Pluto Press: 574 books
From Pacification to Peacebuilding
A Call to Global Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Does conflict transformation work? Or is the total rejection of global militarism the only route to peace? *BR**BR*Reviewing developments in the field of conflict transformation, Diana Francis acknowledges the work help it has afforded those engulfed in violent conflict to respond constructively....
by Susana Narotzky
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 1997
Using an historical perspective, Narotzky highlights the interdependent nature of the contemporary world economy, and includes case studies of Western societies. She gives special emphasis to current issues such as the anthropology of work, the informal economy, and the cultures of industrialisation.
Discordant Development
Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
What happened when Chevron, a multinational mining company, opened a gas plant right next to densely populated villages in rural Bangladesh? *BR**BR*This book reveals contradictory ways that local people attempt to connect to, and are disconnected by, foreign capital. Commentators on the situation...
On the Game
Women and Sex Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
***Winner of the Eileen Basker Prize and the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems****BR**BR*On the Game is an ethnographic account of prostitutes and prostitution. Sophie Day has followed the lives of individual women over fifteen years, and her book details their attempts...
Man-Made Woman
The Dialectics of Cross-Dressing
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017
On July 27th, 2015, Colin Cremin overcame a lifetime of fear and repression and came to work dressed as a woman called Ciara. This book charts her personal journey as a male-to-female cross-dresser in the ever-changing world of gender politics. Interweaving the personal and the political, through...
Scenes from the Revolution
Making Political Theatre 1968-2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Political theatre thrives on turbulence. By turning the political issues of the day into a potent, dramatic art form, its practitioners hold up a mirror to our society - with the power to shock, discomfit and entertain.*BR**BR*Scenes from the Revolution is a celebration of fifty years of political...
After Grenfell
Violence, Resistance and Response
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others were left displaced and traumatised. The Grenfell Tower fire is the epicentre of a long history of violence enacted by government and corporations. On its second anniversary...
State Formation
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
What is the 'state' and how can we best study it? This book investigates new ways of analysing the state.*BR**BR*The contributors argue that the state is not a fixed and definite object. Our perceptions of it are constantly changing, and differ from person to person. What is your idea of the state...
Cruel Harvest
US Intervention in the Afghan Drug Trade
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
This book lifts the lid on the reality of Afghanistan’s growing drug trade and the role played by the US military in its trajectory. *BR**BR*Where conventional accounts blame the Taliban for the expansion of drug production, Cruel Harvest shows that the US shares responsibility by supporting drug...
Art & Outrage
Provocation, Controversy and the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1998
‘Walker systematically and chronologically works through 39 case studies, starting in 1949 with Alfred Munnings and ending in 1998 with a sculptor guilty of stealing body parts. The accounts vary in depth and interest but all reveal some background in relation to the systematic manipulation of events...
Political Film
The Dialectics of Third Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Third Cinema is a cinema committed to social and cultural emancipation. In this book, Mike Wayne argues that Third Cinema is absolutely central to key debates concerning contemporary film practices and cultures. As a body of films, Third Cinema expands our horizons of the medium and its possibilities....
The Cold War and After
Capitalism, Revolution and Superpower Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2007
The Cold War is often presented as an international power struggle between the Soviet Union and the US. Richard Saull challenges this assumption. He broadens our understanding of the defining political conflict of the twentieth-century by stressing the social and ideological differences of the superpowers...
Failing Peace
Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2006
Discussion of Israeli policy toward Palestinians is often regarded as a taboo subject, with the result that few people - especially in the US - understand the origins and consequences of the conflict. This book provides an indispensable context for understanding why the situation remains so intractable.*BR**BR*The...
The West Bank Wall
Unmaking Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
What is the purpose of the West Bank Wall? Since Israel began its construction in 2002, it has sparked intense debate, being condemned as illegal by the International Court of Justice. Israel claims it is a security measure to protect Israeli citizens from terrorist attacks. Opponents point to the serious...