Many of the academic books I read this year were for the Foucault and Shakespeare work, and few were published this year. This alphabetical list is of the twenty books published this year which I read and liked the most.
- Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Rancière, Reading Capital: The Complete Edition (Verso) – short blog piece on this here
- Judith Butler, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Harvard University Press)
- Patrick Cockburn, The Rise of Islamic State (Verso)
- Claire Colebrook and Jason Maxwell, Agamben (Polity)
- Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall, The Scramble for the Poles: The Geopolitics of the Arctic and Antarctic (Polity)
- Eugen Fink, Play as Symbol of the World (Indiana University Press) – my review here
- Jennifer Gabrys, Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet (University of Minnesota Press)
- Stephen Graham, Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers (Verso)
- Harriet Hawkins, Creativity (Routledge)
- Bob Jessop, The State: Past, Present, Future (Polity)
- Razmig Keucheyan, Nature is a Battlefield: Towards a Political Ecology (Polity)
- Jesse Lecavalier, The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment (University of Minnesota Press)
- Dotan Leshem, The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault (Columbia University Press)
- Debbie Lisle, Holidays in the Danger Zone: Entanglements of War and Tourism (University of Minnesota Press)
- William Rankin, After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press)
- Sverre Raffnsøe, Morten S. Thaning, and Marius Gudmand-Hoyer, Michel Foucault: A Research Companion (Palgrave) – which I endorsed
- Tiphanie Samayoult, Barthes: A Biography (Polity)
- Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the ‘Enemies of All Mankind’ (Routledge) – see my brief thoughts here
- Alexander Vasudevan, Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin (Wiley-Blackwell)
- Aoileann Ní Mhurchú and Reiko Shindo (eds.) Critical Imaginations in International Relations (Routledge)
In addition there are a few other books I’d like to mention in which I had some involvement:
- Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela (eds.) Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds (Punctum) – chapter author
- Dan Bulley, Migration, Ethics and Power: Spaces Of Hospitality In International Politics (Sage) – series editor
- Mark Carrigan, Social Media for Academics (Sage) – one of the academics interviewed
- Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca (eds.) Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich (University of Chicago Press) – reprints an article of mine
- Francisco Klauser, Surveillance and Space (Sage) – series editor
- Henri Lefebvre, Marxist Thought and the City (University of Minnesota Press) – writer of foreword
