b2o: boundary 2 online

The b2o Review is a non-peer reviewed publication, published and edited by the boundary 2 editorial collective and specific topic editors, featuring book reviews, interventions, videos, and collaborative projects.  

  • The b2 Review

    L'anarchie_(1907)

    The print edition of b2 carries only article length reviews. We are starting an initiative to publish shorter reviews and notices of books, new and old, to which we want to draw our readers’ attention.

    We will also publish lists of books. We enthusiastically invite our readers to send us short reviews or notices that might be included on this site as part of the community around b2′s research agenda.

    update: In upcoming weeks, we will have much more posted here, including our review series on GLBT curated by Petra Dierkes-Thrun.

    The b2 Review welcomes recommendations of reviews and reviewers. We decided to develop longer review essays for the copyrighted edition of the journal from the best of the online reviews.

  • Bruce Robbins reports from MLA debate on Israel

    MLA 2014

    Bruce Robbins covers the recent MLA debate and resolution on Israel’s denials of entry of U.S. academics to the West Bank.

    Read his full article here.

  • on the ASA Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions

    on the ASA Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions

    Palestinian House

    Colin Dayan (Vanderbilt University) discusses the scope of responsibility institutionalized academia must embrace, and what “academic freedom” means to freedom itself, in light of the American Studies Association’s recent stance on the systematic silencing of Palestinian academia, and the polemics that have followed: “Must the actual separation wall in Israel become a reality in our institutions, blocking our view, disappearing Palestinians and burying the realities of the occupation?”

    Read her full opinion piece here.

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    cover photo: A sign on the front door of a Palestinian house which reads: “I have a clear conscience, do you? This home is free of products produced in [Israeli] Settlements.”