Pluto Press: 574 books
Private Oceans
The Enclosure and Marketisation of the Seas
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017
As the era of thriving, small-scale fishing communities continues to wane across waters that once teamed with (a way of) life, Fiona McCormack opens a window into contemporary fisheries quota systems, laying bare how neoliberalism has entangled itself in our approach to environmental management. Grounded...
The Message is Murder
Substrates of Computational Capital
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Written as a wake-up call to the field of media studies, The Message is Murder analyses the violence bound up in the everyday functions of digital media. At its core is the concept of 'computational capital' - the idea that capitalism itself is a computer, turning qualities into quantities, and that...
This Little Kiddy Went to Market
The Corporate Capture of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
This book investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children to be hyper-consumers as well as the submissive employees and uncritical citizens of the future.*BR**BR*Sharon Beder shows how marketers and advertisers are targeting ever younger children in a relentless campaign,...
Artwash
Big Oil and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Published on the fifth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, Artwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company’s sponsorship of the arts in Britain. Based on a high profile campaign, Mel Evans targets Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell’s collaboration with institutions...
Space Invaders
Radical Geographies of Protest
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Space Invaders argues for the importance of a radical geographic perspective in enabling us to make sense of protests and social movements around the world. Under conditions of increasing global economic inequalities, we are witnessing the flourishing of grassroots people's movements fighting for...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. The battle cry '#RhodesMustFall' sparked an international movement calling for the decolonisation of the world's universities.*BR**BR*Today,...
Race, Nature and Culture
An Anthropological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2002
Since the controversial scientific race theories of the 1930s, anthropologists have generally avoided directly addressing the issue of race, viewing it as a social construct. Challenging this tradition, Peter Wade proposes that anthropologists can in fact play an important role in the study of race.*BR**BR*Wade...
Nature for Sale
The Commons versus Commodities
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Uncovering the rich heritage of common ownership which existed before the dominance of capitalist property relations, Giovanna Ricoveri argues that the subsistence commons of the past can be reinvented today to provide an alternative to the current destructive economic order. *BR**BR*Ricoveri outlines...
Fishers and Plunderers
Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
In Fishers and Plunderers, Alastair Couper, Hance D. Smith and Bruno Ciceri focus on the exploitation of fish and fishers alike in a global industry driven by profits, with little consideration given to either resource conservation or human rights. With vast overprovision of vessels and shortages...
Bittersweet Brexit
The Future of Food, Farming, Land and Labour
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017**BR**BR*Although widely criticised and hugely wasteful, The Common Agricultural Policy did at least afford British farmers a degree of support. Post-Brexit, that support will vanish - to be replaced with a woefully misconceived agricultural...
Information Politics
Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Conflict over information has become a central part of twenty-first century politics and culture. The sites of struggle are numerous, the actors beyond count. Currents of liberation and exploitation course through the debates about Edward Snowden and surveillance, Anonymous, search engines and social...
Unreal Objects
Digital Materialities, Technoscientific Projects and Political Realities
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Science and technology are playing increasingly important roles in our lives. New projects in development today will fundamentally shape the world around us, and manipulate our lived experience. But how and why are such important scientific and technological projects chosen, and what are the consequences...
The Squatters' Movement in Europe
Commons and Autonomy as Alternatives to Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The Squatters' Movement in Europe is the first definitive guide to squatting as an alternative to capitalism. It offers a unique insider's view on the movement – its ideals, actions and ways of life. At a time of growing crisis in Europe with high unemployment, dwindling social housing and declining...
by Jane Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
This book explores the way that neoliberal policies have formed the basis of political transformation in Poland, championed by both post-communist and post-Solidarity governments. *BR**BR*Poland was central to the historic changes that took place across Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War. It...