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Joseph Pomp

Editor for Critical Theory, Politics, Current Events

“I am acquiring books that break new ground in politics, critical theory, and cultural studies as well as those that offer original viewpoints on current events. I have recently signed authors writing about Native Americans and the Constitution, China’s sovereign wealth funds, and the virtues of being wrong. In all fields, I look for projects tackling political and philosophical questions with an international perspective. In critical theory, I seek works both new and old that have yet to appear in English.

Before joining HUP as an editor, I completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice.”

Contact: @pompqmoq

Recent Harvard University Press Titles in Critical Theory, Politics, Current Events

Cover: Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form, by Sianne Ngai, from Harvard University Press

Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
Sianne Ngai

Cover: Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring, by Asef Bayat, from Harvard University Press

Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring
Asef Bayat

Cover: Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China, by Annah Lake Zhu, from Harvard University Press

Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China
Annah Lake Zhu

Cover: The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, by Mehrsa Baradaran, from Harvard University Press

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Mehrsa Baradaran

Cover: Against Constitutionalism, by Martin Loughlin, from Harvard University Press

Against Constitutionalism
Martin Loughlin

Cover: Statelessness: A Modern History, by Mira L. Siegelberg, from Harvard University Press

Statelessness: A Modern History
Mira L. Siegelberg

Cover: From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America, by Elizabeth Hinton, from Harvard University Press

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Elizabeth Hinton

Cover: After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene, by Jedediah Purdy, from Harvard University Press

After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene
Jedediah Purdy

Cover: New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI, by Frank Pasquale, from Harvard University Press

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
Frank Pasquale

Cover: Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America, by Nathaniel Frank, from Harvard University Press

Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America
Nathaniel Frank

Cover: Talk Radio’s America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States, by Brian Rosenwald, from Harvard University Press

Talk Radio’s America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States
Brian Rosenwald

Cover: The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West, by Payal Arora, from Harvard University Press

The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
Payal Arora

The <i>Chevron</i> Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State, by Thomas W. Merrill, from Harvard University Press

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Jamie Martin, author of The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance, warned in the New York Times that aggressive efforts to quell inflation in the United States can have major, unpredictable effects around the world—including long-lasting negative consequences for countries in the Global South.
A Washington Post analysis, informed heavily by David Livingstone Smith’s Making Monsters, described how the Russian military encourages its troops to dehumanize Ukrainians.

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From Our Blog

Jacket: A Brief History of Equality, by Thomas Piketty, from Harvard University Press

Five Reasons Why You Should Read Thomas Piketty’s A Brief History of Equality

In his surprising and powerful new work, A Brief History of Equality, Thomas Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep of history gives us reasons to be optimistic. Over the centuries, he shows, we have been moving toward greater equality. We asked him about his impassioned new book: why he wrote it, how it’s optimistic, and what we need to do to continue making progress on creating an equitable world. …

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