’s empire, prompting readers to consider the continued impact of colonial and imperial ideas and practices on contemporary Europe and the European Union.</p> </blockquote>
December 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Andrea Bardin, Marco Ferrari, Anaïs Nony and Gregorio Tenti eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Gilbert Simondon – Edinburgh University Press, October 2025
<p>Andrea Bardin, Marco Ferrari, Anaïs Nony and Gregorio Tenti eds. <em><a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-gilbert-simondon.html">The Edinburgh Companion to Gilbert Simondon</a></em> – Edinburgh University Press, October 2025</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/simondon.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54089" height="750" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/simondon.jpeg?w=500" style="width: 252px; height: auto;" width="500" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>An exhaustive introduction to Gilbert Simondon’s oeuvre</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Covers all the different areas of Gilbert Simondon’s work</li> <li>Gathers many established researchers with different perspectives and expertise</li> <li>A landmark text for students of Simondon’s philosophy</li> </ul> <p><em>The Edinburgh Companion to Gilbert Simondon&nbsp;</em>displays both the internal coherence of Simondon’s work and its innovative potential in a variety of research fields. The complexity of his philosophical enterprise is rigorously interpreted and made available to researchers that are keen to cross disciplinary boundaries and explore new appropriations of his research. Structured in four distinct sections, the volume hosts a collection of essays penned by scholars who have been working on and through Simondon for several years across different disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, politics, law, media, architecture, economy, and ecology. Topics covered range from individuation, technology, imagination and the transindividual to metastability and more.</p> </blockquote>
December 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Keith Ansell-Pearson, Nietzsche’s Earthbound Wisdom: The Philosopher, the Poet, and the Sage – University of Chicago Press, May 2025 An incisive exploration of Nietzsche as a bold, visionary poet-philosopher. Today, Nietzsche is justly celebrated […]

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<p>Keith Ansell-Pearson, <em><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo244498925.html">Nietzsche’s Earthbound Wisdom: The Philosopher, the Poet, and the Sage</a></em> – University of Chicago Press, May 2025 </p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ansell-pearson.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54157" height="1024" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ansell-pearson.jpeg?w=683" style="width: 275px; height: auto;" width="683" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>An incisive exploration of Nietzsche as a bold, visionary poet-philosopher.<br /><br />Today, Nietzsche is justly celebrated for his rich, philosophical naturalism, but Keith Ansell-Pearson warns that we must not overlook the visionary dimension of his thinking and his focus on the need to cultivate a new care of the self and care of life. In <em>Nietzsche’s Earthbound Wisdom</em>, Ansell-Pearson recovers Nietzsche’s love for a philosophy that guides us through our passions, one that opens us more fully to the possibilities of life and the joy of knowledge.</p> <p>Ansell-Pearson offers close readings of Nietzsche’s texts in conversation with philosophical and literary figures including Augustine, Baudelaire, Carlyle, Dostoevsky, Emerson, Flaubert, Stendhal, and more. Throughout, Ansell-Pearson examines Nietzsche’s sophisticated critique of literary naturalism and his alternative conception of the poet as a seer who has a deep longing for a new earth.</p> </blockquote>
December 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
John Schad, Walter Benjamin’s Ark: A Departure in Biography – UCL Press, November 2025 (print and open access) In July 1940, amidst fear of Nazi invasion, HMT Dunera left England. On board were a few British soldiers guarding over 2000 interned male … Continue reading →
<p>John Schad, <em><a href="https://uclpress.co.uk/book/walter-benjamins-ark/">Walter Benjamin’s Ark: A Departure in Biography</a></em> – UCL Press, November 2025 (print and open access)</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/benjamins-ark.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54250" height="979" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/benjamins-ark.jpeg?w=652" style="width: 304px; height: auto;" width="652" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>In July 1940, amidst fear of Nazi invasion, HMT&nbsp;<em>Dunera</em>&nbsp;left England. On board were a few British soldiers guarding over 2000 interned male Enemy Aliens, mostly Germans. Some of the internees were passionate Nazis, but most were Jewish refugees. Among them was Stefan Raphael Benjamin, the estranged child of the German-Jewish intellectual, Walter Benjamin.</p> <p>Cue&nbsp;<em>Walter Benjamin’s Ark</em>&nbsp;which re-reads the life and work of Walter Benjamin via the curious life of his only child. The focal point is Stefan’s dramatic voyage from England to Australia in 1940, a voyage rich in intellectual suggestion, shared as it was with obscure men with famous names such as Wittgenstein, Kafka, Marx and Wilde. Central to the book is the one substantive text that can be ascribed to Stefan: Benjamin’s meticulous transcription of Stefan’s utterances as an infant. This fascinating text has been largely overlooked, despite the insistence of Benjamin’s biographers that ‘it continued to play a role in Walter Benjamin’s writing until the end of his life’. This book thus seeks not only to bring into view the intriguing figure that is Stefan but also to identify him as that most crucial of Benjaminian spectres, namely, the secret ‘you’ or addressee of Benjamin’s writings.</p> </blockquote>
December 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng, Jonathan Silver and Alan Wiig eds. The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road – Bristol University Press, November 2025 (print and open access) China’s Belt … Continue reading →
<p>Elia Apostolopoulou, Han Cheng, Jonathan Silver and Alan Wiig eds. <em><a href="https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-material-geographies-of-the-belt-and-road-initiative">The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative: Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road</a></em> – Bristol University Press, November 2025 (print and open access)</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/belt-road.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-54014" height="400" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/belt-road.jpeg?w=266" width="266" /></a></figure> </div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), commonly called the New Silk Road, is a huge infrastructure project currently revitalising or creating new trading routes and large developments across the globe. It is estimated to cost up to US$8 trillion and impact more than 65% of the world’s population.&nbsp;</p> <p>This book explores the unequal ways this controversial project is altering livelihoods, places and the environment. From road building projects in Nairobi to grassroots environmental activism in Thailand, researchers from the Global North and South analyse the real-world impacts of this unprecedented project, bringing together critical geography and political ecology approaches.</p> </blockquote>
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Michael J. Ardoline, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity – Edinburgh University Press, September 2024, paperback March 2026
<p>Michael J. Ardoline, <em><a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-deleuze-mathematics-metaphysics.html">Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity</a></em> – Edinburgh University Press, September 2024, paperback March 2026</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ardoline.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-53756" height="749" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ardoline.jpeg?w=500" style="width: 251px; height: auto;" width="500" /></a></figure></div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>Provides new solutions to the central problems of the philosophy of mathematics by reconstructing Deleuze’s metaphysics</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Defends a new position in the metaphysics of mathematics</li> <li>Provides a systematic reconstruction of major portions of Deleuze’s metaphysics on his own terms rather than in terms of his more well-known predecessors such as Bergson, Nietzsche, or Spinoza</li> <li>Connects historical debates and clarifies positions from analytic and continental philosophy to be accessible to readers from both traditions</li> <li>Relevant to scholars working in major areas of contemporary analytic philosophy (modality, grounding, and metaphysics of mathematics) and continental philosophy (Deleuze, poststructuralism generally, and Speculative Realism)</li> </ul> <p><em>Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics</em> provides new solutions to the central problems of the philosophy of mathematics by reconstructing Deleuze’s metaphysics. It does so through direct engagement with analytic and continental philosophy, along with the formal and natural sciences. These new Deleuzian solutions reject equally other-worldly accounts of mathematics, such as Platonism, and accounts which treat mathematics as a useful fiction or an empty formalist game. Instead, <em>Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics </em>argues that mathematical truth is grounded in the necessity of difference itself. Since difference is entirely this-worldly, the truth of mathematics does not require us to posit the reality of transcendent entities or possible worlds. Doing so not only provides a new metaphysics of mathematics; it also explains the usefulness of mathematics for science and why mathematical truth appear to have such otherworldly properties in the first place.</p> </blockquote>
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Lise Vogel, The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism, ed. Kirstin Munro, Pluto, November 2025 ‘A compelling critique of bourgeois society and women’s oppression – a critique that not only advances theory, but also engages deeply with the … Continue reading →
<p>Lise Vogel, <em><a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/product/the-contested-domain/">The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism</a></em>, ed. Kirstin Munro, Pluto, November 2025</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/vogel.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-53795" height="1024" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/vogel.jpeg?w=664" style="width: 294px; height: auto;" width="664" /></a></figure></div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>‘A compelling critique of bourgeois society and women’s oppression – a critique that not only advances theory, but also engages deeply with the historical and political conditions of social transformation’ – Melda Yaman, İstanbul University</p> <p>Lise Vogel is a unique voice in feminist theory. This book collects her best essays, opening a window into the last half-century of US socialist feminism.</p> <p>A trailblazer in the 1970s, Vogel planted the seeds for contemporary Social Reproduction Theory with her ‘unitary theory’ of capitalist exploitation and the oppression of women. Along with others, she challenged established views within the academy and movement by insisting that Marxist theory can accommodate not only class, but also race and gender. Today, her work is more popular than ever, inspiring socialist feminists to develop inclusive liberatory ideas for the next generation.</p> <p>Selected from five decades of Vogel’s work, including long out-of-print material, this volume is a crucial resource for readers interested in the intellectual history of Marxist feminism and twentieth-century activism.</p> </blockquote>
November 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography – summary at the RGS-IBG website, with links to the report, plans, posters etc. Precarious working conditions are increasingly common throughout academia – from the proliferation of fixed term contracts (FTCs) to … Continue reading →
<p><a href="https://www.rgs.org/research/higher-education-resources/states-of-precarity-in-uk-higher-education-geography">States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography</a> &#8211; summary at the RGS-IBG website, with links to the report, plans, posters etc.</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>Precarious working conditions are increasingly common throughout academia – from the proliferation of fixed term contracts (FTCs) to widespread restructuring and redundancies. The States of Precarity Report provides a snapshot of the immediate and long-term effects of precarity within UK HE Geography across career stages.</p> <p>Importantly, as well as engaging with key and pressing issues, the report provides a series of recommendations and best practice resources to support more equitable and caring departmental working cultures.</p> <p>The States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report was funded by the Antipode Foundation and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). The team included Rachael Squire, James Esson, Johanne Bruun, Rachel Colls, Peter Forman, Anna Jackman, Jasmine Joanes.</p> </blockquote>
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Tom Harper, Nick Dykes, and Magdalena Peszko, Secret Maps: Maps You Were Never Meant to See, from the Middle Ages to Today – University of Chicago Press, November 2025 An illustrated story of the relationship between mapping and secrecy, charting … Continue reading →
<p>Tom Harper, Nick Dykes, and Magdalena Peszko, <em><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo259056456.html">Secret Maps: Maps You Were Never Meant to See, from the Middle Ages to Today</a></em> – University of Chicago Press, November 2025</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/secret-maps.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-53706" height="1024" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/secret-maps.jpeg?w=808" style="width: 306px; height: auto;" width="808" /></a></figure></div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>An illustrated story of the relationship between mapping and secrecy, charting the role maps played in concealing and revealing knowledge across centuries.</p> <p>Is there anything more intriguing than a secret map? One that reveals clandestine information or meanings, or a map that is&nbsp;<em>itself&nbsp;</em>a secret?&nbsp;<em>Secret Maps</em>&nbsp;features over one hundred examples of these kinds of maps, connected by their varied relationships to secrecy, and ranging from the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries and across the globe. They include views into state secrecy and power—such as maps used for domestic and military purposes, imperial expansion, espionage, and surveillance as well as those with private or commercial uses, such as charts of private land, trade routes, or the flights of private jets. The maps span widely in their scope and cover issues of broad interest, from old-fashioned spying to contemporary concerns about technology and privacy.&nbsp;</p> <p>As illuminating as it is thrilling,&nbsp;<em>Secret Maps</em>&nbsp;unearths the once-hidden routes, landscapes, and locations that have covertly shaped our world.</p> </blockquote> <p>The <a href="https://events.bl.uk/exhibitions/secretmaps">Secret Maps exhibition</a> at the British Library runs until 18 January 2026.</p>
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression, trans. Robert Savage, Harvard University Press, July 2025 Despite widespread technological innovation, scientific and medical breakthroughs, and strides toward gender and racial equity, few believe that […]

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<p>Rahel Jaeggi, <em><a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674298019">Progress and Regression</a></em>, trans. Robert Savage, Harvard University Press, July 2025</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/jaeggi.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-53805" height="900" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/jaeggi.jpeg?w=600" style="width: 259px; height: auto;" width="600" /></a></figure></div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>Despite widespread technological innovation, scientific and medical breakthroughs, and strides toward gender and racial equity, few believe that humanity is on the road of progress. Indeed, many are increasingly skeptical of the very notion of progress, seeing it as the stuff of hollow political speeches.</p> <p>Nevertheless, this impassioned book argues that we are lost without a shared idea of progress. In the tradition of critical theory, Rahel Jaeggi defends a vision of progress that avoids Eurocentric and teleological distortions. Progress here is not an inevitable developmental trend but a kind of compass directing society’s never-ending journey toward emancipation. A nimble practitioner of dialectical reasoning, Jaeggi revitalizes progress by confronting its opposite: regression. Her analysis—sober and thoughtful, but urgent—reckons with the myriad signs of regression today, including growing inequality, ecological destruction, and above all the assault on educational institutions, critical thinking, and reason itself.</p> <p>The task of imagining a human solidarity capable of transcending difference and promoting universal welfare has seldom been more pressing—or more complex.&nbsp;<em>Progress and Regression</em>&nbsp;is an indispensable resource for those ready to take up the challenge.</p> </blockquote>
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Relectures féministes de Michel Foucault. Colloque International (2025) – via Foucault News
<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-foucault-news wp-block-embed-foucault-news"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> <blockquote class="wp-embedded-content"><a href="http://michel-foucault.com/2025/10/22/relectures-feministes-de-michel-foucault-colloque-international-2025/">Relectures féministes de Michel Foucault. Colloque International&nbsp;(2025)</a></blockquote> </div></figure> <p>Relectures féministes de Michel Foucault. Colloque International (2025) &#8211; via <a href="https://michel-foucault.com/2025/10/22/relectures-feministes-de-michel-foucault-colloque-international-2025/">Foucault News</a></p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/relectures.jpg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-53492" height="1024" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/relectures.jpg?w=724" style="width: 385px; height: auto;" width="724" /></a></figure>
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson‘s ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy. This month, in honour of David Harvey‘s […]

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<p><a href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/harvey-at-90-a-verso-series">David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series&nbsp;</a></p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/harvey-at-90-a-verso-series"><img alt="" class="wp-image-53254" height="566" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/harveyat90cover.png.webp?w=1024" style="width: 366px; height: auto;" width="1024" /></a></figure></div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>Last year, we celebrated&nbsp;<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/authors/jameson-fredric" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Fredric Jameson</a>&#8216;s ninetieth birthday with a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/jameson-at-90-a-verso-blog-series" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">month long series</a>&nbsp;commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy.&nbsp;</p> <p>This month, in honour of<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/authors/harvey-david" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">&nbsp;David Harvey</a>&#8216;s ninetieth birthday, we&#8217;re publishing a series of short essays on David&#8217;s unparalleled contribution on urban geography, anthropology and economics.</p> <p>Happy Birthday, David.</p> </blockquote> <p>First essay now up, lots more scheduled:</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p><a href="https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/explaining-with-david">Explaining with David</a>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Eric Sheppard</p> </blockquote>
October 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History: A JHI Blog Forum Introduction by Jonathon Catlin, Paige Pendarvis, and Jacob Saliba In recent years, intellectual history has been said to be undergoing a renaissance at the same time as it … Continue reading →
<p><a href="https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/09/15/the-return-of-political-economy-in-intellectual-history-a-jhi-blog-forum/">The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History: A JHI Blog Forum</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/09/15/the-return-of-political-economy-in-intellectual-history-a-jhi-blog-forum/">Introduction by Jonathon Catlin, Paige Pendarvis, and Jacob Saliba</a></p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>In recent years, intellectual history has been said to be undergoing a renaissance at the same time as it has been institutionally hollowed out. Rather than bemoan the “death” of the field, this forum seeks to chart its new lives in more materialist and global histories that may have once been the purview of other subfields and area studies. Shifting economic winds sparked by the global movement against neoliberalism surrounding Occupy Wall Street in 2011 and, more recently, the rise of new economic populism and protectionism, have helped to inspire a groundswell of new histories of capitalism and political economy. This forum highlights methodological reflection on intellectual history’s foundations and how new work in the field is taking them up by re-anchoring historical ideas to their under-examined material, economic, and political contexts&#8230; </p> </blockquote> <p>The first two contributions are now up:</p> <p>Mikkel Flohr, <a href="https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/09/15/the-political-economy-of-ideas-historical-materialism-and-the-history-of-ideas/">The Political Economy of Ideas: Historical Materialism and the History of Ideas</a></p> <p>Marie Louise Krogh, <a href="https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/09/22/hegels-brown-rivulet-of-coffee-colonies-commodities-and-context/">Hegel’s “Brown Rivulet of Coffee”: Colonies, Commodities, and Context</a></p> <p>More will be added.</p>
October 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM
CFP: The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle, University of Notre Dame, April 3-5, 2025 We seek submissions for papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, as well as studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking. This conference also … Continue reading →
<p>CFP: The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle, University of Notre Dame, April 3-5, 2025</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>We seek submissions for papers on any aspect of Foucault’s work, as well as studies, critiques, and applications of Foucauldian thinking. This conference also celebrates the centennial of Foucault’s birth, so we also welcome biographical retrospectives and papers that set an agenda for the next century of Foucauldian thought&#8230;.</p> </blockquote> <p>Details at <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/elmira.edu/foucault/home">the Foucault Circle website</a>; via <a href="https://michel-foucault.com/2025/09/03/cfp-the-twenty-fourth-annual-meeting-of-the-foucault-circle-2025/">Foucault News</a></p>
September 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Bart Buseyne, Georgios Tsagdis and Paul Willemarck eds., Bernard Stiegler: Memories of the Future – Bloomsbury, August 2025 Honouring the memory of the late Bernard Stiegler, this edited collection presents a broad spectrum of contributions that provide a complex and … Continue reading →
<p>Bart Buseyne, Georgios Tsagdis and Paul Willemarck eds., <em><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bernard-stiegler-9781350410480/">Bernard Stiegler: Memories of the Future</a></em> – Bloomsbury, August 2025</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/stiegler.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-52790" height="810" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/stiegler.jpeg?w=540" style="width: 267px; height: auto;" width="540" /></a></figure></div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>Honouring the memory of the late Bernard Stiegler, this edited collection presents a broad spectrum of contributions that provide a complex and coherently articulated image of Stiegler&#8217;s thought which reached beyond the boundaries of academic, artistic and experimental techno-scientific enclaves where it had been originally received.</p> <p>Stiegler&#8217;s philosophical work encompassed theorization, social diagnosis, planning, practical and territorial experimentation, politics, and aesthetics. In its wake, the essays in this volume celebrate and explore the wealth of this multi-dimensional legacy. They examine the conditions of human life in general, its foundational intermittence, and carry forward Stiegler&#8217;s post-phenomenological unfolding of the distinctive spatio-temporalities that weave together the epoch we call &#8216;present&#8217;. Engaging closely with Stiegler&#8217;s original impetus for the creation of technologies of care, as well as of communities of knowledge and artistic practice,</p> </blockquote>
September 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Kodili Henry Chukwuma, Nigeria’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Constructions of Threat, Response and Identity – Edinburgh University Press, August 2025, print and open access
<p>Kodili Henry Chukwuma, <em><a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nigeria-s-counter-terrorism-strategy.html">Nigeria’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Constructions of Threat, Response and Identity</a></em> – Edinburgh University Press, August 2025, print and open access</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/chukwuma.jpeg"><img alt="" class="wp-image-52570" height="750" src="https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/chukwuma.jpeg?w=500" style="width: 271px; height: auto;" width="500" /></a></figure></div> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>Offers a critical examination of Nigeria’s counter-terrorism policy as a political activity of identity construction</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li>Draws upon archival material to offer a discursive analysis of Nigeria’s counter-terrorism strategy</li> <li>Considers the construction of terrorist threat and identity considering specific colonial and post-colonial histories, realities and agency</li> <li>Explores the official discourse on counter-terrorism as produced by Nigeria’s federal executive</li> <li>Examines the productivity and effects of the official discourse</li> </ul> <p>This book critically engages with Nigeria&#8217;s counter-terrorism strategy as a means of identity construction. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, Kodili Chukwuma analyses how the federal government articulates and justifies its counter-terrorism policy against specific ‘terrorist’ groups such as Boko Haram in order to construct Nigeria&#8217;s identity. He argues that the designation of particular terrorist threats as a new form of terrorism in Nigeria – and beyond – enables state counter-terrorism interventions. Revealing the complexities of Nigeria&#8217;s counter-terrorist strategy, this book sheds new light on critical terrorism and critical security studies in a key postcolonial context.</p> </blockquote>
September 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM