Amelie Harbisch’s Making Refugees’ Political Agency Visible refigures refugees from passive subjects to political actors within global immigration systems. Grounded in practice theory and ethnographic…
Preventing Violence by Keir Irwin-Rogers, Luke Billingham, Alistair Fraser, Fern Gillon, Susan McVie and Tim Newburn examines the UK’s public‑health approach to reducing violence and challenges to imp…
Ching Kwan Lee’s Forever Hong Kong: A Global City’s Decolonization Struggle combines history, ethnography and sociological analysis. According to Lucas Tse, the author’s account of political tra…
In this reading list inspired by LSE’s discussion series, Universities in the Age of Polarisation, Kevin Wilson selects six books that explore different aspects of polarisation – f…
Sanjaya Baru’s Secession of the Successful examines 200 years of Indian migration with a focus on the drivers and impacts of the recent exodus of the country’s elite.…
Musa al-Gharbi’s We Have Never Been Woke argues that contemporary US elites claim the language of social justice and identify with progressive causes on one hand while reinforcing…
Care Poverty and Unmet Needs edited by Teppo Kroger, Nicola Brimblecombe, Ricardo Rodrigues and Kirstein Rummery, brings together twenty-seven social policy researchers from across the Global North to…
Paul Dolan’s Beliefism tackles a form of polarisation: hostility towards opposing views (rather than the ideological divides themselves) which he terms “beliefism”. Coming from a behaviour…
Atul K. Shah‘s Organic Finance denounces our destructive, profit-driven financial system and proposes an alternative model rooted in community, ecology, and cultural diversity. Employing nature-…
Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria by Jiani He examines how language shaped imperial governance and nation-building in late Qing borderlands. He’s detailed and valuable linguistic history reveals t…
Dogwhistles and Figleaves by Jennifer Mather Saul and Safe Havens for Hate by Tamar Mitts explore how extremist rhetoric thrives online and why content moderation doesn’t effectively tackle…
The novel, Heap Earth Upon It, set in a remote village in Ireland 1965, explores the repression of sexual freedom and queerness in a society in the grips…
Contesting Indonesia by Kirsten E. Schulze proposes a compelling framework of a national imaginary for understanding Islamist, separatist, and communal violence in Indonesia, grounded in interviews an…
Indignity: A life Reimagined by Lea Ypi explores the period of transition between the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Enver Hoxha’s communist regime in…
City of Equals by Jonathan Wolff and Avner de-Shalit examines what it means for one citizen of a city to feel equal to another, despite different experiences and…
A Mouse in a Cage by Carrie Friese explores the ethical challenges of using animals in scientific research. Through ethnographic case studies from UK labs, Friese probes the…
Disaster Nationalism by Richard Seymour examines the rise of contemporary far-right movements, which he describes as neoliberalism that has been radicalised along ethno-nationalist and protectionist l…
Taking a photograph of her grandparents as its jumping off point, Indignity by Lea Ypi blends memoir and historical enquiry to explore her grandmother’s life and the period…
Matthew Archer’s Unsustainable critiques the frameworks used to measure corporate sustainability and exposes how market-driven reporting shirks environmental responsibility. This convincing and timely…
This year marks 200 years since the formation of trade unions in the UK was legalised. A new exhibition at LSE Library, Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade…
Caste: A Global Story by Suraj Yengde explores caste from both a Dalit and global perspective, critiquing caste’s enduring structures and calling for justice in India and beyond.…
In Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics, editors Joan Costa-Font and Matteo M. Galizzi bring together global, multidisciplinary insights into human behaviour and policy responses during the …
Alana Lentin‘s The New Racial Regime interrogates contemporary modes of weaponising race to uphold white supremacy, from the the “war on woke” and its countermovement to the backlash…
Alex Mayhew’s Making Sense of the Great War examines how British soldiers coped with the horrors of the trenches during the First World War. Delving into primary sources…