Authors / Publishers
If you wish to have your book considered for review, please send it (or ask your publisher to send it) to
Interface Book Reviews Editor,
Mandisi Majavu,
The University of Auckland
Auckland
New Zealand
Requests for review should be made as close to the publication date as possible. We will endeavour to match your book with suitable reviewers. However, this will not always be possible and so not all books received will be reviewed.
Reviewers
Book reviews for Interface are 1 – 2,000 words long and are reviews of important theoretical, political and research works that are felt will be of interest to readers of the journal.
The general guidelines about writing for Interface cover the general themes and audience for the journal, language issues and questions of format.
If you are interested in submitting a review to Interface, please send a brief email to the Book Reviews Editor, Mandisi Majavu at majavums AT gmail.com outlining why you feel the book might be of interest to activists and researchers involved in a range of different social movements around the world, a short biography (250 words or less) and your primary affiliation (activist or academic). Please also include a statement guaranteeing that you have no close personal or professional ties to the book’s author.
Please ensure that the book is not already reviewed or under review by checking the lists below.
Offers of Review Copies – reviewers needed!
Croft, A. (2012). After the party: Reflections on life since the CPGB. Lawrence & Wilshart Ltd.
Chomsky, N. (2012). Occupy. Zuccotti Park Press
Katsiaficas, G. (2012). Asia’s Unknown uprisings Volume 1: South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century. PM Press.
Harvey, D. (2012). Rebel cities: from the right to the city to the urban revolution. Verso Books.
Sen, J. (Ed). (2012). Interrogating empires. Open World.
Sen, J. (Ed). (2012). Imagining Alternatives. Open World.
Amin, S. (2012). The people’s Spring: The future of the Arab revolution. Fahamu.
Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers. (2012). No land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way. Fahamu.
Munck, R. Trabajo, sindicatos migraciones y: en el marco de la globalización neoliberal
Books Under Review (updated May 2012)
Wittner, L. S. (2012). Working for peace and justice: Memoirs of an activist intellectual. University of Tennessee Press.
Alice Te Punga Somerville (2012). ONCE WERE PACIFIC: Māori Connections to Oceania. University of Minnesota Press.
Bourke, A., Dafnos, T., & Kip, M. (Eds). (2011). Lumpencity: Discourses of Marginality | Marginalizing Discourses. Red Quill Books
Gibson, N. C. (2011). Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali basMjondolo. UKZN Press.
Pleyers, G. (2011). Alter-globalization: Becoming actors in the Global Age. Polity Press.
Bush, R. (2009). The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line. Temple University Press.
Harvey, D. (2010). A Companion to Marx’s Capital. Verso.
McAlevey, J. (2012). Labour’s last stand: Why the labour movement is dying, and why it doesn’t have to die. Verso.
McMichael, P. (2012). Development and Social Change: A global perspective (5th edition). Sage.
Smith, J., Reese, E., Byrd, S., & Smythe, E. (2012). Handbook on World Social Forum Activism. Paradigm Publishers.
Brookfield, S. D., & Holst, J. D. (2011). Radicalizing learning: Adult education for a just world. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Broin, E. O. (2009). Sinn Fein and The Politics of Left Republicanism (Irish Left Republicanism). Pluto Press.
Brecher, Jeremy (2011) Save the Humans?: Common Preservation in Action, Paradigm Publishers.
Stone, A. L. (2012). Gay rights at the ballot box. University of Minnesota Press.
Conway, J. M. (2012). Edges of global justice: The World Social Forum and its ‘Others’ (Rethinking Globalisation. Routledge.
Bassey, N. (2012). To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa. Fahamu Books and Pambazuka Press.
Montessori, Nicolina Montesano. 2009. A Discursive Analysis of a Struggle for Hegemony in Mexico. VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG.
Forde, Catherine, Elizabeth Kiely, and Rosie Meade. 2009. Youth and Community Work in Ireland: Critical Perspectives. Blackhall Publishing Ltd.
Pijl, K. (2007). Nomads, Empires and States. Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy, vol. 1. London: Pluto Press.
Nilsen, Alf (2010) Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage, Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies.
Brenner, R., Winslow, C., & Brenner, A. (2010). Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s. Verso.
Rodriguez, C. (2011). Citizens’ Media against Armed Conflict: Disrupting Violence in Colombia. The University of Minnesota Press.
Kirby, Peter Wynn. 2009. Boundless Worlds: An Anthropological Approach to Movement. Berghahn Books.
Ellis, S., & Kessel, I. V. (2009). Movers and Shakers: Social Movements in Africa (African Dynamics). Brill Academic Pub. Kessel.
Selwyn, B. (2012). Workers, state and development in Brazil: Powers of labour, chains of value. Manchester University Press.
Massey, G. (2012). Ways of Social Change: Making Sense of Modern Times. Sage.
Franzway, S. & Fonow, M. M. (2011). Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor. University of Illinois Press.
Eschle, C. and Maiguashca, B. (2010). Making feminist sense of the global justice movement. Rowman and Littlefeld.
Saul, J. (2010) Revolutionary traveller: freeze-frames from a life. Arbeiter Ring.
Books Reviewed (in issue 1/1)
Conway, J. 2005. Praxis and politics. Knowledge Production in Social Movements, Routledge.
Reviewed by Fergal Finnegan, NUI Maynooth
Books Reviewed (in issue 1/2)
Francione, GL. 2008. Animals as persons: essays on the abolition of animal exploitation. Columbia Univ Pr.
Reviewed by Roger Yates, Department of Sociology, University College Dublin
Swarts, HJ. 2008. Organizing urban America: Secular and faith-based progressive movements. Univ Of Minnesota Press.
Reviewed by Maite Tapia, ILR School, Cornell University
Incite! Women of Colour Against Violence, ed. 2007. The revolution will not be funded: beyond the nonprofit industrial complex. Cambridge: South End Press.
Reviewed by Theresa O’Keefe, Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth
Books Reviewed (in issue 2/1)
Maeckelbergh, M. (2009). The Will of the Many: How the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy (Anthropology, Culture and Society). Pluto Press. Reviewed by Emma Dowling, Queen Mary University of London.
Maeda, D. (2009). Chains of Babylon: the rise of Asian America. Reviewed by Adrienne Showalter Matlock, University of Kansas.
McVeigh, R. (2009). Rise of the Ku Klux Klan: Right-wing Movements and National Politics (Social Movements, Protest, and Contention). University of Minnesota Press. Reviewed by Allison M Hurst, Furman University, South Carolina.
Shah-Shuja, M. (2008). Zones of Proletarian Development. OpenMute. Reviewed by Donagh Davis, European University Institute, Florence.
Van der Walt, L., & Schmidt, M. (2009). Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism. AK Press. Reviewed by Deric Shannon, University of Connecticut.
Woehrle, L. M., Coy, P. G., & Maney, G. M. (2008). Contesting Patriotism: Culture, Power, and Strategy in the Peace Movement. AltaMira Press, U.S. Reviewed by Janeske Botes, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Juris, J. (2008) Networking futures: the movements against corporate globalization. Reviewed by Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
Books Reviewed (in issue 2/2)
Bob, C. (2005). The marketing of rebellion: insurgents, media and international activism. Cambridge University Press. Reviewed by Tomas MacSheoin.
Charlton, J. (2009). Don’t you hear the H-Bomb’s thunder? Youth and politics on Tyneside in the late ‘fifties and early ‘sixties. Merlin / North East Labour History. Reviewed by Laurence Cox.
Reger, J., Myers, D., and Einwohner, L.R. (2008). Identity work in social movements. University of Minnesota Press. Reviewed by Maite Tapia.
Rodriguez, C., Kidd, D., and Stein, L. (2010). Making our media. Global initiatives towards a democratic public sphere. Volume one: creating new communication spaces. Hampton Press.
Stein, L., Kidd, D., and Rodriguez, C. (2009). Making our media. Global initiatives towards a democratic public sphere. Volume two: national and global movements for democratic communication. Hampton Press. Reviewed by Stefania Milan.
Books Reviewed (issue 3/1)
Davis, L. and Kinna, R. (2009). Anarchism and utopianism. Manchester University Press. Reviewed by Martha Ackelsberg.
Dukelow, F. and O’Donovan, O. (2010) Mobilising classics: reading radical writing in Ireland. Manchester University Press. Reviewed by Fergal Finnegan.
Graeber, D. (2009). Direct Action: an ethnography. AK Press. Reviewed by Mandisi Majavu.
Hyde-Clarke, N. (Ed.). (2010). The citizen in communication: Re-visiting traditional, new and community media practices in South Africa. Cape Town, SA: Juta. Reviewed by Marian Burchardt.
Kuhn, G. (2010). Sober living for the revolution: hardcore punk, Straight Edge and radical politics. PM Press. Reviewed by John L. Murphy.
Nilsen, A.G. (2010). Dispossession and resistance in India: the river and the rage. Routledge. Reviewed by Lesley Wood.
Books Reviewed (issue 3/2)
Earl, J. & Kimport, K. (2011) Digital Enabled Social Change: Activitism in the Internet Age. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. Reviewed by Piotr Konieczny
Ojas, S.V. et al. (2010) Plural narratives from Narmada Valley. Delhi Solidarity Group, Delhi. Reviewed by Thomas Mac Sheoin
Scandrett, E. et al. (2009) Bhopal survivors speak: emergent voices from a people’s movement: Bhopal survivors’ movement study. World Power Books, Edinburgh. Reviewed by Thomas Mac Sheoin
Wainwright, H. (2009) Reclaim the state: experiments in popular democracy. Seagull, London. Reviewed by Laurence Cox
Books Reviewed (in issue 4/1)
Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, Why civil resistance works: the strategic logic of nonviolent action. Reviewed by Brian Martin
Firoze Manji and Sokari Ekine (eds), Africa awakening: the emerging revolutions. Reviewed by Karen Ferreira-Meyers
Amory Starr, Luis Fernandez and Christian Scholl, Shutting down the streets: political violence and social control in the global era. Reviewed by Deborah Eade
Rebecca Kolins Givan, Kenneth Roberts and Sarah Soule (eds), The diffusion of social movements: actors, mechanisms, and political effects. Reviewed by Cecelia Walsh-Russo
Florian Heßdörfer, Andrea Pabst and Peter Ullrich (eds), Prevent and tame: protest under (self)control. Reviewed by Lucinda Thompson
Observatorio Metropolitano, Crisis y revolución en Europa: people of Europe rise up! Reviewed by Michael Byrne
Mariel Mikaela Arthur Lemonik, Student activism and curricular change in higher education. Reviewed by Christine Neejer
Rebecca MacKinnon, Consent of the networked: the worldwide struggle for internet freedom. Reviewed by Piotr Konieczny
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