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Review: Vincanne Adams, ‘Metrics. What Counts in Global Health’

WEBReviewed by Oscar Javier Maldonado Castañeda. Global Health is increasingly enacted through numbers. In 2012, the data designer David McCandless …

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'The Biology of History': Antibiotics, Resistant Bacteria and the …

WEBHannah Landecker holds a joint appointment in Life and Social Science at UCLA, where she is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department and Acting …

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About Body & Society — Theory, Culture & Society Global Public …

WEBMike Featherstone is a Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.He has been the founding editor of Theory, Culture & Society since its establishment in 1982 at …

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Interview with Chikako Ozawa-de Silva: Mind/Body Theory and …

WEBIt is generally accepted that biomedical technology has improved people’s health and well-being. Yet, as body studies has increasingly sought to go beyond …

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Review: Sean Cubitt, ‘Finite Media: Environmental Implications of

WEBReviewed by Sandra Robinson. Sean Cubitt’s Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies is so much more than the title suggests: it is a …

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Review: Nikolas Rose & Joelle M. Abi-Rached, ‘Neuro: The New …

WEBReviewed by Sibille Merz. A rather unusual dimension of the recent boom in neuroscientific research was reflected by the Guardian in November 2013, reporting on …

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Brian Castellani on the Complexity Sciences

WEBIn this commentary piece, Brian Castellani reflects on the fast growing complexity sciences (particularly over the last two decades) and their provocative and …

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Interview: Lee F. Monaghan on obesity 'epidemics'

WEBLee F Monaghan: 'Epidemic’ is a term often used by those seeking to rouse public concern, but you cannot catch obesity like cholera or some other contagious …

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Review: Jussi Parikka, ‘Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of

WEBAbstract. The second edition of Jussi Parikka’s Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses is both a welcome reissue of a canonical text in media …

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Roy Boyne 1947-2020

WEBPoor health crept upon Roy from his mid-fifties – perforated bowel, and a series of ever more severe strokes. Again, he never complained about anything. He just …

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Review: Gerard Delanty (ed.), ‘Pandemics, Politics, and Society

WEBJan Nederveen Pieterse is Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Distinguished Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at University of California Santa Barbara. He …

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Christina Scharff on Gender and Neoliberalism — Theory, Culture

WEBChristina Scharff. Gender intersects with neoliberalism in various ways and it is not my intention to provide an overview of these complex entanglements here. Such …

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Interview with Lucy Pickering on Toilets and Embodied Material …

WEBIn this interview with Simon Dawes, Lucy Pickering discusses her article ‘Toilets, Bodies, Selves: Enacting Composting as Counterculture in Hawai’i’ in the …

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Journal News: Annual Review

WEBTheory, Culture & Society is ranked #1 in Cultural Studies (2019 Journal Impact Factor, Journal Citation Reports. Source: Clarivate, 2020)

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Review: Achille Mbembe, ‘Out of the Dark Night’ — Theory, …

WEB16/08/2021. Black Pain and Disentanglements. Review of Achille Mbembe’s Out of the Dark Night (Columbia University Press, 2021), 280 pages. Abstract. The object of the book is …

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A Mobile Life: John Urry, 1946-2016

WEBA Mobile Life: John Urry, 1946-2016. In Memoriam. 12/04/2016. Peter Adey. John Urry was an extraordinary, generous and compelling force. As is evident in the …

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Interview with Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim on ‘Individualization’

WEBIn this interview with Tine Ravn and Mads P. Sørensen, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim discusses family structures, reproductive technologies and individualization …

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Review: Dario Gentili, ‘The Age of Precarity’ — Theory, Culture

WEBReviewed by Arthur Bradley. In many ways, it may seem that there is nothing less critical - more banal or exhausted - today than the ancient Greek idea of …

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Review: Walter Rodney, ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’

WEBReviewed by Gabriel O. Apata. Introduction. Walter Rodney published How Europe Underdeveloped Africa in 1972, to wide acclaim. Not only was the book ground …

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