• Laughter and fears: Berlin Bulletin No. 231, February 18, 2025
    Laughter and fears: Berlin Bulletin No. 231, February 18, 2025

    For good people these are times to weep, rage and, above all, to fight back!

    The Woman’s Story: Examining Pregnancy Narratives, Bodily Autonomy, and the Invisible Woman through Kalki Koechlin’s The Elephant in the Womb
    The Woman’s Story: Examining Pregnancy Narratives, Bodily Autonomy, and the Invisible Woman through Kalki Koechlin’s The Elephant in the Womb

    Kalki Koechlin’s memoir presents a real and uncensored picture of pregnancy that explores how pregnant women’s bodies are positioned between the public and personal threshold.

    Dossier No. 85: The joy of reading
    Dossier No. 85: The joy of reading

    Reading and popular literacy programmes have played an important role in revolutionary processes, from the Mexican, Chinese, and Russian revolutions in the early twentieth century to today.

    Sociology world mourns after hit-and-run driver on Grand Avenue kills legendary labor scholar
    Sociology world mourns after hit-and-run driver on Grand Avenue kills legendary labor scholar

    Michael Burawoy was struck while walking inside the crosswalk near Children’s Fairyland.

    Odious Debt with Edward Jones Corredera
    Odious Debt with Edward Jones Corredera

    Money on the Left speaks with Edward Jones Corredera, author of Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2024). What are fallen tyrants owed? What makes debt illegitimate? And when is bankruptcy moral? Odious Debt shows how Latin American nations have wrestled with the morality of indebtedness and insolvency since their foundation, and outlines how Latin America’s forgotten history of contestation can shed new light on seemingly intractable contemporary dilemmas.

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