Pluto Press: 574 books
Queer Lovers and Hateful Others
Regenerating Violent Times and Places
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Berlin is once more capital of queer arts and tourism. Queerness is more visible today than it has been for decades, but at what cost? In Queer Lovers and Hateful Others, Jin Haritaworn argues that queer subjects have become a lovely sight only through being cast in the shadow of the new folk devil,...
by Yakov M. Rabkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Few countries provoke as much passion and controversy as Israel. What is Modern Israel? convincingly demonstrates that its founding ideology - Zionism - is anything but a simple reaction to antisemitism. Dispelling the notion that every Jew is a Zionist and therefore a natural advocate for the state...
Sound System
The Political Power of Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons many have believed in the political power of music. Rulers recognise it too. Music has been used to challenge the political and social order - and to prop up the status quo.*BR**BR*Sound System is the story of...
Microeconomics
A Critical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Microeconomics: A Critical Companion offers students a clear and concise exposition of mainstream microeconomics from a heterodox perspective. Covering topics from consumer and producer theory to general equilibrium to perfect competition, it sets the emergence and evolution of microeconomics in both...
Macroeconomics
A Critical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Macroeconomics is fundamental to our understanding of how the world functions today. But too often our understanding is based on orthodox, dogmatic analysis. This distinctive book draws upon years of critical questioning and teaching and exposes how macroeconomic theory has evolved from its origins...
Beyond the Developmental State
Industrial Policy into the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Moving beyond abstract economic models and superficial descriptions of the market, Beyond the Developmental State analyses the economic, political and ideological interests which underpin current socio-economic processes. *BR**BR*Through this approach, the contributors show the close interrelation...
Theories of Social Capital
Researchers Behaving Badly
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Tracing the evolution of social capital since his highly acclaimed contribution of 2001 (Social Capital Versus Social Theory), Ben Fine consolidates his position as the world's leading critic of the concept. Fine forcibly demonstrates how social capital has expanded across the social sciences only by...
Development Against Democracy - New Edition
Manipulating Political Change in the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017
This new, updated edition of the influential Development Against Democracy is a critical guide to postwar studies of modernisation and development. In the mid-twentieth century, models of development studies were products of postwar American policy. They focused on newly independent states in the Global...
The Birth of Capitalism
A 21st Century Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
In the light of the deepening crisis of capitalism and continued non-Western capitalist accumulation, Henry Heller re-examines the debates surrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe and elsewhere.*BR**BR*Focusing on arguments about the origin, nature and sustainability of capitalism,...
Social Reproduction Theory
Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book focuses on issues such as child care, health care, education, family life and...
What's Wrong with Rights?
Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connections between the two, Radha D'Souza examines contemporary rights in theory and practice through the lens of the struggles of the people of the Third World,...
Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radicals
Cooperative Alternatives beyond Markets and States
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics. Her theorising of the commons has been celebrated as groundbreaking and opening the way for non-capitalist economic alternatives, yet, many radicals know little about her. This book redresses this, revealing the indispensability...
The Mythology of Work
How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
There was once a time when 'work' was inextricably linked to survival and self-preservation; where the farmer ploughed the land so their family could eat. But the sun has long since set on this idyllic tableau, and what was once an integral part of life has slowly morphed into a painful and meaningless...
Delirium and Resistance
Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
In the aftermath of the 2016 US elections, Brexit, and a global upsurge of nationalist populism, it is evident that the delirium and the crisis of neoliberal capitalism is now the delirium and crisis of liberal democracy and its culture. And though capitalist crisis does not begin within art, art...