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It’s my pleasure to introduce one of our most uncompromising and exciting lists yet. Syriza is urgent and essential reading from Kevin Ovenden, an unrivalled observer and analyst of the recent Greek elections and of the dramatic international showdown that has followed. Journalist Tasneem Khalil, himself a former political prisoner and survivor of torture, reveals a harrowing, scandalous history of violence and impunity in South Asia in Jallad. My personal highlight of the season is the launch of Wildcat, our vital new series on contemporary labour struggles and new forms of worker organisation worldwide. The first titles to appear will be Southern Insurgency, by Immanuel Ness, and Just Work?, a crucial collection on migrant workers edited by Aziz Choudry and Mondli Hlatshwayo, with many more volumes to come. In his much-anticipated, shocking War Against the People, Jeff Halper shows how Israel’s ‘securocratic warfare’ in the Occupied Palestinian Territories functions as a pivotal laboratory for the wider worldwide system of repression and control. Jin Haritaworn’s Queer Lovers and Hateful Others will provoke wide debate with its paradigm-shifting look at the relationship between sexuality, racism, neoliberalism, migration and xenophobia. And Radha D’Souza asks What’s Wrong with Rights?, challenging radical activists to rethink their paradoxical reliance on the discourse of liberal rights. We hope that these and our other excellent autumn books will challenge, enrage, entertain, and provide intellectual ammunition for struggles ahead.
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Jallad Death Squads and State Terror in South Asia Tasneem Khalil
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Extrajudicial execution, enforced disappearance and torture – these are the tools used by death squads across South Asia. The Rapid Action Battalion of Bangladesh, the ‘encounter specialists’ of India, army units of Nepal, the Frontier Corps of Pakistan and ‘the men in white vans’ of Sri Lanka are specialists on violence deployed by the state in campaigns of state terror. They are shielded by black laws and emergency acts. Their targets are the political opponents of the state and socioeconomic troublemakers. Khalil argues that Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are national security states, connected to an international system of state terror patronised by sponsors like the United States, the United Kingdom, China and Israel. In this system, human rights abuses are perpetrated behind the closed doors of secret detention facilities while death squads roam the streets with impunity. Jallad sets out to close a gap in the literature on human rights in South Asia, in which sociopolitical analysis of state terror is hard to come by. Khalil unveils the bloody logic of domination and repression that lies at the very core of statecraft in South Asia. TASNEEM KHALIL is the editor and publisher of Independent World
Report, a journal of human rights and global politics. He has written and commented for the International Herald Tribune, NPR, Guardian, Washington Post and the BBC. He was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International in 2007, following his detention by the Bangladeshi military intelligence agency. In 2008, Swedish PEN conferred him an honorary membership for his journalism.
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The State of Islam Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan Saadia Toor Pb 978-0-7453-2990-1 £23.99
Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11 Syed Saleem Shahzad Pb 978-0-7453-3101-0 £17.99
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Syriza
Escaping the Labyrinth Kevin Ovenden Foreword by Paul Mason The world’s eyes are on Greece while the left’s hopes hang in the balance. If we are to understand the full ramifications of the ascent of Syriza, we need context. In Syriza: Escaping the Labyrinth, Kevin Ovenden provides us with a sharp analysis of the political events leading to Syriza storming to power in 2015 and also follows the course of their first hundred days in office. Explaining the origins of the turbulent nature of Greek politics, the book provides an overview of the birth of the Communist and workers’ movements through occupation, civil war, military coup, and the rise and fall of Pasok. It discusses the persistence of radical anti-capitalist forces in the 1970s and 1980s before moving to Greece’s confrontation today with ‘Merkelism’ and the crushing demands of the Troika. Ovenden also examines the country’s history of far right movements, focusing on the nexus between Golden Dawn, the ‘deep state’ and the traditional right. With imminent political ruptures in mind, he investigates the structure and prospects of Syriza and its key components. Taking time to reflect on the powerful moment in January 2015, the book then concludes with strategic questions of where to go from here. Ovenden emphasises that this historical moment is full of hope Syriza aims to provide a new future for workers across Europe, an exit from the neoliberal labyrinth.
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This will be the first book published for a new Left Book Club, inspired by the LBC of the 1930s and 1940s.
KEVIN OVENDEN is a longstanding progressive journalist, writer and
activist who has followed Greece's politics and social movements for twenty-five years. A leading activist in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, he led five successful aid convoys to break the siege on Gaza, and was aboard the Mavi Marmara aid ship when Israeli commandos boarded it killing 10 people in May 2010.
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The Battle for Europe How an Elite Hijacked a Continent and How we Can Take it Back Thomas Fazi Pb 978-0-7453-3450-9 £16.99
Crucible of Resistance Greece, the Eurozone and the World Economic Crisis Christos Laskos and Euclid Tsakalotos Pb 978-0-7453-3380-9 £9.99
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War Against the People Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification Jeff Halper
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Praise for previous works: ‘An inspiration. His voice cries out to be heard.’ JONATHAN COOK author of Blood and Religion (2006) and Israel and the Clash of Civilisations (2008)
War Against The People is the long-awaited book by renowned anthropologist and activist Jeff Halper. Using firsthand research, he investigates the rise of the Israeli state’s ‘securocratic war’ in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. A subliminal form of warfare which creates fear amongst the populace, it functions by suggesting the ‘other’ is inside the city limits and weaving ideological fabrications which form an excuse to intensify the military apparatus in everyday civilian life. This apparatus includes sophisticated sensors, information databases on civilian activity, automated targeting systems and unmanned drones which affect civilian lives both physically and virtually. Eventually, the integration of militarised systems becomes seamless, and the Occupied Territories have become a veritable laboratory. Halper moves on to explain how this method of war is in fact global - the major capitalist powers and corporations worldwide combine militaries, security agencies and police forces into an effective instrument of what he calls 'global pacification'. War Against the People is a bold attempt to shine a light on these hidden practices. JEFF HALPER is the head of the Israeli Committee Against House
Demolitions (ICAHD). He is the author of Between Redemption and Revival: The Jewish Yishuv in Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century (Westview, 1991), An Israeli in Palestine (Pluto, 2008) and Obstacles to Peace (ICAHD, Fifth Edition, 2013).
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Out of the Frame The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel Ilan Pappé Pb 978-0-7453-2725-9 £14.99
An Israeli in Palestine Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel Jeff Halper Pb 978-0-7453-3071-6 £21.99
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The Last Drop
The Politics of Water Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes Indispensable for human existence yet increasingly owned and controlled by private capital, water has been fought over with increasing intensity for the last decade. The exploding profits of the multinational companies which dominate the ‘water industry’ are testimony to how high the stakes are – by 2012 it had become a trillion dollar industry. The Last Drop traces a path through the complex arguments that surround the question of water, setting out to make the technical and scientific arguments more accessible and the political questions more urgent. Against the market fundamentalists, Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes argue that it is both possible and necessary that considerations of equity and social justice prevail in the debates around water. They call for our water supply to be saved from subordination to the whims of the multinationals and placed under direct democratic public control. This book will be a vital resource for water activists and a wake-up call to everyone who takes for granted what comes out of their kitchen tap. MIKE GONZALEZ is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies
at the University of Glasgow. He is the co-editor of Arms and the People: Popular Movements and the Military from the Paris Commune to the Arab Spring (Pluto, 2012) and author of Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century (Pluto, 2014) MARIANELLA YANES is a Venezuelan journalist and writer for television
and film. Until January 2009 she worked for the Venezuelan State Oil Corporation (PDVSA) as a journalist and documentary maker.
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Nature for Sale
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The Commons versus Commodities Giovanna Ricoveri. Foreword by Vandana Shiva Pb 978-0-7453-3370-0 £14.99
Water Wars Pollution, Profits and Privatization Vandana Shiva Pb 978-0-7453-1837-0 £19.99
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System Crash The Rich, the Rest and the Struggle to Remake the World Neil Faulkner with Samir Dathi and Marienna Pope-Weidemann
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Praise for Neil Faulkner’s previous works: ‘Enlightening and apocalyptic in equal measure’ GUARDIAN
The world faces the greatest crisis in human history. Unchecked global warming heralds catastrophic climate change. Financial meltdown has tipped us into permanent stagnation. War is breaking up the international order. The gap between rich and poor has become a chasm. Democracy has been hollowed out. System Crash explains how this compound crisis is rooted in the pathological character of neoliberal capitalism. The system is unreformable and humanity stands at a crossroads. One possible future is a descent into the barbarism of war, poverty and climate catastrophe. Another is a collective movement designed to overthrow the lords of capital and build a new world based on democracy, equality and solidarity. With chapters entitled Earth, Economy, Empire and Exploitation, System Crash is a short, punchy and apocalyptic treatise that explains how we got to where we are, why the crisis of the system is insoluble, and what we must do to overthrow our rulers, transform society, and save the planet. Unashamedly Marxist, it identifies the radical urban youth of the neoliberal city as a new vanguard in the struggle for change, calling for the creation of a democratic mass movement for red-green revolution. NEIL FAULKNER is a leading Marxist historian. A Research Fellow at the
University of Bristol, he is the author of numerous books, including A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals (Pluto, 2013). He appears regularly on TV and was a lead consultant on Sky Atlantic’s The British series. SAMIR DATHI is a campaigning solicitor specialising in information law
and human rights. MARIENNA POPE-WEIDEMANN is a writer, TV producer and activist. As a
journalist, she specialises in international politics, economic development and social movements.
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Bleakonomics A Heartwarming Introduction to Financial Catastrophe, the Jobs Crisis and Environmental Destruction Rob Larson Pb 978-0-7453-3267-3 £16.99
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Islamic State
Rewriting History Michael Griffin The world is watching Islamic State’s lightning advance through Syria to the gates of Baghdad. For the third time in fifteen years, the US risks being drawn into another war in the Middle East despite its experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq. IS is creating catastrophic waves across the region, but it is still unclear what lies behind its success. Islamic State: Rewriting History takes the long-view by analysing IS’s beginnings in Iraq to its involvement in the Arab Spring and through to the present day. It discusses the myriad of regional players engaged in a seemingly endless power game: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Iraq have all contributed to the success of ISIS by supplying arms and funds. Using a fast-paced, narrative-driven style, Michael Griffin foregrounds the story of the uprising against President Assad of Syria and describes his regime’s varied responses; the human cost; the role played by Free Syrian Army, Islamist groups, Iran, Hezbollah and Russia; the chemical weapons attacks in 2013; and the House of Commons vote not to impose a no-fly zone over the country. MICHAEL GRIFFIN is a writer, editor, political analyst and specialist on the
Taliban and Al Qa’ida. He regularly comments on the war in Afghanistan for BBC World, Sky and Al Jazeera. As editor he has worked for Transparency International, International Alert, Small Arms Survey and ODI. His previous books include Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement (Pluto, 2001).
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The Islamic Utopia The Illusion of Reform in Saudi Arabia Andrew Hammond Pb 978-0-7453-3269-7 £17.99
The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings End of an Old Order? Edited by Bassam Haddad, Rosie Bsheer and Ziad Abu-Rish. Foreword by Roger Owen
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Praise for previous books: ‘Filled with the dramatic moments, ironies and political intrigues ... Griffin writes engagingly’ THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
‘Griffin has reached a better understanding of the Taliban in his book than I have come across anywhere else’ JOHN SIMPSON BBC
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Southern Insurgency The Coming of the Global Working Class Immanuel Ness
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The site of industrial struggle is shifting. The West needs to look further if it wants to understand how workers’ self-organisation is developing in countries it too often ignores. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land to live and work in harsh and impoverished conditions. Inevitably, new methods of combating the spread of industrial capitalism are evolving in ambitious, militant and creative ways. Southern Insurgency will lead the way in examining these organisations in the contemporary era. Immanuel Ness looks at three key countries: China, India and South Africa. In each case he considers the broader historical forces at play – the effects of imperialism, the decline of the trade union movement, the class struggle and the effects of the growing reserve army of labour. For each case study, he narrows his focus to reveal the specifics of each grassroots insurgency: the militancy of the miners in South Africa, the new labour organisations in India and export promotion and the rise of worker insurgency in China. A result of intensive, dedicated firsthand research, at the heart of Southern Insurgency is a study of the nature of the new industrial proletariat in the Global South – a terrifying, precarious existence – but also one of experimentation, solidarity and struggle.
IMMANUEL NESS is Professor of Political Science at City University of
New York. He is author of Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism, Immigrants and Unions, and the New U.S. Labor Market and numerous other works. He is editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Working USA: The Journal of Labour and Society.
ABOUT THE SERIES Wildcat: Workers Movements and Global Capitalism Publishing ambitious and innovative works on the history and political economy of workers movements across the globe, Wildcat will examine proletarianisation and class formation; mass production; gender, affective and reproductive labour; imperialism and workers; syndicalism and independent unions as well as labour and Leftist social and political movements. Series editors: Peter Alexander, Immanuel Ness, Tim Pringle, Malehoko Tshoaedi
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Just Work?
Migrant Workers' Struggle Today Edited by Aziz Choudry and Mondli Hlatshwayo Just Work? offers a vast range of original, grassroots perspectives on global migrant labour organising in the twenty-first century. From diverse workers’ organisations in South Africa to migrant worker resistance in the Gulf, from forest workers in the Czech Republic to domestic workers’ struggles in Hong Kong, this volume will bring together a wealth of lived experiences and hidden struggles for the first time. Highlighting the changing nature of frontline struggles against exploitation, Just Work? proves that migrant workers are finding new and innovative ways of resisting neoliberal immigration measures. They are forced to fight against the precarious nature of jobs from both within and outside of traditional forms of labour organisations. With contributions from scholars and activists from around the world engaged in this resistance, this will be an accessible collection based on grass-roots experiences, placed in a political economy framework. The full list of regions explored are: South Africa, Philippines, Gulf Arab States, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Japan, United Kingdom, Nigeria, New Zealand, Delhi, Canada and Switzerland. AZIZ CHOUDRY is associate professor in the Department of Integrated
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Studies in Education at McGill University and a visiting professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg. He serves on the board of the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal. He is co-editor of Organize! (PM Press, 2012) and NGOization: Complicity Contradictions and Prospects (Zed Books, 2013). MONDLI HLATSHWAYO is a researcher in the Centre for Education Rights
and Transformation at the University of Johannesburg. Previously he worked for Khanya College, a Johannesburg-based NGO, as an educator and researcher. As an activist, he has been involved in a number of antixenophobia campaigns in South Africa.
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Chomsky Perspectives
Rethinking Camelot JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture Noam Chomsky In a potent act of myth busting, Noam Chomsky turns his critical gaze upon the Kennedy Administration and draws controversial parallels between the Presidency of JFK and that of Ronald Reagan, with particular focus on the Vietnam War. For anyone persuaded that changing the world is simply a question of changing its leading figures, this work will act both as a bitter pill and a powerful stimulant to action. This book was first published in 1993. Published in the UK for the first time SEPTEMBER 2015 184pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 978-0-7453-3542-1 £9.99 Epub 978-1-7837-1238-0 £9.99 Kindle 978-1-7837-1239-7 £9.99
Culture of Terrorism Noam Chomsky Chomsky dissects the events of just one year – 1986 – as America was at the height of the Reagan Era. He describes American involvement in acts of supreme state terror, both open and clandestine, to present a case study which has great relevance today and whose lessons must never be forgotten. This book was first published in 1988.
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ABOUT THE SERIES Classic works from one of the world’s most respected commentators on global affairs. Including both enduring favourites and neglected essentials, ‘Chomsky Perspectives’ makes available a wealth of Chomsky’s thoughts on the twentieth century and its aftermath and will be invaluable to followers of his work. Each book contains a new preface by the author. Cover design by David Pearson. Not available in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Philippines and North America 12
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Turning the Tide US Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace Noam Chomsky Turning the Tide succinctly and powerfully addresses three interrelated questions: What is the aim and impact of US Central American policy? What factors in US society support and oppose current policy? And how can concerned citizens affect future policy? Though his prime focus is El Salvador and Nicaragua, Chomsky also addresses relations throughout the region and relates these to superpower conflicts and the overall role of the Cold War in contemporary international relations. This book was first published in 1985. Published in the UK for the first time SEPTEMBER 2015 304pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 978-0-7453-3545-2 £12.99 Epub 978-1-7837-1247-2 £12.99 Kindle 978-1-7837-1248-9 £12.99
Propaganda and the Public Mind Conversations with David Barsamian Noam Chomsky An invitation to take part in a conversation with one of the great minds of our time. First published in 2001, this book collects a series of discussions with the journalist David Barsamian. It is the perfect complement to Chomsky’s major works of media study such as Manufacturing Consent and Necessary Illusions. Events discussed in detail are the so-called ‘Battle of Seattle’ protests against the World Trade Organisation, US involvement in East Timor, and the beginning of the movement towards a second Iraq War. This book was first published in 2001. SEPTEMBER 2015 264pp 198mm x 129mm Pb 978-0-7453-3565-0 £9.99 Epub 978-1-7837-1691-3 £9.99 Kindle 978-1-7837-1692-0 £9.99
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Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet and Revolutionary Jacqueline Mulhallen Series: Revolutionary Lives
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Today, Percy Bysshe Shelley has memorials in Westminster Abbey and at Oxford University. Most famous for poems such as 'To A Skylark' and 'The Mask of Anarchy', he is considered one of the most influential Romantic poets, with new editions of his work still being published. But this was not always the case. During his short and tragic life he was regarded with loathing as an immoral atheist and his work received damning reviews as a result. His was a story of extremes – the radical nature of his convictions was astounding considering he was the son of a wealthy landowner and set to become a Whig MP. For many of his biographers, a focus on his belief in sexual freedom and vegetarianism often eclipses his internationalist and revolutionary politics. Although he wrote when the working class was in its infancy, he clearly grasped how workers – and women – suffered under oppression. Admired by Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats and Karl Marx, Shelley’s legacy remains with us today – his words have been used by popular movements from the Chartists and the Suffragettes to Tiananmen Square, the Poll Tax protesters and modern Greek solidarity movements. This new biography by playwright and activist Jacqueline Mulhallen will emphasise the political, revolutionary side of Shelley’s life and will be a valuable contribution to the existing literature on this important artist. JACQUELINE MULHALLEN wrote and performed in the plays Sylvia and
Rebels and Friends which toured England and Ireland to great acclaim. Her ground-breaking book The Theatre of Shelley (Open Book Publishers, 2010) has been internationally acclaimed.
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Gerrard Winstanley The Digger's Life and Legacy John Gurney Pb 978-0-7453-3183-6 £12.99
Jean Paul Marat Tribune of the French Revolution Clifford D. Conner Pb 978-0-7453-3193-5 £12.99
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Frantz Fanon
Philosopher of the Barricades Peter Hudis Series: Revolutionary Lives Frantz Fanon was an Afro-French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose works, including Black Skin, White Masks, are hugely influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and post-Marxism. His legacy remains with us today, having inspired movements in Palestine, Sri Lanka, the US and South Africa. Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades is a critical biography of his extraordinary life. Peter Hudis draws on the expanse of his life and work - from his upbringing in Martinique and early intellectual influences to his mature efforts to fuse psychoanalysis and philosophy and contributions to the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria - to counter the monolithic assumption that Fanon’s contribution to modern thought is defined by the advocacy of violence. Fanon emerges as neither armchair intellectual nor intransigent militant. He was a political activist who brought his interests in psychology and philosophy directly to bear on such issues as mutual recognition, democratic participation and political sovereignty. This book will speak to all those engaged in the ongoing search for alternatives to oppressive social relations in the twenty-first century.
PETER HUDIS is author of Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
(Brill, 2012). He edited The Rosa Luxemburg Reader (MRP, 2004) and The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg (Verso, 2013) He is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Oakton Community College.
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Black Skin, White Masks
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Frantz Fanon. Forewords by Homi K. Bhabha and Ziauddin Sardar Pb 978-0-7453-2848-5 £12.99
The Fanon Reader Frantz Fanon, edited by Azzedine Haddour Pb 978-0-7453-1560-7 £17.99
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Debt or Democracy Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice Mary Mellor
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Praise for The Future of Money: ‘One of the most important books you will read this year’ Molly Scott Cato, Member of the European Parliament for the Green Party
Debt or Democracy explores the received lessons and established legacies of the financial crisis of 2007. Political elites and their mainstream media mimics shout about a house whose finances are in disarray; a 'yawning deficit' created by reckless spending in a bloated public sector. The answer to this 'debt crisis' has been harsh austerity measures - spending cuts, public sector reorganisation and privatisation. But, according to Mary Mellor, this is a dangerously deceptive discourse. Turning against the prevalent narrative, with its language of 'debt' and 'deficit', Mellor takes on the familiar rhetorical question about 'where the money comes from', showing that the real question is who owns and controls its creation and circulation. Far from privatisation being the solution to our financial woes, it has instead been its cause - a privatisation of monetary systems under late capitalism which has subordinated public finance to private interest. The real solution, Mellor argues, is a return to the notion of public wealth and the public economy; of a monetary system owned by, and operated in the interests of, the majority and their public representatives. Debt or Democracy makes a direct challenge to conventional economic thinking and explores a range of radical alternatives that can form the basis for socially just and sustainable economies. It will be of interest to scholars, activists and educators alike, as well as anyone who is interested in the politics of money in the neoliberal era. MARY MELLOR is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, where
she was founding chair of the university's Sustainable Cities Research Institute. She has published extensively on alternative economics integrating socialist, feminist and green perspectives. Her books include The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource (Pluto, 2010).
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The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance Hacking the Future of Money Brett Scott Pb 978-0-7453-3350-2 £12.99
Life Without Money Building Fair and Sustainable Economies Edited by Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman Pb 978-0-7453-3165-2 £17.99
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The Secure and the Dispossessed
How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World Edited by Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes. Foreword by Susan George Series: Transnational Institute While the world’s scientists and many of its inhabitants despair at the unfolding impacts of climate change, corporate and military leaders see nothing but challenges and opportunities. For them, melting ice caps mean newly accessible fossil fuels, borders to be secured from ‘climate refugees’, social conflicts to be managed, and more failed states in which to intervene. With one eye on the scientific evidence and the other on their global assets and supply chains, powerful elites are giving increasing thought as to how to maintain control in a world gradually reshaped by climatic extremes. The Secure and the Dispossessed looks at these deadly approaches with a highly critical eye. It also considers the flip-side: that the legitimacy of the global elite is under unprecedented pressure – from resistance by communities to resource grabs to those creating new ecological and socially just models for managing our energy, food and water. Adaptation and resilience to a climate-changed world is desperately needed, but the form it will take will affect all of our futures. This collection of authoritative essays by high profile journalists, academics and activists will shape this most important of debates for years to come. NICK BUXTON is Communications Manager for TNI. He has edited a
number of books including State of Power 2015 (Transnational Institute, 2015).
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BEN HAYES has worked for the civil liberties organisation Statewatch
since 1996, specialising in international and national security and policing policies. He works as an independent researcher and consultant for organisations including the European Parliament and European Commission. He is also a Fellow of the Transnational Institute.
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Corporate Europe How Big Business Sets Policies on Food, Climate and War David Cronin Pb 978-0-7453-3332-8 £17.99
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China and the 21stCentury Crisis Minqi Li
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Praise for The Rise of China: ‘Li has accomplished something different and very important ... This is a book which explains much that seems a puzzle and challenges the received opinion of many analysts. It should be read by all concerned persons.’ Immanuel Wallerstein
The USA is widely seen as the country at the centre of the recent economic crash. But will this be the case the next time the system goes into shock? By looking at the big questions of class struggle, global economic imbalances, peak oil, climate change and political power play, Minqi Li argues that by the time of the next crisis, China will be at the epicentre of these contradictions. Unlike previous books, China and the 21st-Century Crisis analyses how the political and economic imbalances in China will exacerbate system collapse, and how this could happen much sooner than we imagine, possibly within a decade. Li writes from a Marxist and ecological perspective, and points out that the limits to capital are fast approaching. China is the last large region (and source of cheap labour) into which capital could expand: the system is at its limits. By combining this argument with issues surrounding the planet’s ecological limits and the internal politics of the Chinese Communist Party, Li presents a narrative of China at a pivotal, and possibly apocalyptic stage. MINQI LI teaches economics at University of Utah and has also taught
political science at York University, Canada. He is author of The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy (Pluto Press, 2008). He turned from an advocate of free market principles into a Marxist and was a political prisoner in China between 1990 and 1992.
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China's Global Strategy Towards a Multipolar World Jenny Clegg Pb 978-0-7453-2518-7 £19.99
The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy Minqi Li Pb 978-0-7453-2772-3 £21.99
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United States of Emergency
American Capitalism and Its Crises Alan Nasser Series: The Future of World Capitalism United States of Emergency is a genealogy of the emergence of a financeridden, authoritarian, undemocratic American capitalism, from industrialisation to the present day. Providing a panoramic politicaleconomic history of the country, it surveys the ruthlessly competitive capitalism of the nineteenth century, the maturation of industrial capitalism in the twenties, the rise and fall of capitalism’s Golden Age and the ensuing decline towards the modern era. Alan Nasser shows why the emergence of the persistent austerity of financialised neoliberal capitalism is the natural outcome of mature capitalism’s evolution. Nasser demonstrates that the nation’s historical trajectory was marked by a succession of turning-point crises and key politicaleconomic responses to them. This developmental pattern reveals the key structural and political vulnerabilities of capitalism itself and points towards the kind of political-economic system that can transcend it. The centre of the argument is that capitalism ultimately presents us with two alternatives: either a new normal of persistent austerity, declining democracy and a privatised state, or a polity and economy characterized by economic democracy that can ensure both higher wages and a shorter working week. A result of a lifetime’s research, this book will make an important contribution to the literature on the roots of the economic crisis and the democratic possibilities it opens up. ALAN NASSER is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Evergreen
State College in Olympia, WA. He is a frequent contributor to Counterpunch, a member of the Union for Radical Political Economists, and an adviser to Occupy Seattle.
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Obama's Economy Recovery for the Few Jack Rasmus Pb 978-0-7453-3218-5 £14.99
The Failure of Capitalist Production Underlying Causes of the Great Recession Andrew Kliman Pb 978-0-7453-3239-0 £17.99
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Queer Lovers and Hateful Others Regenerating Violent Times and Places Jin Haritaworn Series: Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons
JULY 2015 240pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3061-7 £16.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3062-4 £65 Epub 978-1-7837-1270-0 £16.99 Kindle 978-1-7837-1271-7 £16.99
Berlin is once more capital of queer arts and tourism. Queerness is more visible today than it has been for decades, but at what cost? In Queer Lovers and Hateful Others, Jin Haritaworn argues that queer subjects have become a lovely sight only through being cast in the shadow of the new folk devil, the ‘homophobic migrant’ who are rendered by society as hateful, homophobic and disposable. At the centre of this book is the concept of ‘queer regeneration’. Haritaworn sees the queer lover as a transitional object which allows the present-day neoliberal regime to make punishment and neglect appear as signs of care and love for diversity. Alongside this shift, in the wake of older moral panics over crime, violence, patriarchy, integration and segregation, the new Other, or the homophobic migrant appears. To understand this transition, Queer Lovers and Hateful Others looks at the environments in which queer bodies have become worthy of protection, and the everyday erasures that shape life in the inner city, and how queer activists actively seek out and dispel the myths of sites of nostalgia for the ‘invented traditions’ of womenand-gay-friendliness. Haritaworn guides the reader through a rich archive of media, arts, policy and activism, including posters, newspaper reports, hate crime action plans, urban projects, psychological studies, demonstrations, kiss-ins, political speeches and films. In the process, queer lovers, drag kings, criminalised youth, homosexuals persecuted under National Socialism, and other figures of degeneracy and regeneration appear on a shared plane, where new ways of sharing space become imaginable. JIN HARITAWORN is an Assistant Professor in Transnational Race, Gender
and Sexuality Studies at York University, Canada. They are the author of Ambivalent Desires: Hybrid Bodies and Changing Nationalisms (2010).
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After Queer Theory The Limits of Sexual Politics James Penney Pb 978-0-7453-3378-6 £18.99
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Racism
A Critical Analysis Mike Cole The book traces the legacy of racism across three continents, from its origins to the present day. With a wide-ranging yet closely-argued style, it brings a sophisticated neo-Marxist analysis to bear on controversial political issues. Mike Cole tackles three countries: the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. In the UK, he focuses on the effects of colonialism as well as looking at non-colour-coded racism, such as anti-Gipsy, Roma and Traveller racism and racism towards Eastern Europeans. Turning to the United States, Cole charts the dual legacies of indigenous genocide and slavery, as well as exploring anti-Latina/o and anti-Asian racism. Finally, in Australia, he interrogates the idea of 'Terra Nullius' and its ongoing impact on the indigenous peoples, as well as other forms of racism, such as that experienced by South Sea Islanders. The Pauline Hanson phenomenon is also addressed. Islamophobia, antisemitism and anti-Irish racism are also dealt with in the book, as is that aimed at asylum-seekers. Cole concludes by assessing the possibility of an antiracist culture by an examination of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. This book will undoubtedly establish itself as required reading for students and other critical readers looking for a comprehensive, critical overview of the study of ‘race’ and racism in Anglophone countries.
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DR MIKE COLE is Professor in Education, University of East London; and
Emeritus Research Professor in Education and Equality, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln. His latest books are Racism and Education in the UK and the US: Towards a Socialist Alternative (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Critical Race Theory and Education: a Marxist Response (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
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A Suitable Enemy Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe Liz Fekete. Foreword by A. Sivanandan Pb 978-0-7453-2792-1 £17.99
The End of Tolerance Racism in 21st Century Britain Arun Kundnani Pb 978-0-7453-2645-0 £22.99
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Jacques Lacan A critical introduction Martin Murray Series: Modern European Thinkers
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The wide-ranging and brilliant ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan have had a major influence on twentieth and twentyfirst century thought. His ‘followers’ are loyal and legion. Yet his ideas are complex and were conveyed in a dense and abstract form. Lacan’s detractors have accused him of obscurantism, pretentiousness and even incoherence. His psychoanalytic practice and his personal life were complicated too. He was famous and contentious in equal measure. Martin Murray provides a lucid account of Lacan’s key concepts, tracing their origins in his diverse interests: art, psychiatry, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics and (of course) psychoanalysis. Murray also investigates Lacan’s professional life, personal life and institutional influence in an attempt to understand the charismatic and controversial person he became. The investigation uncovers a uniquely ‘split’ and contradictory figure whose life and work is best understood ‘in easy pieces’. The book offers a critical, biographical and historical introduction to Lacan that is accessible, incisive and rigorous. It encourages an appreciation of both Lacan’s life and his thought and will be a welcome addition to the existing literature. MARTIN MURRAY is Head of the School of Media, Culture and
Communication at London Metropolitan University. He has published various articles on psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature and culture in academic and non-academic journals.
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Félix Guattari A Critical Introduction Gary Genosko Pb 978-0-7453-2820-1 £22.95
Slavoj Zizek A Critical Introduction Ian Parker Pb 978-0-7453-2071-7 £21.99
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Gramsci on Tahrir
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt Brecht De Smet Series: Reading Gramsci Coming in the wake of intense political and academic debate on the nature and development of the Arab Spring, Gramsci on Tahrir zeroes in on the complex dynamic of Egypt's revolution and counter-revolution. It shows how a Gramscian understanding of the revolutionary process provides a powerful instrument for charting the possibilities for an emancipatory project by the Egyptian subaltern classes. Central to De Smet’s argument is Gramsci’s take on Caesarism which involves looking at a situation in which the forces in struggle are balanced in a truly catastrophic way, and how the interplay of these forces can only end in mutual destruction. The forces acting in Egypt provide a clear example of a state with an absence of strong hegemonies and capable counter-hegemonies. Through this analysis, we can see how the current situation in Egypt demonstrates how both national histories and global power relations enable, define and displace popular resistance and social transformation. Gramsci on Tahrir is a major contribution to the existing literature on Egypt and the Arab Spring with important implications for radical political theory.
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BRECHT DE SMET is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of
Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University. De Smet is the author of several academic articles and opinion pieces about the workers’ movement in Egypt. His most recent work is A Dialectical Pedagogy of Revolt: Gramsci, Vygotsky, and the Egyptian Revolution (2015, Brill).
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Unravelling Gramsci Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy Adam David Morton Pb 978-0-7453-2384-8 £25.99
Subalternity, Antagonism, Autonomy Constructing the Political Subject Massimo Modonesi. Foreword by John Holloway Pb 978-0-7453-3405-9 £24.99
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The Geopolitics of Capitalism New Spaces of Imperialist Rivalry Gonzalo Pozo
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Every new international crisis revives the spectre of geopolitics: but does this ubiquitous term really help us make sense of a system in which exploitation and oppression are central to war and interstate competition? Concentrating on the post-Cold War period, The Geopolitics of Capitalism examines the way in which capitalism is permanently creating a geography of conflict in its own image, through complex linkages between territory, class constellations and international relations. The book critically reviews a wide range of geopolitical traditions, revisits the engagement between them and Marxist theory and analyses three contemporary processes which have attracted all manner of geopolitical tropes and explanations. For example, the melting Arctic as a ‘last frontier’; commercial land acquisition as a ‘new scramble for Africa’, and the ‘new Cold War’ between the US-led Western powers and Russia. Taking distance from both the classical canon and the more recent critical turn, Gonzalo Pozo argues that geopolitics, understood as a spatial dimension of capitalist accumulation, remains a useful lens through which to understand events and transformations around us. GONZALO POZO is a Lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s
College London.
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Geopolitical Economy After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire Radhika Desai Pb 978-0-7453-2992-5 £21.99
The Fall of the US Empire Global Fault-Lines and the Shifting Imperial Order Vassilis K. Fouskas and Bülent Gökay Pb 978-0-7453-2643-6 £17.99
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BRICS
An Anti-Capitalist Critique Edited by Patrick Bond and Ana Garcia One of the defining features of the global economy is the rise of the BRICS - a bloc of emerging economies, comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. These nations seem to be growing at a much faster rate than the developed nations of the Eurozone and North America. Will the BRICS help drag the developed world out of the economic mire? Will they force social change and innovation into the tired ‘old world order’? And politically, do they herald a new dawn for democracy or do they represent a continued political repression? BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique is an edited collection which aims to answer these questions by offering critical analysis of the rise of the BRICS economies within the framework of a predatory, exclusionary and unequal global capitalism. A range of approaches to the emergence of new economies of the Global South are included, which are variously co-operative and antagonistic to the traditional powers. Bringing to light a new perspective on these nations, this is an invaluable book for those who want to understand the current geopolitical and economic landscape from an anti-capitalist viewpoint. Contributors include (among others): Sam Moyo, Leo Panitch, Vijay Prashad and Immanuel Wallerstein. PATRICK BOND is Senior Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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He is the author of several books, including Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa (Pluto, 2014). ANA GARCIA is Professor of International Relations at the Federal Rural
University of Rio de Janeiro.
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Theories of Social Capital
Researchers Behaving Badly Ben Fine Pb 978-0-7453-2996-3 £27.50
Neoliberalism A Critical Reader Edited by Alfredo Saad-Filho and Deborah Johnston Pb 978-0-7453-2298-8 £22.99
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What's Wrong with Rights? Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations Radha D'Souza
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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: she interrogates 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. RADHA D’SOUZA teaches law at the University of Westminster, London.
She practised 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 (Orient Longman, 2006) and works with the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) in the UK.
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The Wrongs of Tort Joanne Conaghan and Wade Mansell. Pb 978-0-7453-2502-6 £22.99
Human Rights and Social Movements Neil Stammers Pb 978-0-7453-2911-6 £19.99
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Complacency and Collusion
A Critical Introduction to Business and Financial Journalism Keith J. Butterick The growing passivity and changing bias of Western journalists is widely acknowledged. Journalism is increasingly hollowed out by writers who are no longer gathering news but rather churning out unsourced information, PR texts and snippets found online. Behind this dubious practice is an increasingly invested corporate sector whose stake in the mainstream media as mouthpiece has exponentially increased in the last few decades. In Complacency and Collusion, Keith J. Butterick focuses on the content and practice of financial and business journalism, giving compelling explanations for why big business needs the press and why the press needs big business. He cuts through the misreporting that has occurred since the financial crisis and makes clear the inadequacies of articles found in prestigious papers and magazines, such as the Economist and Financial Times. In concluding his analysis he reflects on what the growth and spread of complacent, complicit corporate journalism will mean for the future of a free media. Complacency and Collusion is one of the first critical studies of the field of business and financial journalism to be suitable for the graduate reader. It will serve as both a valuable teaching resource and a penetrating political commentary on contemporary journalism. KEITH J. BUTTERICK is director of the Huddersfield Centre for
Communication and Consultation Research at the University of Huddersfield and the author of Introducing Public Relations Theory and Practice (2011). He is an award-winning business journalist, magazine editor and former director of a financial Public Relations consultancy.
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Murdoch's Politics How One Man's Thirst For Wealth and Power Shapes our World David McKnight. Foreword by Robert W. McChesney Pb 978-0-7453-3346-5 £12.99
The Universal Journalist David Randall Pb 978-0-7453-3076-1 £17.99
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The Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon Bassel F. Salloukh, Rabie Barakat, Jinan S. Al-Habbal, Lara W. Khattab and Shoghig Mikaelian
JULY 2015 240pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3413-4 £17.99 Hb 978-0-7453-3414-1 £60 Epub 978-1-7837-1343-1 £17.99 Kindle 978-1-7837-1344-8 £17.99
The wave of popular uprisings that swept across the Arab world starting in December 2010 rattled regimes from Morocco to Oman. However, Lebanon’s sectarian system proved immune to the domestic and regional pressures unleashed by the Arab Spring. How can this be explained? How has the country’s political elite dealt with challenges to the system? And, finally, what lessons can other Arab states draw from Lebanon’s sectarian experience? Using extensive field work, The Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon looks at the mix of institutional, clientelist and discursive practices that sustain the sectarian nature of Lebanon. The book exposes snapshots of an ever-expanding sectarian web that occupies substantial areas of everyday Lebanese life. It also surveys struggles waged by opponents of the system – by women, teachers, public sector employees, students or coalitions across NGOs – and how their efforts are often sabotaged or contained by various systemic forces.
BASSEL F. SALLOUKH is Associate Professor of Political Science at the
Lebanese American University. He is author, co-author, co-editor of a number of books including Beyond the Arab Spring: Authoritarianism and Democratization in the Arab World (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012). RABIE BARAKAT is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a former news presenter and field reporter for different Arab news outlets. JINAN S. AL-HABBAL is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. LARA W. KHATTAB is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. SHOGHIG MIKAELIAN is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada.
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A History of Modern Lebanon Fawwaz Traboulsi Pb 978-0-7453-3274-1 £21.99
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Small Places, Large Issues - Fourth Edition
An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology Thomas Hylland Eriksen Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society This concise introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world. The text provides a clear overview of anthropology, focusing on central topics such as kinship, ethnicity, ritual and political systems, offering a wealth of examples that demonstrate the enormous scope of anthropology and the importance of a comparative perspective. Unlike other texts on the subject, Small Places, Large Issues incorporates the anthropology of complex modern societies. Using reviews of key monographs to illustrate his argument, Eriksen's lucid and accessible text remains an established introductory text in anthropology. This fourth edition is updated throughout and increases the emphasis on the interdependence of human worlds. It incorporates recent debates and controversies, ranging from globalisation and migration research to problems of cultural translation, and discusses the challenges of interdisciplinarity in a lucid way. Effortlessly bridging the perceived gap between ‘classic’ and ‘contemporary’ anthropology, Small Places, Large Issues is as essential to anthropology undergraduates as ever. 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, Tyranny of the Moment, Globalisation 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 £17.99
Ethnicity and Nationalism Anthropological Perspectives Thomas Hylland Eriksen Pb 978-0-7453-3042-6 £17.99
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Green Parties, Green Future From Local Groups to the International Stage Per Gahrton. Foreword by Caroline Lucas
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Over the past four decades the world has seen a 'Green awakening'. Green parties have been elected to parliaments and councils all over the world, and in many cases have played a part in national and local government. A common set of Green priorities has been promoted by Green internationalisation and these parties are playing an increasing role at all levels of political decision-making. Will the Green awakening continue or will Greens be corrupted by power? What impact has Green politics had? Will Green thinking be able to compete with other ideologies in coping with the problems of the twenty-first century? Green Parties, Green Future analyses these issues on the basis of the experience of Green parties from all parts of the world. Per Gahrton, a sociologist and veteran of Green politics, provides the whole story of the expansion and development of the Greens worldwide, from local environmental groups to national and global decision-makers. This is essential reading for anyone who is or wants to be involved in a political movement that is challenging the more traditional parties for a progressive future. PER GAHRTON is a Swedish sociologist and politician, former MP and
MEP of the Swedish Greens and (until 2014) chair of the Green think tank Cogito. He was the 1985-89 co-secretary of the Coordination of European Greens. He has participated at all congresses of the Global Greens. His previous books include Georgia: Pawn in the New Great Game (Pluto, 2010).
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The Rise of the Green Left Inside the Worldwide Ecosocialist Movement Derek Wall. Foreword by Hugo Blanco Pb 978-0-7453-3036-5 £12.99
Green Alternatives to Globalisation A Manifesto Michael Woodin and Caroline Lucas Pb 978-0-7453-1932-2 £14.99
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The Struggle for Food Sovereignty
Alternative Development and the Renewal of Peasant Societies Today Edited by Rémy Herrera and Kin Chi Lau The Struggle for Food Sovereignty explores the problems faced by Southern and Northern family agricultures in the current neoliberal era. The contributors, who include Samir Amin, João Pedro Stedile and Utsa Patnaik, base their arguments on an understanding of the revival of peasant struggles for their social emancipation and legitimate right of access to land and food. This collection is a response to the confusion which reigns surrounding how these urgent, global problems are understood and offers solutions as to how they should be approached. It understands that while there are common traits in how global capital goes after profit, the receptions on the ground differ. The authors, all experts in their fields, express the importance of the co-operation and cohesion of the various struggles taking place in different parts of the world, and how they must share a common vision for the future. RÉMY HERRERA is an economist. He is researcher at the National Centre
for Scientific Research at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
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KIN CHI LAU is assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies
at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
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The Global Hunger Crisis Tackling Food Insecurity in Developing Countries Majda Bne Saad
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Sick Planet Corporate Food and Medicine Stan Cox Pb 978-0-7453-2740-2 £16.99
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Struggle in a Time of Crisis Edited by Nicolas Pons-Vignon and Mbuso Nkosi
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It is becoming increasingly clear, for those who care to see it, that class struggle is at the core of the crisis which started in 2007. The victory of neoliberalism is closely related to two decades of successful attacks on trade unions, in particular in the west. Progressive research is more than ever needed in order to inform and energise anti-neoliberal struggles. Struggle in a Time of Crisis is a truly global collection of essays by an array of contributors from the Global Labour Column. Its goal is to provide insights into the dynamics of neoliberalism and its persistence - it will stimulate debates about the continued impact of the crisis, focusing on labour as both a victim and a crucial social force which can push for an alternative. Examples of the subjects it covers include the Indonesian sportswear industry, Chinese construction companies in Africa, mining in South Africa, job quality in Europe, globalised ‘T-shirt economics’ and the marketisation and securitisation of UK international aid, amongst many others. The Global Labour Column, managed by the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development research programme at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, is part of the Global Labour University. NICOLAS PONS-VIGNON is a Senior Researcher with the Corporate
Strategy and Industrial Development at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His research focuses on industrial development and policy in South Africa, as well as on labour, poverty and development aid. He is the editor of the Global Labour Column. MBUSO NKOSI is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at the
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He serves as the co-editor of the Global Labour Column.
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The Financial Crisis and the Global South A Development Perspective Yilmaz Akyüz Pb 978-0-7453-3362-5 £19.99
Global Political Economy A Marxist Critique Bill Dunn Pb 978-0-7453-2666-5 £21.99
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Asian Americans on Campus Racialized Space and White Power Rosalind S. Chou, Kristen Lee and Simon Ho Asian Americans on Campus captures for the first time the voices and experiences of Asian Americans navigating the currents of race, gender and sexuality as factors in how youth construct relationships and identities. Interviews with seventy Asian Americans on an elite American campus show how students negotiate the sexualised racism of a large institution. The authors emphasise the students’ resilience and their means of resistance for overcoming the impact of structural racism. The book will appeal to students studying sociology as well as all those concerned with the intersectionalities of race, class, gender and sexuality. ROSALIND S. CHOU spent six years working at a nonprofit camp for at-risk
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Ending Extreme Inequality An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty Scott J. Myers-Lipton Poverty and inequality are at record levels. Today, forty-seven million Americans live in poverty. The top 20 per cent now controls 89 per cent of all wealth. These conditions have renewed demands for a new economic Bill of Rights, an idea proposed by F. D. Roosevelt, Truman and Martin Luther King, Jr. The new Economic Bill of Rights has a coherent plan and proclaims that all Americans have the right to a job, a living wage, a decent home, adequate medical care, good education, and protection from economic fears of unemployment, sickness and old age. Integrating the latest economic and social data, Ending Extreme Inequality explores each of these rights, and will inspire students and citizens to explore pathways to a more just society. SCOTT MYERS-LIPTON is Associate Professor at San Jose State University.
He is the author of Social Solutions to Poverty: America’s Struggle to Build a Just Society (Paradigm, 2006), as well as numerous scholarly articles on civic engagement, education and racism.
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Birthing Justice Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth Edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte There is a global crisis in maternal health care for black women. In the United States, black women are over three times more likely to perish from pregnancy-related complications than white women; their babies are half as likely to survive the first year. Many black women experience policing, coercion, and disempowerment during pregnancy and childbirth and are disconnected from alternative birthing traditions. Birthing Justice places black women’s voices at the center of the debate on what should be done to fix the broken maternity system and foregrounds black women’s agency in the emerging birth justice movement. Mixing scholarly, activist, and personal perspectives, the book shows readers how they too can change lives, one birth at a time. JULIA CHINYERE OPARAH is a leading activist scholar in the prison JULY 2015 240pp 229mm x 152mm Hb 978-1-6120-5836-8 £95
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abolitionist movement and Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at Mills College, California. She is co-editor of Activist Scholarship: Antiracism, Feminism and Social Change (2009) and Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (2006). She earned her PhD at Warwick University. ALICIA D. BONAPARTE is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College,
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A Model of Prevention Life Lessons David A. Hamburg An autobiography of a ground-breaking medical doctor. David A. Hamburg started as a medical student with an interest in stress disorders, paying special attention to the propensity toward violence, including the evolution of human aggression. This led him on a path to becoming one of the most highly celebrated doctors in America – he was a member of President Clinton’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the highest civilian award of the United States). Most recently, he chaired committees at the United Nations and European Union on the prevention of genocide. This book will be inspirational for emerging scientists today. DAVID A. HAMBURG is DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar at Weill
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Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism Henry A. Giroux Giroux probes the depth and range of forces pushing the United States into a new form of authoritarianism, one that connects the Orwellian surveillance state with the forms of ideological control made famous by Aldous Huxley. Addressing how neoliberalism, or the new market fundamentalism, is shaping a range of registers from language and memory to youth and higher education, Giroux explores how education in a variety of spheres is transformed into a type of miseducation perpetuated through what he calls a ‘disimagination machine’—one that reproduces the present by either distorting or erasing the past. HENRY A. GIROUX currently holds the Global TV Network Chair JUNE 2015 176pp 216mm x 140mm Pb 978-1-6120-5864-1 £17.99 Hb 978-1-6120-5863-4 £85
Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department. His most recent books include America’s Educational Deficit and the War on Youth (2013) and Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (2014).
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Public Administration Research Strategies, Concepts, and Methods B. Guy Peters, Tero Erkkila and Patrick von Maravic Public Administration explores how scholars of public administration and institutional politics can improve their analysis by focusing on the contextual particularities of their research problems and considering the use of multiple theories and methods. The book functions as an introduction to central themes of public administration and related traditions of research, but also proposes a new pluralist approach for studying public institutions. B. GUY PETERS is Maurice Falk Professor of Government at the University
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of Pittsburgh and Professor of Comparative Governance at Zeppelin University, Germany. TERO ERKKILA is University Lecturer of political science in the Department of Political and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki. PATRICK VON MARAVIC is assistant professor at the Department of Public Management and Governance at Zeppelin University, Germany. He is currently an MD candidate at the University of Central Florida School of Medicine.
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Gender and Climate Change Science, Skepticism, Security, and Policy Joane Nagel Does gender matter in global climate change? This provocative book takes readers on a guided tour of basic climate science, then holds up a gender lens to find out what has been overlooked in popular discussion. Joane Nagel argues that around the world more women than men die in climate-related natural disasters; the history of science and war are intimately interwoven masculine occupations and preoccupations; and conservative men and their interests drive the climate change denial machine. Through the use of a number of vivid case studies, Nagel successfully highlights the sometimes surprising differential, gendered impacts of climate change. JOANE NAGEL , Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of OCTOBER 2015 192pp 229mm x 152mm Hb 978-1-6120-5766-8 £90
Kansas, is the author of Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers.
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Gender and Evolution Why it Matters for Contemporary Life Rosemary L. Hopcroft Offering new research and analysis on the relation between gender and evolution, this book explains conflict between the sexes and the frequent emergence and stubborn continuation of patriarchal regimes that serve to control the behaviour of women in societies around the world, both past and present. Hopcroft shows that gender differences in physiology, psychology, and behaviour can be traced to slight differences in evolved traits between men and women. Women and men are different. But that does not mean they are unequal. Indeed, understanding differences is key to the full realisation of equality in health care and other dimensions of social life. ROSEMARY L. HOPCROFT is Associate Professor of Sociology at the
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has published in journals including American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Social Forces. She is the author of Sociology: A Bio-Social Introduction (Paradigm, 2010).
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Sharon Rotbard
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A new urban parable which uncovers the original Palestinian history deliberately hidden behind the modernist façade of Tel Aviv.
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Tim Jordan
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A Marxist analysis of the increasing mechanisation of computerisation of our methods of working. MAY 2015 256pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 9780745334035 £15.99 Hb 9780745334042 £60 Epub 9781783712793 £15.99 Kindle 9781783712809 £15.99
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Limits to Culture Urban Regeneration vs. Dissident Art
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How neoliberal society has changed the superficial nature of work in order to transform society into a pointless labour experience.
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Edited by David Whyte
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Artwash assesses oil sponsorship of the arts in its global formations, looking at the largest international oil companies.
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The classic guide to political activism from the French Revolution's hero Jean Jaurès rediscovered and published in English for the first time
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A second, updated edition of this accessible and myth-dispelling introduction to our current economic system
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The definitive history of black people in Britain, an epic story that spans the Roman conquest to the present day. New introduction by Paul Gilroy.
Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon. Forewords by Homi K. Bhabha and Ziauddin Sardar
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Jim Stanford Accessible, and critical, guide to key economic concepts, relating them to everyday experience. Text is complemented by educational cartoons.
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The History of Black People in Britain
A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism
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A devastating account of the feelings of inadequacy experienced by previously colonised people in a white world.
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Reveals the impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison in Britain and the US, during the 'war on terror'.
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After Queer Theory
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James Penney
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Makes the provocative claim that queer theory has run its course, made obsolete by the elaboration of its own logic within capitalism.
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The Corporation That Changed the World
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Anandi Ramamurthy
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Tells the history of Britain's Asian Youth Movements from the 1970s and 1980s and shows their importance in creating today's multiracial Britain.
Nick Robins Expanded and revised edition of the
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A provocative and deeply informative exploration of the Fair Trade phenomenon, suitable for specialists and non-specialists alike.
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Edited by David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith and Brian K. Gran DECEMBER 2014 148pp 235mm x 156mm Pb 9781612057774 £19.99 Hb 9781612057767 £85
The Disinherited Majority
The Beautiful Risk of Education
Capital Questions—Piketty and Beyond
Gert J.J. Biesta Argues for a 'risk-based' approach to pedagogy, based on WB Yeats' view that education is not about filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
Charles Derber
MARCH 2015 158pp 229mm x 152mm Pb 9781612058320 £15.99 Hb 9781612058313 £85
In depth analysis of the issues raised in Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, including inheritance, capitalism and the 1%.
NOVEMBER 2013 178pp 216mm x 140mm Pb 9781612050270 £20.99 Hb 9781612050263 £85
We the Peoples
ReOrienting the 19th Century
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A UN for the Twenty-First Century
Global Economy in the Continuing Asian Age
Kofi A. Annan
Andre Gunder Frank, edited by Robert A. Denemark
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Final major work on Western hegemony by the late pre-eminent historian and political economist Andre Gunder Frank.
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Index
Al-Habbal, Jinan S. 28 Asian Americans on Campus 33 Barakat, Rabie 28 Birthing Justice 34 Bonaparte, Alicia D. 34 Bond, Patrick 25 BRICS 25 Butterick, Keith J. 27 Buxton, Nick 17 China and the 21st Century Crisis 18 Chinyere Oparah, Julia 34 Chomsky, Noam 12 Chou, Rosalind S. 33 Choudry, Aziz 11 Cole, Mike 21 Complacency and Collusion 27 Culture of Terrorism 12 Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism 35 Dathi, Samir 8 De Smet, Brecht 23 Debt or Democracy 16 D’Souza, Radha 26 Ending Extreme Inequality 33 Erkkila, Tero 35 Faulkner, Neil 8 Frantz Fanon 15 Gahrton, Per 30 Garcia, Ana 25 Gender and Climate Change 36 Gender and Evolution 36 Giroux, Henry A. 35
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Gonzalez, Mike 7 Gramsci on Tahrir 23 Green Parties, Green Future 30 Griffin, Michael 9 Halper, Jeff 6 Hamburg, David A. 34 Haritaworn, Jin 20 Hayes, Ben 17 Herrera, Remy 31 Hlatshwayo, Mondli 11 Ho, Simon 33 Hopcroft, Rosemary L. 36 Hudis, Peter 15 Hylland Eriksen, Thomas 29 Islamic State 9 Jallad 4 Jacques Lacan 22 Just Work? 11 Khalil, Tasneem 4 Khattab, Lara W. 28 Last Drop, The 7 Lee, Kristen 33 Li, Minqi 18 Maravic, Patrick von 35 Mellor, Mary 16 Mikaelian, Shoghig 28 Model of Prevention, A 34 Mulhallen, Jacqueline 14 Murray, Martin 22 Myers-Lipton, Scott 33 Nagel, Joane 36 Nasser, Alan 19
Ness, Immanuel 10 Nkosi, Mbuso 32 Ovenden, Kevin 5 Percy Bysshe Shelley 14 Peters, Guy B. 35 Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon, The 28 Pons-Vignon, Nicolas 32 Pope-Weidemann, Marienna 8 Pozo, Gonzalo 24 Propaganda and the Public Mind 13 Public Administration 35 Queer Lovers and Hateful Others 20 Racism 21 Rethinking Camelot 12 SalloukhBassel F. 28 Secure and the Damned, The 17 Small Places, Large Issues - Fourth Edition 29 Southern Insurgency 10 Struggle for Food Sovereignty, The 3 1 Struggle in a Time of Crisis 32 Syriza 5 System Crash 8 The Geopolitics of Capitalism 24 Turning the Tide 13 United States of Emergency 19 War Against the People 6 What’s Wrong with Rights? 26 Yanes, Marianella 7
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