Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities

8 best books like Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (Étienne Balibar): In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Nineteen Eighty Three, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, All About Love: New Visions, Ideology: An Introduction

In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin

Author	Lindsey Hilsum
ISBN	1473545382

** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **

‘It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.’ Marie Colvin, 2001

Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than...

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Author	Jenny Odell
ISBN	1612197493

This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.

When the technologies we use every day collapse...

Nineteen Eighty Three

Author	David Peace
ISBN	1852427701

This is the finale in the Red Riding Quartet and none of the books are stand alone stories, so, before you think of reading this, you must first read the three preceeding novels: Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four (Red Riding Quartet), Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Seven: Red Riding Quartet and Red Riding...

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

Author

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

From the creator and executive producer of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love--the best and worst thing in the universe

Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack...

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Author	Benedict Anderson
ISBN	0860915468

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation--has not received proportionate attention. In this widely...

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Author	Mark Fisher
ISBN	1846943175

After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...

All About Love: New Visions

Author	bell hooks
ISBN	0688168442

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood....

Ideology: An Introduction

Author	Terry Eagleton
ISBN	0860915387

‘His thought is redneck, yours is doctrinal and mine is deliciously supple.’

Ideology has never been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. From the left it can often be seen as the exclusive property of ruling classes, and from the right as an arid...