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NEW BOOKS:

Towards a New Research Era: A Global Comparison of Research Distortions
Edited By Marek Hrubec and Emil Visnovsky

Peace Advocacy in the Shadow of War
By Francis Shor

CALL for PAPERS:

Disaster socialism?

Global society is mired in a civilizational crisis that is both geopolitical-economic and ecological. As the structures of neoliberal globalization collapse while other alignments emerge, as the conditions for extractive accumulation on the treadmill of production are eroded, as climate crisis wreaks havoc on living systems that form the bases for human existence, great dangers present themselves, along with unprecedented openings. In a deep, organic crisis of this sort, as Gramsci noted, 'the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.' Among the symptoms is what Naomi Klein termed 'disaster capitalism': the enabling of accumulation by dispossession as a response to disasters caused by climate breakdown. For this Socialist Studies Special Issue, papers will explore the prospects for 'disaster socialism', which, if it is to emerge, will do so not on the basis of abundance but within a situation of ecological overshoot, requiring massive ecological restoration. Themes to be explored include: the social forces, political projects and organization forms through which post-capitalist, ecologically sustainable economic democracy could develop/is developing, the political-economic and cultural-ideological forces arrayed against such initiatives and the socio-political forms within which initiatives to heal earth and humanity can take root.

Special Issue Editor: Bill Carroll, Sociology, University of Victoria, wcarroll@uvic.ca

Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2025

Please submit manuscripts to: https://socialiststudies.com

NEW from BRILL:

Towards Justice: A Critical Theory of Global Society and Politics

By Marek Hrubec

Based on a critique of liberal and libertarian contradictions with their conflictual consequences and on analyses of critical social theories and perspectives from the Global South (Latin America, Africa, and Asia), as well as the Global North, this book seeks to address tensions of global social misrecognition and injustice. It deals with the dispute over particular and universal norms on local, regional, and global levels, extra-territorial social recognition of the global poor, strategic socialism, threats of global hegemony, authoritarianism, and war in light of various conflicts.

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New from Routledge, Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World provides a critical analysis of the central role of fossil capitalism in causing climate change and argues that only alternatives based upon democratic eco-socialism can prevent the deepening of the climate crisis.

Employing three core concepts within historical materialism, capitalist accumulation, imperialism and hegemony, it locates the existential threat of our changing climate in the drive for increasing profit and growth, the domination of advanced capitalist states that strip resources and exploit cheap labour, and the consent to the capitalist way of life in the global North. With attention to the ways in which, powered by fossil fuels, capital has subjected the world to its predatory logic, this book charts this history and surveys the damage from the Industrial Revolution to today's deep civilizational crisis, arguing that the market-based and purely technological solutions of 'climate capitalism' are too little, too late.

A call for a multifaceted and multi-scalar shift away from capitalist accumulation, imperialism and class hegemony and instead towards democratic eco-socialism, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in political and social theory, the environment and sustainability.

New from Routledge, British and American Electoral Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism: Parallel Trajectories employs a political economic approach in exploring the underlying neoliberal foundations of politics and electioneering in both the United States and the United Kingdom that have widened the divide among voters and, over time, led to a deep distrust of state institutions, including electoral politics and system of political representation.

Covering the period of 1980 to the present, the book provides analysis of how neoliberalism applies to the electoral sphere and the growing use of advanced communication technology and draws the connections between the larger forces behind the globalising political economy and the trajectory of the corporate state and the many intersections of US and UK electoral politics, with lessons for other wealthy states that follow in similar pathways. As such, it helps explain a phenomenal parallel pattern of major political upheavals and social dislocations within these two countries. Finally, it reveals through numerous social indicators that the two leading neoliberal political economic systems are producing depressing results for large sections of their citizenry and a threat to social democracy, as the concentration of wealth and well-being is largely captured by a minority class of empowered individuals.

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