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Favourite Readings 2022 – On Epistemic Injustices

Anu Bradford, The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (2020) Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar, Global Health Governance: Who Runs the World and Why? (2017) Mary Douglas, How Institutions Think (1986) Thomas M. Franck, Recourse to Force (2002) David Grossman, To the End of the Land (2010, Jessica Cohen transl.) Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century (2012) George Lichtheim, Europe in the Twentieth Century (1972) Judith Shklar, The Faces of Injustice (1990) As in previous years, EJIL review team, Gail Lythgoe and Christian J. Tams, have asked colleagues to offer short reflections on their favourite books of the year.  No strict rules apply — the posts are meant to introduce books that left an impression, irrespective of their genre. Today we have selections from Jan…

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Favourite Readings 2022 – Introduction

As in previous years, we are marking the end of 2022 with a series of posts highlighting ‘favourite readings‘ of the year: recommendations that celebrate authors and their books, and that reflect the pleasure of engaging with them. As EJILTalk! regulars will know, this series has become a bit of a tradition; having run, discounting the occasional break,…

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Favourite Readings 2021 – Canonization, Toleration, Incarnation, and Masturbation

Harold Bloom, The Western Canon. The Books and School of the Ages (Riverhead Books, New York, 1995) Mahmood Mamdani, Neither Settler Nor Native. The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Belknap Press, London, 2020) Régis Debray, Cours de médiologie générale (Gallimard, Paris, 2001) Simeon Wade, Foucault in California (A True Story – Wherein the…

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Favourite Readings 2021 – Critical Thinking about Contemporary Geographies and Deep Time

bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Routledge, 1994) Milton Santos, The Nature of Space (Duke University Press, 2021 [Translated by Brenda Baletti]) Helen Gordon, Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through our Past and Future Worlds (Profile Books, 2021) As in previous years, EJIL’s Review section,…

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Favourite Readings 2021 – Another winter of intellectual rather than geographical journeys…

Stefan Zweig, Montaigne (8th edition, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, 2014) Frank Schorkopf, Der europäische Weg. Geschichte und Gegenwart der Europäischen Union (3rd  edition, Mohr Siebeck, 2020) Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason. From Judgement to Calculation (W.H. Freeman & Co., 1976) As in previous years, EJIL’s Review section, has invited EJIL board members and editors…

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