Book Launch Panel: Handbook on Politics and Society

The Handbook on Politics and Society is a wide-ranging book that brings together some of the sharpest thinkers on contemporary problems. It addresses the ways in which simultaneous crises in capitalist accumulation, economy, sociality, democracy, and democratic representation result in instability in multiple spheres. The chapters in this Handbook address the resulting ruptures and affordances within five broad themes: living in capitalism, rights regulation and mobile subjects, constituting groups and crafting identities, framing and resisting violence, and rethinking futures. The research presented in the Handbook moves across the globe including perspectives from Africa, South Asia, Latin America, North America, and Europe. This book forum features the editors (Shireen Hassim and Anna Korteweg) and authors (Anna Korteweg, Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrčela and Rianne Mahon), in conversation with critics and the audience.