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.
Review: Luca Mavelli, ‘Neoliberal Citizenship: Sacred Markets, Sacrificial Lives’
Reviewed by Dimitra Kotouza
Video: Carlos Palacios on ‘Symbiosis and the Humanitarian Marketplace’
Video: Maurizio Meloni on ‘Porous Bodies: Environmental Biopower and the Politics of Life in Ancient Rome’
Video: Alexandra Deem on the No Dakota Access Pipeline Movement
Video: Bruce Clarke’s ‘Rethinking Gaia: Stengers, Latour, Margulis’
Review: Wilmer & Žukauskaitė, ‘Resisting Biopolitics’
Reviewed by Jacob Chamberlain
Video: Muhammad Ali Nasir on Biopolitics, Thanatopolitics and the Right to Life
Review: Jamie Lorimer, ‘Wildlife in the Anthropocene’
Reviewed by Gregory Hollin and Eva Giraud
Review: Wendy Brown, ‘Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution’
Reviewed by Nicholas Gane
Video: David Newheiser on Foucault, Gary Becker and the Critique of Neoliberalism
Review: Pasi Väliaho, Biopolitical Screens: Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain
Reviewed by Jakob Nilsson
Interview: Pasi Väliaho on video games and rhythm
Interviewed by James Ash
Simone M. Hüning: Criminalizing Poverty and Fragmenting the City in Brazil
Review: Elettra Stimilli, ‘Il debito del vivente’
Reviewed by Matteo Pasquinelli
The Biopolitics of Biometrics: An Interview with Btihaj Ajana
Interviewed by David Beer