#  Books 

 



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*In and Against: The Struggle to Remake the Welfare State in the Neoliberal Age* (under contract with Princeton University Press) is a book about social struggles 'in and against the state' in the long 1970s. It asks what it looks like for people situated on the terrain of the state--as recipients of welfare or healthcare, as public-sector workers or social housing residents--to act against it. It explores the feminist critique of the capitalist state through the history of a range of social struggles in Britain--from Wages for Housework, the Claimant's Unions, and the Community Development Projects to the municipalist socialist feminism of the Greater London Council--and charts how this critique was expressed in the tactics they developed, including demands, sabotage, and squatting.

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*In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy* (Princeton, 2019/ 2021) is a history of how political philosophy was transformed by postwar liberalism, John Rawls's *A Theory of Justice*, and the rise of liberal egalitarianism.

It received the Organization of American Historians’ Merle Curti Award, the Society for US Intellectual History’s Book Award, and the Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award, was co-awarded the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought's David and Elaine Spitz Prize, and was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize and the European Consortium for Political Research's Political Theory Prize.

Translations have appeared or are forthcoming with: Polis Publishers, 2022 (Greek), Istanbul Bilgi University Press 2023 (Turkish); Humanitas 2025 (Korean); Shanghai Sanhui Culture and Press Ltd, exp. 2026 (Chinese Simplified); Keio University Press, exp. 2027 (Japanese).

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*Nature, Action and the Future* (2018) is a collection of essays from leading political theorists and historians who show how the history of political ideas can help us make sense of climate change. By exploring a range of debates and traditions from early modernity to the Frankfurt School, the contributors show how the history of political thought offers insights into a range of concepts on which debates about climate politics today rely--from sustainability to abundance to idleness--and offers new directions for thinking about intractable problems of environmental politics, from the status of science in modern democracies, problems of collective action, to the challenges of fatalism.