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.
Review: David Roberts, ‘History of the Present’
Reviewed by Robert Savage
Video: Martin Albrow on 'Max Weber: From Modernity to Globality'
Video: Muneeb Hafiz on ‘Smashing the Imperial Frame: Race, Culture, (De)Coloniality’
Review: Zygmunt Bauman, ‘Retrotopia’
Reviewed by Zeger Polhuijs
Interview with Julia O’Connell Davidson on ‘Modern Slavery’
Interviewed by Angelo Martins Junior
Ralph Schroeder: Commentary on Volker H. Schmidt’s ‘Breakthrough of Global Modernity’
Volker H. Schmidt on Global Modernity
Beck in Brazil by Rodrigo Constante Martins
Video: Paolo Totaro on Algorithms
Interview with Gurminder Bhambra on Colonialism, Empire and Slavery
Interviewed by Simon Dawes
Interview with Zygmunt Bauman
Interviewed by Simon Dawes
Interview with Michel Maffesoli on Postmodernity
Interviewed by Simon Dawes