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Reviews of the latest social science books 📚 by experts at the London School of Economics and beyond. Subscribe to our newsletter 📬 https://t.co/rVTpPVqspu
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NEW✨ The ‘us’ and ‘them’ that old age can create. Mary Evans @LSEGenderTweet reviews The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman by @didiereribon, translated by Michael Lucey @AllenLaneBooks @PenguinUKBooks.
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Didier Eribon's The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman interrogates how class and gender interact to shape a person's experience of old age.
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NEW✨ What makes #politics in the #MiddleEast so unstable?. The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East by @FawazGerges @LSEIRDept @PrincetonUPress reviewed by Abidullah Baba @jmiu_official.
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The Great Betrayal by Fawaz Gerges examines political instability in the Middle East over the past century, from colonial influence to authoritarian rule,
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The LSE Review of Books newsletter is out today 📬 sharing our latest reviews on topics from the history of nationalism to the need for truth in politics and whether inequality is inherent to capitalism. Read more 👉 Subscribe 👉
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RT @wafarasheeq: Elated to share my review of Artery: Racial Ecologies on Columbia’s Magdalena River by @azeiderman. Do give it a read!….
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Artery by Austin Zeiderman identifies the Magdalena River in Colombia as a key site of the expansion of colonial and racial capitalism in the Americas. With a state-backed megaproject poised to...
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NEW✨ How race, environment and capitalist development interact on one of #Colombia's most important waterways 🇨🇴. Read @wafarasheeq's #review of Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River by @azeiderman @LSEGeography @DukePress 👇.
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Artery by Austin Zeiderman identifies the Magdalena River in Colombia as a key site of the expansion of colonial and racial capitalism in the Americas. With a state-backed megaproject poised to...
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RT @LSEsociology: Though its coverage of race, gender and stigmatised groups is limited, the transdisciplinarity, clarity and optimism of "….
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Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters is a wide-ranging discussion between economist Thomas Piketty and philosopher Michael J. Sandel on ways to think about and achieve real equality.
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RT @avgevorkyan: A really interest review of @JosephEStiglitz 's The Origins of Inequality and Policies to Contain It in @LSEReviewBooks by….
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In The Origins of Inequality and Policies to Contain It, Joseph Stiglitz draws writings from across his career intoa framework for understanding inequality.
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The #NarrativeCV is gaining ground as part of academic job and funding applications. On @LSEImpactBlog Judit Varga and Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner @UniLeidenNews analyse how narrative CVs are reshaping academic values and self-presentation.
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A new study explores how narrative CVs are reshaping research evaluation and academic representation
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NEW✨ In The Origins of Inequality @JosephEStiglitz synthesises five decades of writing into a theoretical framework on the causes of & ways to address #inequality. It's not an inevitable consequence of capitalism, he argues. @IvanRadanovic_ @OUPAcademic.
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In The Origins of Inequality and Policies to Contain It, Joseph Stiglitz draws writings from across his career intoa framework for understanding inequality.
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NEW✨ On Truth in Politics: Why Democracy Demands It by philosopher Michael Patrick Lynch @PrincetonUPress makes the case for why #truth is essential to #democracy and needs to be rehabilitated in the "post-truth" era. #Review by Jeff Roquen 👇.
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Michael Patrick Lynch's On Truth in Politics explores different philosophical interpretations of truth and argues that truth is essential to democracy.
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RT @HammaadMehraj: My review of Benton’s book has been published. Please do read if it interests you.
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"The contemporary insistence on the non-warlike character of military intervention echoes the rhetoric of empire. ". NEW✨ They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence by Lauren Benton @Yale @PrincetonUPress, reviewed by @HammaadMehraj @SouthAsianUni.
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Lauren Benton's They Called It Peace explores how imperial powers historically legitimised violence as a means to peace on humanitarian and security grounds.
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NEW✨ The global boom in innovation for ageing 💡👵🏽. Taylor Sawyer reviews Longevity Hubs: Regional Innovation for Global Aging edited by @josephcoughlin and Luke Yoquinto @mitpress. @MIT_AgeLab @mitsupplychain.
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Longevity Hubs: Regional Innovation for Global Aging shares insights from experts and entrepreneurs researching and designing products aimed at older people.
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RT @LSEReviewBooks: Planning a visit to Hamburg, Germany?. Read Christiane Müller's guide to the city's best bookshops, from well-establish….
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In this bookshop guide, Christiane Müller takes us on a tour of the best literary hubs in Hamburg.
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NEW✨ Eric Storm's Nationalism: A World History @PrincetonUPress examines the global evolution of #nationalism, from the 18th-century rise of the nation-state through to the resurgence of nationalist ideas in the present. Review by Stefan Messingschlager.
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In Nationalism: A World History, Eric Storm examines the global evolution of nationalism, from the rise of the nation-state in the eighteenth century through to the resurgence of nationalist ideas in...
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Planning a visit to Hamburg, Germany?. Read Christiane Müller's guide to the city's best bookshops, from well-established haunts to new literary gems 🏙 📚👇
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In this bookshop guide, Christiane Müller takes us on a tour of the best literary hubs in Hamburg.
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NEW ✨ Development Challenges of Pakistan: Constraints and Choices by @Jamilnasir1 @Palgrave @SpringerNature. #Review by @sajjadagem @csswithpakistan @PIDEpk.
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Development challenges in Pakistan by Jamil Nasir explores why Pakistan struggles with sustaining economic growth compared to nations in Southeast Asia.
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NEW BOOKSHOP GUIDE✨ Christiane Müller takes us on a tour of #Hamburg's best bookshops 📚🇩🇪
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In this bookshop guide, Christiane Müller takes us on a tour of the best literary hubs in Hamburg.
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It's been one year since #Labour's landslide victory in the #UK. But it hasn't been an easy ride in power. #Starmer's strategy that won the election has proven less successful in retaining support, writes Simon Griffiths @GoldsmithsPolit @LSEpoliticsblog.
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The successful strategy that Starmer used to gain support and get into power has proven less successful in retaining support while in power.
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NEW INTERVIEW ✨ We spoke to @BenChu_ about his book Exile Economics: What Happens if Globalisation Fails @BasicBooks @johnmurrays. Read more 👉 Ben will speak @LSEpublicevents @LSEnews with @RD_Economist on Wed 9 July. Details 👇
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6.30pm Wed 9 July | Ben Chu | Registration Required | Free public event at LSE
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