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Lumpencity: Discourses of Marginality | Marginalizing Discourses
Edited by: Alan Bourke, Tia Dafnos and Markus Kip

"...poses an unshirkable challenge to contemporary research on urban marginality...and moves us towards a reflexive form of activist-scholarship connecting marginal space to radical practice that is accountable to both an academic and activist audience."

- Margit Mayer, Professor of Political Science, Freie University Berlin and author of "Social Movements in the (Post-)Neoliberal City"



Anti-security
Edited by: Mark Neocleous & George S. Rigakos

"the volume is an objectively significant development. There is, of course, no point assessing the value of the collection in the conventional terms of  ‘filling a gap’ in the literature. It certainly does by all means. But I’d rather think of the volume along the terms of  ‘punching a hole’ in the body of the depressingly ‘pacified’ strand of scholarship that police sociology has become..."

- Georgios Papanicolau, Teeside University

Uniting Struggles: Critical Social Research in Critical Times
Edited by: Carlo Fanelli & Priscillia Lefebvre

"As Occupy Wall Street and its sister movements confront the global capitalist crisis with a long-overdue renewal of debate over capitalism... Alternate Routes explores the why's and how's for contemporary societies to do better by going beyond capitalism."
- Richard D. Wolff, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and most recently author of Capitalism Hits the Fan:The Global Economic Meltdown and What To Do About It.



Antonio Negri Illustrated:
Interview in Venice

Claudio Calia
Trans. by: Jason Francis Mc Gimsey
"I'm rather old now... Claudio has given me back my youth. He interpreted the years when I fought, with joy, together with a multitude of comrades, for a generous idea of democracy. Claudio knows how to show the energy, the wisdom and the hope of that epoch..."

- Antonio Negri, co-author of Empire, Commonwealth and Multitude (all with Michael Hardt), Negri on Negri, Goodbye Mr. Socialism (with Raf Valvola Scelsi) and In Praise of the Common (with Cesare Cassarino)

Saving Global Capitalism: Interrogating Austerity and Working Class Responses to Crises

Edited by: Carlo Fanelli, Chris Hurl, Priscillia Lefebvre & Gülden Özcan 

"...making the dynamics of global capitalism accessible without compromising on the complexities..." 
- Sam Gindin, author of The Canadian Auto Workers and Global Capitalism andAmerican Empire (with Leo Panitch)

"...particularly timely."
Bryan D. Palmer, author of Working-Class Experience, Canada's 1960s and James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left.


A General Police System: Political Economy and Security in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited by: George S. Rigakos, John McMullan, Joshua Johnson & Gülden Özcan 

"... a valuable tool for thinking critically about the contemporary politics of police and security"
- Mark Neocleous, author of Critique of Security and The Fabrication of Social Order.

"...provides stimulating ideas about how current debates might be said to echo those of the Enlightenment."
- Clive Emsley, author of The English Police: A Political and Social History and The Great British Bobby: A History of British policing from the 18th century to the present.


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