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.
Rita Felski: My Sociology Envy
Gabriel O. Apata: On Not Being Achille Mbembe
The question is why did many mistake me for Mbembe? Apart from the fact that we were both black men, African, spectacle-wearing and shaven-headed.
Think-Piece: Commemoration and Spectacle in the Centenary of Women’s Suffrage
Laura E. Nym Mayhall reflects on the suffrage movement. Are we all militants now?
Think-Piece: The Neglected Intellectual Legacy of '1968'
Couze Venn reflects on the 50th anniversary of May '68
Against “Aging”: How to Talk about Growing Older
By Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Video Special Section: Rebecca Coleman and Liz Oakley-Brown on ‘Visualizing Surfaces, Surfacing Vision’
Elinor Carmi: Cookies – More than Meets the Eye
Earwitnesses of a Coup Night: The Many Media Infrastructures of Social Action
By Jussi Parikka
Daniel Smith on Broadchurch as a Country Noir
William ‘Lez’ Henry on Education and Schooling
Sunil Manghani on the 'Role' of Umberto Eco
Africa in Oceania: Thinking Besides the Subaltern
By Robbie Shilliam