Forum: Giant Steps

Olúfémi O. Táíwò

With responses from Ishac Diwan & Bright Simons, Tara Raghuveer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie, Joe Guinan & Martin O’Neill, Claudio Lomnitz, and Thea Riofrancos. Táíwò replies.

Rule by Militia

Joshua Craze           

South Africa’s Enduring Unfreedom

S’bu Zikode interviewed by Richard Pithouse

The Question of Palestinian Statehood

Leila Farsakh

Three Cheers for the Administrative State

Janice Fine & Hana Shepherd

Is the State Here to Stay?

Jonathan S. Blake

Reviewed:

The State
by Philip Pettit

The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
by Charles S. Maier

The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty
by Natasha Wheatley

Prison Reform’s Shell Game

Bonnie Tenneriello

For a Solidarity State

Leah Hunt-Hendrix & Astra Taylor

The Summers of Theory

Peter E. Gordon

Reviewed:

The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960–1990
by Philipp Felsch, translated by Tony Crawford

The Long Summer of Theory
directed by Irene von Alberti