Welcome to 'Global Public Life', an open forum extending the discussions and debates that the academic, peer-reviewed journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society (and associated Theory, Culture & Society Book Series) have been fostering in social and cultural theory, along with the wider social sciences and humanities, for over four decades.
Carolyn Pedwell on Empathy, Accuracy and Transnational Politics
Simone M. Hüning: Criminalizing Poverty and Fragmenting the City in Brazil
Gurminder Bhambra on The Society of Equals (Part Two)
James Burton on Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth
Video: Jane Ribbens McCarthy and Raia Prokhovnik on Embodied Relationality and Caring after Death
Review: Pierre Dardot & Christian Laval, ‘The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society’
Reviewed by Emanuele Leonardi
Video: Mark Harvey on Food, Energy & Climate Change
Video: Joanna Latimer & Mara Miele on Naturecultures
Review: Caroline Knowles, ‘Flip-Flop: A Journey through Globalisation’s Backroads’
Reviewed by Vicki Dabrowski
Gurminder Bhambra: What does the Haitian Revolution tell us about the Society of Equals?
Craig Martin on Adhocism
Review: Elettra Stimilli, ‘Il debito del vivente’
Reviewed by Matteo Pasquinelli
The future of affect theory: An interview with Margaret Wetherell
Interviewed by David Beer
Brian Castellani on the Complexity Sciences
Review: Nikolas Rose & Joelle M. Abi-Rached, ‘Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind’
Reviewed by Sibille Merz
James Ash on Affective Transmission
Review: Andreas Anter, ‘Max Weber’s Theory of the Modern State’
Reviewed by Christopher Adair-Toteff
Review: Vivian Ibraham & Margit Wunsch, ‘Political Leadership, Nations and Charisma’
Reviewed by Jerome Braun
The Entanglements of Interdisciplinarity: An Interview with Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard
Interviewed by David Beer
Review: John Urry, ‘Offshoring’
Reviewed by David J. Madden
TCS Special Issues
Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien, edited by Scott Lash and Shiqiao Li
Foucault before the Collège de France, edited by Stuart Elden, Orazio Irrera and Daniele Lorenzini
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?, edited by Martin Seeliger & Sebastian Sevignani
Solid Fluids, edited by Tim Ingold & Cristián Simonetti
Post-Neoliberalism?, edited by William Davies & Nicholas Gane
Problematizing the Problematic, edited by Martin Savransky
From the Archive
James Ash on Affective Transmission (2004)
Marcelo Hoffman on Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues: Michel Foucault in Brazil (2017)
Rosi Braidotti: ‘Posthuman, All Too Human: Towards a New Process Ontology’ (2006)
TCS E-Special Issues
TCS Book Series
B&S Special Issues
Symmetries of Touch: Reconsidering Tactility in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing, edited by Rebekka Ladewig & Henning Schmidgen
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World, edited by Andrew Russell & Rebecca Oxley
The Body in Pain: A Re-engagement, edited by Leila Dawney & Timothy J Huzar
Skin Matters: Thinking Through the Body’s Surfaces, edited by Marc Lafrance
Indeterminate Bodies, edited by Claire Waterton & Kathryn Yusoff
Surveillance and Embodiment: Dispositifs of Capture, edited by Martin French & Gavin JD Smith