Schulman comprehends her community through a politics of place and of sexuality. In a brilliant reading of three of Schulman’s novels (1986a; 1990; 1995) through the lens of the historical imagination of Walter Benjamin, Diane Chisholm (2005) describes this intersection of place and sexuality as a lesbian bohemia.

Nick Dines’ book is the result of an extended ethnographic and archival research conducted in Naples during and after the second half of the 1990s, a period of intense physical and symbolic restructuring of the city under Mayor Bassolino’s administration known as the Neapolitan renaissance. Through the case of Naples, Dines provides an interesting critique of the literature that illustrates the demise of public space in contemporary western cities, outlining the relational process that constitutes public space through its everyday use and experience, together and beyond policies of control or closure.

Tom Koch provides a critical and historically contextualized account of how the contemporary discipline of bioethics evolved in response to the demand for philosophical guidance for physicians and researchers. He both identifies inconsistencies in the interpretation of the philosophical roots of bioethics and critically deconstructs the “myths of origin” that have shaped this evolution.

With rare exceptions, the moral possibilities of the city, or the immoralities of environmental choices, are rarely considered seriously. Conversely, few ethicists consider seriously the environmental structure of the things they seek to judge, the complex realities that provoke the dilemmas they self-confidently assess.That is the unavoidable if unintended lesson of Daniel Callahan’s biography, "In Search of the Good: A Life in Bioethics".

Oh dear, poor Geography, someone thinks they have rediscovered you again!

In "Geography Speaks: Performative Aspects of Geography", Rob Sullivan argues that speech act theory and the performative can be applied to geography. Speech act theory and performance are familiar subjects within critical theory and the humanities, with a modern lineage spanning back to the mid-twentieth century.

For Mirowski, the U.S. Government’s changing management of scientific research, the emergence of intellectual property as the pinnacle of university life, and the global outsourcing of research capacity, have not only harmed academia but also weakened America’s hegemonic grip.

This book is not a manual of research techniques but a revelation of thought processes, the single exception being a hilarious account of her first experiment in fieldwork, when she and her artist sister joined a circus and learned valuable lessons about informal power structures, including that if you get too close to one “good” informant, no one else will tell you much.

In this book, Malabou urges us to think about the event-ality of a destructive event and uses the example of neurological trauma to capture the ‘unheard’ history of the subject. She presents an ontology of becoming, but a becoming that does not belong to the positive connotations of plasticity.

Catherine Malabou works in classic continental philosophy, neuroscience, and neuro-psychoanalysis. With Changing Difference she contributes to serious scholarship on contemporary feminism, most notably on the issue of essentialism.