
Contraventions
Editorials from New Left Review
Susan Watkins(Editor)
Verso Books (Publisher)
Published on 31. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-1-83976-142-3 (ISBN)
Description
From 9/11 to the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq, the eurozone crisis to the Brexit vote, the Great Recession to the Arab Spring, the rise of China to the annexation of Crimea, the passage from Obama to Trump and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the London-based New Left Review has offered a series of sharply critical editorials, combining argument with analysis-radical antidotes to the self-serving accounts of the Anglophone press. Contraventions brings together a selection of NLR's key political writings, covering capitalist boom and bust, the changing forms of American hegemony, the combined and uneven development of world powers, the domestic politics of the US and UK and multiple revolts from below, at the ballot box or in the streets. Bookended by broader surveys of the political-intellectual conjuncture, these essays dismantle mainstream narratives and anatomize the ideologies, institutions and on-the-ground operations of liberal-imperial rule.
Contraventions includes texts by Perry Anderson, Tariq Ali, Mike Davis, Susan Watkins, Alexander Cockburn, Peter Gowan, Tony Wood, JoAnn Wypijewski, Tom Hazeldine and Dylan Riley.
Contraventions includes texts by Perry Anderson, Tariq Ali, Mike Davis, Susan Watkins, Alexander Cockburn, Peter Gowan, Tony Wood, JoAnn Wypijewski, Tom Hazeldine and Dylan Riley.
Reviews / Votes
The longue duree is an insistent presence in NLR's collective editorial vision. It hints at the possibility that the defeat of the left is only ever localised and provisional -- Jeremy Harding * London Review of Books *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 231 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83976-142-3 (9781839761423)
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Persons
New Left Review was founded in 1960 in London, which has remained its base ever since. In sixty years of publication, it has won an international reputation as an independent journal of socialist politics and ideas, attracting readers and contributors from every part of the world.
Content
Introduction by Susan Watkins
I. A GLOBAL HEGEMONY
1. Renewals - Perry Anderson
2. Our Herods - Tariq Ali
3. Testing Formula Two - Perry Anderson
4. Flames of New York - Mike Davis
5. Force and Consent - Perry Anderson
6. Vichy on the Tigris - Susan Watkins
7. Whatever Happened to the Anti-War Movement? - Alexander Cockburn
8. US:UN - Peter Gowan
9. The Nuclear Non-Protestation Treaty - Susan Watkins
ii. CRISIS IN THE HEARTLANDS
10. Shifting Sands - Susan Watkins
11. Good Riddance - Tony Wood
12. On the Concatenation in the Arab World - Perry Anderson
13. Spring Confronts Winter - Mike Davis
14. Presentism? Reply to T. J. Clark - Susan Watkins
15. Annexations - Susan Watkins
16. The State of the Union - Susan Watkins
17. Passing the Baton - Perry Anderson
18. The Politics of Insecurity - JoAnn Wypijewski
19. Revolt of the Rustbelt - Tom Hazeldine
20. What Is Trump? - Dylan Riley
21. America versus China - Susan Watkins
22. Five Wars in One - Susan Watkins
I. A GLOBAL HEGEMONY
1. Renewals - Perry Anderson
2. Our Herods - Tariq Ali
3. Testing Formula Two - Perry Anderson
4. Flames of New York - Mike Davis
5. Force and Consent - Perry Anderson
6. Vichy on the Tigris - Susan Watkins
7. Whatever Happened to the Anti-War Movement? - Alexander Cockburn
8. US:UN - Peter Gowan
9. The Nuclear Non-Protestation Treaty - Susan Watkins
ii. CRISIS IN THE HEARTLANDS
10. Shifting Sands - Susan Watkins
11. Good Riddance - Tony Wood
12. On the Concatenation in the Arab World - Perry Anderson
13. Spring Confronts Winter - Mike Davis
14. Presentism? Reply to T. J. Clark - Susan Watkins
15. Annexations - Susan Watkins
16. The State of the Union - Susan Watkins
17. Passing the Baton - Perry Anderson
18. The Politics of Insecurity - JoAnn Wypijewski
19. Revolt of the Rustbelt - Tom Hazeldine
20. What Is Trump? - Dylan Riley
21. America versus China - Susan Watkins
22. Five Wars in One - Susan Watkins