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.
Interview with Jennifer Bajorek and Erin Haney on Bamako
Interviewed by Simon Dawes
Interview with Jenny Slatman and Guy Widdershoven on Hand Transplants
Interviewed by Tomoko Tamari
Interview with Jennifer Bajorek on Photography and the State
Interview with David Macey on Fanon, Foucault and Race
Interviewed by Simon Dawes
John W.P. Phillips on Fractals
Couze Venn on Benoit Mandelbrot, fractals and the realignment of the human sciences
Interview with Zygmunt Bauman
Interviewed by Simon Dawes
Interview with John Milbank on Bauman and Religion
Interviewed by Edmund Frettingham
Peter Burke on writing The Social History of Knowledge
Interview with Ryan Bishop on TCS Special Section ‘Megacities & Violence’
Interviewed by Simon Dawes
Peter Burke on the Social History of Knowledge, 1750-2000
Mark Davis on Zygmunt Bauman
Thomas Kemple introduces David Frisby’s writings in Theory, Culture & Society
Interview with Michel Maffesoli on Postmodernity
Interviewed by Simon Dawes
Nigel Clark: Beyond Justice? The Radical Asymmetries of Climate Change
Full text of lecture presented at King’s College London
John W.P. Phillips: On how Slavoj Žižek doesn’t know how to read
Mike Featherstone pays tribute to David Frisby
Interview with Nigel Clark on Climate Change and Justice
Interviewed by Jennifer Barth
John W.P. Phillips: On Rancière and Derrida on Plato
Interview with Peter Burke on the Social History of Knowledge
Interviewed by Simon Dawes