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.
James Ash on Affective Transmission
Review: Andreas Anter, ‘Max Weber’s Theory of the Modern State’
Reviewed by Christopher Adair-Toteff
Review: Vivian Ibraham & Margit Wunsch, ‘Political Leadership, Nations and Charisma’
Reviewed by Jerome Braun
The Entanglements of Interdisciplinarity: An Interview with Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard
Interviewed by David Beer
Review: John Urry, ‘Offshoring’
Reviewed by David J. Madden
William Outhwaite on Habermas and Historical Materialism
Samuel Burgum and A.N.Onymous on Rancière and Occupy
Hannah Jones & Emma Jackson: Creeping Familiarities and Cosmopolitan Futures
Video: David Tyfield and John Urry on Energy & Society
Video: Kate Maddalena and Jeremy Packer on the Digital Body
Video: Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard on Social Science and Neuroscience beyond Interdisciplinarity
Video: Kyung Man Kim on Habermas, Rorty and the Politics of Cultural Change
AbdouMaliq Simone on Cities, Neoliberalism and the Commons
Video: Joanna Latimer on 'Being Alongside: Rethinking Relations amongst Different Kinds'
Yuk Hui: Commentary on Thierry Bardini and Anne Fagot-Largeault’s Conversation
Video Abstracts: Theory, Culture & Society, July 2014
Joanna Latimer: Commentary on Florence Chiew’s ‘Posthuman Ethics’
Nicholas Gane: Commentary on Will Davies’ Response
Goldie Osuri on Hindi Cinema
The Biopolitics of Biometrics: An Interview with Btihaj Ajana
Interviewed by David Beer