February 15, 2012

Crash of Hammarskjöld’s Plane in 1961: ‘VIP planes don’t crash…’

Upon publication of Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa, the Hurst Blog, published an essay by Adrian Begg, who was then a 20-year-old officer in the Northern Rhodesia Police when Dag Hammarskojld’s plane...

February 15, 2012

Interview with Ngugi wa Thiong'o

We recently published Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing, by renowned Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o. In the book, Ngugi wa Thiong’o summarizes and develops a cross-section of the issues he has grappled with in his work, which deploys...

February 14, 2012

‘Who Killed Hammarskjöld?’ and the UN in Zambia

While serving as United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative to Zambia from 1998-2005, Margaret O’Callaghan spoke at a memorial service upon the anniversary of UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold’s death. In an article originally published by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies...

February 14, 2012

Mari Ruti on Why We Fall in Love

In honor of Valentine’s Day, we offer a post from earlier this summer: Mari Ruti, author of The Summons of Love, also writes a blog for Psychology Today called The Juicy Bits: Love, lust, and the luster of life, recently...

February 14, 2012

New Book Tuesday: IR, Mystery, and More

Our weekly list of new titles now available, including a great selection of books in International Relations, including: Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa Susan Williams Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience Edited...

February 13, 2012

Amazon Reacts to Michael Mann and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

In a recent post, Climate Science Watch examines the response on Amazon to The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, by Michael Mann. While a most of the reviews of the book are quite strong...

February 10, 2012

William K. Tabb on Replacing Dependence on Financialization

We conclude our week-long feature on William K. Tabb’s The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time, with Tabb’s own conclusion in which he explores how the United States can reduce the impact of finacialization on the economy. Tabb argues that...

February 10, 2012

Santiago Zabala on Being a Communist in 2012

Communism, we have been told, has been consigned to the dustbin of history. Not so, according to Santiago Zabala, most recently the co-author with Santiago Zabala of Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx. In a recent article on Aljazeera, Santiago...

February 9, 2012

William K. Tabb on The Road Not Traveled—Nationalization

“The White House, whether under the management of Republicans or Democrats, was never ready for such a business-like approach. Ironically the abuse the administration would take for being ‘socialist’ would keep any chief executive from considering a protaxpayer, hardheaded business...

February 9, 2012

Association of American University Presses Turns 75

The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) was officially founded on February 8, 1937 (Happy Birthday). Yesterday the AAUP web published an essay by Brenna McLaughlin looking at what led university presses to form an association. (According to the AAUP,...

February 8, 2012

Michael Marder: Resist Like a Plant! On the Vegetable Life of Political Movements

In the most recent issue of Peace Studies Journal, Michael Marder, author of the forthcoming Plant Thinking: Toward a Philosophy of Vegetative Life, examines the recent Occupy movements and its possible connections to vegetal life. Arguing that the politics of...

February 8, 2012

William K. Tabb on the Great Recession and the Lessons Learned and Not Learned

“What the decision-makers at the Fed and Treasury appear not to have learned is the most important lesson of all: that the financial sector has grown too large, too dangerous, and too parasitic.”—William K. Tabb In the concluding chapter to...