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I am delighted to present Pluto Press’ new Autumn 2016 list. Working the Phones is a searing exposÊ of work in call centers. Drawing on his own extensive experience, Jamie Woodcock surveys the punishing regimes of call center work, while looking towards the new forms of resistance which are emerging from it. Revolution in Rojava is the first major book on the revolutionary society that has emerged over the last few years in Syrian Kurdistan. Built on principles of direct democracy and a cooperative economy, as well as radical gender equality, Rojava stands as a source of real inspiration. In November, we are publishing a stunning, full colour collection of photojournalism from Israel and the Occupied Territories. Activestills presents the work of an activist collective of photographers documenting the everyday Palestinian struggle. Selling Apartheid is a journalistic account of the dirty deals and propaganda that maintained Western support for the racist regime of South African apartheid. Ron Nixon tells a sordid story of complicity and collusion that has many lessons for contemporary struggles. And finally, we are proud to publish the definitive English language collection of writings by Socialisme ou Barbarie, a group hugely inf luential for activists during the uprisings in May 1968, and for many others including the Italian autonomists and the Situationist International. David Castle Senior Commissioning Editor
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Working the Phones
Control and Resistance in Call Centres Jamie Woodcock Series: Wildcat Over a million people in the United Kingdom work in call centres, and the phrase has become synonymous with low-paid and high stress work, dictatorial supervisors and terrifyingly precarious job contracts. However, rarely does the public have access to the true picture of what goes on in these institutions. For this book, Jamie Woodcock spent time working the phones in a UK call centre in order to provide insights into the everyday experiences of call centre workers, and to understand and analyse methods of control and resistance that exist within these highly regulated environments. Woodcock shows how call centre work has become emblematic of the shift towards a post-industrial service economy, and all the issues that this produces, such as the destruction of a unionised work force, isolation and alienation, loss of agency and, ominously, the proliferation of surveillance and control which affects the mental and physical wellbeing of the workers. By applying a sophisticated Marxist analysis to a thoroughly international twenty-first-century century phenomenon, Working the Phones presents a window onto the methods of resistance that are developing on our office floors, and considers whether there is any hope left for the modern worker today. JAMIE WOODCOCK completed his PhD at Goldsmiths, University of
London. He is currently a research fellow at Cass Business School working with the Digital Creativity Hub. His research interests – in addition to call centres – include digital labour, critical theory and Marxism.
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The Mythology of Work How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself Peter Fleming Pb 978-0-7453-3486-8 £17.99
Southern Insurgency The Coming of the Global Working Class Immanuel Ness Pb 978-0-7453-3599-5 £16.99
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Revolution in Rojava
Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in the Middle East Michael Knapp, Anja Flach and Ercan Ayboga. Translated by Janet Biehl A new kind of society is being built in Syria, but it’s not one you would expect. Surrounded by deadly bands of ISIS and hostile Turkish forces, the people living in Syria’s Rojava cantons are carving out one of the most radically progressive societies on the planet today. Western visitors have been astounded by the apparent success of their project, a communally organised democracy which considers women’s equality indispensable and rejects reactionary nationalist ideology whilst being fiercely anti-capitalist. The people of Rojava call their new system democratic confederalism. Influenced by the recent ideology of the imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, it boasts gender quotas of 40 percent, bottom-up democratic structures, deep-reaching ecological policies and a militancy which is keeping ISIS from the gates. Revolution in Rojava is the first full-length study of this ongoing social and political transformation in Syrian Kurdistan. Its authors use their own experiences of working and fighting in the region to construct a picture of hope for Middle Eastern politics and society, and reveal an extraordinary story of a battle against the odds.
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MICHAEL KNAPP is a historian of radical democracy, cofounder of the
Tatort Kurdistan Campaign and member of NavDem Berlin. His research focuses on the Kurdish issue and the construction of alternatives to capitalist modernity. His research has taken him to the Middle East, where he has studied the Kurdish Liberation Struggle and the PKK. ANJA FLACH is an ethnologist and member of the Rojbîn women’s council
in Hamburg. She spent two years in the Kurdish women’s guerrilla army and has previously published books about her experiences.
ERCAN AYBOGA is an environmental engineer and activist. Formerly living
in Germany where he and co-founded the Tatort Kurdistan Campaign. Now he lives in North Kurdistan and is politically involved in the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement, particularly in water struggles.
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Burning Country Syrians in Revolution and War Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami Pb 978-0-7453-3622-0 £14.99
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Settler Violence: Settlers in South Hebron Hills watch Palestinian farmers and solidarity activists march on the Palestinian agricultural lands of Tuba village, South Hebron Hills, West Bank, December 1st, 2007
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Activestills
Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel Edited by Vered Maimon and Shiraz Grinbaum In 2005, a group of photographers took a stand alongside the people of the small town of Bil’in, and documented their fight to stop the Israeli government building the infamous West Bank barrier. Inspired by what they had seen in Bil’in, the group went on to form Activestills, a collective whose work has become vital in documenting and participating in the struggle against Israeli occupation and everyday life in extraordinary situations. Activestills: Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel examines the collective’s archive and activity from historical, theoretical, critical, and personal perspectives. It is the result of an in-depth dialogue among members of the collective and activists, journalists, intellectuals and academics, and stands as the definitive study of the collective’s work. Combining striking full-colour photographs with essays and commentary, Activestills stands as both a major contribution to reportage on Israel/Palestine and a unique collection of visual art.
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VERED MAIMON is a Senior Lecturer in the Art History Department at
Tel Aviv University. She writes for October, Oxford Art Journal, History of Photography, Art History, Third Text and TDR. Most recently, she is the author of Singular Images, Failed Copies: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Early Photograph (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). SHIRAZ GRINBAUM is a member of the Activestills Collective working
in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel. She has been the collective’s curator and photo editor since 2012, and a photo editor with +972 magazine.
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From Palestine to Israel A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950 Ariella Azoulay. Translated by Charles S Kamen
‘Activestills perfected the art of photography, providing viewers with a window into a reality that oppressors do not want seen. The book is highly needed, beautifully done and riveting to the core’ MAZIN QUMSIYEH Author of Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment
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Against the Wall The Art of Resistance in Palestine William Parry Pb 978-0-7453-2917-8 £18.00
‘The Activestills Collective have produced some of the most important and vital critical documentary work of our time. This book is a fitting tribute to their activity’ STEVE EDWARDS Professor of History and Theory of Photography at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Photography: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2006)
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Selling Apartheid South Africa's Global Propaganda War Ron Nixon
AUGUST 2016 256pp 230mm x 150mm Pb 978-0-7453-9914-0 £14.99 Epub 978-1-7868-0002-2 £14.99 Kindle 978-1-7868-0003-9 £14.99
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‘This is an important story that needed to be told about the apartheid government’s global lobbying effort that tried to whitewash its reprehensible policy of racial separation’ ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON US House of Representatives
‘A major contribution to the scholarship on the apartheid era and the struggle for liberation in South Africa ... One cannot understand the South African freedom movement without understanding the issues that Nixon so effectively presents to the reader’ BILL FLETCHER JR Former president of TransAfrica
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This book lays bare the global propaganda war waged by the South African government in the attempt to bolster support for their apartheid regime. The world-wide campaign consisted of the government burnishing its image overseas, selling the idea of apartheid to the US and the UK in particular. Costing around $100 million annually, and run with vigorous efficiency for fifty years, the campaign drew in an elaborate network of supporters. Support for the regime came in a variety of forms, including global corporations with business operations in South Africa, conservative religious organisations, and an unlikely coalition of liberal black clergy and anti-communist black conservatives aligned with right-wing Cold War politicians. Journalist Ron Nixon brings together interviews with key players, and thousands of previously unreleased records from US, British and South African archives, to provide a fast-paced and historically rich account of a little-known history. RON NIXON is a Washington Correspondent for the New York Times. He is
a visiting associate in the Department of Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, where he teaches investigative reporting and data journalism.
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Elite Transition - Revised and Expanded Edition From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa Patrick Bond Pb 978-0-7453-3477-6 £19.99
Inventing Africa History, Archaeology and Ideas Robin Derricourt Pb 978-0-7453-3105-8 £19.99
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W.E.B. Du Bois
Revolutionary Across the Color Line Bill V. Mullen Series: Revolutionary Lives 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 was born in Massachusetts in 1868, just three years after the formal emancipation of America’s slaves. In his extraordinarily long and active political life, he would emerge as the first black man to earn a PhD from Harvard; surpass Booker T. Washington as the leading advocate for African American rights; cofound the The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and involve himself in anti-imperialist and anticolonial struggles across Asia and Africa. In this new biography, Bill V. Mullen interprets the seismic political developments of the Twentieth Century through the revolutionary life of W.E.B. Du Bois - focusing not just on his Civil Rights work, but also examining Du Bois's attitudes towards socialism, the USSR, China’s communist revolution, and the relationship between capitalism, poverty and racism.
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BILL V. MULLEN is Professor of English and American Studies at Purdue
University. He is the author of Popular Fronts: Chicago and African American Cultural Politics, 1935-1946 (University of Illinois Press, 1999) and AfroOrientalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2004). He is co-editor with Fred Ho of Afro-Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections Between African-Americans and Asian-Americans (Duke University Press, 2008).
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Paul Robeson The Artist as Revolutionary Gerald Horne Pb 978-0-7453-3532-2 £12.99
Frantz Fanon Philosopher of the Barricades Peter Hudis Pb 978-0-7453-3625-1 £12.99
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Socialisme ou Barbarie: An Anthology
Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, Jean François Lyotard, Daniel Mothé and Pierre Souyri, Albert Véga et al. Foreword by Richard Greeman. Translated by David Ames Curtis Socialisme ou Barbarie (1948-67) was a revolutionary group whose journal of the same name helped inspire France’s May ’68 studentworker rebellion and influenced generations of radicals worldwide. This anthology restores the collective nature of the group’s adventure, where manual and intellectual workers creatively, and not without profound disagreements, reflected and acted together in anticipation of a non-hierarchical, self-governing society. The group radically reorientated critical revolutionary theory by affirming how social change emerges through the everyday lives and struggles of ordinary people. In a world divided into two competing ‘bureaucratic-capitalist’ camps, the autonomous grassroots response to ‘rationalised’ forms of outside control (State-corporation-trade union-political party) would be workers’ management - a conclusion stunningly confirmed, against traditional Left expectations, by the workers’ revolts of 1953 and 1956 in the East and by increasingly widespread challenges to established organisational forms in the 1960s in the West. These texts not only examine the overall crisis of systems of domination but explore their creative contestation in the workplace, in changing relations between the sexes and between generations, and in movements for national liberation, in places such as China and Algeria. They bring out ‘the positive content of socialism’ while remaining clear-eyed about how bureaucratisation may be reintroduced into emancipatory struggles. DAVID AMES CURTIS is a Paris-based American translator, editor,
writer and citizen activist. He has worked in the States as a multiracial community organiser in the Carolinas and as a feminist union organiser at Yale University. He has spoken on Castoriadis and his legacy at various international conferences in France, Greece and the USA.
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Constructed Situations A New History of the Situationist International Frances Stracey Pb 978-0-7453-3526-1 £17.99
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The End of Jewish Modernity Enzo Traverso. Translated by David Fernbach
JULY 2016 192pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3666-4 £14.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3661-9 £60 Epub 978-1-7837-1818-4 £12.99 Kindle 978-1-7837-1819-1 £12.99
‘Enzo Traverso is without doubt the most gifted historian of his generation. His book on Jewish modernity is, as all his writings, a unique combination of radical commitment and brilliant scholarship.’
Jewish modernity flourished between the age of Enlightenment and the Second World War, and its intellectual, literary, scientific and artistic legacy continues to dazzle us. In this provocative new book Enzo Traverso argues powerfully that Jewish modernity has exhausted itself. Previously a beacon for critical thinking in the Western world, the mainstream of Jewish thought has, since the end of the war, undergone a conservative turn. With great sensitivity and nuance, Traverso traces this development to the virtual destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis, and the establishment of the United States and Israel as the new poles of Jewish communal life. This compelling narrative hinges upon a highly original discussion of Hannah Arendt's writings on Jewishness and politics. With provocative chapters on the relationship between antisemitism and Islamophobia, the ascendance of Zionism, and the new 'civil religion of the Holocaust', The End of Jewish Modernity is both an elegy to a lost tradition and an intellectual history of the present. ENZO TRAVERSO is Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the
Humanities at Cornell University. His publications, all translated into several different languages, include more than ten authored and other edited books, including Fire and Blood, The European Civil War 1914-1945 (Verso, 2016) and Understanding the Nazi Genocide: Marxism after Auschwitz (Pluto Press, 1999).
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What is Modern Israel?
MICHAEL LÖWY
Yakov M. Rabkin
Emeritus Research Director in Social Sciences at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris), and author of On Changing the World: Essays in Political Philosophy from Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin
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Understanding the Nazi Genocide Marxism After Auschwitz Enzo Traverso. Translated by David Fernbach Pb 978-0-7453-1353-5 £15.99
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Hezbollah
The Political Economy of the Party of God Joseph Daher Hezbollah: The Political Economy of the Party of God provides a new, grounded analysis of the controversial 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 an analysis of political economy. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Lebanon and dozens of interviews, as well as new archival and other primary sources, Daher’s analysis confidently positions Hezbollah within socio-economic and political developments in Lebanon and the Middle-East. He focuses on Hezbollah’s historic ties with its main sponsor the Islamic Republic of Iran, its media and cultural wings and its relationship with Western economic policies. Further chapters examine the party’s policies towards workers’ struggles, women’s issues, and its orientation towards the sectarian Lebanese political system. Hezbollah is a truly informed and fresh analysis of a topic which remains central to our understanding one of the world’s most tumultuous and politically unstable regions. JOSEPH DAHER is a member of the Revolutionary Left Current in Syria
and is a PhD student and assistant at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He is co-author of The People Demand. A Short History of the Arab Revolutions (Counterfire, 2011).
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Hamas A Beginner's Guide Khaled Hroub
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Hizbu’llah Politics and Religion Amal Saad-Ghorayeb Pb 978-0-7453-1792-2 £27.99
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Chomsky Perspectives
Fateful Triangle The United States, Israel and the Palestinians Noam Chomsky. Foreword by Edward W. Said With an extended new preface by the author ‘One of the most important intellectuals alive’ Independent One of Noam Chomsky’s most important and renowned works, Fateful Triangle is a devastating indictment of American and Israeli foreign policy which covers a sustained period of Middle East history from the formation of the State of Israel to the Oslo Peace Accords. With a foreword by the late Edward Said, this powerful book belongs in the hands of anyone who wants a deep understanding of Israel and its relationship to Western power. NOAM CHOMSKY is a world renowned linguist and one of our foremost
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social critics. He is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and the author of numerous books for Pluto Press.
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‘The most ambitious book ever attempted on the conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians ... a great and important book’ EDWARD SAID
Year 501 The Conquest Continues Noam Chomsky Pb 978-0-7453-3547-6 £12.99
Powers and Prospects
‘Brilliant and unscrupulous’
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
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Rogue States
The Rule of Force in World Affairs Noam Chomsky With an extended new preface by the author. ‘One of the most important intellectuals alive’ Independent Rogue States is a collection of essays written by Chomsky in the late 1990s, all of which subvert the United States foreign policy discourse and the notion of the ‘rogue state’, turning the focus of criticism inwards and demonstrating how Western powers fail to uphold their own standards of conduct. Among the topics considered are the Balkans Crisis, the embargo against Cuba, and US intervention in Latin America, all of which provide important lessons for today from one of our most eminent and insightful teachers. NOAM CHOMSKY is a world renowned linguist and one of our foremost
social critics. He is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and the author of numerous books for Pluto Press.
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Rethinking Camelot
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JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture Noam Chomsky Pb 978-0-7453-3542-1 £12.99
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume I Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman Pb 978-0-7453-3549-0 £12.99
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The Capitalist University The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States (1945-2016) Henry Heller
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Can the ivory tower rise above capitalism? Or are the humanities and social sciences merely servants to the American imperial order? The Capitalist University surveys the history of higher education in the United States over the last century, revealing how campuses and classrooms have become battlegrounds in the struggle between liberatory knowledge and commodified learning. Henry Heller takes readers from the ideological apparatus of the early Cold War, through the revolts of the 1960s and on to the contemporary malaise of postmodernism, neoliberalism and the so-called 'knowledge economy' of academic capitalism. He reveals how American educational institutions have been forced to decide between teaching students to question the dominant order and helping to perpetuate it. Accessible in style, The Capitalist University presents a comprehensive overview of a topic which affects millions of students in America and, increasingly, across the globe. HENRY HELLER is a Professor of History at the University of Manitoba,
Canada. He is the author of The Birth of Capitalism: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective (Pluto Press, 2011), The Cold War and the New Imperialism: A Global History, 1945-2005 (Monthly Review Press, 2006) and The Bourgeois Revolution in France (Berghahn Books, 2006).
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The Great University Gamble Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education Andrew McGettigan Pb 978-0-7453-3293-2 £18.99
The Birth of Capitalism A 21st Century Perspective Henry Heller Pb 978-0-7453-2959-8 £22.99
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The Profit Doctrine
Economists of the Neoliberal Era Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson The economics profession has a lot to answer for. After the late 1970s, the ideas of influential economists have justified policies that have made the world prone to economic crisis, remarkably less equal, more polluted and not as secure as it might be. How could ideas and policies that proved to be such an abject failure come to dominate the economic landscape? By critically examining the work and policy of the most famous economists of the neoliberal period including Alan Greenspan, Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, they demonstrate that many of those who rose to prominence did so primarily because of their defence of, and contribution to, rising corporate profits and not their ability to predict or explain economic events. An important and controversial book, The Profit Doctrine exposes the uses and abuses of mainstream economic canons, identifies those responsible, and reaffirms the primacy of political economy. ROBERT CHERNOMAS is Professor of Economics at the University of
Manitoba, Canada. He is co-author (with Ian Hudson) of Economics in the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and To Live and Die in America: Class, Power Health and Health Care (Pluto Press, 2013).
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IAN HUDSON is Associate Professor of Economics at the University
of Manitoba, Canada. He is the co-author (with Robert Chernomas) of Economics in the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and To Live and Die in America: Class, Power, Health and Health Care (Pluto Press, 2013).
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Economics for Everyone - 2nd edition A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism Jim Stanford Pb 978-0-7453-3577-3 £12.99
The ABCs of Political Economy A Modern Approach Robin Hahnel Pb 978-0-7453-3497-4 £15.99
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Overheating An Anthropology of Accelerated Change Thomas Hylland Eriksen
JULY 2016 192pp 215mm x 135mm 14 figures Pb 978-0-7453-3634-3 £18.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3639-8 £60 Epub 978-1-7837-1985-3 £18.99 Kindle 978-1-7837-1986-0 £18.99
The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it. In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen breathes new life into the discussion around global modernity, bringing an anthropologist’s approach to bear on the three interrelated crises of environment, economy and identity. He argues that although these crises are global in scope, they are perceived and responded to locally, and that contradictions abound between the standardising forces of information-age global capitalism and the socially embedded nature of people and local practices. Carefully synthesising the ethnographic and comparative methods of anthropology with macrosocial and historical material, Overheating offers an innovative new perspective on issues including energy use, urbanisation, deprivation, human (im)mobility and the spread of interconnected, wireless information technology. THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN is Professor of Social Anthropology at
the University of Oslo. He is the author of numerous books, including Ethnicity and Nationalism, A History of Anthropology, Small Places, Large Issues, Tyranny of the Moment, What is Anthropology? and Fredrik Barth, all available from Pluto Press.
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A History of Anthropology Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Finn Sivert Nielsen Pb 978-0-7453-3352-6 £18.99
What is Anthropology? Thomas Hylland Eriksen Pb 978-0-7453-2319-0 £16.99
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Identity Destabilised
Living in an Overheated World Edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Elisabeth Schober The world is overheated: Too full and too fast; out of sync, contradiction-ridden and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it. This collection explores social identities in today’s ‘overheated’ world, seen from an anthropological perspective. The focus is on contradictions, tensions and paradoxes: how can an identity be stable if its border is constantly shifting? How can a community survive if it is incorporated into a huge entity? How does belonging work in new cities? And what can indigenous peoples do to retain a sense of self in a fast-moving neoliberal world? Ethnographically rich and diverse in its scope, Identity Destabilised contains chapters from many parts of the world, including the Philippines, Israel, Australia, the Cape Verde Islands and Afghanistan. The authors investigate identity work in twenty-first-century settings, from rapid industrialisation, the enforced return of migrants and the silencing of indigenous groups to sudden population growth in boomtowns and the touristification of local culture. THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN is Professor of Social Anthropology at
the University of Oslo. He is the author of numerous books, including Ethnicity and Nationalism, A History of Anthropology, Small Places, Large Issues, Tyranny of the Moment, What is Anthropology? and Fredrik Barth, all available from Pluto Press. ELISABETH SCHOBER is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of
Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, where she is affiliated with the 'Overheating' project. She is also the author of Base Encounters: The US Armed Forces in South Korea (Pluto Press, 2016).
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Ethnicity and Nationalism Anthropological Perspectives Thomas Hylland Eriksen Pb 978-0-7453-3042-6 £18.99
The Will of the Many How the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy Marianne Maeckelbergh Pb 978-0-7453-2925-3 £19.99
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The Spirit of Marikana The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa Luke Sinwell with Siphiwe Mbatha Series: Wildcat
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‘Opens a window on the struggles of South Africa miners to overcome not only the opposition of the plutocratic mineowners, but also the opposition of the entrenched union establishment created in an earlier era of upheaval’ FRANCES FOX PIVEN City University of New York Graduate Center
On 16th August 2012, thirty-four black mineworkers were gunned down by the police under the auspices of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) in what has become known as the Marikana Massacre. This attempt to drown independent working-class power in blood backfired and is now recognised as a turning point in the country's history. The Spirit of Marikana tells the story of the uncelebrated leaders at the world's three largest platinum mining companies who survived the barrage of state violence, intimidation, torture and murder which was being perpetrated during this tumultuous period. What began as a discussion about wage increases between two workers in the changing rooms at one mine became a rallying cry for economic freedom and basic dignity. This gripping ethnographic account is the first comprehensive study of this movement, revealing how seemingly ordinary people became heroic figures who transformed their workplace and their country. LUKE SINWELL is a Senior Researcher at the University of Johannesburg.
He is co-author of Marikana: A View from the Mountain and a Case to Answer, co-editor of Contesting Transformation: Popular Resistance in Twenty-FirstCentury South Africa and the author of numerous articles on participatory democracy and contentious politics in South Africa.He is the General Secretary of the South African Sociological Association (SASA). SIPHIWE MBATHA is a co-ordinator of the Thembelihle Crisis Committee
(TCC), a socialist civic organisation in South Africa which fights for basic services for all. He is also an assistant researcher at the University of Johannesburg. He first visited Marikana the day after the massacre to provide solidarity to the striking mineworkers.
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The Three Worlds of Social Democracy
A Global View Edited by Ingo Schmidt Social democracy is clearly at a dead end, but is it actually dead? The Three Worlds of Social Democracy explores the historical and theoretical path of the social democratic parties from their inception to the present day through a series of essays by high-profile experts in the field. Looking at the international picture, the book highlights the movement’s spread to the postcolonial and post-communist countries of the Global East and South such as Eastern Europe, Latin America, India and South Africa at the time it was considered past its prime in the West, a shift which is often ignored by mainstream analyses. However, the authors are not optimistic about its future – despite a rise of popular parties such as Greece’s Syriza, a combination of international economic stagnation, combined with an overall weakening of popular left-wing movements and a terrifying rise of extreme rightist parties paints a gloomy picture for the future of social democracy. This is the first truly global explorations of the methods, meanings, and limits of social democracy. This book will be of lasting value to students of politics and will further the ongoing debate about the future of social democratic politics across the modern world.
AUGUST 2016 256pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3608-4 £19.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3613-8 £70 Epub 978-1-7837-1980-8 £19.99 Kindle 978-1-7837-1981-5 £19.99
INGO SCHMIDT is academic co-ordinator of the Labour Studies Program
at Athabasca University, Canada. His research focuses on international political economy and labour movements. His recent books include Social Democracy after the Cold War (co-edited with Bryan Evans; Athabasca University Press, 2012) and Rosa Luxemburg’s Accumulation of Capital (in German; VSA-Verlag, 2013).
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Marx's 'Capital' - Sixth Edition Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho
JULY 2016 192pp 198mm x 129mm 6 figures Pb 978-0-7453-3697-8 £14.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3603-9 £50 Epub 978-1-7837-1973-0 £12.99 Kindle 978-1-7837-1974-7 £12.99
‘This expert guide to the political economy of Marx's Capital has always been the very best available ... It is thoroughly recommended not only for beginners but to anyone interested in the applicability of Marxian theory to the parlous condition of contemporary capitalism’ DAVID HARVEY Author of The Ways of the World, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism and The Enigma of Capital
This brilliantly concise book is the classic companion to Karl Marx’s most well-known work, Capital. In print now for over a quarter of a century, and translated into many languages, this new edition has been fully revised and updated, making it an ideal modern introduction to one of the most important texts in political and economic thought today. The authors cover all central aspects of Marx’s economics. They explain the structure of Marx’s analysis and the meaning of the key categories in Capital, showing the internal coherence of Marx’s approach, and their relevance today. Marx’s method and terminology are explored in detail, with supporting examples. Short chapters set out the significance of Marx’s main concepts and can be grasped easily, making it a practical text for anyone with an interest in understanding Marx’s magnum opus. Discussing Capital’s relevance today, the authors keep abstract theorising to a minimum. This readable introduction highlights the continuing relevance of Marx’s ideas in light of the problems of contemporary capitalism. BEN FINE is Professor of Economics at SOAS, University of London. He is
the author of the critical texts, Macroeconomics (with Ourania Dimakou) and Microeconomics (Pluto, 2016) and co-editor of Beyond the Developmental State: Industrial Policy into the Twenty-First Century (Pluto, 2013). He was awarded both the Deutscher and Myrdal Prizes in 2009. ALFREDO SAAD-FILHO is Professor of Political Economy at SOAS,
University of London. He is the author of The Value of Marx: Political Economy for Contemporary Capitalism (Routledge, 2002), co-author of Marx's 'Capital' (Pluto, 2016), Neoliberalism: A Critical Reader (Pluto, 2005) and the Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics (Elgar, 2012)
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Military Inc. - Second Edition
Inside Pakistan's Military Economy Ayesha Siddiqa Pakistan is a strategic ally of the US in the ‘war on terror’. It is the third largest recipient of US aid in the world. Yet Pakistan is a state run by its army and intelligence service. Ayesha Siddiqa shows how the power of the military has transformed Pakistani society, where the armed forces have become an independent class. The military is entrenched in the corporate sector. So Pakistan's companies and its main assets are in the hands of a tiny minority of senior army officials. Siddiqa examines this military economy and the consequences of merging the military and corporate sectors. Does democracy have a future? Will the generals ever withdraw to the barracks? Military Inc. analyses the internal and external dynamics of this gradual power-building and the impact that it is having on Pakistan's political and economic development. This second edition is updated with a new preface and chapter, with an emphasis on the role of the media. AYESHA SIDDIQA is a military analyst with a PhD in War Studies from
King's College, London. She contributes regularly to Jane's Defence Weekly. She was the 'Pakistan Scholar' at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars at Washington, DC for 2004-05.
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‘A detailed and powerful case study’ NEW YORK TIMES
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Using Gramsci A New Approach Michele Filippini Series: Reading Gramsci
NOVEMBER 2016 248pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3568-1 £17.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3569-8 £60 Epub 978-1-7868-0008-4 £17.99 Kindle 978-1-7868-0009-1 £17.99
This is a new approach to one of the greatest political theorists, Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks are one of the most popular Marxist texts available and continue to inspire readers across the world. In Using Gramsci, Michele Filippini proposes a new approach based on the analysis of previously ignored concepts in his works, creating a book which stands apart. Including chapters on ideology, the individual, organisations, society, crisis and temporality, Using Gramsci offers a new paradigm in Gramscian studies aimed to speak to the broader audience of social sciences scholars. The tools that are provided in this book extend the uses of Gramsci beyond the field of political theory and Marxism, while remaining firmly rooted in his writings. Working from the original Italian texts, Filippini also examines the more traditional areas of Gramsci’s thought, including hegemony, organic intellectuals and civil society. This book will be perfect for scholars and students of Gramsci’s thought, whether they are experts, or coming to his ideas for the first time. MICHELE FILIPPINI is Researcher in the Department of Political and
Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. He is the co-ordinator of the digital library Gramsciproject.org and has been on the board of the International Gramsci Society, Italy. He is the author of Leaping Forward: Mario Tronti and the History of Political Workerism (Jve-Crs, 2012).
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What's Wrong with Rights?
Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations Radha D'Souza What's Wrong with Rights? addresses the paradox of rights on the political left. On the one hand, the left is critical of capitalist triumphalism in the wake of so-called 'globalisation', on the other hand this critique is often couched in the idea of rights - to water, to housing, to free speech, to assembly. Yet, what becomes of this discourse when capitalist triumphalism itself rides on the crest of rights? When the rights discourse itself is an integral part of the international liberal order? Radha D'Souza aims to bridge the gap between the normative discourse about rights and their institutional context. Her work sets out to establish the connection between the rights discourse and modern transnational monopoly finance capitalism; interrogating the easy association of rights with ideas about freedom and justice. Drawing on the experience of social movements across the globe, she confronts contemporary rights theory with the experiences and aspirations of struggles for national liberation and socialism. What's Wrong with Rights? is a unique and important contribution to the literature on rights which will challenge many preconceived positions across the political spectrum.
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RADHA D’SOUZA teaches law at the University of Westminster, London.
Radha practiced as a public interest lawyer in Mumbai. She is a social justice activist, a writer, critic and commentator and has worked with solidarity movements in India, the Asia-Pacific region and internationally. She is author of Interstate Disputes Over Krishna Waters: Law, Science and Imperialism (2006) and works with the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) in the UK.
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Out of Place, Out of Time Refugees, Rights and the Re-Making of Palestine/Israel Susan M. Akram and Terry Rempel
AUGUST 2016 272pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3444-8 £19.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3445-5 £70 Epub 978-1-7837-1201-4 £19.99 Kindle 978-1-7837-1202-1 £19.99
‘An extremely relevant book for current concerns on several levels’ RANDA FARAH Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario
Forced displacement is one of the primary and most visible consequences of the conflict over Palestine/Israel. In this much needed book, Susan M. Akram and Terry Rempel examine the role of law and politics in the creation and resolution of one of the largest and most protracted refugee situations in the world today. The authors review the historical and political background to Palestinian displacement, the situation of refugees in exile and efforts to resolve the issue over more than six decades. Drawing on years of research and advocacy, they examine the legal framework and related state practice governing solutions for refugees worldwide. They also consider the collective and individual rights involved in the Palestinian case and options for solutions from the perspective of global precedent and comprehensive plans of action implemented in comparative mass refugee flows. In placing refugees at the centre of their legal and political analysis, Out of Place, Out of Time is a vital intervention for those seeking a lasting settlement to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. SUSAN M. AKRAM is a Clinical Professor at Boston University School
of Law where she teaches international human rights, refugee and immigration law. TERRY REMPEL is an independent research consultant and Honorary
Research Fellow in Politics at Exeter University and founder of the Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (BADIL).
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Anthropology, Culture and Society
Faith and Charity
Religion and Humanitarian Assistance in West Africa Marie Nathalie LeBlanc and Louis Audet Gosselin. Translated by Steven Watts Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society Since the 1990s, most African economies and public spheres have been liberalised, and new civil society actors have emerged. As mapped out by Marie Nathalie LeBlanc and Louis Audet Gosselin, in West Africa Christian and Muslim organisations have come to dominate the field of humanitarian assistance. Moving beyond mainstream development theory, Faith and Charity brings out the crucial role of religion in the development process and the interplay of moral and political ideologies. From faith-based NGOs to individual local activists, the authors explore how each group makes sense of, and contributes to, the wider process of social development in the neoliberal era. Based on extensive research and deploying a sophisticated and original frame of analysis, Faith and Charity will make an important contribution to the existing literature on development anthropology and the anthropology of religion in Africa.
OCTOBER 2016 224pp 215mm x 135mm Hb 978-0-7453-3673-2 £65
MARIE NATHALIE LEBLANC is an anthropologist and professor in
the Department of Sociology at Université du Québec à Montréal. She completed her doctoral studies in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. Her publications deal with religion and social change in Côte d’Ivoire with a special focus on youth, women and Islam. Her most recent research project examines the social and political roles of faith-based organisations. LOUIS AUDET GOSSELIN is a historian and a sociologist, based at
Université du Québec à Montréal. His current work focuses on the NGOisation of Christian missions, and on the history of Christian social services in Burkina Faso. His research also covers the fields of the sociology and history of contemporary religious dynamics, youth and intergenerational relations, religion and development, memory, urban studies and political culture.
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Anthropology, Culture and Society
Children of the Welfare State Civilising Practices in Schools, Childcare and Families Laura Gilliam and Eva Gulløv Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society
DECEMBER 2016 272pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3604-6 £21.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3609-1 £65
This original ethnographic study looks at how children are ‘civilised’ within child institutions, such as schools, day care centres and families, under the auspices of the Welfare State. As part of a general discussion on civilising projects and the role of state institutions, the authors focus on Denmark, a country characterised by the extent of time children spend in public institutions from an early age. They look at the extraordinary amount of attention and effort put into the process of upbringing by the state, as well as the widespread co-operation in this by parents across the social spectrum. Taking as its point of departure the sociologist Norbert Elias’ concept of civilising, Children of the Welfare State explores the ideals of civilised conduct expressed through institutional upbringing and examines how children of different age, gender, ethnicity and social backgrounds experience and react to these norms and efforts. The analysis demonstrates that welfare state institutions, though characterised by a strong egalitarian ideal, create negative distinctions between social groups, teach children about moral hierarchies in society and prompt them to identify as more or less civilised citizens of the state. LAURA GILLIAM is Associate Professor in the Department of Education at
the University of Aarhus, Denmark. EVA GULLØV is Associate Professor in the Department of Education,
University of Aarhus, Denmark and Professor in the Department of Education, University of Agder, Norway.
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Anthropologies of Value
Edited by Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández and Geir Henning Presterudstuen Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society Anthropologies of Value analyses the creation of value in a wide range of political and cultural contexts. This edited collection includes anthropological case studies from around the globe; from the commodification of a Venezuelan waterfall to the relative value of penguins in periods of imperialist expansion. Questioning the validity of binary oppositions such as ‘north/ south’, ‘core/periphery’ and ‘west/the rest’ as the basis of generalisations about culturally-mediated engagements with capitalism, this collection leaves no stone unturned in its search to understand and define anthropological value theory. It provides much-needed, controversial new material for students of anthropology, and proposes an alternative, rarely discussed method of studying the world system which challenges mainstream existing work in the field. LUIS F. ANGOSTO-FERRÁNDEZ teaches anthropology and Latin American
studies at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Venezuela Reframed: Bolivarianism, Indigenous Peoples and Socialisms of the Twenty-First Century (Zed Books, 2015) and editor of Democracy, Revolution and Geopolitics in Latin America: Venezuela and the International Politics of Discontent (Routledge 2014).
SEPTEMBER 2016 248pp 215mm x 135mm Hb 978-0-7453-3663-3 £75
GEIR HENNING PRESTERUDSTUEN is a lecturer in anthropology at
Western Sydney University. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Fiji since 2009 and his main research interests, on which he has published widely, include the intersections between social categories such as gender, ethnicity, class and sexuality in context of the modern market economy. He is the co-editor of Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
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Chomsky Perspectives
After the Cataclysm
On Power and Ideology
The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume II
The Managua Lectures
Noam Chomsky
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Chomsky's combative lectures from Nicaragua during the Cold War period, given at the height of his intellectual prowess.
Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman MARCH 2015 488pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 9780745335506 £12.99 Epub 9781783712632 £9.99 Kindle 9781783712649 £9.99
Year 501
Rethinking Camelot
The Conquest Continues
Noam Chomsky
JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture
A searing text from the foremost critic of US imperialism which condemns Western colonial and neo-colonial projects.
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky Dissects the events of 1986 at the height of the Reagan Era and describes American involvement in acts of supreme state terror.
The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume I
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Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman Part one of an expansive two-volume work which critiques American foreign policy throughout the entire Cold War period.
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Chomsky turns his critical gaze upon the Kennedy Administration and draws controversial parallels between the Presidency of JFK and that of Ronald Reagan.
Culture of Terrorism
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism MARCH 2015 536pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 9780745335490 £12.99 Epub 9781783712601 £9.99 Kindle 9781783712618 £9.99
Part two of an expansive two-volume work which critiques American foreign policy throughout the entire Cold War period.
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Chomsky Perspectives
Powers and Prospects
Turning the Tide U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Noam Chomsky Examines the goals and influence of U.S. policy towards Central America, and identifies supporters and opponents of this policy. SEPTEMBER 2015 464pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 9780745335452 £12.99 Epub 9781783712472 £12.99 Kindle 9781783712489 £12.99
Noam Chomsky
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Fateful Triangle
Propaganda and the Public Mind
The United States, Israel and the Palestinians
Interviews by David Barsamian
Noam Chomsky. Foreword by Edward W. Said
Noam Chomsky Chomsky discusses a series of political issues from 2001 such as US involvement in East Timor and the second war in Iraq. SEPTEMBER 2016 776pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 9780745335469 £14.99 Epub 9781783712502 £12.99 Kindle 9781783712519 £12.99
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Pirates and Emperors, Old and New
The Rule of Force in World Affairs
Noam Chomsky Chomsky argues that the real ‘rogue’ states are not dictator-led developing countries, but the United States and its allies.
Noam Chomsky A brilliant account of the workings of state terrorism by the world’s foremost critic of US imperialism.
‘The most ambitious book ever attempted on the conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians ... a great and important book.’ Edward Said
Rogue States
International Terrorism in the Real World
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A scathing critique of orthodox views and government policy, from East Timor to the Middle East, from the nature of democracy to the politics of language.
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The Chaplin Machine
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Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde
Ken Livingstone An insider's account of the British left and the Labour Party, past and future, by one of its figureheads.
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Jeremy Seabrook
Kieran Allen
Speaks to people whose support from the state – for whatever reason – is now being withdrawn, rendering their lives unsustainable.
This history of modern Ireland follows the thread of 1916’s ‘revolutionary tradition’ - an uneasy marriage of Socialism and Republicanism - as it has unravelled across the century. JANUARY 2016 240pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 9780745336329 £12.99 Hb 9780745336374 £50 Epub 9781783717446 £12.99 Kindle 9781783717453 £12.99
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A People's History of Modern Europe
The Rent Trap How we Fell into It and How we Get Out of It
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The tragic-comedic story of the cinema, art and architecture of the early 20th Century which spotlights the unlikely intersections of East and West.
Rosie Walker and Samir Jeraj
William A. Pelz
The rented sector in its proper historical and policy context, as well as the implications for class and wealth inequality.
Looks at the history of Europe from the perspective of its people, not its rulers.
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Kropotkin and the Anarchist Intellectual Tradition
Macroeconomics A Critical Companion
Ben Fine and Ourania Dimakou Macroeconomics provides a unique alternative to the multitude of standard textbooks by locating macroeconomic theory in its own history. APRIL 2016 224pppp 230mm x 150mm 30 figures Pb 9780745336824 £19.99 Hb 9780745336879 £65 Epub 9781783718078 £18.99 Kindle 9781783718085 £18.99
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Naija Marxisms
Microeconomics A Critical Companion
Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria
Ben Fine
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A clear and concise exposition of mainstream microeconomics from a heterodox perspective.
Traces the historical trajectories that leftist movements have undergone since the 1940s and argues that Marxism is alive and well in Nigeria.
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Syrians in Revolution and War
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Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami
Shows that Israel’s past and present must be seen in the context of colonial expansion and geopolitical interests, rather than Biblical prophecy.
A vivid and groundbreaking look at a modern-day political and humanitarian nightmare. JANUARY 2016 288pp 215mm x 135mm 2 maps Pb 9780745336220 £14.99 Hb 9780745336275 £50 Epub 9781783718016 £14.99 Kindle 9781783718023 £14.99
Rescues Peter Kropotkin’s philosophy of anarchism from the neglect that it has suffered in mainstream histories of the social and environmental sciences.
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Index
9
Grinbaum, Shiraz
9
Revolution in Rojava
7
28
Gulløv, Eva
30
Rogue States
17
Angosto-Ferrández, Luis
31
Heller, Henry
18
Saad-Filho, Alfredo
24
Anthropologies of Value
31
Hezbollah
15
Schmidt, Ingo
23
Activestills Akram, Susan M.
Ayboga, Ercan
7
Hudson, Ian
19
Schober, Elisabeth
21
Capitalist University, The
18
Identity Destabilised
21
Selling Apartheid
10
Chernomas, Robert
19
Joseph, Daher
15
Siddiqa, Ayesha
25
Children of the Welfare State
30
Knapp, Michael
7
Sinwell, Luke
22
29
Socialisme ou Barbarie
Chomsky, Noam
16, 17, 32, 33
LeBlanc, Marie Nathalie
Curtis, David Ames
13
Maimon, Vered
D’Souza, Radha
27
Marx’s ‘Capital’ - Sixth Edition
24
Spirit of Marika, The
End of Jewish Modernity, The
14
Mbatha, Siphiwe
22
Three Worlds of Social
Military Inc. - Second Edition
25
Democracy, The
23
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland
38
20, 21
9
Anthology 13 22
Faith and Charity
29
Mullen, Bill V.
11
Traverso, Enzo
14
Fateful Triangle
16
Nixon, Ron
10
Using Gramsci
26
Filippini, Michele
26
Out of Place, Out of Time
28
W.E.B. Du Bois
11
Fine, Ben
24
Overheating
20
What’s Wrong with Rights?
27
Flach, Anja
7
Presterudstuen, Geir Henning
31
Woodcock, Jamie
5
Gilliam, Laura
30
Profit Doctrine, The
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Working the Phones
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