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Followers of this list may be interested in my newly published book, The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory. The book is published is published by the University of Georgia Press, as part of the ‘Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series’. Further details can be found here: http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/index/priority_of_injustice and here: https://poptheory.org/2017/11/01/new-book-the-priority-of-injustice/ Here is the book description: “This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various traditions of democratic theory and demonstrates the importance of a geographical imagination in interpreting contemporary political change. Debates about radical democracy, Barnett argues, have become trapped around a set of oppositions between deliberative and agonistic theories—contrasting thinkers who promote the possibility of rational agreement and those who seek to unmask the role of power or violence or difference in shaping human affairs. While these debates are often framed in terms of consensus versus contestation, Barnett unpacks the assumptions about space and time that underlie different understandings of the sources of political conflict and shows how these differences reflect deeper philosophical commitments to theories of creative action or revived ontologies of “the political.” Rather than developing ideal theories of democracy or models of proper politics, he argues that attention should turn toward the practices of claims-making through which political movements express experiences of injustice and make demands for recognition, redress, and repair. By rethinking the spatial grammar of discussions of public space, democratic inclusion, and globalization, Barnett develops a conceptual framework for analyzing the crucial roles played by geographical processes in generating and processing contentious politics.” And here is the Table of Contents: Introduction: Arguing with Theory Part I. DEMOCRACY AND CRITIQUE 1. An Awareness of Politics 2. Criteria for Democratic Inquiry Part II. RATIONALITIES OF THE POLITICAL 3. The Ontological Need 4. The Scandal of Consent 5. The Significance of Conflict Part III. PHENOMENOLOGIES OF INJUSTICE 6. Claims of the Affected 7. Subjects of Domination 8. The Sense of Injustice Conclusion: Profane Democratization Do let me know if you have any further questions about the book. Clive _____________________________________________________ Professor Clive Barnett Geography College of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Exeter Amory Building Rennes Drive Exeter EX4 4RJ Tel: +44 (0)1392 722257 email: [log in to unmask] Blog: http://poptheory.org/ Webpage: http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/staff/index.php?web_id=Clive_Barnett