Out today: @aidanregan.bsky.social's co-authored new book:
Growth, Democracy, or Climate Action? The New Trilemma of Advanced Capitalism
@edinburghup.bsky.social @agendapub.bsky.social
#Degrowth for workers, green growth for the rest is how you lose democratic consent for #climate action.
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Agenda Publishing display of books at the PSA 2026 conference
Arrived at #PSA26 and looking forward some great conversation over the next few days - please come and say hello to Alison Howson or take a look at some of our recently published books.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
Just arrived:
Artificial Violence
The Anthropocene, Ecocide and Artificial Intelligence
by @tynergeog.bsky.social
More info👇
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
Out next month in the UK/Europe
In the USA/Canada please pre-order via @columbiaup.bsky.social
#Ecocide #ViolenceStudies #anthropocene
We will be at #PSA26 next week in Oxford - get in touch with Alison Howson if you have a publishing idea to discuss and want to fix a time or just drop by the stand to say hello!
Promotional graphic from Columbia University Press highlighting distributed presses in politics and international affairs. It invites viewers to visit booth 300 in the exhibit hall and includes a 20% discount code (CUP20SM). Five book covers are shown: The New Age of Genocide by Martin Shaw; The New Economic Nationalism by Monica de Bolle, Jérémie Cohen-Setton, and Madi Sarsenbayev; Russia and Modern Fascism edited by Ian Garner and Taras Kuzio; Sentimental State(s) edited by Heike Paul and Sarah Pritz; and Logistical Chokepoints, Precarious Work, and Social Reproduction by Anne Engelhardt. The design features a blue and light gray abstract background with the CUP logo at the bottom.
We’re proud to distribute books from international and domestic presses, including @agendapub.bsky.social, ibidem Press, Peterson Institute for International Economics, @transcript-verlag.bsky.social, and @barbarabudrich.bsky.social. buff.ly/hwkllZ8 #ISA2026 @isanet.bsky.social
Debt Trap Nation "sets an example for housing scholars...and is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand contemporary neoliberal societies through the lens of gender and housing"
Thanks @dollyloo.bsky.social for book review!
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I’m in conversation in London on 12 April with Na’amod, a movement of Jews in the UK seeking to end their community’s support for apartheid and occupation, and to mobilise it in the struggle for dignity, freedom and democracy for all Palestinians and Israelis.
actionnetwork.org/events/the-n...
Join us this coming Friday, March 13 at 10am EDT for an online discussion with Mark Vail about his new book The Hobbled State: Fractured Politics in Contemporary Germany.
Learn more about the book and register here: councilforeuropeanstudies.org/announcement...
In this episode of The Philosopher, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan discusses WHAT IS WE ( @agendapub.bsky.social ) — examining how the idea of “we” shapes the humanities & social sciences, and why we rarely question how “we” actually works. buff.ly/VJ5ZaJ6 #ThePhilosopher #Philosophy
Deryn's new book on the ethics of work is ace!
“An intellectually serious investigation of our ambivalent attitudes towards work... lays the conceptual groundwork for thinking of work as a space for the play of collective freedom.”
@impractknow.bsky.social on 'Working for Each Other' by Deryn Thomas
Out 5th March
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#philsky
I wrote a lengthy piece about genocide, geopolitics and international law in the new era, for e-international.bsky.social.
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The SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies event, "Complicit: British Complicity in the Genocide in Gaza", with me and Peter Oborne, is now available on YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ab...
@nimersultany.bsky.social
📢Just arrived:
Crime, Space and Place
New Geographical Perspectives
by Tim Hall and Richard Yarwood
“Responds incredibly well to student needs... a very welcome addition for courses.” - @qurbanist.bsky.social
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
#criminology #socialgeography
The Uneven Triangle: The US, China, and Russia in the Era of Trump 2.0
On 5 Feb., I'll be joining Bobo Lo and @giuliasciorati.bsky.social at @uclssees.bsky.social to talk about...well, what the title says! Do join us. (Free, but booking required)
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Tomorrow!
Join Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan in conversation with Tara Emelye Needham for a conversation about WHAT IS WE? on Monday, February 2 at 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK. Register Today! buff.ly/8ifPtxP @agendapub.bsky.social
Photo of three copies of 'Stupid Rules: Reducing Red Tape and Making Organizations More Effective and Accountable' by Natasha Hamilton-Hart. Image on the cover is a person struggling to escape some red tape.
“Hamilton-Hart deftly uses intuitive concepts from economics, jurisprudence and organizational theory to make a provocative argument for authority, understood as the prudent use of judgement in an environment of accountability.”
@profmdwhite.bsky.social on 'Stupid Rules' which has just arrived!
The Jervis Forum Review 1257
Koen van Zon’s Heralds of a Democratic Europe: Representation without Politicization in the European Community, 1948–68
“tells us much about the roots, results, and remedies of European-level struggles for democratic representation” –Mechthild Roos
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I’ve been interviewed by BBC Radio Ulster about my book The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza. It’s about 20 minutes long and begins at 12.36.
My first interview with any BBC outlet in the last 26 months of genocide!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
“A sharply written and most welcome new contribution on the multiple new genocides of the 21st century... a thoughtful defense of the genocide concept, against those scholars who seek to discard it.”
@magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social on 'The New Age of Genocide' in the Journal of Peace Research.
For your diaries (3 February): join Peter Oborne, Nimer Sultany and me at SOAS to discuss Complicit: British Complicity in the Genocide in Gaza. Register now.
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
“Myers has written a book that demonstrates how, and why, to do postcolonial scholarship... a fresh and accomplished contribution to urban studies literature.”
Professor Mark Davidson on 'Postcolonial Urban Studies' by @garthandrew.bsky.social - out next week.
#PostcolonialStudies #UrbanStudies
On Philosophy - Winter 2026 Free via Zoom - Mondays at 2pm ET / 7pm UK (except March 2nd is 30 min later, and March 9th is 3pm ET) Jan. 5 - Why Plato Matters Now - Angie Hobbs with Jon Hawkins and Peter West Jan. 12 - Indigenous Redirections in Political Thought - Yann Allard-Tremblay with Leila Ben Abdallah Jan. 19, Feb. 16, - The Philosopher and the News - Alexis Papazoglou and guests Jan. 26 - Love in Time - Fannie Bialek with Isabelle Laurenzi Feb. 2 - What is We? - Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan with Tara Emelye Needham Feb. 9 - On Loneliness - Kaitlyn Creasy with Kate Warlow-Corcoran Feb. 23 - TBC Mar. 2 - Are We Still Human? Günther Anders in the Age of Automation - Christian Dries, Chris Müller and Elke Schwarz with Jacob Blumenfeld Mar. 9 - Philosophy in a New Era of Climate Change - Travis Holloway and Contributors Information and registration at thephilosopher1923.org/events
Announcing: On Philosophy, Winter 2026!!
All events are free, Mondays at 2pm ET / 7pm UK (except March 2nd is 30 min later, and March 9th is 3pm ET)
featuring Angie Hobbs, Yann Allard-Tremblay, Fannie Bialek, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Kaitlyn Creasy, and so many more!
#Philosophy #PhilEvents
Photo of a shelf of 27 books pictured spine out. The books were all published by Agenda Publishing in 2025.
We'd like to close 2025 by sending best wishes to all the authors, editors, reviewers, librarians, printers, booksellers, distributors and reps we've worked with this year and to post with pride this 'shelfie' of the books we published together.
More to come in 2026 - so please follow for updates!
How genocide is being ‘normalised’
Mike Phipps reviews The New Age of Genocide, by Martin Shaw, published by Agenda. This book addresses not only the concept of genocide but its return to a central place in world politics. It explores both the West’s failure to prevent genocide, and, in the case…
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Last gig of 2025: giving evidence at London Assembly inquiry on social housing allocations
London is the epicentre of debt-based disqualifications. In 1 month of FOI data, 79% of disqualified HHs in England living in Temporary Accommodation were in London (3,000+ HHs). Nearly 1/2 incl. children.
*new Contesting AI talk* - The AI Matrix: Profits, Politics, and the Struggle Over Our Tech Future
21 Jan, 3pm GMT
Register: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Introducing new book by Regine Paul, @dmugge.bsky.social, and Vali Stan: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
Hosted by: contestingai.uk
Spotted! Debt Trap Nation in Manchester Waterstones.
Particularly pleasing with the majority of families in the book living in Greater Manchester.
And featured in the British History section. What a damning history it will tell about how children and their families have been treated.