Robin D.G. Kelley recommends three books every radical should read
Daniel Hartley
@danieljhartley.bsky.social
Associate Professor in World Literatures at Durham University. Marxist literary criticism & environmental humanities, new peasantries, agroecology, post-capitalist futures. Views mine.
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
Next Thursday I'll be in Edinburgh to talk about the book project. critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/daniel-hartl...
Daniel Hartley – Peasant Modernism (18 June)
We will be joined by Daniel Hartley (Durham) for a discussion of his new book project, Peasant Modernism: Peasant Modernism: Marx, Culture, and the Future of Eating Well. Rethinking the peasant as a f...
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It exists! Publication day in the UK of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, AND SEA, 1926-2014. Available everywhere for preorder with discount code AUFLY30 at Oxford UP WEBSITE; digital edition available now at all libraries with Oxford academic subscriptions.
Excited to report that "Turning the World Upside Down: On Marx, Religion, and Revolution" has been published online. It introduces the forthcoming special (double) issue of Political Theology on "Marx and Revolution" that I co-edited with @s-msorentino.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/1462...
Been interviewed on Tyne Tees about trying to pursue the case of my sister's murder in Nairobi, which is still unsolved. Very grateful to Kris Jepson for his sensitive reporting: www.itv.com/news/tyne-te...
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Zeteo contributor Alex Colston has just been released from Israeli prison. Alex was abducted while traveling with the Global Sumud Flotilla and details the abuses he experienced while detained.
What are the stand-out books on Gramsci to have appeared since Peter Thomas's The Gramscian Moment? (Preferably in English/French/German).
I’m happy to share that our book proposal has been accepted in Routledge’s History and Philosophy of Biology series! I’m so excited and honored to be co-editing the volume - titled Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin - with Jonathan Basile and Denis Walsh.
I'm losing 100% of my pay this month, and for the foreseeable future, because of management's punitive response to the marking and assessment boycott launched by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social to try and stop compulsory redundancies. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1448...
Looking forward to speaking on this panel at Newcastle University next week.
This is a good book. I’ve been having a bunch of fun reading it. If you want to be a “left-Aristotelian,” it’s a must read!
A very interesting article that contextualises Welsh devolution in the longue-durée history of the British state and reflects on what Reform's rise might mean for "Welsh European" regional autonomy.
Rhywbeth i’w ddarllen tra'n aros am y canlyniadau, efallai. @richardwynjones.bsky.social @danieljhartley.bsky.social @jasminedonahaye.bsky.social nationtimecymrusydd.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/i...
New book alert: My book, _Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism_, will be out with Verso in July. Available for preorder.
Agrarian Questions
Between 1910 and 1970, Latin America experienced a rapid and radical transformation. Rural societies became urban, and peasants found themselves forced into precarious wage labor. The Latin American n...
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I'm giving a talk at Oxford University next week as part of their Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar. The title of the talk is: '"In the Belly of this Story": Metabolic Autonomy in Leslie Marmon Silko and the Late Marx'. Do come if you're around!
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We are on 2 days left with the crowdfunder! So far we have raised over £10,000 which is amazing, but we still need donations to help us furnish a place and buy essential equipment! If you haven’t and you can, please donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb... #radicalbookshop #crowdfunder
Reminder that this is on Tuesday next week. Still places available.
On Tuesday April 21, I'll be hosting an in-person (non-recorded) one-day symposium on "Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question" at Durham University. Details in the images, booking link below. All welcome!
I've just donated. If you can afford it, you should too.
As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...
Fredric Jameson was born on this day in 1934. To honor the great writer's life, we've discounted his titles and encourage everyone to read the works he produced in his 90 years.
Fredric Jameson | April 14, 1934 - September 22, 2024
Fredric Jameson contributed some of the most important Marxist cultural criticism of the twentieth century. To honor the great writer's life, we've discounted his titles and encourage everyone to read...
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Hadn't intended to read this tonight, but once I started I couldn't stop. Incredible novel.
On Tuesday April 21, I'll be hosting an in-person (non-recorded) one-day symposium on "Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question" at Durham University. Details in the images, booking link below. All welcome!
On Tuesday April 21, I'll be hosting an in-person (non-recorded) one-day symposium on "Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question" at Durham University. Details in the images, booking link below. All welcome!