The Fight for Black Liberation: Breaking the Political Strings in the Trump Era

Published: 02/11/2025

The first presidency of Donald J. Trump further unveiled the calamity of white America’s determination to maintain societal order during a period of landmark racial upheaval. From the restrictive voting measures led by Republicans and conservatives following the 2020 election, to the death of George P. Floyd Jr. and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests[…]

Power to Create, Power to Destroy: Toward Cultures of Resistance and Radical Social Change

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FORTHCOMING Fall 2025

Power to Create, Power to Destroy: Toward Cultures of Resistance and Radical Social Change is the fruit of the collective adventure of activists and researchers engaged in the global struggle against capitalism. The volume gathers reflections, experiences, and insights from multiple perspectives that share a common objective: a radical reorientation of societies toward meeting human[…]

Analogical City

Published: 01/18/2024

In Analogical City, Cameron McEwan argues for architecture’s status as a critical project. McEwan revisits architect Aldo Rossi as a paradigmatic figure of the critical rational tradition, studying a neglected aspect of his thought — the analogical city — to excavate its potential. McEwan develops a grammar of the analogical city under the headings of[…]

Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair Democracy

Published: 11/11/2022

A worldwide struggle between democracy and authoritarianism set against a backdrop of global surveillance capitalism is unmistakable. Examples range from Myanmar, China, and the Philippines to Hungary, Turkey, Russia, and the United States. Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom offers a multidisciplinary analysis drawing on psychology and literature to provide readers with a deeper[…]

Resistance

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Published: 12/02/2021

Resistance features a selection of overtly non-conformist positions in the contemporary visual arts scene of Albania vis-à-vis the most recent social, political, and economic turmoils in the Western Balkans—a region marked by the dark side of political governances that have remained “democratic” in their outward appearance only (especially toward the European Union), while dramatically leaning[…]

A Nuclear Refrain: Emotion, Empire, and the Democratic Potential of Protest

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Published: 12/19/2019

A Nuclear Refrain is a spatial fiction, and miniature chapbook (measuring 4 X 6 inches), that critiques the policy of nuclear deterrence, the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction, and the UK’s decision to replace its Vanguard submarines, the so-called Trident replacement. We challenge that decision via extending our geographical imaginations into the past, present, and[…]

Rescuing Democracy

Published: 10/27/2016

This book proposes a new institution — the ‘People’s Forum’ — to enable democratic governments to effectively address long-running issues like global warming and inequality. It would help citizens decide what strategic problems their government must fix, especially where this requires them to suffer some inconvenience or cost. The People’s Forum is first based on[…]