Worldwide, soft regulation like codes of conduct and benchmarks have been introduced to cope with the uncertain risks and benefits of nanotechnologies. However, it seems that these regulations are facing effectiveness problems. For instance, the European Commission’s 2008 Nano Code…

Besides the European Union (EU) Directive on Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of CHemicals (REACH), the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) is probably the single most important piece of environmental legislation in Europe when it comes to dealing with nanomaterials…

A review of Ben Highmore, Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday (Routledge, 2011).

A review of Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke, 2010).

A review of Bether Hinderliter, William Kaizen, Vered Maison, Jaleh Mansoor and Seth McCormick (eds), Communities of Self: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics (Duke, 2009)

A review of Julia Hell and Andreas Schonle (eds), Ruins of Modernity (Duke, 2010).

A review of Rafaael de la Dehesa, Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies (Duke, 2010) and Kane Race, Pleasure Consuming Medicine (Duke, 2009).

A review of Matthew Karush and Oscar Chamosa (eds), The New Cultural History of Peronism: Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth Century Argentina (Duke, 2010).

A review of Frank B. Wilderson III, Red, Black and White: Cinema and the Structure of US Antagonisms (Duke, 2010) and Patricia de Santan Pinho, Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia (Duke, 2010).

A review of Sonia Livingston, Children and the Internet: Great Expectations, Challenging Realities (Polity, 2009).