In this book, Haesbaert questions the idea of deterritorialization advanced by Arjun Appadurai, Manuel Castells, Bertrand Badie and Paul Virilio in the 1990s. According to these scholars the intensification of mobility (in terms of individuals, goods, and financial flows) and the development of digital technologies would challenge the bond between societies and their territories.

Despite the lack of clear intervention by Western governments in the Egyptian crisis and the Syrian conflict, recent weeks have witnessed noticeable steps from some international actors towards Lebanon—a country that the UK government, among others, thinks is dangerously about to be engulfed by the ongoing conflict in Syria.

Cary Wolfe’s "Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in A Biopolitical Frame" is a novel and timely book that challenges the anthropocentric register of mainstream biopolitics. It is an ambitious and generative interweaving of research, ranging from legal theorisations of animal ‘rights’ to neurophysiological accounts of behavioural plasticity.

Part textbook, and part a more fundamental attempt to analyze a number of philosophical and political issues that surround modern security studies, this book begins with an etymological description of the word "catastrophe" as a "reversal of what is expected" or "an overturning." In "Politics of Catastrophe", Claudia Aradau and Rens van Munster aim to demonstrate how catastrophes—whether climate change, terrorism, or health outbreaks—shape security and governance practices.

In this interview, Berlant gives her take on contemporary queer and austerity politics, the political implications of powerful new book "Cruel Optimism", and the insights of queer theory for the present.