Pluto Press: 574 books
Open Secrets
Israeli Foreign and Nuclear Policies
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 1997
‘Shahak has the courage to to say what most Israelis do not dare to say and definitely do not want to hear ... [He] is a knowledgeable insider who builds his argument carefully on the best information ... The lessons to be drawn from what Shahak tells us are self-evident ... Open Secrets and Jewish...
Israeli Rejectionism
A Hidden Agenda in the Middle East Peace Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Palestine-Israel conflict is one of the longest running and seemingly intractable confrontations in the modern world. This book delves deep into the ‘peace process’ to find out why so little progress has been made on the key issues.Zalman Amit and Daphna Levit find overwhelming evidence of Israeli...
Peacebuilding and Reconciliation
Contemporary Themes and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Peacebuilding and Reconciliation brings together a number of critical essays from members of the renowned Centre for Peace & Reconciliation Studies, based at Coventry University in the UK.
This highly topical book covers the latest developments and issues in the discipline of peacebuilding...
Final Solutions
Human Nature, Capitalism and Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Final Solutions offers a ground-breaking and genuinely unique analysis of modern genocide. Sabby Sagall draws on the insights of the Frankfurt school and Wilhelm Reich to create an innovative combination of Marxism and psychoanalysis. He argues that genocide is a product of an ‘irrational’...
by Hamid Dabashi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this unprecedented study, Hamid Dabashi provides a critical examination of the role that immigrant "comprador intellectuals" play in facilitating the global domination of American imperialism.
In his pioneering book about the relationship between race and colonialism, *Black Skin, White...
Bruno Latour
Reassembling the Political
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Bruno Latour, the French sociologist, anthropologist and long-established superstar in the social sciences is revisited in this pioneering account of his ever-evolving political philosophy. Breaking from the traditional focus on his metaphysics, most recently seen in Harman’s book Prince of Networks,...
Let Them Eat Junk
How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the first book to analyse the food industry from a Marxist perspective.Respected economist Robert Albritton argues that the capitalist system, far from delivering on the promise of cheap, nutritious food for all, has created a world where 25% of the world population are over-fed and 25% are hungry....
Common Ground
Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
*Common Ground explores the philosophical relationship between collectivity, individuality, affect and agency in the neoliberal era. Jeremy Gilbert argues that individualism is forced upon us by neoliberal culture, fatally limiting our capacity to escape the current crisis of democratic politics....
Subalternity, Antagonism, Autonomy
Constructing the Political Subject
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
In this bold and innovative book, Massimo Modonesi weaves together theory and political practice by relating the concepts of subalternity, antagonism and autonomy to contemporary movements in Latin America and elsewhere.
In a sophisticated account, Modonesi reconstructs the debates between...
Anthropology's World
Life in a Twenty-First-Century Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this masterly, state of the art work, Ulf Hannerz maps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in which they carry out their work.
Raising fundamental questions such as 'What is anthropology really about?', 'How does the public understand, or...
The State of Islam
Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
*The State of Islam tells the story of Pakistan through the lens of the Cold War, and more recently the War on Terror, to shed light on the domestic and international processes behind the global rise of militant Islam.
Unlike existing scholarship on nationalism, Islam and the state in Pakistan,...
The Violence of Development
Resource Depletion, Environmental Crises and Human Rights Abuses in Central America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
This book examines the failure of development in Central America, where despite billions of dollars of development funding and positive indicators of economic growth, poverty remains entrenched and violence endemic.Martin Mowforth shows how development is predicated on force and systematic violence,...
The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings
End of an Old Order?
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings sheds light on the historical background and initial impact of the mass uprisings which have shaken the Arab world since December 2010. The book brings together the best writers from the online journal Jadaliyya, which has established itself as an unparalleled source of...
by Anne Schwan, Stephen Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Michel Foucault’s *Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading guide a welcome addition to the How to Read...