Pluto Press: 574 books
W.E.B. Du Bois
Revolutionary Across the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
On the 27th August, 1963, the day before Martin Luther King electrified the world from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with the immortal words, 'I Have a Dream', the life of another giant of the Civil Rights movement quietly drew to a close in Accra, Ghana: W.E.B. Du Bois. In this new biography,...
Hezbollah
The Political Economy of Lebanon's Party of God
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Hezbollah provides a new, grounded analysis of the controversial and misunderstood Lebanese party. Where previous books have focused on aspects of the party’s identity, the military question or its religious discourse, here Joseph Daher presents an alternative perspective, built upon political economy....
Ukraine and the Empire of Capital
From Marketisation to Armed Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Since 1991, nominally independent Ukraine has been in turmoil, with the Orange Revolution and the Maidan protests marking its most critical moments. Now, its borders are threatened and the civil unrest and armed conflict continue to destabilise the country. In order to understand these dramatic events,...
Reel Power
Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Hollywood is often characterised as a stronghold of left-liberal ideals. In Reel Power, Matthew Alford shows that it is in fact deeply complicit in serving the interests of the most regressive US corporate and political forces.*BR**BR*Films like Transformers, Terminator: Salvation and Black Hawk Down...
Black Star
Britain's Asian Youth Movements
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Black Star documents the vibrant Asian Youth Movements in 1970s and 80s Britain who struggled against the racism of the street and the state. Anandi Ramamurthy shows how they drew inspiration from Black Power movements as well as anti-imperialist and workers' struggles across the globe. *BR**BR*This...
How to Look Good in a War
Justifying and Challenging State Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
This book examines the methods used to depict, defend and justify the use of state violence. While others have shown how 'truth is the first casualty of war', this is the first to analyse exactly how pro-war narratives are constructed and normalised. *BR**BR*Brian Rappert details the 'upside-down'...
The Political Economy of NGOs
State Formation in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
This book explores the paradoxical relationship between NGOs and capitalism, showing that supposedly progressive organisations often promote essentially the same policies and ideas as existing governments.*BR**BR*It examines how a diverse group of NGOs have shaped state formation in Bangladesh and...
Anti-Arab Racism in the USA
Where It Comes From and What It Means For Politics Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Today is a difficult time to be both Arab and American. Since 9/11 there has been a lot of criticism of America’s involvement in the middle east. Yet there has been little analysis of how America treats citizens of Arab or middle eastern origin within its own borders. *BR**BR*Steven Salaita explores...
Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice
Women Write Political Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
As the twenty-first century faces a crisis of democracy and sustainability, this book attempts to bring academics and alternative globalisation activists into conversation.Through studies of global neoliberalism, ecological debt, climate change, and the ongoing devaluation of reproductive and subsistence...
Revolutionary Social Change in Colombia
The Origin and Direction of the FARC-EP
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
This book presents an insider's account of Columbia's internal conflict. At the forefront are the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP). Although they are one of the most powerful military forces in Latin American history, little is known about the FARC-EP. James J. Brittain...
by Neil Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
History is a weapon. The powerful have their version of events, the people have another. And if we understand how the past was forged, we arm ourselves to change the future.*BR**BR*This is a history of struggle, revolution and social change: of hominids, hunters and herders; of emperors and slaves;...
Landscape, Memory and History
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? This book explores this question from an anthropological angle, assessing the connections between place, space, identity, nationalism, history and memory in a variety of different settings around the world....
Work, Sex and Power
The Forces that Shaped Our History
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Determining the forces that have shaped our history is always a contentious matter. Seen through the work of authors from Jared Diamond to Eric Hobsbawm, people’s fascination with what drives the actions of the human race is inexhaustible. In Work, Sex and Power, Willie Thompson deploys decades...
A World of Insecurity
Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Human security is a key element in the measure of well-being, and a hot topic in anthropology and development studies. A World of Insecurity outlines a new approach to the subject.*BR**BR*The contributors expose a contradiction at the heart of conventional accounts of what constitutes human security,...