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.
Video: Dennis Rodgers on Urban Violence
Daniel Smith on Broadchurch as a Country Noir
Review: Pierre Bourdieu, ‘On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992’
Reviewed by Rohit Chopra
Review: Richard Grusin, ‘The Nonhuman Turn’
Reviewed by Astrida Neimanis
Review: Vincanne Adams, ‘Metrics. What Counts in Global Health’
Reviewed by Oscar Javier Maldonado Castañeda
Interview with Julia O’Connell Davidson on ‘Modern Slavery’
Interviewed by Angelo Martins Junior
Review: Jamie Lorimer, ‘Wildlife in the Anthropocene’
Reviewed by Gregory Hollin and Eva Giraud
William ‘Lez’ Henry on Education and Schooling
Review: David M. Berry and Michael Dieter, ‘Postdigital Aesthetics’
Reviewed by M. Beatrice Fazi
Moving with John Urry, by Mimi Sheller
A Mobile Life: John Urry, 1946-2016
By Peter Adey
John Urry (1946-2016)
Sunil Manghani on the 'Role' of Umberto Eco
Review: Wendy Brown, ‘Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution’
Reviewed by Nicholas Gane
Video: Eva Giraud and Gregory Hollin on Care, Laboratory Beagles and Affective Utopia
Video: Alberto Romele and Marta Severo on The Economy of the Digital Gift: From Socialism to Sociality Online
Video: David Newheiser on Foucault, Gary Becker and the Critique of Neoliberalism
Ulrich Beck (1944-2015)
Review: Barbara Cassin et. al., ‘Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon’
Reviewed by Lucie Mercier