Pluto Press imprint: 440 books
by Neil Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2000
The traditional view of the Scottish nation holds that it first arose during the Wars of Independence from England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Although Scotland was absorbed into Britain in 1707 with the Treaty of Union, Scottish identity is supposed to have remained alive in the new...
Revolutionary Learning
Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Revolutionary Learning explores the Marxist and feminist theorisation of dialectics, praxis and consciousness in education and learning. Moving beyond previous books on Marxism and education, this groundbreaking text explores the core philosophical concepts that build the Marxist analysis of learning,...
by Peter Ives
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
Language and Hegemony in Gramsci introduces Gramsci’s social and political thought through his writings on language. It shows how his focus on language illuminates his central ideas such as hegemony, organic and traditional intellectuals, passive revolution, civil society and subalternity. Peter...
The Left in History
Revolution and Reform in Twentieth-Century Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 1996
'Essential and rather chastening reading for anyone who believes left values need to have some effective public resonance and political impact and wants to learn from the few victories and many defeats experienced over the 20th century' Socialist History
'One of the most accurate, comprehensive and stimulating histories of the left' New Times
by David Edwards, David Cromwell
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Media Lens' mission is to correct the distorted vision of the liberal media. A thorn in the side of the Guardian, Independent, Channel 4 and the BBC, among many others, it is constantly under counterfire by those it attacks.*BR**BR*These responses are collected in Newspeak. They expose the arrogance...
Understanding the Somalia Conflagration
Identity, Political Islam and Peacebuilding
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Is peace-building in Somalia possible? Devastated by a US-backed Ethiopian invasion and years of civil war, Somalia has long been without a central government, against this background of violence and instability, Somali academic Afyare Abdi Elmi, explains the multiple dimensions of the conflict, seeking...
by Bassel F Salloukh, Rabie Barakat, Jinan S Al-Habbal
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
The wave of popular uprisings that swept across the Arab world starting in December 2010 rattled regimes from Morocco to Oman. However, Lebanon’s sectarian system proved immune to the domestic and regional pressures unleashed by the Arab Spring. How can this be explained? How has the country’s...
Egypt
Contested Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
The tumultuous events that began in Egypt in 2011 have embraced revolution and counter-revolution. For Philip Marfleet they are best understood as part of a complex, ongoing process in which millions of people have become agents of change.
Amidst a surge of publishing on the ‘Arab Spring’...
Contemporary Arab Thought
Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Contemporary Arab Thought is a complex term, encompassing a constellation of social, political, religious and ideological ideas that have evolved over the past two hundred years — ideas that represent the leading positions of the social classes in modern and contemporary Arab societies.
Distinguished...
Green Parties, Green Future
From Local Groups to the International Stage
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Over the past four decades the world has seen a 'Green awakening'. Green parties have been elected to parliaments and councils all over the world, and in many cases have played a part in national and local government. A common set of Green priorities has been promoted by Green internationalisation...
Popular Protest in Palestine
The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Popular Protest in Palestine provides an overview and analysis of the role and significance of unarmed civil (popular) resistance in the Palestinian national movement. The main focus is on the contemporary popular resistance movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), but it is prefaced...
Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism
Violent Systems of Capital Accumulation in Colombia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
The people of Colombia have, for the last fifty years, been subject to a specific form of violence: paramilitarism. An embodiment of the underbelly of global capitalist accumulation, this form of pervasive violence expresses the exacerbation of social inequalities and class formation under capitalism....
Cultures of Fear
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
This collection of essays explores the formation and normalisation of fear in the context of war and terrorism.*BR**BR*Freedom from fear is a universal right and fundamental for human well-being. People often look to governments, humanitarian agencies, and other institutions to further this aim. However,...
Gilles Deleuze
Vitalism and Multiplicity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
Gilles Deleuze is widely regarded as one of the major postwar proponents of Nietzschean thought in continental philosophy. Over a period of forty years, he presented what amounts to a philosophy of vitalism and multiplicity, bringing together concepts from thinkers as diverse as Nietzsche and Hume....