Books for Review
Theory in Action is currently seeking reviews for the following books. The books will be assigned on a first come basis. If interested, please contact us (journal (at) transformativestudies.org).
Leonardo Avritzer, Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil, Johns Hopkins University and Woodrow Wilson Center Presses
Mike Davis, Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City, Verso
David Graeber, Direct Action: An Ethnography, AK Press
Edward Gresser, Freedom From Want: American Liberalism and the Global Economy, Soft Skull Press
Hugh Heclo, On Thinking Institutionally, Paradigm Publishers
Robert P. Inman, ed., Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America, Princeton University Press
Frederic Jameson , Valences of the Dialectic, Verso Books
Margaret Killjoy (editor), Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction, AK Press
Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic, Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History, PM Press
Jean-Luc Nancy, On the Commerce of Thinking: Of Books and Bookstores, Fordham University Press
Anthony J. Nocella II, Steven Best, & Peter McLaren , Academic Repression: Reflection from the Academic Industrial Complex, AK Press
Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast, Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History, Cambridge University Press
James Polk, The Triumph of Ignorance and Bliss: Pathologies of Public America, Black Rose Books
Kazys Varnelis, ed., The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles, Actar
Kristian Williams, Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America, South End Press
Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes, Verso Books
