Pluto Press: 574 books
Jacques Lacan
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
*Shortlisted for the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2016**BR**BR*The wide-ranging and brilliant ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) have had a major influence on modern thought. His 'followers' are loyal and legion. Yet his ideas are complex and densely conveyed. Lacan's...
Ethnicity and Nationalism
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Is ethnicity a result of cultural differences? Is ethnicity dependent on the practical use and belief in cultural differences? Drawing on a wide-range of classic and recent studies in anthropology and sociology, Thomas Hylland Eriksen examines the relationship between ethnicity, class, gender and...
Fredrik Barth
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Fredrik Barth is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century anthropology. This intellectual history traces the development of Barth’s ideas and explores the substance of his contributions. In an accessible style, Thomas Eriksen’s biographical study reveals the magic of ethnography to professional...
Boomtown
Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Sitting next to the Great Barrier Reef, marinated in coal and gas, the industrial boomtown of Gladstone, Australia embodies many of the contradictions of the 'overheated' world: prosperous yet polluted; growing and developing yet always on the precipice of uncertainty.*BR**BR*Capturing Gladstone at...
Slavoj Zizek
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2004
'When I read Ian Parker's manuscript, I experienced an underlying solidarity: despite obvious differences, we share the same basic political concerns and visions. And this makes his critical remarks always pertinent!' Slavoj Zizek*BR**BR*'This is not simply the best critical introduction to Zizek...
The Palestinian Refugee Problem
The Search for a Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
In this unique volume, leading analysts from the Red Cross, Middle East Institute and Refugee Affairs - many of whom have been actively involved in past negotiations on this issue - provide an overview of the key dimensions of the Palestinian refugee problem. Mindful of the sensitive and contested...
Félix Guattari
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
This is an introduction to the thought of the radical French thinker Félix Guattari.*BR**BR*Guattari's main works were published in the 1970s and 1980s. His background was in psychoanalysis -- he was trained by Lacan and he practised as a psychoanalyst for much of his life. He developed a distinctive...
The Guantanamo Files
The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2007
In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in Guantánamo Bay opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held there, as well as 7,000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing their status as 'enemy combatants'. Andy Worthington is the only person to have analysed every page...
The Trouble with Community
Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
'Community' is one of social science's longest-standing concepts. The assumption, of much social science, has been that it is in communities -- and to communities -- that human individuals, as social and cultural beings, belong. Communities are said to embody that interactive environment from which...
by Vered Amit, Nigel Rapport
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Do notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are, or can we see beyond community closures to a human whole?*BR**BR*This volume explores the nature of contemporary sociality. It focuses on the ethical, organisational and emotional claims and opportunities sought or fashioned for mobilising...
Ecological Debt
Global Warming and the Wealth of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
Millions of people in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our cars, to what we consume and the waste that we create, the impact of our lifestyles is felt worldwide. *BR**BR*Whilst these debts go unpaid, millions more...
The Lure of the City
From Slums to Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Cities, by their very nature, are a mass of contradictions. They can be at once visually stunning, culturally rich, exploitative and unforgiving. In The Lure of the City Austin Williams and Alastair Donald explore the potential of cities to meet the economic, social and political challenges of the...
Using Gramsci
A New Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
This is a new approach to one of the greatest political theorists, Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks are one of the most popular Marxist texts available and continue to inspire readers across the world. In Using Gramsci, Michele Filippini proposes a new approach based on the analysis of...
Gramsci is Dead
Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
"Inspired to contribute to the symbiotic relationship between the academic and activist worlds, Day has decided to pick up the pen instead of the Molotov cocktail. The result is this brilliant book."*BR*Ann Hansen *BR*Ann was sentenced to life imprisonment for blowing up a cruise-missile...