Pluto Press: 574 books
Threat of Liberation
Imperialism and Revolution in Zanzibar
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The Threat of Liberation returns to the tumultuous years of the Cold War, when, in a striking parallel with today, imperialist powers were seeking to institute regime change and install pliant governments.
Using iconic photographs, declassified US and British documents,and in-depth interviews,...
Indonesia
Archipelago of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Indonesia: Archipelago of Fear is a fascinating and at times unsettling journey into the world's most populous Muslim nation as it struggles to emerge from decades of dictatorship and the plunder of its natural resources.
Andre Vltchek brings together more than a decade of investigative journalism...
Alain Badiou
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
[Badiou's theory] enacts a return to full-blown philosophy that strikes as a thunder into the morass of postmodernist sophisms and platitudes. . . . [Badiou] aims at the very heart of politically correct 'radical' intellectuals, undermining the foundations of their mode of life!' Slavoj Zizek, Professor...
Green Politics in China
Environmental Governance and State-Society Relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Based on interviews with members of grassroots organisations, media and government institutions, Green Politics in China provides an in-depth and engaging account of the novel ways in which Chinese society is responding to its environmental crisis, using examples rarely captured in Western media or...
My Life in the PLO
The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the inside story of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), from its beginnings in 1964 to the signing of the Oslo agreement in 1993.For over three decades, the main goal of the PLO was to achieve a just peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and to build a democratic state in Palestine for...
World in Crisis
The End of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
World in Crisis is a new book from one of the world's leading scholars.
Gabriel Kolko provides a panoramic overview of the problems facing the US and the world today. Each chapter covers a key topic, spanning a range of international issues including the current financial crisis, the limits...
Border Watch
Cultures of Immigration, Detention and Control
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Questions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. Should only economically useful immigrants be allowed? What should be done with unwanted or 'illegal' immigrants? In this bold and original intervention, Alexandra Hall shows that immigration detention centres offer a window...
Dream Zones
Anticipating Capitalism and Development in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Dream Zones explores the dreamed of and desired futures that constitute, sustain and disrupt capitalism in contemporary India.
Drawing on five years of research in and around India's Special Economic Zones (SEZs), the book follows the stories of regional politicians, corporate executives, rural...
The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation
Repression Beyond Exploitation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories since 1967 has many important economic aspects that are often overlooked. In this highly original book, Shir Hever shows that understanding the economic dimensions of the occupation is crucial to unravelling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Hever...
Making the World Safe for Capitalism
How Iraq Threatened the US Economic Empire and had to be Destroyed
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
The Iraq war defined the first decade of the twenty-first century leading to mass protests and raising profound questions about domestic politics and the use of military force. Yet most explanations of the war have a narrow focus either on political personalities or oil.Christopher Doran provides a...
Understanding Al Qaeda
Changing War and Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book controversially argues that Al Qaeda has clear aims, and that the only way to defeat it is to engage with its arguments in a serious way.Since the publication of the first edition in 2006, Mohamedou has brought the text right up-to-date. Starting with Al Qaeda's creation almost twenty years...
by Ladislav Holy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
‘Largely eschews polemic in favour of the balanced approach appropriate to a good lecture course.’ Social Anthropology
This authoritative introductory text takes into account the changes in the conceptualisation of kinship brought about by new reproductive technologies and the growing...
The Therapy Industry
The Irresistible Rise of the Talking Cure, and Why It Doesnt Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Across the world anxiety, stress and depression are on the increase, a trend which looks set to continue as austerity measures bite. The official response tells people that unhappiness is just a personal problem, rather than a social one. Written by a practising psychologist, with nearly thirty years'...
A Marxist History of the World
From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
This magisterial analysis of human history - from 'Lucy', the first hominid, to the current Great Recession - combines the insights of earlier generations of Marxist historians with radical new ideas about the historical process.
Reading history against the grain, Neil Faulkner reveals that...