Pluto Press: 574 books
Home Spaces, Street Styles
Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book revisits and updates some classic Anthropology - the Xhosa in Town series - based on research in the South African city of East London conducted during the 1950s.
The original studies concluded that there were two opposed responses to urbanisation in East London’s African locations,...
Staying Power
The History of Black People in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Staying Power is recognised as the definitive history of black people in Britain, an epic story that begins with the Roman conquest and continues to this day.
In a comprehensive account, Peter Fryer reveals how Africans, Asians and their descendants, previously hidden from history, have profoundly...
Northern Ireland's Lost Opportunity
The Frustrated Promise of Political Loyalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Northern Ireland's Lost Opportunity is a unique in-depth investigation into working-class Loyalism in Northern Ireland as represented by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), the Red Hand Commando (RHC) and their political allies.
In an unorthodox account, Tony Novosel argues that these groups,...
Israeli Apartheid
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Since its release in 2009 Israeli Apartheid: A Beginners Guide has become an essential primer for undergraduate students and activists getting to grips with the Palestine/Israel conflict for the first time. Ben White skilfully distills the work of academics and experts into a highly accessible introduction....
An Israeli in Palestine
Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Israeli anthropologist and activist Jeff Halper throws a harsh light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the point of view of a critical insider. While the Zionist founders of Israel created a vibrant society, culture and economy, they did so at a high price: Israel could not maintain its exclusive...
Europe’s Alliance with Israel
Aiding the Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In carefully crafted official statements, the European Union presents itself as an honest broker in the Middle East. In reality, however, the EU’s 27 governments have been engaged in a long process of accommodating Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories.Journalist David Cronin interrogates...
The Corporation That Changed the World
How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Companys practices shocked...
The Accidental Capitalist
A People's Story of the New China
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
In the last three decades China has experienced the largest population movement in human history. Millions have left behind homes to find work and new opportunities in the emerging mega-cities.Through months of sustained interpersonal contact with migrant workers and factory owners, Behzad Yaghmaian...
by T. H. Marshall, Tom Bottomore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Over forty years after it first appeared, T.H. Marshall's seminal essay on citizenship and social class in postwar Britain has acquired the status of a classic. His lucid analysis of the principal elements of citizenship namely, the possession of civil, political and social rights is as relevant today...
Post-Anarchism
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Post-anarchism has been of considerable importance in the discussions of radical intellectuals across the globe in the last decade. In its most popular form, it demonstrates a desire to blend the most promising aspects of traditional anarchist theory with developments in post-structuralist and post-modernist...
Anarchy Alive!
Anti-Authoritarian Politics From Practice to Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Anarchist politics are at the heart of today’s most vibrant and radical social movements. From squatted social centres and community gardens to acts of sabotage and raucous summit blockades, anarchist groups and networks are spreading an ethos of direct action, non-hierarchical organizing and self-liberation...
Hugo Chávez
Socialist for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
When Hugo Chavez, then President of Venezuela, died in 2013, millions across the globe mourned. In an age where most politicians inspire only apathy and cynicism, Chavez's popularity, radicalism and vibrant personality were truly unique.
Released one year after Chavez's unexpected death, this...
Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist
The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist is the first English translation of the memoirs of Anbara Salam Khalidi, the iconic Arab feminist. At a time when women are playing a leading role in the Arab Spring, this book brings to life an earlier period of social turmoil and women's activism through one remarkable...
Contesting Publics
Feminism, Activism, Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Through ethnographic cases and activists’ narratives, Contesting Publics analyses the challenges feminists face as they seek to engage with new spaces of participatory democracy in Latin America.
Lynne Phillips and Sally Cole analyse how new silences, exclusions and re-inscriptions of inequalities...