Pluto Press: 574 books
The Gloss of Harmony
The Politics of Policy-Making in Multilateral Organisations
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The Gloss of Harmony focuses on agencies of the United Nations, examining the paradox of entrusting relatively powerless and underfunded organisations with the responsibility of tackling some of the essential problems of our time. The book shows how international organisations shape the world in often...
Global Political Economy
A Marxist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
This is an ambitious survey of the history and state of the world economy, covering the major upheavals of the capitalist system over the last 100 years.*BR**BR*Bill Dunn provides an original and enlightening explanation of the state of the world economy. He covers all the main aspects of global political...
China's Global Strategy
Towards a Multipolar World
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
This book takes a look at China's position a range of global issues, arguing that its multipolar diplomacy offers a strategy to constrain US hegemony.*BR* *BR*Many people assume that China will follow an imperialistic strategy and stand in direct conflict with the American empire. However, China is...
Corruption
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Corruption in politics and business is, after war, perhaps the greatest threat to democracy. Academic studies of corruption tend to come from the field of International Relations, analysing systems of formal rules and institutions. This book offers a radically different perspective - it shows how...
Framing Abuse
Media Influence and Public Understanding of Sexual Violence Against Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2004
How does the media shape the way we think about child sexual abuse? Combining in-depth analysis of media representations of the crimes, with focus group discussions and interviews with around 500 journalists, campaigners and a cross-section of 'the public', Jenny Kitzinger reveals the media's role...
Organisational Anthropology
Doing Ethnography in and Among Complex Organisations
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Organisational Anthropology is a pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic fieldwork in different types of complex organisations, focusing on the process of initiating contact, establishing rapport and gaining the trust of an organisation's members.*BR**BR*The thirteen contributors work from the premise...
The Assault on Universities
A Manifesto for Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
With funding cuts well under way and many institutions already promising to charge the maximum 9,000 pounds yearly tuition fee, university education for the majority is under threat. This book exposes the true motives behind the government's programme and provides the analytical tools to fight it.*BR**BR*Widespread...
Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy
Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
The public relations industry is not just about celebrity gossip. This book shows how, whenever big business is threatened, spin doctors, lobbyists, think tanks and front groups are on hand to push the corporate interest, often at the public's expense. *BR**BR*Written by leading activists and writers,...
Songs At the River's Edge
Stories From a Bangladeshi Village
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 1997
Katy Gardner’s account of her fifteen-month stay in the small Bangladeshi village of Talukpur has become a classic study of rural life in South Asia. *BR**BR*Through a series of beautifully crafted narratives, the villagers and their stories are brought vividly to life and the author’s role as...
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet and Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Percy Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. This biography emphasises the political, revolutionary side of his dramatic life. *BR**BR*Shelley has long been revered for his poems To A Skylark and The Mask of Anarchy, but this was not always the case. During his short and...
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned … Working men of all countries, Unite!"This book truly changed the world, inspiring millions to revolution.Over 150 years after its publication, Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto continues to inspire and provoke students, activists...
Hesitant Comrades
The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
Geoffrey Bell's Hesitant Comrades is the first published history of the policies, actions and attitudes of the British working class towards the Irish national revolution of 1916-21.Drawing principally on primary sources, Bell brings to light for the first time important incidents in British/Irish history,...
by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered anthropology before, this book explores the key issues in an exciting and innovative way.Lucid and accessible,...
On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements
Selected Writings of Ella Shohat
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Spanning several decades, Ella Shohat’s work has introduced conceptual frameworks that fundamentally challenged conventional understandings of Palestine, Zionism and the Middle East, focusing on the pivotal figure of the Arab-Jew. This book gathers together her most influential political essays, interviews,...