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
Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek, Philosophy in the Present, Polity
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
Paul Craig Roberts, How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds, AK Press
Marshall Sahlins, The Western Illusion of Human Nature, Prickly Paradigm Press
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
