Welcome to 'Global Public Life', an open forum extending the discussions and debates that the academic, peer-reviewed journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society (and associated Theory, Culture & Society Book Series) have been fostering in social and cultural theory, along with the wider social sciences and humanities, for over four decades.

 

TCS Special Issues

Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien, edited by Scott Lash and Shiqiao Li

Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien, edited by Scott Lash and Shiqiao Li

Foucault before the Collège de France, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini

Foucault before the Collège de France, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini

A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?, edited by Martin Seeliger & Sebastian Sevignani

A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?, edited by Martin Seeliger & Sebastian Sevignani

Solid Fluids, edited by Tim Ingold & Cristián Simonetti

Solid Fluids, edited by Tim Ingold & Cristián Simonetti

Post-Neoliberalism?, edited by William Davies & Nicholas Gane

Post-Neoliberalism?, edited by William Davies & Nicholas Gane

Problematizing the Problematic, edited by Martin Savransky

Problematizing the Problematic, edited by Martin Savransky

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From the Archive

James Ash on Affective Transmission (2004)

Marcelo Hoffman on Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues: Michel Foucault in Brazil (2017)

 

TCS E-Special Issues

Painting / Knowledge, edited by Sunil Manghani

Painting / Knowledge, edited by Sunil Manghani

Judith Butler, edited by Elena Loizidou

Judith Butler, edited by Elena Loizidou

Pierre Bourdieu, edited by Derek Robbins

Pierre Bourdieu, edited by Derek Robbins

Ulrich Beck, edited by Gabe Mythen

Ulrich Beck, edited by Gabe Mythen

Zygmunt Bauman, edited by Thomas Campbell, Mark Davis, Austin Harrington & Jack Palmer

Zygmunt Bauman, edited by Thomas Campbell, Mark Davis, Austin Harrington & Jack Palmer

John Urry, edited by Mimi Sheller

John Urry, edited by Mimi Sheller

Complexity, edited by Oliver Human

Complexity, edited by Oliver Human

 

TCS Book Series

'Killer Cities', Nigel Thrift

'Killer Cities', Nigel Thrift

'From Being to Living' (De l'Être au Vivre), François Jullien

'From Being to Living' (De l'Être au Vivre), François Jullien

'After Capital', Couze Venn

'After Capital', Couze Venn

'Sociology of the Sacred', Philip A Mellor, Chris Shilling

'Sociology of the Sacred', Philip A Mellor, Chris Shilling

'Understanding the Chinese City', Li Shiqiao

'Understanding the Chinese City', Li Shiqiao

'The Consumer Society', Jean Baudrillard

'The Consumer Society', Jean Baudrillard

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B&S Special Issues

Symmetries of Touch: Reconsidering Tactility in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing, edited by Rebekka Ladewig & Henning Schmidgen

Symmetries of Touch: Reconsidering Tactility in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing, edited by Rebekka Ladewig & Henning Schmidgen

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World, edited by Andrew Russell & Rebecca Oxley

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World, edited by Andrew Russell & Rebecca Oxley

The Body in Pain: A Re-engagement, edited by Leila Dawney & Timothy J Huzar

The Body in Pain: A Re-engagement, edited by Leila Dawney & Timothy J Huzar

Skin Matters: Thinking Through the Body’s Surfaces, edited by Marc Lafrance

Skin Matters: Thinking Through the Body’s Surfaces, edited by Marc Lafrance

Indeterminate Bodies, edited by Claire Waterton & Kathryn Yusoff

Indeterminate Bodies, edited by Claire Waterton & Kathryn Yusoff

Surveillance and Embodiment: Dispositifs of Capture, edited by Martin French & Gavin JD Smith

Surveillance and Embodiment: Dispositifs of Capture, edited by Martin French & Gavin JD Smith

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