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.
Thanks to Reviewers
Journal News: October 2022
Video: Lee Mackinnon on 'Love, Games and Gamification'
Review: Miklós Hadas, ‘Outlines of a Theory of Plural Habitus’
Reviewed by Wahyuning Afifah, Mamnunah and Muhammad Maftukhan
Review: Walter Rodney, ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Journal News: September 2022
Review: Dario Gentili, ‘The Age of Precarity’
Reviewed by Arthur Bradley
Video: Nicholas Gane on 'Neoliberalism and the Defence of the Corporation'
TCS Special Issue: ‘A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?’
Edited by Martin Seeliger and Sebastian Sevignani
Video: Francesco Sticchi on 'The Precarious Multitude of Bacurau'
Review: David Roberts, ‘History of the Present’
Reviewed by Robert Savage
Review: Daniel Agbiboa, ‘Mobility, Mobilisation and Counter/Insurgency’ and ‘They Eat Our Sweat’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Review: Dominik Bartmanski, ‘Matters of Revolution’
Reviewed by Eduardo de la Fuente
Review: Emmanuel Oritsejafor and Allan Cooper, ‘Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
Review: Izabela Wagner, ‘Bauman: A Biography’
Reviewed by Elena Álvarez-Álvarez
Video: Milan Stürmer and Daniel Bella on 'Inheriting Cosmopolitics'
Journal News: May 2022
Video: Daniel Davison-Vecchione on 'Ursula Le Guin’s Speculative Anthropology'
TCS Special Issue: ‘Solid Fluids’
Special Issue: Edited by Tim Ingold and Cristián Simonetti
Review: Bola Dauda and Toyin Falola, ‘Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation’
Reviewed by Gabriel O. Apata
TCS Special Issues
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
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?, edited by Martin Seeliger & Sebastian Sevignani
Solid Fluids, edited by Tim Ingold & Cristián Simonetti
Post-Neoliberalism?, edited by William Davies & Nicholas Gane
Problematizing the Problematic, edited by Martin Savransky
From the Archive
James Ash on Affective Transmission (2004)
Marcelo Hoffman on Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues: Michel Foucault in Brazil (2017)
Rosi Braidotti: ‘Posthuman, All Too Human: Towards a New Process Ontology’ (2006)
TCS E-Special Issues
Judith Butler, edited by Elena Loizidou
Pierre Bourdieu, edited by Derek Robbins
Ulrich Beck, edited by Gabe Mythen
Zygmunt Bauman, edited by Thomas Campbell, Mark Davis, Austin Harrington & Jack Palmer
John Urry, edited by Mimi Sheller
Complexity, edited by Oliver Human
TCS Book Series
'Killer Cities', Nigel Thrift
'From Being to Living' (De l'Être au Vivre), François Jullien
'After Capital', Couze Venn
'Sociology of the Sacred', Philip A Mellor, Chris Shilling
'Understanding the Chinese City', Li Shiqiao
'The Consumer Society', Jean Baudrillard
B&S Special Issues
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
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
Indeterminate Bodies, edited by Claire Waterton & Kathryn Yusoff
Surveillance and Embodiment: Dispositifs of Capture, edited by Martin French & Gavin JD Smith