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EXPLOITATION AND ENCLOSURE IN A DIGITAL WORLD. Architecture
as a tool of oppression and control. A corrupt state and an exhausted, destructive
economic system. Our Spring 2015 catalogue features books exposing forms of power
and inequality in more fields than ever before. At the same time, many of the books
on our new list remind us of the ineradicable character of utopian aspiration, and the
inspiring struggles of social movements past and present.
But we must start with Pluto’s most famous author. It has been a privilege for us to
have been Noam Chomsky’s publisher for over three decades, and it is with great pride
that we are now publishing the definitive editions of many of his classic works in our
new CHOMSKY PERSPECTIVES series with striking covers by the award-winning
designer David Pearson.
David Balzer’s CURATIONISM is a provocative and hilarious account of how the
professional curator’s vampiric rise to prominence in the art world has spawned a
popular culture in which everyone is a curator. Sharon Rotbard’s WHITE CITY,
BLACK CITY reveals how the renowned modernist architecture of Tel Aviv fits
into the untold story of conquest over the old Arab city of Jaffa and in REBEL
FOOTPRINTS David Rosenberg takes us on a bespoke walking tour of radical
London.
We are reissuing Sheila Rowbotham’s FRIENDS OF ALICE WHEELDON a classic
tale of suffragism, socialism and the ‘attempted’ assassination of Lloyd George, in a
beautiful new package.
Our longstanding anthropology series, Anthropology, Culture and Society undergoes a
makeover, leading with a new work by bestselling author Thomas Hylland Eriksen
And finally, our groundbreaking publishing on digital politics enters an exciting new
phase with the launch of our Digital Barricades series. CYBER PROLETARIAT
is Nick Dyer-Witheford’s follow up to the seminal Cyber-Marx, while in
INFORMATION POLITICS Tim Jordan puts forward a new theorization of
struggles over the control of and access to information, looking at phenomena as
diverse as Wikileaks, the ipad and video games.
Happy reading!
David Castle
Senior Commissioning Editor
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A new urban parable
White City, Black City
Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa
Sharon Rotbard
JANUARY 2015
240pp 215mm x 135mm with flaps, 80 photographs
Pb 978-0-7453-3511-7 £14.99
Epub 978-1-7837-1314-1 £14.99
Kindle 978-1-7837-1315-8 £14.99
White City, Black City is a story of two intertwining narratives which
reveals the hidden history of the region where now stands modern-day
Tel Aviv. The new architectural landscape of this city, its Bauhausinfluenced modernist architecture glittering white, represents one side
of the story, that of the White City, which rose from the sparse sand
dunes to house a new Jewish society.
But there is a second story – that of the Black City of Jaffa, the
traces of which lie on the outskirts of the region, and which are rarely
mentioned.
In this book, Sharon Rotbard blows apart this palimpsest in a
clear, fluent and challenging style, which promises to force the reality
of what so many have praised as ‘progress’ into the mainstream
discourse.
White City, Black City is, all at once, an angry uncovering of a
vanished history, a book mourning the loss of an architectural
heritage, a careful study in urban design and a beautifully written
narrative history. It is in all senses a political book, but one that
expands beyond the typical.
SHARON ROTBARD is an architect, activist, writer and publisher based in
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South Tel Aviv. He is a senior lecturer at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem.
‘A path-breaking and brilliant
analysis.’
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EYAL WEIZMAN
author of Hollow Land: Israel’s Architectire of Occupation
The New Urban Question
Andy Merrifield
Pb 978-0-7453-3483-7 £15.00
‘Beautiful.’
TIME OUT
‘A challenging book that
deserves to be read and argued
over. Rotbard here slaughters
an especially sacred cow:
Tel Avivness.’
HAARETZ
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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
Pb 978-0-7453-3169-0 £17.99
A side to London you've never seen
Rebel Footprints
A Guide to Uncovering London's Radical
History
David Rosenberg
The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal daytripper guides. Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social
movements in the capital. It transports readers from well-known
landmarks to history-making hidden corners. David Rosenberg tells
the story of protest and struggle in London from the early nineteenth
to the mid-twentieth century.
From the Suffragettes to the Socialists, from the Chartists to the
Trade Unionists, the book invites us to step into the footprints of a
diverse cast of dedicated fighters for social justice. Individual chapters
highlight particular struggles and their participants, from famous faces
to lesser-known luminaries.
Rosenberg sets London's radical campaigners against the backdrop
of the city’s multi-faceted development. Self-directed walks pair with
narratives that seamlessly blend history, politics and geography.
Specially commissioned maps and illustrations immerse the reader in
the story of the city.
Whether visiting it for the first time, or born and raised in it,
Rosenberg invites you to see London as you never have before, the
nation's capital as its radical centre.
MARCH 2015
224pp 198mm x 129mm Hand illustrated maps &
photographs throughout
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DAVID ROSENBERG is an educator, writer and tour guide, and author
of Battle for the East End (2011). Since 2008, he has led tours of key sites
in London’s social and political history, especially in London’s East End,
and he teaches at City Lit and the Bishopsgate Institute. He is a founder
member of History from Below, an international network of activists,
artists, archivists and political archaeologists. David owes his geographical
knowledge of London to three years work as a van driver in the early 1980s
delivering books to radical and community bookshops.
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A wry look at a contemporary fetish
Curationism
How Curating Took Over the Art World and
Everything Else
David Balzer
APRIL 2015
144pp 198mm x 129mm With flaps
Pb 978-0-7453-3597-1 £8.99
Epub 978-1-7837-1319-6 £8.99
Kindle 978-1-7837-1320-2 £8.99
‘An unusual art book. It is a
book you should read. Balzer
traces the history and current
hegemony of curationism—a
practice of jumped-up interior
decorators who double as
priests explaining the gospel
to the unlettered masses. A
good read, if you don’t mind
reading things that you don’t
want to know.’
Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the
connoisseur in contemporary culture?
‘Curate’ has become a buzzword, applied to everything from music
festivals to artisanal cheese. Inside the art world, the curator reigns
supreme, acting as the face of high-profile group shows in a way that
can eclipse the contributions of individual artists. At the same time,
curatorial-studies programs continue to grow, and businesses are
adopting curation as a means of adding value to content. Everyone, it
seems, is now a curator.
But what is a curator, exactly? And what does the explosive
popularity of curating say about our culture’s relationship with taste,
labour and the avant-garde? In this vibrant and original book, David
Balzer travels through art history and around the globe to explore the
cult of curation, where it began, how it came to dominate museums
and galleries, and how it emerged at the turn of the millennium as
a dominant mode of thinking and being — from superstar curator
Hans Ulrich Obrist’s war with sleep to Subway’s ‘sandwich artists.’
Recalling such landmark works of cultural criticism as Tom Wolfe’s The
Painted Word and John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, Balzer asks whether
curationism has finally reached its own limits, where its widespread
success has paradoxically led to its own demise.
DAVID BALZER has contributed to publications including The Believer,
Modern Painters, ARTnews, Artforum.com and Capital New York, and is the
author of Contrivances, a short-fiction collection. He is currently Associate
Editor at Canadian Art magazine. Balzer was born in Winnipeg and
currently resides in Toronto, where he makes a living as a critic, editor and
teacher.
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Dark Matter
Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture
DAVE HICKEY
Gregory Sholette
art and culture critic
Pb 978-0-7453-2752-5 £17.99
Philosophizing the Everyday
Revolutionary Praxis and the Fate of Cultural
Theory
John Roberts
Pb 978-0-7453-2410-4 £17.99
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Have you ever felt totalled?
Totalled
Salvaging the Future from the Wreckage of
Capitalism
Colin Cremin
In this book, Colin Cremin tackles the overbearing truth that
capitalism encompasses the totality of our social relations, weaving
deep into the fabric of all that it means to be human. He shows how
it is a system that totalises and which has upended the modernity
project by industrialised warfare, surveillance, commodification and
control. With ever deepening crises and ecological catastrophes it
threatens the total destruction of human civilisation. But in amongst
this wreckage there are still functioning parts, machines to be salvaged
through the collective force of the human imagination and the total
mobilisation of the peoples of this earth. We must realise a different
future to the apocalypticism forewarned by scientists, prescribed by
economists, accommodated by politicians and made spectacle by the
entertainment industry.
Totalled maps the deteriorating socio-economic, political and
ecological conditions in which we live and, through our work and
consumption, seemingly have no choice other than to accelerate. The
question for the book is how a utopian possibility discernable in the
power of human creation can be realised when as a society we are in
different ways materially, ideologically and libidinally bound to the
capitalist machine of destruction. Totalled concludes with a politically
and economically grounded set of propositions on how this might be
achieved.
COLIN CREMIN is author of Capitalism’s New Clothes: Enterprise, Ethics
and Enjoyment in Times of Crisis (Pluto Press, 2011) and iCommunism (Zer0,
2012). He teaches sociology at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa / New
Zealand.
NEXT READ
JANUARY 2015
216pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3437-0 £14.99
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‘A compass allowing us to
orientate ourselves in our
obscure and confused time.’
SLAVOJ ZIZEK
author of Living in The End Times
Idiotism
Capitalism and the Privatisation of Life
Neal Curtis
Pb 978-0-7453-3155-3 £21.99
Crack Capitalism
John Holloway
Pb 978-0-7453-3008-2 £17.99
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‘There is no living political writer who has more radically
changed how more people think in more parts of the world
about political issues’ Glenn Greenwald
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For too long now, many important books by Noam Chomsky have been left to languish.
Introducing Pluto’s CHOMSKY PERSPECTIVES series: a collectible, beautiful new list,
with cover design by David Pearson. Including both enduring favourites and neglected
essentials, these books will appeal to the serious Chomsky reader.
Year 501
On Power and Ideology
The Conquest Continues
The Managua Lectures
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
Exploring “the great work of subjugation and conquest”
which began with Columbus, in Year 501 Chomsky
surveys the history of American imperial power in the
ensuing 500 years that followed. Touching on everything
from the British in India to the Americans in Beirut,
Year 501 is a searing condemnation of the excesses of
Western colonial and neo-colonial politics. For those
seeking to understand the nature and structure of the
imperial project as it reaches down to us today this work
is a vital resource.
In the late 1980s, in the midst of Reagan’s interventions
in Central America, Chomsky travelled to Nicaragua and
gave the lectures that became On Power & Ideology. The
lectures provide a master class in foreign policy analysis
from an intellectual at the height of his powers, covering
everything from the US domestic basis of its overseas
actions, to the broad framework of global imperial order
which the US seeks to maintain. A defining moment in
the Cold War meets a defining moment in the career of
one of its most important critics.
MARCH 2015
336pp 198mm x 129mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3547-6 £12.99
Epub 978-1-7837-1253-3 £12.99
Kindle 978-1-7837-1254-0 £12.99
MARCH 2015
152pp 198mm x 129mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3544-5 £9.99
Epub 978-1-7837-1244-1 £9.99
Kindle 978-1-7837-1245-8 £9.99
The Washington
Connection and Third
World Fascism
After the Cataclysm
The Political Economy of Human Rights:
Volume I
Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
The Political Economy of Human Rights is an important
two volume work which provides a complete dissection
of American foreign policy during the 1960s and 70s,
looking at the entire sweep of the Cold War during
that period, including events in Vietnam, Cambodia,
Indonesia and Latin America. For those looking to
develop a broad understanding of American foreign
policy this work has been a vital resource and is now
available to a new generation of Chomsky readers.
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The Political Economy of Human Rights:
Volume II
Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
This volume remains one of the most controversial
works produced by Chomsky to date. In a much
discussed chapter on Cambodia, Chomsky and Herman
questioned official Western narratives on the Khmer
Rouge and suggested that the evidence available did
not match up to the assertions being made at that time.
These claims would resurface in a recent controversy
with the continental philosopher Slavoj Zizek. The
work also contains important analysis of Western
interventions across Indochina and provides a searing
critique of American imperial aspirations in the region.
MARCH 2015
464pp 198mm x 129mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3549-0 £12.99
Epub 978-1-7837-1260-1 £12.99
Kindle 978-1-7837-1261-8 £12.99
MARCH 2015
424pp 198mm x 129mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3550-6 £12.99
Epub 978-1-7837-1263-2 £12.99
Kindle 978-1-7837-1264-9 £12.99
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Spilling the secrets of Big Oil sponsorship
Artwash
Big Oil and the Arts
Mel Evans
MARCH 2015
192pp 215mm x 135mm 5-20 photographs
Pb 978-0-7453-3588-9 £12.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3589-6 £40
Epub 978-1-7837-1333-2 £12.99
Kindle 978-1-7837-1334-9 £12.99
Cultural institutions make political choices though deciding who they
do business with. This is the central argument of Artwash, a book
which explores the relationship between art institutions and the
corporations that fund them, with particular focus on the role of Big
Oil companies such as Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell.
Reflecting on the current discussion of the role and function of art
galleries, Artwash considers how the association with Big Oil might
impede these institutions in their cultural endeavours. Stepping
outside of the gallery space, Mel Evans discusses how narratives
around corporate sponsorship of the arts blur the issue and obscure
the strategies of oil company PR executives to maintain brand and
public image via cultural philanthropy. In its conclusion the book
sounds a note of hope by describing the methods used by artists to
challenge the ethics of contemporary art galleries and examining the
possibility of how cultural institutions might change.
Artwash is an important and timely contribution to the study of
culture in modern Britain. It is sure to find a wide readership both
among students of cultural studies and among practitioners and
patrons of the arts.
MEL EVANS is an artist and campaigner associated with Liberate Tate and
Platform. As well as making unsanctioned performance works at Tate and
writing on oil sponsorship of the arts, she creates theatre pieces in the City
of London that examine culture, finance and Big Oil.
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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
The Scramble for African Oil
Oppression, Corruption and War for Control of
Africa's Natural Resources
Douglas A. Yates
Pb 978-0-7453-3045-7 £19.99
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A new Utopian project
Utopian Pulse
Flares in the Darkroom
Ines Doujak and Oliver Ressler
The politics of Utopia have already produced a rich and varied
literature - St. Simon, Buber, Bloch, and many others. Utopian Pulse
explores this tradition from the perspective of art practice and
asks how we can engage with and contribute to it. This book will be
published alongside an exhibition of the same name and will include
artwork from the exhibition itself.
The work's contributors invoke Utopia as an always incomplete
alternative and a recognition of something missing, which opens up
the possibility of asserting something which is not yet but will be.
International artistic researchers, artists and artist-curators contribute
different modes of engagement which they are already constituting
through their own practice. More than just a theoretical treatise, this
book is an overveiw of a series of works and projects that are brought
to life and which the book seeks to document.
This book will serve not only as a contribution to the existing
literature on Utopia and Utopian politics, but also as an inspiration to
artists seeking to realise these ideas through their work.
MARCH 2015
288pp 240mm x 170mm 80 photographs, colour and b&w
Pb 978-0-7453-3596-4 £20
INES DOUJAK is an artist working in London and Vienna, where she
studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (1988–93). She was
project leader of the arts based research ´Loomshuttles / Warpaths´,
funded by the FWF Austrian Science Funds (2010-2014).
OLIVER RESSLER is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. His work
has been exhibited across the world including at the Berkeley Art Museum,
USA, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul and the
Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Egypt. He is the editor of Alternative
Economics, Alternative Societies (2007).
NEXT READ
It’s the Political Economy,
Stupid
The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory
Edited by Gregory Sholette and Oliver Ressler
Hb 978-0-7453-3369-4 £19.99
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A showtrial at the height of the First World War
Friends of Alice
Wheeldon - 2nd Edition
Suffragism, Socialism and the Assassination
of Lloyd George
Sheila Rowbotham
APRIL 2015
240pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3575-9 £14.99
Epub 978-1-7837-1317-2 £14.99
Kindle 978-1-7837-1318-9 £14.99
‘Wonderful, moving and
important.’
ADAM HOCHSCHILD
author of To End All Wars
‘The labyrinthine connections
of the time between
suffragists, shop stewards,
anarchists, Marxists, the
Independent Labour Party,
the Socialist Labour Party
and a rich variety of anti-war
protestors have never been
more brightly illuminated.’
GUARDIAN
The Friends of Alice Wheeldon, first published nearly thirty years ago,
is a remarkable account by feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham of
the 1917 trial and subsequent imprisonment of Derby-born Alice
Wheeldon, and two of her daughters, for their alleged role in plotting
to assassinate the Prime Minister, Lloyd George.
Alice’s involvement in socialism, suffragism and the anti-war
movement could not have endeared her to the powers that be, and in
times of growing class antagonism and war the government needed a
traitor – so they found one in the modest figure of Alice Wheeldon and
her family.
The controversial trial itself became something of a cause celebre – a
show trial, at the height of the First World War, based on fabricated
evidence – much of it from an undercover agent working for MI5.
Intended to discredit anti-war campaigners and bring the peace
movement into disrepute, it was a travesty of justice.
In this new, revised edition, Sheila Rowbotham has been able to
draw on continuing research into the case – and the ongoing campaign
to clear Alice Wheeldon’s name – to offer a necessary corrective to
some of the more triumphalist commemorations of the First World
War.
SHEILA ROWBOTHAM ’s books have been translated into many languages
and her early works are currently being reissued as classic texts of
feminism. Her recent work includes Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty
and Love (Verso 2008) winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay
Memoir/ Biography 2008 in the US and shortlisted for the James Tait Black
Memorial Prize in the UK and Dreamers of a New Day (Verso 2010). She
contributed ‘Alice Wheeldon Revisited’ to ed. Mary Davis, Class and Gender
in British Labour History (Merlin, 2011).
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Sylvia Pankhurst
Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire
Katherine Connelly
Pb 978-0-7453-3322-9 £12.99
Hidden From History
300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight
Against It
Sheila Rowbotham
Pb 978-0-9043-8356-0 £14.99
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A magisterial marxist history
A Socialist History of
the French Revolution
Jean Jaurès. Translated by Mitchell Abidor
'Every revolutionary party, every oppressed people, every oppressed working
class can claim Jaurès, his memory, his example, and his person, for our own'
Leon Trotsky
Jean Jaurès was the celebrated French Socialist Party leader,
assassinated in 1914 for trying to use diplomacy and industrial action
to prevent the ourbreak of war. Published just a few years before his
death, his magisterial A Socialist History of the French Revolution, has
endured for over a century as one of the most influential accounts of
the French Revolution ever to be published.
Mitchell Abidor’s long-overdue translation and abridgement of
Jaurès’s original six volumes brings this exceptional work to an
Anglophone audience for the first time.
Written in the midst of his activities as leader of the Socialist Party
and editor of its newspaper, L’Humanité, Jaurès intended the book to
serve as both a guide and an inspiration to political activity; even now
it can serve to do just that. Abidor’s accomplished translation, and
Jaurès’s verve, originality and willingness to criticise all players in this
great drama make this a truly moving addition to the shelf of great
books on the French Revolution.
APRIL 2015
272pp 215mm x 135mm
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JEAN JAURÈS (3 September 1859 – 31 July 1914) was a French Socialist
who became the leader, in 1902, of the French Socialist Party, which
opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France. The two
parties merged in 1905 in the French Section of the Workers' International
(SFIO). An antimilitarist, Jaurès was assassinated at the outbreak of World
War I, and remains one of the main historical figures of the French Left.
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‘The death of a single human
being can mean a great battle
lost for all humanity: the
murder of Jaurès was one such
disaster.’
ROMAIN ROLLAND
winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1915
Jean Paul Marat
Tribune of the French Revolution
Clifford D. Conner
Pb 978-0-7453-3193-5 £12.99
The Birth of Capitalism
A 21st Century Perspective
Henry Heller
Pb 978-0-7453-2959-8 £19.99
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Introducing a new series on digital politics
Cyber-Proletariat
Global Labour in the Digital Vortex
Nick Dyer-Witheford
Series: Digital Barricades - Interventions in
Digital Culture and Politics
MAY 2015
240pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3403-5 £15.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3404-2 £60
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Coltan mines in the Congo; electronics factories in China; devastated
neighbourhoods in Detroit. Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of
the information revolution; an unsparing analysis of class power and
computerisation.
Nick Dyer-Witheford reveals how technology facilitates growing
polarisation between wealthy elites and precarious workers. He reveals
the class domination behind everything from expanding online
surveillance to intensifying robotisation. At the same time he looks
at possibilities for information technology within radical movements;
contemporary struggles are cast in the blue glow of the computer
screen.
Cyber-Proletariat brings heterodox Marxist analysis to bear on
modern technological developments. The result will be indispensable
to social theorists and hacktivists alike and essential reading for
anyone who wants to understand how Silicon Valley shapes the way we
live today.
NICK DYER-WITHEFORD is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of
Information and Media Studies at University of Western Ontario. He is
author of Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology
Capitalism (University of Illinois, 1999), and co-author of Digital Play: The
Interaction of Technology, Culture, and Marketing (McGill-Queen’s, 2003)
and Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
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@ is for Activism
Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital
Culture
Joss Hands
Pb 978-0-7453-2700-6 £17.99
Cyberchiefs
Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes
Mathieu O’Neil
Pb 978-0-7453-2796-9 £17.99
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Introducing a new series on digital politics
Information Politics
Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital
Society
Tim Jordan
Series: Digital Barricades - Interventions in
Digital Culture and Politics
Conflict over information has become a central part of twenty-first
century politics and culture. The sites of struggle are numerous,
the actors beyond count. Currents of liberation and exploitation
course through the debates about Edward Snowden and surveillance,
Anonymous, search engines and social media.
In Information Politics, Tim Jordan identifies all these issues in
relation to a general understanding of the nature of an information
politics that emerged with the rise of mass digital cultures and the
internet. He also locates it within a field of power and rebellion that is
populated by many interwoven social and political conflicts including
gender, class and ecology.
The exploitations both facilitated by, and contested through,
increases in information flows; the embedding of information
technologies in daily life, and the intersection of network and control
protocols are all examined in Information Politics. Anyone hoping to get
to grips with the rapidly changing terrain of digital culture and conflict
should start here.
FEBRUARY 2015
240pp 215mm x 135mm
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TIM JORDAN has been researching and writing on digital culture and the
internet since the early 1990s. He has published several books including
Internet, Culture and Society (2013), Hacking (2008), and Hacktivism and
Cyberwars (2004). He is Professor and Head of School of Media, Film and
Music at the University of Sussex.
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Tweets and the Streets
Social Media and Contemporary Activism
Paolo Gerbaudo
Pb 978-0-7453-3248-2 £16.99
Copy, Rip, Burn
The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source
David M. Berry
Pb 978-0-7453-2414-2 £17.99
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Why the West misunderstands the South
Religion Without
Redemption
Liberation and Social Contradictions in
Latin America
Luis Martínez Andrade
Series: Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons
APRIL 2015
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The world’s eyes are on Latin America as a place of radical political
inspiration and as an alternative to the neoliberal model. Each country
in the region deals differently in its method of government, yet
there are common cultural themes that tie the continent’s trajectory
together. Religion without Redemption looks at the sociology of religion,
political philosophy and the history of ideas of the continent, in an
attempt to show how Western understanding fails to come close to a
correct analysis of how and why political and economic characteristics
work as they do.
Luis Martínez Andrade explores how capitalism has taken on
religious characteristics: it has sacred places of worship (the shopping
mall) as well as its own prophets. He discusses how this form of
‘cultural religion’ accompanies many aspects of life in a contradictory
manner: not only does it fulfil the role of legitimating oppression, it
also can be a powerful source of rebellion, unveiling thus a subversive
side to the status quo.
LUIS MARTÍNEZ ANDRADE is a Mexican essayist, with a PhD in sociology
from EHESS in Paris. His research interests focus on the sociology of
religion, Latin American contemporary thought and political ecology. His
previous work has been published in Mexico, Poland and France. In 2009 he
received the internationally acclaimed ‘Thinking Against the Mainstream’
essay award in Havana.
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The New Latin American Left
Utopia Reborn
Edited by Patrick Barrett, Daniel Chavez and César
Rodríguez-Garavito
Pb 978-0-7453-2677-1 £21.99
The Origins of Violence
Religion, History and Genocide
John Docker
Pb 978-0-7453-2543-9 £18.99
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Undermining the ‘creative city’
Limits to Culture
Urban Regeneration vs. Dissident Art
Malcolm Miles
How can we unmask the vested interests behind capital’s ‘cultural’
urban agenda? Limits to Culture pits grassroots cultural dissent against
capital's continuing project of control via urban planning.
Limits to Culture starts by outlining the cultural turn in urban policy
which happened between the 1980s and the 2000s, in which new art
museums and cultural or heritage quarters lent a creative mask to
urban redevelopment. Malcolm Miles challenges the notions of the
‘creative class’ and ‘creative city’, and aligns them to gentrification and
the elimination of diversity and urban dynamism. He explores the
history of cultural urban policy and its antagonistic relationship to
community and political art internationally – across the UK, Europe
and the US. In the 1960s creativity was identified with revolt, yet from
the 1980s onwards it was subsumed in consumerism, which continued
in the 1990s through cool Britannia culture and its international
reflections. After the crash of 2008 money became scarcer, meaning
that the illusory creative city gave way to reveal its hollow interior,
through urban clearances and underdevelopment.
Limits to Culture straddles the fields of cultural studies and urban
geography and aims to shine a new light into some of the darker
corners of the political history of both.
JUNE 2015
200pp 215mm x 135mm 33 photographs
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MALCOLM MILES is Professor of Cultural Theory in the School of
Architecture, Design and Environment at the University of Plymouth. He is
the author of Urban Utopias: The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative
Settlements (2008), Cities & Cultures (2007), Urban Avant-Gardes: Art,
Architecture & Change (2004), and Art, Space & the City (1997). He is coeditor of the Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism series.
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Herbert Marcuse
An Aesthetics of Liberation
Malcolm Miles
Pb 978-0-7453-3038-9 £22.95
The Lure of the City
From Slums to Suburbs
Edited by Austin Williams and Alastair Donald
Pb 978-0-7453-3177-5 £17.99
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Bite-sized, jargon-free economics
Economics for Everyone
- 2nd edition
A Short Guide to the Economics of
Capitalism
Jim Stanford
MAY 2015
392pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3577-3 £13.99
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‘Stanford is that rare breed:
the teacher who changed your
life. He has written a book both pragmatic and idealistic
- with the power to change the
world.’
NAOMI KLEIN
author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the
Climate and No Logo.
Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This concise
and readable book provides non-specialist readers with all the
information they need to understand how capitalism works (and how
it doesn't).
Economics for Everyone, now published in a second edition, is an
antidote to the abstract and ideological way that economics is normally
taught and reported. Key concepts such as finance, competition and
wages are explored, and their importance to everyday life is revealed.
Stanford answers questions such as ‘Do workers need capitalists?’,
‘Why does capitalism harm the environment?’, and ‘What really
happens on the stock market?’
The book will appeal to those working for a fairer world, and
students of social sciences who need to engage with economics. It is
illustrated with humorous and educational cartoons by Tony Biddle,
and is supported with a comprehensive set of web-based course
materials for popular economics courses.
JIM STANFORD is economist for Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector
trade union, and an economics columnist for the Globe and Mail.
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The ABCs of Political Economy
A Modern Approach
Robin Hahnel
Pb 978-0-7453-3497-4 £14.99
The Povery of Capitalism
Economic Meltdown and the Struggle for What
Comes Next
John Hilary
Pb 978-0-7453-3330-4 £14.99
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From Stiglitz to Piketty, with a Green twist
Economics After
Capitalism
A Guide to the Ruins and a Road to the
Future
Derek Wall. Foreword by David Bollier
‘There is no alternative’ has been the unofficial mantra of the
neoliberal order since its utterance by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
As Derek Wall argues in Economics After Capitalism, there is in fact an
alternative to our crisis-ridden, austerity-inflicted world - and not just
one alternative, but many.
Challenging the arguments for markets, mainstream economics
and capitalism from Adam Smith onwards, Economics After Capitalism
provides a step-by-step guide to various writers, movements and
schools of thought, critical of neoliberal globalisation. These range
from Keynesian-inspired reformists such as Geroge Soros and Joseph
Stiglitz, critics of inequality like Thomas Piketty and Amaitya Sen,
more radical voices including Naomi Klein, Marxists such as David
Harvey, anarchists, and autonomists including Toni Negri and Michael
Hardt.
Wall explains Marx's economic system in a twenty-first century
context and outlines how we can build a commons-based democratic
economy that, by drawing on the ideas of Elinor Ostrom, Hugo Chavez
and others, can renew socialism. In providing a clear and accessible
guide to the economics of anti-capitalism, Derek Wall successfully
demonstrates that an open source eco-socialist alternative to rampant
climate change, elite rule and financial chaos is not just necessary, but
possible.
DEREK WALL is the author of six books including The Rise of the Green Left
(Pluto 2010), The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom (Routledge 2014)
and, with Penny Kemp, A Green Manifesto for the 1990s (Penguin, 1990). He
teaches Political Economy at Goldsmiths College, University of London and
is International Coordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales.
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The Heretic's Guide to Global
Finance
MAY 2015
216pp 215mm x 135mm
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‘A thoughtful and inspiring
guide to capitalism and anticapitalism.’
CAROLINE LUCAS
leader of the Green Party of England and
Wales
‘Funny, lateral and unique - an
erudite Green primer on global
justice.’
MATTHEW TEMPEST GUARDIAN
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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A question we’re all asking
How Corrupt is Britain?
Edited by David Whyte
A straight-forward question that many people are now asking: how
corrupt is Britain?
In this book, a wide range of leading commentators and
campaigners offer a series of troubling answers. Unflinchingly facing
the corruption in British public life, they show that it is no longer
tenable to assume that this is something that happens 'elsewhere';
corrupt practices are revealed across a wide range of our most
respected institutions - from local government to big business. The
contributors call for fundamental changes in the social relationships
that create our society.
How Corrupt is Britain? brings together some of the most
important research on the question of corruption in contemporary
British society. It will be an important resource for both dedicated
campaigners against corruption and informed citizens.
DAVID WHYTE is Reader in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He
MARCH 2015
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is an internationally established author on the subjects of state power and
corporate power, having written Crimes of the Powerful: A Reader (Open
University Press, 2009) and having co-authored three further books and coedited four collections on this subject.
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Deception in High Places
A History of Bribery in Britain's Arms Trade
Nicholas Gilby
Pb 978-0-7453-3426-4 £15.99
Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark
Corporate and Police Spying on Activists
Eveline Lubbers
Pb 978-0-7453-3185-0 £19.99
20
Sick of work? You’re not alone...
The Mythology of Work
How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself
Peter Fleming
There was once a time when ‘work’ was inextricably linked to survival
and self-preservation; where the farmer ploughed the land so their
family could eat. But the sun has long since set on this idyllic tableau,
and what was once an integral part of life has slowly morphed into a
painful and meaningless ritual, colonising almost every part of our
lives - endless and inescapable.
In The Mythology of Work, Peter Fleming examines how neoliberal
society uses the ritual of work (and the threat of its denial) to maintain
the late capitalist class order. As our society is transformed into a
factory that never sleeps, work becomes a universal reference point for
everything else, devoid of any moral or political worth.
Blending critical theory with recent accounts of job-related suicides,
office-induced paranoia, fear of relaxation, managerial sadism and
cynical corporate social responsibility campaigns, Fleming paints
a bleak picture of neoliberal capitalism in which the economic and
emotional dysfunctions of a society of wage slaves greatly outweigh its
professed benefits.
PETER FLEMING is Professor of Business and Society at Cass Business
School, City University London. He researches the changing politics of
capitalist employment relations, and has written numerous books and
journal articles on this topic. He is the author of Dead Man Working (Zero,
2012) and Contesting the Corporation (Cambridge, 2010).
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Struck Out
Why Employment Tribunals Fail Workers and What
Can be Done
David Renton
MAY 2015
240pp 215mm x 135mm
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Capitalism's New Clothes
Enterprise, Ethics and Enjoyment in Times of
Crisis
Colin Cremin
Pb 978-0-7453-2814-0 £19.99
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The three material forces that shape our humanity
Work, Sex and Power
The Forces that Shape Our History
Willie Thompson
FEBRUARY 2015
320pp 215mm x 135mm
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Praise for What Happened to
History:
‘A brilliant explication
of history.’
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Determining the forces that have shaped our history is always a
contentious matter. Seen through the work of authors from Jared
Diamond to Eric Hobsbawm, people’s fascination with what drives
the actions of the human race is inexhaustible. In Work, Sex and Power,
Willie Thompson deploys decades of experience as a historian in order
to re-establish a materialist narrative of the entire span of human
history, drawing on a vast range of contemporary research.
This book seeks to reach a much wider audience than his previous,
more academic books. Purged of any jargon, this volume will be
accessible to an audience who are relatively new to Marxism. It
attempts to discuss and explain the foundations of social structures
and themes that have recurred throughout the phases of global
history in the interaction between humans and their environment.
From communities of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers to the machinecivilisation of recent centuries, Thompson takes us on a journey
through the latest thinking in regard to long-term historical
development.
WILLIE THOMPSON was Professor of Contemporary History at Glasgow
Caledonian University. His books, published by Pluto, include The Good Old
Cause: British Communism 1920-1991 (1992), What Happened to History?
(2000) and Ideologies in the Age of Extremes: Liberalism, Conservatism,
Communism, Fascism 1914-91 (2011).
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A Marxist History of the World
From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
Neil Faulkner
Pb 978-0-7453-3214-7 £18.00
The Corporation That Changed
the World
How the East India Company Shaped the Modern
Multinational
Nick Robins
Pb 978-0-7453-3195-9 £17.99
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Exploitation on the high seas
Fishers and Plunderers
Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea
Alastair Couper, Hance D. Smith and Bruno
Ciceri
In Fishers and Plunderers, Alastair Couper, Hance D. Smith and Bruno
Ciceri focus on the exploitation of fish and fishers alike in a global
industry driven by profits, with little consideration given to either
resource conservation or human rights. With vast overprovision of
vessels and shortages of fish, labour costs are targeted and young
men are trafficked from poor areas onto vessels in virtual slavery. The
resultant poverty and debt bonding pushes many towards trafficking
drugs and piracy - although the criminality linked to the industry
extends far beyond the level of the individual, vessel or fleet.
The book provides evidence of these crimes and injustices, with the
authors arguing for regulations which if implemented could protect
the rights of fishers across the board. In doing so, the authors shed a
much needed light on a largely hidden world. Those wishing to better
the lives of fishers both at sea and ashore will find it to be a persuasive
and essential guide.
PROFESSOR ALASTAIR D. COUPER began his career as a Ships Officer and
qualified Master Mariner. He then became a Research Scholar working on
Pacific Studies at the Australian National University before returning to
the UK to take up academic posts at the University of Durham, followed by
the University of Cardiff and the World Maritime University in Sweden. His
books include Voyages of Abuse (Pluto Press 1999), Seafarers’ Rights (Part
One) Oxford University Press 2005, and Sailors and Traders (University of
Hawaii Press) 2009. He is on the Board of Seafarers’ Rights International.
HANCE D. SMITH specialises in Marine Geography and Marine Policy
including the development and management of marine fisheries
FATHER BRUNO CICERI is representative of the Apostleship of the Sea
APRIL 2015
216pp 215mm x 135mm Six maps, eight photographs,
and several tables
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International (Vatican City), Chairman of the International Christian
Maritime Association, and is a member of the Board of Seafarers’ Rights
International. He has worked for many years caring for seafarers and
fishers in several countries of Asia. He has published on sea fishers’
conditions and human rights.
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Who Rules the Waves?
Piracy, Overfishing and Mining the Oceans
Denise Russell
Pb 978-0-7453-3004-4 £17.99
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A grand, sweeping look at the origins of capitalism
How the West Came to
Rule
The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism
Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu
JUNE 2015
296pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3615-2 £19.99
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Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism
describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system that
was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines
of the French Revolution. In this groundbreaking book, a very
different story is told.
How the West Came to Rule offers a unique interdisciplinary and
international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues
that contrary to the dominant wisdom, capitalism’s origins should
not be understood as a development confined to the geographically
and culturally sealed borders of Europe, but the outcome of a wider
array of global processes in which non-European societies played a
decisive role. Through an outline of the uneven histories of Mongolian
expansion, New World discoveries, Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry,
the development of the Asian colonies and bourgeois revolutions,
Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu provide an account of
how these diverse events and processes came together to produce
capitalism.
ALEXANDER ANIEVAS is an Early Career Leverhulme Fellow at the
Department of Political and International Studies, University of
Cambridge. He is the author of Capital, the State, and War: Class Conflict and
Geopolitics in the Thirty Years’ Crisis, 1914–1945 (University of Michigan
Press, 2014) and editor of Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global
Capitalism (Routledge, 2010). He is a member of the editorial collective,
Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory.
KEREM NISANCIOGLU is a Visiting Lecturer in Politics and International
Relations at the University of Westminster, London, UK. His research is
focused on reconceptualising capitalist modernity through the use of nonEurocentric theoretical and empirical frameworks.
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The Discipline of Western
Supremacy
Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy,
Volume III
Kees van der Pijl
Pb 978-0-7453-2318-3 £25
Geopolitical Economy
After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire
Radhika Desai
Hb 978-0-7453-2992-5 £21.99
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A completely revised classic of development studies
From the Local to the
Global (3rd edition)
Key Issues in Development Studies
Edited by Gerard McCann and Stephen
McCloskey
In recent years the international development sector has found itself
confronting new as well as persistent challenges to poverty eradication
and the promotion of human rights. Climate change has loomed large
as a crisis for development practitioners as well as environmentalists,
with natural disasters occurring with increasing frequency and
impacting severely on the most vulnerable in the Global South. The
ongoing financial crisis has created recurrent recessions in the global
North, while causing budget lines to be reduced for development aid
across the Global South.
From The Local to the Global highlights the extent to which the local
and global are interconnected in today’s globalised economy and
questions the legitimacy of the neoliberal model of development which
propelled us into the crisis. This completely revised third edition takes
stock of the international development environment as it embarks on
new policy frameworks to confront new challenges.
From The Local to the Global will continue to serve as an
indispensable introduction to key development issues such as aid,
debt, trade, migration, security, gender in development and climate
change.
MAY 2015
280pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3473-8 £16.99
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GERARD MCCANN is a Senior Lecturer in International Studies at St
Mary's University College (Queen's University, Belfast). He is Director of
the Global Dimension in Education project and coordinates partnership
initiatives with universities in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
He has written extensively on the European Union's development and
education policies.
STEPHEN MCCLOSKEY is the Director of the Centre for Global Education,
Belfast and editor of the journal Policy and Practice: A Development
Education Review. His publications include Development Education in Policy
and Practice (editor, 2014) and The East Timor Question: The Struggle for
Independence from Indonesia, (2000), co-edited with Paul Hainsworth. He
is currently leading development projects in the Gaza Strip and is chair of
Cuba Support Group, Belfast.
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The Critical Development
Studies Handbook
Tools for Change
Edited by Henry Veltmeyer
Pb 978-0-7453-3123-2 £24.95
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Can peaceful resistance make a difference?
Popular Protest in
Palestine
The History and Uncertain Future of
Unarmed Resistance
Marwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby
APRIL 2015
224pp 215mm x 135mm
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Popular Protest in Palestine provides an overview and analysis of
the role and significance of unarmed civil (popular) resistance
in the Palestinian national movement. The main focus is on the
contemporary popular resistance movement in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories (OPT), but it is prefaced by a historical review
of the thread of unarmed civil resistance that has run throughout the
history of the Palestinian liberation struggle.
It informs a contemporary readership about this under-emphasised
dimension of the Palestinian struggle, arguing that at the present
juncture the popular resistance movement, especially in the West
Bank, is the most significant form of struggle against the ongoing
occupation.
Popular Protest in Palestine also addresses the international
dimensions of the Palestinian struggle, focusing in particular on the
BDS campaign, the role of international solidarity activists in the
OPT and beyond, and the changing forms of engagement developed
by international agencies seeking to work on the roots of the conflict
whilst fulfilling their humanitarian aid mandates.
MARWAN DARWEISH is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Peace and
Reconciliation Studies (CPRS) at Coventry University. He has extensive
experience across the Middle East region and internationally with a
special interest in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and has led conflict
transformation programmes in East and Central Africa.
ANDREW RIGBY is Professor of Peace Studies and Director of the Centre
for the Study of Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Coventry University. His
most recent book is Justice and Reconciliation: After the Violence (Boulder &
London: Lynne Rienner, 2001).
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Generation Palestine
Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Movement
Edited by Rich Wiles. Foreword by Archbishop
Desmond Tutu
Pb 978-0-7453-3243-7 £14.99
Our Way to Fight
Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine
Michael Riordon
Pb 978-0-7453-3022-8 £17.99
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Seven decades of exile
Out of Place, Out of
Time
Refugees, Rights and the (Re)Making of
Palestine/Israel
Susan M. Akram and Terry Rempel
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 BADIL.
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JUNE 2015
272pp 215mm x 135mm
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‘An extremely relevant book
for current concerns on
several levels.’
RANDA FARAH Associate ProfessorUniversity of Western Ontario
The Palestinian Refugee
Problem
The Search for a Resolution
Edited by Rex Brynen and Roula El-Rifai
Pb 978-0-7453-3338-0 £25.00
Palestinian Refugees
The Right of Return
Edited by Naseer Aruri
Pb 978-0-7453-1776-2 £18.99
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The definative biography
Fredrik Barth
An Intellectual Biography
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society
MAY 2015
224pp 215mm x 135mm 12 b+w photos
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‘The balance between the
broad intellectual history and
the personal encounter with
Fredrik Barth could hardly
have been struck in a more
satisfying way.’
TORE LINNÉ ERIKSEN, NY TID
Fredrik Barth is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century
anthropology. This intellectual history traces the development of
Barth’s ideas and explores the substance of his contributions. In an
accessible style, Thomas Eriksen’s biographical study reveals the magic
of ethnography to professional anthropologists and non-practitioners
alike.
Exploring his six decade career, it follows Barth from early ecological
studies in Pakistan, to political studies in Iran, to groundbreaking
fieldwork in Norway, New Guinea, Bali and Bhutan. Eriksen argues
that Barth's voracious appetite for fieldwork holds the key to
understanding his remarkable intellectual development and the
insights it produced. The book raises many of the same questions that
emerge from Barth's own work - of unity and diversity, of culture and
relativism, of art and science.
Thomas Eriksen is himself a major contributor to the study of
anthropology, as well as a distinguished educator, and is therefore
ideally placed to introduce the life and work of Fredrik Barth. This will
surely be the definitive book on its subject for many years to come.
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 and Globalisation, all available from Pluto Press.
NEXT READ
Small Places, Large Issues Fourth Edition
‘The chapters end, almost
like in a crime thriller, with
cliffhangers which spur
the reader on through a
researcher’s life of many twists
and turns.’
An Introduction to Social and Cultural
Anthropology
TOM EGIL HVERVEN, KLASSEKAMPEN
Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Finn Sivert Nielsen
Pb 978-0-7453-3593-3 £17.99
A History of Anthropology
Pb 978-0-7453-3352-6 £17.99
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A completely rewritten classic textbook
Anthropology and
Development
Challenges for the Twenty-First Century
Katy Gardner and David Lewis
Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the
developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A new set of
global economic and political processes are shaping the twenty-first
century.
Anthropology and Development is a completely rewritten new
edition of the best-selling and critically acclaimed Anthropology,
Development and the Post-Modern Challenge (1996). It will serve as both
an innovative reformulation of the field, and as a textbook for many
undergraduate and graduate courses at leading universities in Europe
and North America.
The authors Katy Gardner and David Lewis engage with nearly
two decades of continuity and change in the development industry.
In particular, they argue that while the world of international
development has expanded since the 1990s, it has become more
rigidly technocratic. Anthropology and Development therefore insists on
a focus upon the core anthropological issues surrounding poverty and
inequality, and thus redefines what are perceived as problems in the
field.
KATY GARDNER is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of
Economics and is the author of several books including Global Migrants,
Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh (1995) and
Discordant Development (Pluto, 2012).
DAVID LEWIS is Professor of Social Policy and Development in the
Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics. He is the author
of Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society (2012) and co-editor of
The Aid Effect (Pluto, 2005).
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Discordant Development
Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection
in Bangladesh
Katy Gardner
Pb 978-0-7453-3149-2 £21.99
FEBRUARY 2015
224pp 215mm x 135mm 1 figure
Pb 978-0-7453-3364-9 £17.99
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‘The book can help to
ameliorate the despair which
students of development
often feel once they come to
understand the complexity,
and the vested interests, of the
aid industry.’
LSE MAGAZINE
‘An authoritative and up to
date overview that combines
accurate and insightful
overviews of the major
contributions in the field
with their own original and
illuminating arguments.’
JAMES FERGUSON
Cultivating Development
Professor Department of Anthropology, Stanford
University
An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice
David Mosse
Pb 978-0-7453-1798-4 £18.99
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A groundbreaking ethnography
Becoming Arab in
London
Performativity and the Undoing of Identity
Ramy M. K. Aly
JANUARY 2015
280pp 215mm x 135mm 15 figures
Pb 978-0-7453-3358-8 £19.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3359-5 £70
Epub 978-1-7837-1157-4 £19.99
Kindle 978-1-7837-1158-1 £19.99
This book is the first ethnographic exploration of gender, race and class
practices amongst British born or raised Arabs in London. Ramy M.K.
Aly looks critically at the idea of 'Arab-ness' and the ways in which
ethnic subjects are produced, signified and recited in the city.
Looking at everyday spaces, encounters and discourses, the book
explores the lives of young people and some of the ways in which they
‘do’ or achieve 'Arab-ness'. Aly’s ethnography uncovers narratives of
growing up in London, the codes of sociability at Shisha cafes and the
sexual politics and ethnic self-portraits which make British-Arab men
and women.
Drawing on the work of Judith Butler, Aly emphasises the need to
move away from the notion of identity and towards a performative
reading of race, gender and class. What emerges is a highly innovative
contribution to the study of diaspora and difference in contemporary
Britain.
RAMY M. K. ALY is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of
Anthropology at the American University in Cairo.
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Community, Cosmopolitanism
and the Problem of Human
Commonality
Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport
Pb 978-0-7453-2903-1 £21.99
Ethnicity and Nationalism
Anthropological Perspectives
Pb 978-0-7453-3042-6 £17.99
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What is the purpose of the state?
At the Heart of the
State
The Moral World of Institutions
Didier Fassin et al.
Can the state ever be a neutral entity? At the Heart of the State argues
against apparently common sense ideas of state institutions as the
mere apparatus of politics and explores the 'morality' which operates
behind them.
The result of a five-year investigation, conducted by ten scholars,
this book describes and analyses the police, the court system, the
prison apparatus, the social services, and mental health facilities of
France in an attempt to answer this question. Combining genealogy
and ethnography its authors argue that state institutions are not
simply concerned with the implementation of laws, rules and
procedures but also with the mobilisation of values, affects and
judgements. At the Heart of the State explores how discourses, practices
and relations constitute the concrete and situated reality of state
institutions.
Of immense interest to ethnographers and socialologists, this work
will make an important contribution to the ever expanding literature
on the nature and purpose of the state.
JUNE 2015
312pp 230mm x 150mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3559-9 £21.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3560-5 £70
Epub 978-1-7837-1312-7 £21.99
Kindle 978-1-7837-1313-4 £21.99
DIDIER FASSIN is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social
Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Developing a
critical and engaged approach, he has conducted extensive fieldwork in
Senegal, Ecuador and South Africa in the domain of political and moral
anthropology. His most recent ethnographic research concerns the French
police and prison system.
NEXT READ
Organisational Anthropology
Doing Ethnography in and Among Complex
Organisations
Edited by Christina Garsten and Anette Nyqvist
Pb 978-0-7453-3528-5 £17.99
Border Watch
Cultures of Immigration, Detention and Control
Alexandra Hall
Pb 978-0-7453-2723-5 £19.99
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Paradigm Publishers - New lead titles
The Disinherited
Majority
Capital Questions—Piketty and Beyond
The Disinherited
Majority
Capital Questions—Piketty and Beyond
Charles Derber
Charles Derber
MAY 2015
158pp 229mm x 152mm
Pb 978-1-6120-5832-0 £15.99
Hb 978-1-6120-5831-3 £85
Not available in North America, Japan, Australia
and New Zealand
Thomas Piketty’s blockbuster 2014 book, Capital in the 21st Century,
may prove to be a game-changer, one of those rare books such as
Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, which helped spark a movement. The
worldwide flood of commentary suggests Piketty’s book has already
opened a new conversation not only about inequality, but about class,
capitalism, and social justice.
Inherited wealth is at the heart of Piketty’s book, and Derber
shows how the ‘disinherited majority’ is likely to affect the future.
Derber shows that there are actually ‘two Pikettys,’ different voices
of the author on the 1%, inheritance, and capitalism itself that create
a fascinating and unacknowledged hidden debate and conversation
within the book.
Drawing on Piketty’s discussion, Derber raises fourteen ‘capital
questions’—with new perspectives on caste and class warfare, the
Great Recession, the decline of the American Dream, and the Occupy
movement—that can guide a new conversation about the past and
future of capitalism. This book will catalyse a conversation beyond
Piketty already emerging in colleges and universities, town halls, coffee
shops, workplaces, and political parties and social movements, an
essential class for all Americans.
CHARLES DERBER is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. He is the
‘Charles Derber is one of our
most astute and eloquent
social critics. His political
analysis is persuasive and is
enlivened by graceful prose.’
HOWARD ZINN
‘Highly recommended.
All levels & libraries.’
CHOICE
review of Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the
United States
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author of Corporation Nation, Hidden Power and Greed to Green.
NEXT READ
Capitalism: Should You Buy It?
Charles Derber and Yale R. Magrass
Pb 978-1-6120-5689-0 £18.99
Hb 978-1-6120-5569-5 £100
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Profit Pathology and
Other Indecencies
Michael Parenti
From market crisis to market boom, from welfare to wealth care,
from homelessness to helplessness, and an all-out assault on the global
environment—these are just some of the indecencies of contemporary
economic life that Profit Pathology takes on.
Michael Parenti investigates how class power is a central force in
our political life and yet, is subjected to little critical discernment.
He notes how moneyed interests shift the rules of the game in their
favour while unveiling the long march by reactionaries through the
nation’s institutions to undo all the gains of social democracy, from the
New Deal to the present. Parenti also traces the exploitative economic
forces that have operated through much of American history, including
the mass displacement and extermination of Native Americans and
the enslavement of Africans.
Parenti is a master at demonstrating the impact of monomaniacal
profit accumulation on social services and human values. Here he takes
us one step further, showing how unrestrained capitalism ultimately
endangers itself, becoming a ‘self-devouring beast’ that threatens us
all. Finally, he calls for a solution based on democratic diversity and
public ownership—’because it works.’
MICHAEL PARENTI is an internationally known, award-winning author,
scholar, and lecturer who addresses a wide variety of political and cultural
subjects. Among his recent books are God and His Demons (2010), Contrary
Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader (2007), The Culture Struggle (2006),
The Assassination of Julius Caesar (2003), and Democracy for the Few, 9th
edition (2010).
NEXT READ
The Face of Imperialism
Q
PROFIT
PATHOLOGY
AND OTHER INDECENCIES
Q
MICHAEL PARENTI
JUNE 2015
160pp 229mm x 152mm
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Hb 978-1-6120-5661-6 £85
and New Zealand
Praise for previous works:
‘Parenti offers a
valuable rebuttal to the
drumbeat from the right.’
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Michael Parenti
Pb 978-1-5945-1918-5 £12.99
Hb 978-1-5945-1917-8 £50
‘A towering prophetic voice
in American life. We need
him now more than ever.’
CORNEL WEST
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Celebrity in Chief
A History of the Presidents and the Culture
of Stardom
Kenneth T. Walsh
celebrity
in chief
A HISTORY OF
THE PRESIDENTS
AND THE CULTURE
OF STARDOM
KENNETH T. WALSH
JUNE 2015
256pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 978-1-6120-5706-4 £17.99
and New Zealand
It didn’t take long for Barack Obama to make his mark as the
biggest political star to ever occupy the White House. Over the
course of his two terms in office, Obama has injected the American
presidency deeper into popular culture than any of his predecessors.
This book, by award-winning White House correspondent
and presidential historian Kenneth T. Walsh, discusses how the
Obamas reached this point. More important, it takes a detailed
and comprehensive look at the history of America’s presidents as
“celebrities in chief” since the beginning of the Republic. Walsh makes
the point that modern presidents need to be celebrities and build on
their fame in order to propel their agendas and rally public support for
themselves as national leaders so that they can get things done.
Kenneth T. Walsh is one of the longest-serving White House
correspondents in history and former president of the White House
Correspondents’ Association. He is an adjunct professorial lecturer of
communication at American University in Washington, DC.
Postmarks from a
Political Traveler
Phil Karber
As spring and summer vacations beckon, this book invites and
incites a whole new approach to travel. Postmarks from a Political
Traveler is a series of travel recollections confronting the troubling
topics of roots and racism, polar bears and climate change, antiAmericanism, and the war in Afghanistan.
What ties these episodes together is the author’s commitment to
social justice and to changing the world through travel and writing—
that is, affirming travel as a political act.
PHIL KARBER is an award-winning travel writer who has journeyed to
MARCH 2015
256pp 229mm x 152mm
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all continents and more than 130 countries, lived in Africa and Asia for
fourteen years, and authored several books including Fear and Faith in
Paradise: Exploring Conflict and Religion in the Middle East, The Indochina
Chronicles: Travels in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, and Yak Pizza to Go:
Traveling in an Age of Vanishing Cultures and Extinctions. He currently calls
Cambridge, Massachusetts, home.
ReOrienting the 19th
Century
Global Economy in the Continuing Asian
Age
Andre Gunder Frank, edited by Robert A.
Denemark
Andre Gunder Frank was a path-breaking scholar in several disciplines
over an illustrious and contentious 50-year career. First amongst his
many important works is the book ReORIENT: Global Economy in the
Asian Age, which sought to correct a Euro-centric world view of the
development of the global political economy. Frank passed away in
April 2005 while working on this new book, a sequel to ReORIENT.
In this book Frank shows many of the myths of European
industrialisation, hegemony and capitalism which have hidden the fact
that Asia remained a serious power not just into the 18th century, as
Frank himself argued in 1998, but well into the 19th century as well.
ANDRE GUNDER FRANK held professorships at five universities, including
the University of Toronto. He is the author of forty books. He was one of
the founders of the ‘World Systems’ approach.
ROBERT A. DENEMARK is Associate Professor of Political Science and
International Relations at the University of Delaware. He has published in
International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, and Review
of International Political Economy, and has many books published.
Living the Dream
JUNE 2015
384pp 229mm x 152mm
Pb 978-1-6120-5125-3 £31.99
Hb 978-1-6120-5124-6 £105
and New Zealand
New Immigration Policies and the Lives of
Undocumented Latino Youth
Maria Chavez, Jessica L. Lavariega Monforti
and Melissa R. Michelson
In 2012, President Obama deferred the deportation of qualified
undocumented youth, forever changing the lives of the approximately
five million DREAMers currently in the US. Formerly ‘illegal’, a
generation of Latino youth have begun to build new lives based on
their newfound ‘legitimacy.’
In this book the authors relay the real life stories of more than 100
DREAMers. They assess the life circumstances in which undocumented
Latino youth find themselves, the racialising effects generated by
current immigration public discourse, and the permanent impact of
this policy environment on DREAMers in America.
Living the Dream is an up-to-date, ethnographically rich
contribution to the fields of sociology and migration studies that will
appeal to those studying US domestic policy.
MARIA CHAVEZ , Associate Professor of Political Science at Pacific
Lutheran University, is the award winning author of Everyday Injustice:
Latino Professionals and Racism.
JUNE 2015
192pp 229mm x 152mm
Pb 978-1-6120-5711-8 £22.99
Hb 978-1-6120-5712-5 £90
and New Zealand
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Maverick Maestro
Maurice Peress
Maurice Peress leads an unusual American musical life. Born to a
Baghdadian father and Polish mother, his first music was Arabic and
Yiddish songs. He grew up in New York’s Washington Heights, became
a busy dance band and symphonic trumpeter, and was drafted towards
the end of the Korean conflict, landing him in a newly integrated
Negro Regimental Band. In this memoir, he shares what he learned
from an enormous range of American works and musicians.
In his first book, Peress explored America’s music and its African
American roots. A musical mission emerged, a lifelong commitment
to ‘give concerts that reconstruct delicious mixed marriages of music,
black and white, Jazz and classical, folk and concert, Native American
and European; works that bring people together, that urge us to love
one another.’
MAURICE PERESS is the author of Dvorak to Duke Ellington (Oxford
JUNE 2015
234pp 216mm x 140mm
Hb 978-1-6120-5874-0 £22.99
University Press). He teaches at the Aaron Copland School of Music
and guest conducts in the United States and abroad. Recently, his 90th
Anniversary Celebration of the concert that launched Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody
in Blue,’ with Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, sold out New York’s
Town Hall.
and New Zealand
Is Bipartisanship Dead?
A Report from the Senate
Ross K. Baker
Is Bipartisanship Dead? is a status report on the condition of
bipartisanship in the U.S. Senate and includes material from candid,
on-the-record interviews with a dozen Democrats and Republicans.
The book explores the distinct differences in bipartisanship in Senate
committees and on the floor of the chamber and highlights the role of
party leaders in promoting or discouraging bipartisan efforts. The book
also asks the important question--Is bipartisanship necessarily a good
thing?--and provides examples of flawed bipartisan legislation along
with the views of critics of bipartisanship. Finally, the book delivers a
dispassionate analysis of the vital signs of bipartisanship in the U.S.
Senate and examines the constraints on bipartisan action in an era of
polarized politics.
ROSS K BAKER is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Rutgers
MAY 2015
144pp 229mm x 152mm
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University and author of Friend and Foe in the U.S. Senate (Copley, 1999)
and House and Senate Norton, 2008). He is a member of the Board of
Contributors of USA Today.
Globalization
An Introduction to the End of the Known
World
Charles Lemert
This book surveys the history of globalization from the earliest
of ancient texts through contemporary debates and the prospects
for anticipating the new worlds to come. At the end of the twentieth
century, debates over the nature of globalization were unable to agree
on a simple resolution, except to say that globalization is economic,
political, and cultural all at once. Cultural globalization affects
everyone with a smartphone, on which global youth from Los Angeles
to Jakarta listen to Jay-Z and Beyonce. States are torn in several
directions at once by unsettling economic, political, and cultural
forces. Lemert concludes with a serious outline of the possible ways
of imagining what the still-unknown global world will become next—
ways including optimism, caution, and skepticism.
CHARLES LEMERT is Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan
University, Connecticut. He is the author of Durkeim’s Ghosts (2006).
MAY 2015
188pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 978-1-6120-5826-9 £85
Applied Ethics
and New Zealand
A Multicultural Approach, 6th Edition
Edited by Larry May and Jill Delston
This best-selling text continues to fill an existing gap in the
literature taught in applied ethics courses. As a growing number of
courses that include the perspectives of diverse cultures are being
added to the university curriculum, texts are needed that represent
more multicultural and diverse histories and backgrounds. This new
edition enhances gender coverage, as nearly half of the pieces are now
authored by women. The new edition also increases the percentage of
pieces written by those who come from a non-Western background.
It offers twelve up-to-date articles (not found in previous editions)
on human rights, environmental ethics, poverty, war and violence,
gender, race, euthanasia, and abortion; all of these topics are addressed
from Western and non-Western perspectives.
LARRY MAY is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Law,
and Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He has authored
or edited over thirty books, most recently on the topics of war and
international criminal law. He teaches courses in philosophy of law and the
history of political philosophy.
JILL DELSTON is an assistant teaching professor of philosophy at the
University of Missouri–St. Louis. Her teaching and research span social
and political philosophy, global justice, normative ethics, early modern
philosophy, and ancient Greek philosophy.
JUNE 2015
576pp 254mm x 178mm
Pb 978-1-6120-5839-9 £45
and New Zealand
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Paradigm Publishers - Lead textbooks
Sport in a Changing
World, Second Edition
Howard Nixon
This book shows how the dynamic interplay of a powerful ‘golden
triangle’ of sports, media, and business interests with social, cultural,
economic, and political forces shapes sport in a changing world.
This edition is a condensed and updated version, with an emphasis
on current social issues in sport. It also has more global content.
The golden triangle concept is more developed and applied more
extensively. Other key themes of the first edition—power, status, and
inequality—are also more developed. New ‘Stop and Think’ boxes have
been added to challenge students to think about the meaning of what
they have read. The book is divided into five sections. The new sections
highlight sociology and the sociology of sport; inequality and diversity;
globalization and social deviance; major social contexts of sport,
including the high school, college, and professional levels; and power,
political economy, and global sports.
JUNE 2015
308pp 254mm x 178mm
Pb 978-1-6120-5694-4 £35
Hb 978-1-6120-5693-7 £100
and New Zealand
HOWARD NIXON is Professor of Sociology at Towson University near
Baltimore. Having studied and taught sport for 35 years, he is the author of
several books and book chapters and many articles in sport sociology.
Sociocultural Studies in
Education
Critical Thinking for Democracy
Richard A. Quantz
Sociocultural Studies in Education fills a void in the education of
educators. It explores some of the fundamentals around which
disagreements in education arise, and leads the reader through
some general concepts and intellectual skills that provide the basis
for making sense out of the debates about public education in a
democracy.
Fundamentally a primer on how to read texts about education,
Sociocultural Studies in Education presents the various themes and
currents found within the arguments and narratives that people use to
represent public education. It assumes that the more those interested
in education know about how to see through the rhetoric, the better
they will be at discerning whose interests are served by which texts.
APRIL 2015
308pp 254mm x 178mm
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Hb 978-1-6120-5693-7 £100
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RICHARD A. QUANTZ is professor of Social Foundations of Education
at Miami University, Ohio, and author of Rituals and Student Identity in
Education: Ritual Critique for a New Pedagogy (2011).
Paradigm Publishers - Lead textbooks
The Politics of Gun
Control
Sixth Edition
Robert J. Spitzer
The new edition of this classic text covers the latest developments
in American gun policy, including shooting incidents plaguing the
American landscape - especially Sandy Hook, the Colorado theatre
shootings and the tragic death of Trayvon Martin - placing them in
context with similar recent events.
Robert J. Spitzer has long been a recognised authority on gun
control and gun policy. His even-handed treatment of the issue - as
both a member of the NRA and the Brady Center - continues to
compel national and international interest, including interviews by the
likes of Terry Gross, Tom Ashbrook and Diane Rehm.
This sixth edition of The Politics of Gun Control provides the reader
with up-to-date data and coverage of gun ownership, gun deaths,
school shootings, border patrols and new topics including social media,
stand-your-ground laws, magazine regulation, and shooting-related
mental health initiatives.
ROBERT J. SPITZER is Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science
at SUNY-Cortland.
Cultural
Transformations and
Globalization
FEBRUARY 2015
288pp 229mm x 152mm
Pb 978-1-6120-5721-7 £29.99
and New Zealand
Theory, Development, and Social Change
Alexander M. Ervin
Change is the most significant factor of contemporary society and
humanity’s past. This book represents the first substantial attempt
since the 1970s to synthesize and critique sociocultural change
theories in anthropology and relate them to trends in the social and
physical sciences. It emphasizes the most recent contributions—
especially complexity and emergence theory, social movements,
network analysis, and globalization. Ervin presents a rich legacy of
theories and case studies accessible to both the established scholar and
the beginning student. He considers how theories and insights can
inform policy as humanity faces crises of globalization.
ALEXANDER M. ERVIN is Professor of Anthropology at the University of
Saskatchewan, where his specialties include applied anthropology, political
ecology, social movements, and cultural change. He is the author of Applied
Anthropology: Tools and Perspective for Contemporary Practice and other
books.
MAY 2015
288pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 978-1-6120-5811-5 £100
and New Zealand
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Paradigm Publishers - New hardbacks
SECOND EDITION
The Hollywood
War Machine
U.S. Militarism and Popular Culture
Rural
Sociologists at
Work
Candid Accounts of Theory, Method,
and Practice
Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard
A hard-hitting, radical critique of the
growing culture of American militarism,
focusing on the post–Cold War years.
Edited by J. I. Hans Bakker
JUNE 2015
288pp 254mm x 178mm
Hb 9781612057972
£105
JUNE 2015
192pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612058672
£90
Congress, the
Media, and the
Public
A collection of original chapters written
by prominent social scientists which
elucidates the theory and practice of
contemporary rural sociology.
The Face of the
Firm
Corporate Hegemonic Masculinity
at Work
Who Reveals What, When, and How?
Michele Rene Gregory
Stephen E. Frantzich
JUNE 2015
256pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612054247
£95
Assesses the current status of the
relationship between Congress and
the media and discerns the temporary
changes from those likely to represent
future trends.
Navigating the
Jungle
JUNE 2015
240pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612058436
£95
Law, Politics, and the Animal
Advocacy Movement
Highlights new critical perspectives on
the relationship between hegemonic
masculine cultures, gender embodiment
and gender disparities in corporate
organisations.
Dangerous
Thinking in the
age of the New
Henry A. Giroux
Steven C. Tauber
JUNE 2015
192pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612051284
£90
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The first empirically-based analysis of
animal law that emphasises the political
forces that shape animal law outcomes.
JUNE 2015
176pp 216mm x 140mm
Hb 9781612058634
£85
Provides an accessible, layered, and
sustained example of how thinking
dangerously is central to and connected
with the struggle over the radical
imagination and the fight to fulfill the
promise of a radical democracy.
Paradigm Publishers - New paperbacks
The Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car
Porters
A Guide for Teachers and Parents of
Children Becoming Adolescents
C. L. Dellums and the Fight for Fair
Treatment and Civil Rights
Jerome S. Allender and Donna
Sclarow-Allender
Robert Allen
MAY 2015
150pp 229mm x 152mm
PB 9781612055497
£14.99
Hb 9781612055480
£60
C. L. Dellums was a leading civil rights
activist as well as a labor leader. This
book is an inspiring testament to both
him and the unions transformative
impact on US society.
APRIL 2015
168pp 229mm x 152mm
Pb 9781612056838
£22.99
Hb 9781612056821
£85
Handbook on
World Social
Forum Activism
MAY 2015
476pp 235mm x 156mm
Pb 9781594519475
£39.95
Hb 9781594519468
£95
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Toward a New
Common School
Movement
MAY 2014
176pp 229mm x 152mm
Pb 9781612054414
£22.99
Hb 9781612054407
£85
The global struggle for human rights
has been a struggle by oppressed
groups against the structures of their
oppression. This book presents the
fundamental insights gleaned from
the scholarship on groups in society
for the study of, understanding of, and,
ultimately, realisation of human rights.
Peace Ecology
Randall Amster
A cutting-edge exploration of an
emerging paradigm that links the
essence of peace and nonviolence with
the tenets of ecology and the principles
of environmentalism.
Noah De Lissovoy, Alexander J.
Means and Kenneth J. Saltman
A bold and urgent call to action:
corporate school reform in the
United States represents a failed
project subverted by profiteering and
corruption. This book demands a just
and sustainable future beyond the
crises of neoliberalism and predatory
capitalism.
Expanding the
Human in Human
Rights
Edited by David L. Brunsma,
Keri E. Iyall Smith and Brian
K. Gran
This book will assist teachers and
parents in their endeavors to educate
young people about behaving ethically.
Toward a Sociology of Human Rights
Edited by Jackie Smith,
Ellen Reese, Scott Byrd and
Elizabeth Smythe
Documents the rise of the World Social
Forums. Succinct chapters include an
analysis of the social forum decision
making process.
Ethics for the
Young Mind
JUNE 2015
224pp 229mm x 152mm
Pb 9781612052977
£16.99
Hb 9781612052960
£90
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The Politics of
Global Climate
Change
A Strategy for Survival
Jeremy Brecher
Patrick M. Regan
MARCH 2015
192pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612057880
£90
Looks at why President Obama’s
promises to reduce US greenhouse gas
emissions in 2009 were doomed to fail.
Lays out a strategy for protecting the
earth’s climate: a global nonviolent
constitutional insurgency.
APRIL 2015
160pp 203mm x 127mm
Hb 9781612058207
£85
Unlocking the
World
Ronald D. Cohen and Will
Kaufman
Claudia Ruitenberg
MARCH 2015
224pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612057804
£95
Political Culture
and the Making
of Modern
Nation-States
Vividly portrays this rich antiwar history,
beginning in the eighteenth century and
continuing into the twenty-first.
APRIL 2015
170pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612058078
£85
MARCH 2015
256pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612057835
£100
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George Herbert
Mead’s Concept
of Society
A Critical Reconstruction
Edward Weisband and
Courtney I. P. Thomas
Focuses on transformations of political
culture from times past to futurepresent, examining how major ethnic,
sectarian, racial, and other distinctions
arise and congeal into social and cultural
categories.
Singing for Peace
Anti-War Songs in American History
Education in an Ethic of Hospitality
Unlocking the World proposes hospitality
as a guiding ethic for education. Based
on the work of Jacques Derrida, it
suggests that giving place to children
and newcomers is at the heart of
education.
Climate
Insurgency
Jean-François Cote
APRIL 2015
256pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612058047
£95
Offers a new look at Mead’s concept of
society, in an attempt to reconstruct its
significance for sociological theory.
Black Males and
Racism
Improving the Schooling and Life
Chances of African Americans
Pierre Orelus
Terence D. Fitzgerald
FEBRUARY 2015
180pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612055503
£85
Empirically rich analysis of the enduring
racism faced by black males in the
education system.
Ending Extreme
Inequality
JUNE 2015
176pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612058788
£85
An Economic Bill of Rights to
Eliminate Poverty
JUNE 2015
176pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612058887
£85
Birthing Justice
Black Women, Pregnancy, and
Childbirth
JUNE 2015
240pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612058368
£85
Excellence vs.
Equality
Allan Ornstein
A resounding call for a new Economic
Bill of Rights to combat increasing
poverty and economic bifurcation.
This book critically examines Obama’s
presidency and legacy, especially in
regard to race, inequality, education, and
political power.
Can Society Achieve both Goals?
Scott Myers-Lipton
FEBRUARY 2015
176pp 216mm x 140mm
Hb 9781612057262
£85
Race, Power,
and the Obama
Legacy
How a nation treats its poor defines that
society. This book is about how we treat
those with less ability in context with
those who are strong, and addresses
the inevitable question: can a society
achieve both excellence and equality?
Myth and Reality
in International
Politics
Edited by Julia Chinyere
Oparah and Alicia D.
Bonaparte
Meeting Global Challenges through
Collective Action
Examines the global crisis in maternal
health care for black women.
Jonathan Wilkenfeld
JUNE 2015
160pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612055671
£85
Offers a blueprint for how to overcome
challenges to the welfare of both states
and individuals, calling for increased
leadership responsibility, clarity of
mission and empowerment.
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Paradigm Publishers
Crafting
Collectivity
Immigration and the Militarization
of the US-Mexico Border
Chelsea Schelly
Nicole I. Torres
A unique look at the alternative social
systems at work in the Annual Gathering
of the Rainbow Family.
A new ethnography looking at the
increasing militarisation of the USMexico border, and the impact of this on
borderland communities.
MAY 2015
144pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612057484
£80
Politics in
Popular Movies
John S. Klemanski , David A.
Dulio and Michael Switalski
John S. Nelson
A wide-casting overview of politics in
popular films, looking at the four genres
of horror, war, thriller and sci-fi. John S.
Nelson considers the ‘political’ in various
forms - from high government and war,
to everyday politics of church, school,
business and family life.
JUNE 2015
192pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612056913
£90
What Don’t Kill
Us Makes Us
Stronger
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Waves of
Democracy
John Markoff
Kamesha Spates
Hb 9781612050416
£90
Based on data from the most recent
US elections, this book examines
state house races in four key states—
California, Texas, Michigan, and
Virginia—and creates simulations
of campaign planning, strategizing,
budgeting, fundraising, and winning in a
variety of political contexts.
Social Movements and Political
Change, Second Edition
African American Women and
Suicide
An illuminating exploration of why the
suicide rate for black women in the
MAY 2015
US is so low in spite of harmful social
192pp 216mm x 140mm ( inequalities.
Campaigns from
the Ground Up
State House Elections in a National
Context
Rhetorical Takes on Horror, War,
Thriller, and SciFi Films
MAY 2015
224pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612055565
£95
Walls of
Indifference
American Rainbow Gatherings and
Alternative Forms of Community
MARCH 2015
176pp 216mm x 140mm
Hb 9781612057453
£85
JUNE 2015
224pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612052922
£90
Looking at the nature of ‘democracy’ in
the 21st Century, this updated edition
coverins contemporary, amorphous
democracy movements such as Occupy
and the Arab Spring.
Paradigm Publishers
Drugs, Power,
and Politics
Narco Wars, Big Pharma, and the
Subversion of Democracy
Edited by Michael A. Peters and
Alicia de Alba
Carl Boggs
JUNE 2015
304pp 254mm x 178mm
Hb 9781612058702
£100
JUNE 2015
176pp 216mm x 140mm
Hb 9781612058825
£85
This book explores the increasingly
broad terrain of drugs in American
society with an emphasis on politics.
MAY 2015
192pp 229mm x 152mm
Pb 9781594519031
£23.99
Hb 9781594519024
£65
Investigates the human subject in
the first decade of the twenty-first
century in relation to changing social
circumstances and belongings.
Anti-Racist
Teaching
Unlikely Fame
Robert P. Amico
This unique book depicts the stories
of Americans born in poverty, who
achieved national or international fame.
Accessible to students and lay readers,
this scholarly study describes poverty
as a disability that typically stunts
important areas of growth in childhood
“Why is teaching about racism and white
privilege to white students so difficult?”
and “What can educators do to become
more effective antiracist teachers for all
of their students?” Amico examines the
cognitive and emotive obstacles that
students experience in the classroom
Handbook of
Evolution and
Society
Poor People Who Made History
David Wagner
FEBRUARY 2015
208pp 229mm x 152mm
Pb 9781612057149
£19.99
Hb 9781612057156
£90
Toward an Evolutionary Social
Science
APRIL 2015
580pp 229mm x 152mm
Hb 9781612058146
£125
Subjects in
Process
Edited by Jonathan H. Turner,
Alexandra Maryanski and
Richard Machalek
Handbook of Evolution and Society
brings together original chapters
by prominent scholars who have
been instrumental in the revival of
evolutionary theorising and research in
the social sciences over the last twentyfive years.
Paulo Freire and
the Curriculum
Georgios Grollios. Forewords
by Henry A. Giroux and
Panayota Gounari
APRIL 2015
160pp 216mm x 140mm
Pb 9781594517488
£22.99
How Paulo Freire’s progressive and vital
contributions to curriculum planning
can be made more relevant today for
educators, policy makers and anybody
involved in education.
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Recent Highlights
The ABCs
of Political
Economy
The Militarization of Protest Policing
A Modern Approach
Lesley J. Wood
An activist's guide to understanding the
militarisation of the policing of protest.
Robin Hahnel
NOVEMBER 2014
352pp 205mm x 150mm
8 figures
Pb 9780745334974
£14.99
Hb 9780745334981
£65
Epub 9781783712076
£14.99
Kindle 9781783712083
£14.99
APRIL 2014
288pp 240mm x 170mm
Pb 9780745333601
£17.99
Hb 9780745333618
£55
'Lucidly written, comprehensive
in coverage, based on expert
understanding and insight.' Noam
Chomsky
A Collection of
Ranter Writings
MAY 2014
216pp 215mm x 135mm
3 tables, 1 figure
Pb 9780745333885
£16.99
Hb 9780745333892
£60
Epub 9781783712106
£16.99
Kindle 9781783712113
£16.99
Constructed
Situations
Spiritual Liberty and Sexual Freedom
in the English Revolution
A New History of the Situationist
International
Nigel Smith. Foreword by John
Carey
Frances Stracey
The most comprehensive attempt to
anthologise the key Ranter writings bringing together some remarkable,
visionary and unforgettable texts.
Bruno Latour
OCTOBER 2014
200pp 230mm x 150mm
8 colour plates, 38 b&w
photos
Pb 9780745335261
£16.99
Hb 9780745335278
£70
Epub 9781783712243
£16.99
Kindle 9781783712250
Reassembling the Political
A biography of Bruno Latour, the
sociologist and anthropologist, which
focuses on his political philosophy.
OCTOBER 2014
216pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745333991
£19.99
Hb 9780745334004
£75
Epub 9781783711987
£19.99
Kindle 9781783711994
£19.99
A ground-breaking rethink of the radical
Situationist art movement drawn from a
life's worth of research.
Captive
Revolution
Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial
Struggle within the Israeli Prison
System
Graham Harman
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Crisis and
Control
Nahla Abdo
AUGUST 2014
264pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745334936
£19.99
Hb 9780745334943
£60
Epub 9781783711857
£19.99
Kindle 9781783711864
£19.99
Drawing on oral history of female
Palestinian political detainees, this book
analyses their anti-colonial struggles in
this overlooked subject.
Recent Highlights
We Make Our
Own History
Labour, Migration and Citizenship
in the Gulf
Marxism and Social Movements in
the Twilight of Neoliberalism
Edited by Abdulhadi Khalaf,
Omar AlShehabi and Adam
Hanieh
Laurence Cox and Alf Gunvald
Nilsen
AUGUST 2014
272pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745334813
£18.99
Hb 9780745334820
£65
Epub 9781783711918
£18.99
Kindle 9781783711925
£18.99
A rethinking of popular political
movements, this book looks at new,
emerging, mass visions and analyses
their impact and potential in new ways.
Blaming the
Victim
NOVEMBER 2014
272pp 215mm x 135mm
9 figures, 2 maps
Pb 9780745335209
£19.99
Hb 9780745335223
£65
Epub 9781783712212
£19.99
Kindle 9781783712229
£19.99
State Crime on
the Margins of
Empire
JUNE 2014
208pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745332109
£16.99
Hb 9780745332116
£65
Epub 9781783711604
£16.99
Kindle 9781783711611
£16.99
Zionism and its
Discontents
Ran Greenstein
Kristian Lasslett
Investigates state involvement in war
crimes surrounding activists on the
island of Bougainville, who struggled to
close a Rio Tinto owned copper mine.
A comprehensive guide to Jameson's
theoretical project and a convincing
argument for the power of dialectical
criticism to understand the world today.
A Century of Radical Dissent in
Israel/Palestine
Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville
and Resistance to Mining
AUGUST 2014
256pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745335049
£23.99
Hb 9780745335032
£75
Epub 9781783712304
£23.99
Kindle 9781783712311
£23.99
Fredric Jameson
Robert T. Tally Jr
Jairo Lugo-Ocando
DECEMBER 2014
224pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745334417
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Hb 9780745334424
£65
Epub 9781783712274
£19.99
Kindle 9781783712281
£19.99
The exploitation of migrant workers in
the Gulf is explored in this accessible
yet in-depth analysis by scholars from
the region.
The Project of Dialectical Criticism
How Global Journalism Fails Those
in Poverty
An analysis of how poverty is
misrepresented in mainstream media,
and a look at what really lies behind
these narratives.
Transit States
OCTOBER 2014
248pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745334677
£17.99
Hb 9780745334684
£60
Epub 9781783712045
£17.99
Kindle 9781783712052
£17.99
Challenges the nationalist and Zionist
hegemony by discussing the hidden
history of Communist and bi-national
movements in Israel.
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Revolutionary Lives
Hugo Chavez
Socialist for the Twenty-first
Century
The Digger’s Life and Legacy
Mike Gonzalez
John Gurney
The first biography published after
Chavez’s death, tracing his life from
a poor rural family to the Miraflores
Presidential Palace in Caracas.
Life and ideas of the great British radical
who founded rural communes during
the English Civil War.
NOVEMBER 2012
176pp 198mm x 129mm
5 photographs
Pb 9780745331836
£12.99
Hb 9780745331843
£50
Epub 9781849646772
£12.99
Kindle 9781849646789
£12.99
FEBRUARY 2014
176pp 198mm x 129mm
7 photos
Pb 9780745334653
£12.99
Hb 9780745334660
£50
Epub 9781783710300
£12.99
Kindle 9781783710317
£12.99
Ellen Wilkinson
Leila Khaled
From Red Suffragist to Government
Minister
Sarah Irving
Icon of Palestinian Liberation
Paula Bartley
Compelling account of a legendary
Palestinian resistance fighter. From
refugee camp to international infamy.
Charts the life and career of notable
socialist, suffragist and Labour
government minister, Ellen Wilkinson.
MAY 2012
168pp 198mm x 129mm
6 photographs
Pb 9780745329512
£12.99
Hb 9780745329529
£50
Epub 9781849646741
£12.99
Kindle 9781849646758
£12.99
FEBRUARY 2014
168pp 198mm x 129mm
10 photographs
Pb 9780745332376
£12.99
Hb 9780745332383
£50
Epub 9781783710171
£12.99
Kindle 9781783710188
£12.99
Sylvia Pankhurst
Victor Figueroa Clark
Katherine Connelly
A political biography of one of the 20th
century’s most emblematic political
figures.
Lively and accessible biography of Sylvia
Pankhurst, from suffragette to antiFascist activist.
SEPTEMBER 2013
176pp 198mm x 129mm
7 photos
Pb 9780745333229
£12.99
Hb 9780745333236
£50
Epub 9781849649438
£12.99
Kindle 9781849649445
£12.99
Salvador Allende
Revolutionary Democrat
Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of
Empire
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Gerrard
Winstanley
AUGUST 2013
176pp 198mm x 129mm
8 photos, 1 map
Pb 9780745333076
£12.99
Hb 9780745333083
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Epub 9781849649353
£12.99
Kindle 9781849649346
£12.99
Bestsellers
SEPTEMBER 2013
208pp 198mm x 129mm
21 photographs
Pb 9780745333878
£12.99
Epub 9781849649377
£12.99
Kindle 9781849649384
£12.99
APRIL 2013
232pp 215mm x 135mm
17 Figures
Pb 9780745332932
£16.99
Hb 9780745332949
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Epub 9781849647656
£16.99
Kindle 9781849647663
£16.99
On Western
Terrorism
FOURTH EDITION
From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare
David Randall
Noam Chomsky and Andre
Vltchek
New updated edition of the world's
leading handbook on journalism.
A controversial and provocative new
intervention from the world's greatest
dissident intellectual.
The Great
University
Gamble
APRIL 2011
264pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745330761
£17.99
Hb 9780745330778
£60
THIRD EDITION
The PalestineIsrael Conflict
A Basic Introduction
Money, Markets and the Future of
Higher Education
Gregory Harms with Todd M.
Ferry
Andrew McGettigan
Fully updated and expanded edition of
the classic best-selling primer on the
Israel/Palestine conflict.
A critical and deeply informed survey
of the brave new world of UK Higher
Education emerging from government
cuts and market-driven reforms.
JUNE 2012
288pp 198mm x 129mm
Pb 9780745332130
£14.99
Hb 9780745332161
£50
Epub 9781849646864
£14.99
Kindle 9781849646871
£14.99
Black Skin, White
Masks
The Islamophobia
Industry
Frantz Fanon. Forewords by
Homi K. Bhabha and Ziauddin
Sardar
Nathan Lean. Foreword by
John L. Esposito
How the Right Manufactures Fear of
Muslims
Disturbing account of the rising tide of
Islamophobia sweeping through the
United States and Europe.
A devastating account of the feelings of
inadequacy experienced by previously
colonised people in a white world.
AUGUST 2008
224pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745328485
£12.99
Hb 9780745328492
£50
The Universal
Journalist
AUGUST 2012
240pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745332536
£13.99
Hb 9780745332543
£60
Epub 9781849647472
£10.99
Kindle 9781849647489
£10.99
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Bestsellers
Against Austerity
How we Can Fix the Crisis they Made
How an Elite Hijacked a Continent and How we Can Take it Back
Richard Seymour
Thomas Fazi
A blistering, accessible and invigorating
polemic against the current political
consensus.
MARCH 2014
208pp 198mm x 129mm
Pb 9780745333281
£12.99
Hb 9780745333298
£50
Epub 9781783710201
£12.99
Kindle 9781783710218
£12.99
FEBRUARY 2014
240pp 230mm x 150mm
30 figures
Pb 9780745334509
£16.99
Hb 9780745334516
£65
Epub 9781783710232
£16.99
Kindle 9781783710249
£16.99
Stitched Up
The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion
JANUARY 2014
264pp 215mm x 135mm
11 line drawings
Pb 9780745334561
£15
Hb 9780745332901
£50
Epub 9781783710072
£15
Kindle 9781783710089
£15
SECOND EDITION
Israeli Apartheid
MARCH 2014
160pp 198mm x 129mm
Pb 9780745334837
£15
Hb 9780745334844
£50
Epub 9781783711369
£15
Kindle 9781783711376
£15
James Penney
Updated and expanded edition of
best-selling introduction to the IsraelPalestine conflict.
After Queer
Theory
The Limits of Sexual Politics
Ben White
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The New Urban
Question
A lucid and vibrant contribution to
the field of urban studies, tracing the
connections between radical urban
theory and political activism.
A Beginner's Guide
FEBRUARY 2014
224pp 198mm x 129mm
7 maps, 8 figures, 12
photographs
Pb 9780745334639
£11.99
Hb 9780745334646
£45
Epub 9781783710270
£11.99
Kindle 9781783710287
Explains what has happened in Europe
following the financial crash of 2008 as
a case of neo-liberal economic shock
doctrine.
Andy Merrifield
Tansy E. Hoskins
Delves into the exclusive and alluring
world of fashion, to expose class
division, gender stereotyping and
wasteful consumption.
The Battle for
Europe
NOVEMBER 2013
224pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745333786
£18.99
Hb 9780745333793
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Epub 9781849649865
£18.99
Kindle 9781849649872
£18.99
Makes the provocative claim that queer
theory has run its course, made obsolete
by the elaboration of its own logic
within capitalism.
Bestsellers
Memoirs of
an Early Arab
Feminist
Corporate
Europe
The Life and Activism of Anbara
Salam Khalidi
David Cronin
Anbara Salam Khalidi.
Foreword by Marina Warner.
Translated by Tarif Khalidi
APRIL 2013
184pp 215mm x 135mm
17 photographs
Pb 9780745333564
£16.99
Hb 9780745333571
£55
Epub 9781849648837
£16.99
Kindle 9781849648844
£16.99
The first English translation of the
memoirs of Anbara Salam Khalidi, the
iconic Arab feminist. Shortlisted for the
MEMO prize 2014
How Big Business Sets Policies on
Food, Climate and War
AUGUST 2013
216pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745333328
£17.99
Hb 9780745333335
£65
Epub 9781849648981
£17.99
Kindle 9781849648998
£17.99
SECOND EDITION
Shadow Lives
The Forgotten Women of the War
on Terror
Victoria Brittain. Foreword
by John Berger. Afterword by
Marina Warner
FEBRUARY 2013
192pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745333267
£14.99
Hb 9780745333274
£50
Epub 9781849648523
£14.99
Kindle 9781849648530
£14.99
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'.
The Corporation
That Changed the
World
How the East India Company Shaped
the Modern Multinational
Nick Robins
Expanded and revised edition of the
highly praised history of the English East
OCTOBER 2012
India Company.
280pp 215mm x 135mm
5 photos, 2 figures, 3 maps
Pb 9780745331959
£17.99
Hb 9780745331966
£60
Epub 9781849646925
£17.99
Kindle 9781849646932
£17.99
The Failure
of Capitalist
Production
The Poverty of
Capitalism
Underlying Causes of the Great
Recession
John Hilary
Economic Meltdown and the
Struggle for What Comes Next
Andrew Kliman
NOVEMBER 2011
256pp 215mm x 135mm
59 graphs and 14 tables
Pb 9780745332390
£17.99
Hb 9780745332406
£60
Epub 9781849646208
£17.99
Kindle 9781849646192
£17.99
Reveals how the EU’s policies on health,
climate change, armaments and food
safety have been tailored to please a
corporate elite.
Distinctive and detailed account of the
current economic crisis, identifying it
as a crisis of capitalism caused by longterm falling profit rates.
OCTOBER 2013
240pp 215mm x 135mm
3 figures
Pb 9780745333304
£14.99
Hb 9780745333311
£45
Epub 9781849649674
£14.99
Kindle 9781849649681
£14.99
Looks at the failure of conventional
economic theories based on capitalist
growth, and explores alternative models
being developed around the world.
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Anthropology, Culture and Society
Flip-Flop
THIRD EDITION
A Journey Through Globalisation’s
Backroads
An Introduction to Social and
Cultural Anthropology
Caroline Knowles
MAY 2014
232pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745334110
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Kindle 9781783711529
£18.99
SECOND EDITION
By tracing the footprint of a
unremarkable object across the globe,
this book provides new ways of thinking
about globalisation.
JUNE 2010
376pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745330495
£18.99
Hb 9780745330501
£65
A History of
Anthropology
Thoroughly updated and revised
edition of a popular classic of modern
anthropology.
SECOND EDITION
APRIL 2014
192pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745334592
£18.99
Hb 9780745332840
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Epub 9781783711734
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Kindle 9781783711741
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The classic introduction to
anthropology, focusing on central topics
such as kinship, ethnicity, ritual and
political systems.
The Will of the
Many
How the Alterglobalisation
Movement is Changing the Face of
Democracy
Marianne Maeckelbergh
SEPTEMBER 2009
296pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745329253
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Hb 9780745329260
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Epub 9781783710430
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Kindle 9781783710447
£17.99
MAY 2013
264pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745333526
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Hb 9780745333533
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Epub 9781849649193
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Kindle 9781849649209
£17.99
Small Places,
Large Issues
Argues that the most promising new
model for democracy is found in
grassroots movements against capitalist
globalisation.
Feminism, Activism, Ethnography
The
Anthropology of
Security
Lynne Phillips and Sally Cole
Perspectives from the Frontline of
Policing, Counter-terrorism and
Border Control
Contesting
Publics
Analyses the challenges feminists face
as they seek to engage with new spaces
of participatory democracy in Latin
America.
JULY 2014
224pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745334578
£22.99
Hb 9780745334585
£75
Epub 9781783711635
£22.99
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£22.99
Edited by Mark Maguire,
Catarina Frois and Nils
Zurawski
Studies on the lived experiences
of security and policing. The
anthropological perspectives in this
volume stretch from the frontlines of
policing and counter-terrorism to border
control.
Anthropology, Culture and Society
THIRD EDITION
Dream Zones
Anticipating Capitalism and
Development in India
Anthropological Perspectives
Jamie Cross
Explores the dreams and desired futures
of workers, farmers and politicians
that sustain and disrupt capitalism in
contemporary India.
New edition of this core text for all
students of social anthropology.
Additions include cultural property
rights and commercialisation of identity.
SEPTEMBER 2010
256pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 9780745330426
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APRIL 2014
240pp 215mm x 135mm
12 photographs
Pb 9780745333724
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£65
Epub 9781783710393
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Checkpoint,
Temple, Church
and Mosque
SECOND EDITION
Jonathan Spencer, Jonathan
Goodhand, Shahul Hasbullah,
Bart Klem, Benedikt Korf and
Kalinga Tudor Silva
A study of the contradictory role of
religion in Sri Lanka as a force that is
both stabilising whilst also acting as a
source of conflict.
Food for Change
Edited by Christina Garsten
and Anette Nyqvist
NOVEMBER 2014
272pp 230mm x 150mm
Pb 9780745335285
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The Politics and Values of Social
Movements
DECEMBER 2013
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A pioneering analysis of doing
ethnographic fieldwork in different
types of complex organisations.
The Gloss of
Harmony
The Politics of Policy-Making in
Multilateral Organisations
Jeff Pratt and Pete Luetchford
Explores the key political and economic
questions of food through the everyday
experience and vivid insights of farmers
and consumers, using fieldwork from
case studies in four European countries.
Organisational
Anthropology
Doing Ethnography in and Among
Complex Organisations
A Collaborative Ethnography of War
and Peace
DECEMBER 2014
192pp 215mm x 135mm
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Ethnicity and
Nationalism
Edited by Birgit Müller
OCTOBER 2013
280pp 215mm x 135mm
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Identifies the micro-social processes
and complexities within multilateral
organisations which have, up to now,
been largely invisible.
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Index
Abidor, Mitch
After the Cataclysm
13
9
31
Peters, Michael A. Fishers and Plunderers
23
45
Akram, Susan M. 27
Fitzgerald, Terrence D. 43
Political Culture and the Making of Modern
Nation-States
42
Allen, Robert
41
Fleming, Peter
21
Politics in Popular Movies
44
Allender, Jerome S. 41
Frank, Andre Gunder
35
Politics of Global Climate Change
42
Aly, Ramy M. K. 30
Frantzich, Stephen E. 40
Politics of Gun Control, The
39
Amico, Robert P. 45
Fredrik Barth
28
Pollard, Tom
40
Amster, Randall
41
Friends of Alice Wheeldon
12
Popular Protest in Palestine
26
Anievas, Alexander
24
From the Local to the Global
25
Postmarks from a Political Traveler
34
Anthropology and Development
29
Gardner, Katy
29
Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies 33
Anti-Racist Teaching
45
George Herbet Mead’s
Quantz, Richard A. 38
Applied Ethics
37
Concept of Society
42
Race, Power and the Obama Legacy
43
Artwash
10
Giroux, Henry A.
40
Rebel Footprints
At The Heart of the State
31
Globalization
37
Regan, Patrick M. Baker, Ross K. 36
Gregory, Michele Rene
40
Religion Without Redemption
16
Grollios, Georgios
45
Rempel, Terry
27
45
ReOrienting the 19th Century
35
Ressler, Oliver
11
26
Balzer, David
6
5
42
Becoming Arab in London
30
Handbook of Evolution and Society
Birthing Justice
43
Handbook on World Social
43
Forum Activism
41
Rigby, Andrew
Hans, J. I. Bakker
40
Rosenberg, David 5
4
Black Males and Racism
Boggs, Carl
40, 45
Brecher, Jeremy
42
Hollywood War Machine, The
40
Rotbard, Sharon
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
41
How Corrupt is Britain? 20
Rowbotham, Sheila
Campaigns From The Ground Up
44
How the West Came to Rule
24
Ruitenberg, Claudia
42
Celebrity in Chief
34
Information Politics
15
Rural Sociologists at Work
40
35
12
Is Bipartisanship Dead?
36
Saltman, Kenneth J.
41
8, 9
Jordan, Tim
15
Schelly
44
Ciceri, Bruno
23
Juarèz, Jean
13
Sclarow-Allender, Donna
41
Climate Insurgency
42
Karber, Phil
34
Singing For Peace
42
Cohen, Ronald D. 42
Kaufman, Will
42
Smith, Hance D. 23
Congress, the Media, and the Public
40
Klemanski, John S. 44
Sociocultural Studies in Education
38
Cote, Jean-François
42
Lavariega Monforti, Jessica L.
35
Spates, Kamesha
44
Couper, Alastair
23
Lemert, Charles
37
Spitzer, Robert J. 39
Crafting Collectivity
44
Lewis, David
29
Sport in a Changing World
38
Limits to Culture
17
Stanford, Jim
18
Living the Dream
35
Stephen McCloskey
25
Martínez Andrade, Luis
16
Subjects in Process
45
Machalek, Richard
45
Switalski, Michael 44
Markoff, John
44
Tauber, Steven C. 40
Maryanski, Alexandra
45
Thomas, Courtney I. P. 42
36
Thompson, Willie
22
44
Chavez, Maria
Chomsky, Noam
Cremin, Colin
7
Cultural Transformations and
Globalization
Curationism
Cyber-Proletariat
39
6
14
Dangerous Thinking In The Age
Of The New
40
Maverick Maestro
Darweish, Marwan
26
May, Larry
37
Torres, Nicole I. de Alba, Alicia
45
McCann, Gerard
25
Totalled
De Lissovoy
41
Means, Alexander J.
41
Towards and New Common School
Delston, Jill
37
Michelson, Melissa R. 35
Movement
41
Derber, Charles
32
Miles, Malcom
17
Turner, Jonathan H. 45
Disinherited Majority, The
32
Myers-Lipton, Scott
43
Unlocking the World
42
Doujak, Ines
11
Myth and Reality in International
Drugs Power and Politics
45
Politics
Dulio, David A. 44
Dyer-Witheford, Nick
14
Economics After Capitalism
7
Utopian Pulse
11
43
Wagner, David
45
Mythology of Work, The
21
Wall, Derek
19
Navigating the Jungle
40
Walls of Indifference
44
19
Nelson, John S. 44
Walsh, Kenneth T. 34
Economics for Everyone
18
Nisancioglu, Kerem
24
Ending Extreme Inequality
43
Nixon, Howard
38
Washington Connection and Third World
Fascism, The
9
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland
28
On Power and Ideology
Ervin, Alexander M. 39
Orelus, Pierre Ethics for the Young Mind
41
Ornstein, Allan
43
Evans, Mel
10
Out of Place, Out of Time
27
Excellence vs. Equality
43
Parenti, Michael
33
Peace Ecology
41
Peress, Maurice
36
Expanding the Human in Human Rights 41
Face of the Firm, The
54
Fassin, Didier
40
8
43
Waves of Democracy
44
Weisband, Edward
42
What Don’t Kill Us Makes Us Stronger
44
White City, Black City
Whyte, David
4
20
Wilkenfeld, Jonathan
43
Work, Sex and Power
22
Year 501
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