In a new post for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social Don Herzog, author of Reading Wars, explores the categorisation of readers as responsible for, or at risk of, subversion as a key driver of efforts to ban reading and readers.
👉 Read the full post: https://bit.ly/41NMjd0
Join the @uolpress.bsky.social tomorrow, Thursday 23 April at 10am, for an online panel discussion about Open Access Publishing as part of the London Open Science and Scholarship Festival.
Find out more and register to attend:
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Hands holding the book The Growth Story of the 21st Century.
🌍 The next decade will determine whether we avoid climate, biodiversity, and economic catastrophe – or unlock a new era of sustainable, resilient, and inclusive growth.
This #EarthDay, we’re highlighting The Growth Story of the 21st Century by Nicholas Stern: https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.tgs
Cover of the book What's a Company For?
“This is a distractingly easy read for such a weighty contribution to the debate. You are in safe hands and will learn a lot from it.”
— Eve Poole OBE, author of Capitalism's Toxic Assumptions
What’s a Company For? will be available June 2026 via #OpenAccess publishing.
🔗 doi.org/10.31389/lse...
The Growth Story of the 21st Century featured in @elpais.com
@lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social @gsos-lse.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social #Sustainability #GreenEconomics
🌍 ❗ ♻️ 🌤️ Professor Lord Nicholas Stern's new book is free to read and download #OpenAccessbhttps://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.tgs
New applications now welcome for new publishers wanting to join @ojcollective.bsky.social. You'll be in great company - alongside @lsepress.bsky.social journals 😊
Photo of Nonauthoritarian Authority
"If societies are to learn to practise authority better, we will need to learn how better to respond to the demands of a plurality of voices, practices and calls."
@jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores authority and attention in an everyday urban landscape for the LSE Press blog: https://bit.ly/3Ptglj6
“Yes we can.”
A review in @nature.com by Andrew Macintosh explores Nick Stern’s book - 'The Growth Story of the 21st Century' (@lsepress.bsky.social) making an optimistic case for climate action, economic growth and a cleaner more prosperous global economy. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Exceptionally acute and warm-hearted, this book engages with a lived experience shared by us all and breaks new ground in urgent debates over the ethics of quantification today."
— Morgan Clarke, Professor of Social Anthropology, @ox.ac.uk
Coming soon #openacess @lseanthropology.bsky.social
Cover of the book Wellbeing.
Governments in liberal democracies pursue social welfare, but why not focus directly on increasing measured human happiness?
This #InternationalWellnessDay, we’re highlighting Wellbeing: Alternative Policy Perspectives, edited by Timothy Besley and Irene Bucelli.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4uyFxES
"Exceptionally acute and warm-hearted, this book engages with a lived experience shared by us all and breaks new ground in urgent debates over the ethics of quantification today."
— Morgan Clarke, Professor of Social Anthropology, @ox.ac.uk
Coming soon #openacess @lseanthropology.bsky.social
🔓 Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox is free to read and download online: doi.org/10.31389/lse...
#NailaKabeer #RenegotiatingPatriarchy #Bangladesh #Gender #Development @lseid.bsky.social @lsegeography.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social
"Bangladesh needs to prioritise a gender-equitable knowledge economy that is built on the care and capabilities of its population."
Professor Naila Kabeer writes for The Daily Star following the regional publication of her book with University Press Limited. 👇
www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/u...
How does #openaccess publishing improve a work's reach, visibility and impact, and what's it like to engage first-hand with publishers?
Join @philippagrand.bsky.social and David Luke, at the London Open Science and Scholarship festival next week @ucl.ac.uk
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-acces...
Join ECLAC / CEPAL / ECLAC for an international seminar in dialogue with co-editor of The London Consensus, Professor Andres Velasco on The London Consensus in Latin America and the Caribbean.
21 Apr 2026, 09:00 - 18:00
🎟️ Register here: www.cepal.org/en/events/in... @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social
This book will be launched at an LSE public event in collaboration with @lselaw.bsky.social for a conversation on the heated, even murderous, political struggles over who gets to read and what they get to read.
Tuesday 9 June 2026, 6pm - 7.30pm
www.lse.ac.uk/events/futur...
"Political theory, historical sense, worrisome texts, unheralded documents, and great storytelling join forces in Herzog’s virtuoso investigation of the brutal fighting over who gets to learn to read..."
— Mary G Dietz
doi.org/10.31389/lse... #ReadingWars #OpenAccess
"A rich yet accessible introduction to the many ways in which society has attempted to restrict reading materials throughout British and United States history."
— @alisonhicks0.bsky.social, Associate Professor in Library and Information Studies @ucl.ac.uk
doi.org/10.31389/lse... #OpenAccess
"Reading Wars tells the astonishing history behind the wars on reading in a readable, clever style, underscoring the stakes of many of the current fights over censorship and book bans."
— @leahlitman.bsky.social
doi.org/10.31389/lse...
Coming soon! 🗣️
Who gets access to books? And, to what extent does the act of reading shape our humanity?
Reading Wars by Don Herzog will be published on 23rd April.
This book will be free to read and download from the LSE Press website and affiliates.
doi.org/10.31389/lse... #OpenAccess
This is such a great postdoc opportunity! Come and join our extremely friendly and cheerful department!🌻👇
Published with praise from Thomas Piketty, Philippe Aghion, and others.
Nicholas Stern's new book is free to read and download #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.31389/lse...
@gsos-lse.bsky.social #Sustainability #Growth #GreenEconomics #Climate @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social
"In a period when optimism is hard to find, The Growth Story provides a positive vision of what the future could look like — if decision makers could take on the hard work needed to deliver it."
🌍 The Growth Story of the 21st Century reviewed in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Cover of the book Marked.
"Rohde’s careful anthropology of German grading practices reveals the impact of the grade currency by which young people are evaluated, sorted, and judged.”
— Gavin T. L. Brown, Professor of Educational Assessment, University of Auckland
Marked will be available June 2026: https://bit.ly/4d4pbOe
Photo of the book Conflict, War and Revolution.
💭 "An invaluable resource for scholars and students interested in the relationship between politics and violence."
— Dr Enzo Rossi, Associate Professor, Universiteit van Amsterdam and co-editor of European Journal of Political Theory
🔗 https://bit.ly/4bLUEDL
@pjthinker.bsky.social
Photo of the book Nonauthoritarian Authority
"Absolutely captivating, an inspirational message in a bottle for troubled times."
— Chris Philo, author of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination
💬Nonauthoritarian Authority is free to read and download: https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.noa
@rgs.org @jbrigstocke.bsky.social
Photo of the book Reading Wars.
"A rich yet accessible introduction to the many ways in which society has attempted to restrict reading materials throughout British and United States history."
— Alison Hicks, Associate Professor in Library and Information Studies, UCL
Reading Wars will publish May 2026: https://bit.ly/4ue0C7w
Cover of the book Doing Open Social Science.
Join us for the launch of Doing Open Social Science: A Guide for Researchers by Patrick Dunleavy and Timothy Monteath, taking place as part of the CIVICA Open Science Conference.
📅 Wednesday 20 May
📍 London School of Economics and Political Science & online
Book your place: https://bit.ly/4sHaeGS
This #WorldHealthDay we’re proud to highlight the Journal of Long-Term Care, an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal advancing research across all aspects of long-term care for adults.
Find out more: https://journal.ilpnetwork.org/
📣 Don’t miss Nicholas Stern presenting key themes from The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action.
📅 10 April
📍 IESE Madrid
Find out more and book your place: https://bit.ly/4sP5zma
