Pluto Press imprint: 440 books
After Queer Theory
The Limits of Sexual Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Is queer theory dead? Through its increasing entanglement with capitalism, James Penney, controversially argues that queer theory has run its course. However, the 'end of queer' should not signal the death of liberatory sexual politics; rather, it presents the occasion to rethink the relation between...
Basic Income
The Material Conditions of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2007
Basic Income is a policy idea that could help us revolutionise the way we organise society. This book is the first proper guide to basic income -- what it is, how we can organise it, and how it can benefit the majority in different spheres of their lives.*BR**BR*Basic Income is simply the idea that...
by Peter Wade
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
The intersection of race and sex in Latin America is a subject touched upon by many disciplines but this is the first book to deal solely with these issues.
Interracial sexual relations are often a key mythic basis for Latin American national identities, but the importance of this has been...
Religion Without Redemption
Social Contradictions and Awakened Dreams in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
The world’s eyes are on Latin America as a place of radical political inspiration and as an alternative to the neoliberal model. Each country in the region deals differently in its method of government, yet there are common cultural themes that tie the continent’s trajectory together. Religion...
by Peter Wade
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
For over ten years, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America has been an essential text for students studying the region. This second edition adds new material and brings the analysis up to date.*BR**BR*Race and ethnic identities are increasingly salient in Latin America. Peter Wade examines changing perspectives...
Globalisation
Studies in Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
Globalisation has had a massive impact on the teaching and practice of anthropology. This book addresses the methodological problems that these changes have wrought.*BR**BR*The essays show how the focus has shifted from traditional studies of specific sites, towards the movements and shifts associated...
Power and Its Disguises
Anthropological Perspectives on Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2000
This book explores both the complexities of local situations and the power relations that shape the global order. He shows how historically informed anthropological perspectives can contribute to debates about democratisation by incorporating a 'view from below' and revealing forces that shape power...
Pluralising Pasts
Heritage, Identity and Place in Multicultural Societies
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
The heritage industry is big business. From museums and the preservation of old buildings to broader questions of community and identity, heritage is now a political issue. This book explores what heritage means and how it is used to encourage people to identify with particular places and 'traditions'....
by Maruska Svasek
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
This book provides an introduction to anthropological perspectives on art. *BR**BR*Svasek defines art as a social process. We study not only the artefacts themselves and the values attributed to them, but also the process of production and its wider context. *BR**BR*Providing a critical overview of...
The Beginning of History
Value Struggles and Global Capital
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
Francis Fukuyama may declare the 'end of history', and neoliberal capital embraces this belief. However, the diverse struggles for commons and dignity around the planet reveal a different reality: that of the beginning of history. The clash between these two perspectives is the subject matter of this...
Negativity and Revolution
Adorno and Political Activism
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
How can activists combat the political paralysis that characterises the anti-dialectical Marxism of Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze, without reverting to a dogmatic orthodoxy? This book explores solutions in the 'negative dialectics' of Theodor Adorno.*BR**BR*The poststructuralist shift from dialectics...
Change the World Without Taking Power
The Meaning of Revolution Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
This book is a profound search for a theory of social change. Through clearing away the cobwebs of revolutionary socialism, it renews the fight for the ending of capitalism and the construction of a new, fairer world.*BR**BR*After a century of failed attempts by radical projects, the concept of revolution...
Gender Politics
Citizenship, Activism and Sexual Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2005
Is it possible to move beyond the male-female gender binary system? What happens to gender theory when we consider sex and gender identities as more than just 'male' or 'female'? Crucially, what are the implications of gender and sexual fluidity and multiplicity for social policy, citizenship, new...
The Politics of Postcolonialism
Empire, Nation and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
In a period of vast global restructuring, unrestricted capital has eroded the traditional distinctions between nations and nationhood. In The Politics of Postcolonialism, Rumina Sethi devises a new form of postcolonial studies that makes sense of these dramatic changes.
Returning to the origins...