Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, and how to understand the interrelationships between affective life and a range of contemporary political transformations. In Encountering Affect, Ben Anderson explo[...]

In his powerful and shocking expose critically-acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ben Anderson shows just how bad the ruinous war in Afghanistan has got. Detailing battles that last for days, only to be fought again weeks later, and disturbing incompetence among the Afghan army and police, he raises ur[...]

Social work as a profession and academic discipline has long centered women and issues of concern to women, such as reproductive rights, labor rights, equal rights, violence and poverty. In fact, the social work profession was started by and maintained in large part by women and has been home to sev[...]