Pluto Press: 574 books
by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2004
Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered anthropology before, this book explores the key issues in an exciting and innovative way. Eriksen explains...
Articulating Dissent
Protest and the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Articulating Dissent analyses the new communicative strategies of coalition protest movements and how these impact on a mainstream media unaccustomed to fractured articulations of dissent.
Pollyanna Ruiz shows how coalition protest movements against austerity, war and globalisation build upon...
Idiotism
Capitalism and the Privatisation of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Idiotism examines the condition of society in late capitalism where the market logic of neoliberalism has become the new common sense, taken as the model for the organisation and management of all aspects of social life. Using the Greek word idios, meaning 'private', Neal Curtis calls this privatisation...
State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles
Counter Insurgency, Government Deviance and Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
The period in Northern Ireland known as 'the Troubles' (1968-98) seemed to have been conclusively ended by the official peace process. But recent violence from dissident Republicans shows that tensions from the past remain unresolved.
State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles reveals disturbing...
The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion
Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Foreign Encounter In Myth And Religion is the second volume of Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy, a three-volume project which is changing the way we think about international relations.In the first, Deutscher prize-winning volume, Kees van der Pijl introduced the ground-breaking argument...
Flip-Flop
A Journey Through Globalisation's Backroads
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
This book follows the global trail of one of the world’s most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Knowles takes a ground level view of the lives and places of globalisation’s back roads, providing new insights that challenge contemporary accounts...
by Asbjørn Wahl
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
In an age of government imposed austerity, and after 30 years of neo-liberal restructuring, the future of the welfare state looks increasingly uncertain. Asbjørn Wahl offers an accessible analysis of the situation across Europe, identifies the most important challenges and presents practical proposals...
Food for Change
The Politics and Values of Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Concern about our food system is growing, from the costs of industrial farming to the dominant role of supermarkets and recurring scandals about the origins and content of what we eat.
*Food for Change documents the way alternative food movements respond to these concerns by trying to create...
The Will of the Many
How the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Never before has the idea of democracy enjoyed the global dominance it holds today, but neoliberalism has left the practice of democracy in deep crisis.
Marianne Maeckelbergh argues that the most promising model for global democracy is not coming from traditional political parties or international...
Power Beyond Scrutiny
Media, Justice and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Power Beyond Scrutiny uncovers the forces which distort and limit public debate in the media. From the misuse of politicians' expenses to recent phone hacking scandals, establishment corruption has never been more in the headlines. Yet amidst the din there have been seismic silences.
Justin...
Humans and Other Animals
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Humans and Other Animals is about the myriad and evolving ways in which humans and animals interact, the divergent cultural constructions of humanity and animality found around the world, and individual experiences of other animals.
Samantha Hurn explores the work of anthropologists and scholars...
Remaking Scarcity
From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The dominant schools of neoclassical and neoliberal economics tell us that material scarcity is an inevitable product of an insatiable human nature. Against this, Costas Panayotakis argues that scarcity is in fact a result of the social and economic processes of the capitalist system.
The...
Biohackers
The Politics of Open Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Biohackers explores fundamental changes occuring in the circulation and ownership of scientific information. Alessandro Delfanti argues that the combination of the ethos of 20th century science, the hacker movement and the free software movement is producing an open science culture which redefines...
The Capability of Places
Methods for Modelling Community Response to Intrusion and Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can we assess the ability of a place to respond to challenges like migration, recession and disease? Places which seem similar can respond very differently, and with varying degrees of success, to external threats and to the interventions designed to manage them.
In this magisterial work,...