New Books Catalogue Autumn/Winter 2011 - Pluto Press

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Fight the university cuts this academic yearThe Assault onUniversitiesA Manifesto for ResistanceEdited by Michael Bailey and Des FreedmanWith funding cuts well under way and many institutions alreadypromising to charge the maximum £9,000 yearly tuition fee, universityeducation for the majority is under threat. This book exposes thetrue motives behind the government’s programme and provides theanalytical tools to fight it.Widespread student protests and occupations, often supportedby staff, unions and society at large, show the public’s oppositionto funding cuts and fee increases. The contributors to this sharp,well-written collection, many of whom are active participants in theanti-cuts movement, outline what’s at stake and why it matters. Theyargue that university education is becoming increasingly skewedtowards vocational degrees, which devalues the arts and social sciences– subjects that allow creativity and political inquiry to flourish.Released at the beginning of the new academic year, this book willbe at the heart of debates around the future of higher education in theUK and beyond, inspiring both new and seasoned activists in the fightfor the soul of our universities.Michael Bailey is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. He isthe author or editor of The Uses of Richard Hoggart (2011), Mediating Faiths(2011) and Narrating Media History (2008). He has held visiting fellowshipsat Goldsmiths, the LSE and at the University of Cambridge.Des Freedman is Reader in Communications and Cultural Studies atGoldsmiths, University of London and an editor of the journal Global Mediaand Communication. He is the author or editor of The Politics of Media Policy(2008), Television Policies of the Labour Party (2003) and War and the Media(2003). He is secretary of the Goldsmiths branch of the University andCollege Union.NEXT READWikiworldJuha Suoranta and Tere VadénPb 978-0-7453-2891-1 £17.99The University in ChainsConfronting the Military-Industrial-AcademicComplexHenry A. GirouxPb 978-1-5945-1423-4 £13.99August 2011176pp 198mm x 129mmPb 978-0-7453-3191-1 £14.99Hb 978-0-7453-3192-8 £50“This is an essentialbook. The future of ouruniversities is up for grabsand the manifesto will playa huge role in providingalternatives at a time whenthe government say therearen’t any.Clare SolomonPresident of the University of London Union (ULU) andeditor of (2011)“The corporatising ofuniversal education isone of the most insidious anddangerous attacks on the verynotion of human rights. Thisbook calls us to arms. Everystudent, every educator whocares should read it.John Pilgerwww.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 3

Where now for Al-Qaeda after Bin Laden?Inside Al-Qaeda and theTalibanBeyond Bin Laden and 9/11May 2011280pp 215mm x 135mm 7 mapsPb 978-0-7453-3101-0 £17.99Hb 978-0-7453-3102-7 £60Not available in Australia and New Zealand“When Syed SaleemShahzad talks, I listen.He is the most fearless andreliable journalist coveringPakistan and Afghanistan.Nobody interested in theregion, in Al-Qaeda or in theTaliban can afford to ignorehis work.Nir Rosenauthor of The Triumph of the Martyrs: A Reporter’sJourney Into Occupied Iraq“Syed Saleem Shahzadhas long been ableto penetrate the Afghanand Pakistani Talibanorganisations in a way thatno other journalist has.His unique knowledge andcontacts make his writing a‘must read’ for anyone whowants to understand thosemovements.Gareth Porterhistorian and author of Perils of Dominance: Imbalanceof Power and the Road to War in VietnamSyed Saleem ShahzadPresident Obama may have delivered on his campaign promise to killOsama bin Laden, but as an Al-Qaeda strategist bin Laden has beendead for years. This book introduces and examines the new generationof Al-Qaeda leaders who have been behind the most recent attacks.Investigative journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad dedicated his lifeto revealing the strategies and inner workings of Al-Qaeda and theTaliban. He had access to top-level commanders in both movements,as well as within the ISI, Pakistan’s intelligence service. Shahzad’swork was praised by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for ‘bringingto light the troubles extremism poses to Pakistan’s stability’. InsideAl-Qaeda and the Taliban explains the wider aims of both organisationsand provides an essential analysis of major terrorist incidents,including the 2008 Mumbai attacks.In May 2011, Shahzad was abducted and killed in Pakistan, daysafter writing an article suggesting that insiders in the Pakistani navyhad colluded with Al-Qaeda in an attack on a naval air station. Thisbook is a testament to his fearless reporting and analytical rigour. Itwill provide readers worldwide with an invaluable introduction to anew phase of the ongoing struggle against terrorism which threatenslives in so many countries.Syed Saleem Shahzad (1970-2011) was an investigative reporter whoworked as Pakistan Bureau Chief at Asia Times Online. His persistence,courage and reputation allowed him unparalleled access to leaders andfighters in Islamic movements enabling him to secure interviews withfigures such as Al-Qaeda commander, Ilyas Kashmiri. He had been both ahostage and a guest of the Taliban, which gave him a unique insight into theorganisation’s internal structures. He was abducted and killed in Pakistanin May 2011. He left a wife and three children.NEXT READHamasA Beginner’s GuideKhaled HroubPb 978-0-7453-2972-7 £14.99Hizbu’llahPolitics and ReligionAmal Saad-GhorayebPb 978-0-7453-1792-2 £24.994www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

Time to talk to Al Qaeda?Understanding AlQaedaChanging War and Global PoliticsMohammad-Mahmoud Ould MohamedouThis book controversially argues that Al Qaeda has clear aims, and thatthe only way to defeat it is to engage with its arguments in a seriousway.Since the publication of the first edition in 2006, Mohamedouhas brought the text right up-to-date. Starting with Al Qaeda’screation almost twenty years ago, and sketching its global mutation,Mohamedou explains that there is a cogent strategy to Al Qaeda’sactions. He shows that the ‘war on terror’ is failing, only serving torecruit more terrorists to Al Qaeda’s cause. He also puts forward a casefor how the international community can best respond.Arguing that it is dangerous to dismiss Al Qaeda as illogical andirrational, this incisive and original book is important for policymakersand ideal for undergraduates in international relations, MiddleEast studies and peace/conflict studies.Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou is Visiting Professor inthe International History, Politics and Development departments at theGraduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva,and Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He waspreviously the Associate Director of the Programme on HumanitarianPolicy and Conflict Research at Harvard University, where he founded theTransnational and Non-State Armed Groups Project. He is the author ofIraq and the Second Gulf War: State-Building and Regime Security (2001), andContre-Croisade: Le 11 Septembre et le Retournement du Monde (2011).NEXT READPower and TerrorConflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of ForceNoam ChomskyPb 978-0-7453-3137-9 £12.99Terrorism for HumanityInquiries in Political PhilosophyTed HonderichPb 978-0-7453-2133-2 £18.99Second EditionJune 2011192pp 215mm x 135mm 2 figuresPb 978-0-7453-3167-6 £16.99Hb 978-0-7453-3168-3 £55“Mohamedou is a topnotchacademic. Intoday’s world, you can’t affordto miss this book.Tim Sebastianaward-winning former BBC foreign correspondent andpresenter of HARDtalk“Mohammad Mohamedouhas written a politicalanalysis which providesa much-needed secularunderstanding of Al Qaeda asone among several organisedforces in a rapidly changinginternational arena. Unlikemost writers on the subjectwho tend to be mesmerised byAl Qaeda’s religious discourse,Mohamedou insists onunderstanding the changingsignificance of the discourseagainst a historical backdropof actions and events.Mahmood MamdaniHerbert Lehman Professor of Government, ColumbiaUniversitywww.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 5

How cities will allow us to realise our potentialThe Lure of the CityFrom Slums to SuburbsSeptember 2011224pp 198mm x 129mmPb 978-0-7453-3177-5 £17.99Hb 978-0-7453-3178-2 £60Edited by Austin Williams and Alastair DonaldCities, by their very nature, are a mass of contradictions. They can beat once visually stunning, culturally rich, exploitative and unforgiving.In The Lure of the City Austin Williams and Alastair Donald explore thepotential of cities to meet the economic, social and political challengesof the current age.This book seeks to examine the dynamics of urban life, showingthat new opportunities can be maximised and social advances realisedin existing and emerging urban centres. The book explores both theplanned and organic nature of urban developments and the impactsand aspirations of the people who live and work in them. It arguesconvincingly that the metropolitan mindset is essential to the strugglefor human liberation.The short, accessibly written essays are guaranteed to spark debateacross the media and academia about the place of cities and urban lifein our ever-changing world.Austin Williams is author of The Enemies of Progress (2008) and coeditorof The Future of Community (Pluto, 2009). He is the founder ofManTownHuman, director of the Future Cities Project and convenor of theinfamous ‘Bookshop Barnies’ book discussions.Alastair Donald is researching Urban Systems and MetropolitanDesign at the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies,University of Cambridge. He is co-editor of The Future of Community (Pluto,2009).NEXT READGlobal Cities At WorkNew Migrant Divisions of LabourJane Wills, Kavita Datta, Yara Evans, Joanna Herbert,Jon May and Cathy McIlwainePb 978-0-7453-2798-3 £22.99The Future of CommunityReports of a Death Greatly ExaggeratedEdited by Dave Clements, Alastair Donald, MartinEarnshaw and Austin WilliamsPb 978-0-7453-2816-4 £14.996www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

Laurie Penny on protests, feminism and culturePenny RedNotes from the New Age of DissentLaurie Penny. Foreword by Warren EllisIn the space of a year, Laurie Penny has become one of the mostprominent voices of the new left. This book brings together her diversewritings, showing what it is to be young, angry and progressive in theface of an increasingly violent and oppressive UK government.Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent collects Penny’swritings on youth politics, resistance, feminism and culture. Herjournalism is a unique blend of persuasive analysis, captivatinginterviews and first-hand accounts of political direct action. Shewas involved in all the key protests of 2010/2011, including theanti-fees demos in 2010 and the anti-cuts protests of spring 2011,often tweeting live from the scene of kettles and baton charges.An introduction, conclusion and extensive footnotes allow Pennyto connect all the strands of her work, showing the links betweenpolitical activism and wider social and cultural issues.This book is essential for understanding what motivates the newgeneration of activists, writers and thinkers that bring creativity,energy and urgency to the fight against capitalism and exploitation.Laurie Penny is a journalist, feminist, and political activist fromLondon. She is a regular writer for the New Statesman and the Guardian,and has also contributed to the Independent, Red Pepper and the EveningStandard. She is the author of Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism(2011). She has presented Channel 4’s Dispatches and been on the panelof the BBC’s Any Questions. Her blog, ‘Penny Red’, was shortlisted for theOrwell prize in 2010.NEXT READThe Will of the ManyHow the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changingthe Face of DemocracyMarianne MaeckelberghPb 978-0-7453-2925-3 £17.99Comrade or Brother?A History of the British Labour MovementMary DavisPb 978-0-7453-2576-7 £15.99October 2011224pp 198mm x 129mmPb 978-0-7453-3208-6 £12.99“Cuts, sexism and riots,Laurie Penny’s freshand angry voice captures themoment and the importantissues – highly recommended.Polly Toynbee“Penny is re-inventingthe language of dissent,causing apoplexy among themen who run the blogosphere.Paul Masoneconomics editor of BBC’s Newsnight“In riots, kettles andoccupations, and withvisceral anger, big-eyeddesperation and wickedhumour, this is Laurie Pennyat her very best; filing articleson her Blackberry from thefront line and giving a voice toa generation already at the endof its tether.Dan Hancoxauthor of Kettled Youth (2011)www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 7

Forgotten pictures from the NakbahFrom Palestine to IsraelA Photographic Record of Destruction andState Formation, 1947-1950October 2011240pp 205mm x 150mm 214 black and white photosPb 978-0-7453-3169-0 £17.99Hb 978-0-7453-3170-6 £60Ariella Azoulay. Translated by Charles SKamenIn this carefully curated and beautifully presented photobook, AriellaAzoulay offers a new perspective on four crucial years in the history ofPalestine/Israel.The book reconstructs the processes by which the Palestinianmajority in Mandatory Palestine became a minority in Israel, while theJewish minority established a new political entity in which it became amajority ruling a minority Palestinian population. By reading over 200photographs from that period, most of which were previously confinedto Israeli state archives, Azoulay recounts the events and the storiesthat for years have been ignored or only partially acknowledged inIsrael and the West.Including substantial analytical text, this book will give activists,scholars and journalists a new perspective on the origins of thePalestine-Israel conflict.Ariella Azoulay directs the Photo-Lexic project at the MinervaHumanities Centre at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of CivilImagination: Political Ontology of Photography (2011), The Civil Contractof Photography (2008), Once Upon a Time: Photography Following WalterBenjamin (2006) and Death’s Showcase: The Power of Image in ContemporaryDemocracy (2001). She won the 2002 Infinity Award for Writing, presentedby the International Center for Photography for excellence in the field ofphotography.NEXT READAgainst the WallThe Art of Resistance in PalestineWilliam ParryPb 978-0-7453-2917-8 £15.00Palestine in PiecesGraphic Perspectives on the Israeli OccupationKathleen Christison and Bill ChristisonPb 978-0-7453-2929-1 £14.998www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

Named and shamed: the companies supporting theoccupationCorporate Complicity inIsrael’s OccupationEvidence from the London Session of theRussell Tribunal on PalestineEdited by Asa Winstanley and Frank Barat.Foreword by Alice WalkerThe Russell Tribunal on Palestine is a people’s tribunal in the spirit ofthe Tribunal on Vietnam that was set up by Bertrand Russell in the1960s. This book contains a selection of the most vital evidence andtestimonies presented at the London session.Examining the involvement of corporations in the illegal occupationof Palestinian land by Israel, the tribunal of 2010 generatedwidespread media coverage. The book identifies companies andcorporations participating in such illegality and possibilities for legalaction against them are discussed.Released to coincide with the South Africa session at the end of2011, Corporate Complicity in Israel’s Occupation is a vital resourceto lawyers, journalists and activists hoping to take informed actionagainst Israeli war crimes and occupation.Asa Winstanley is a journalist who has lived in occupied Palestine. Hewrites for Electronic Intifada, the New Left Project and Ceasefire. He workedfor two years in the occupied West Bank and was managing sub-editor ofthe Palestine Times, an English language daily newspaper.Frank Barat is a human rights activist and the coordinator of theRussell Tribunal on Palestine. He has written for Electronic Intifada,Counterpunch, Z Magazine, New Internationalist, Washington Report onMiddle East Affairs and the Palestine Chronicle. He is the editor of Gaza inCrisis: Reflections on Israel’s War against the Palestinians (2010).October 2011224pp 215mm x 135mm 6 photosPb 978-0-7453-3159-1 £19.99Hb 978-0-7453-3160-7 £65“This book is animportant, practical toolin the non-violent struggleagainst apartheid in the HolyLand.Archbishop Desmond TutuNobel Peace Prize LaureateNEXT READEurope’s Alliance with IsraelAiding the OccupationDavid CroninPb 978-0-7453-3065-5 £17.99From Coexistence to ConquestInternational Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891-1949Victor Kattan. Foreword by Richard FalkPb 978-0-7453-2578-1 £29.95“A specially inspiringand praiseworthy civilsociety effort in the pursuit ofupholding international lawand holding Israel accountableto it.Omar Bargoutico-founder of the Palestinian Civil Society BDSMovement“It is vitally important topursue the complicity ofany corporations which aid orabett human rights violations.The Russell Tribunal is to becommended.Julie ChristieActress, activist and patron of the Palestine SolidarityCampaignwww.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 9

The dangers of heightened tensions in KoreaCrisis in KoreaAmerica, China and the Risk of WarAugust 2011288pp 215mm x 135mm 13 figures, 6 photographsPb 978-0-7453-3162-1 £19.99Hb 978-0-7453-3161-4 £60Tim BealThe South Korean warship Cheonan was sunk in mysteriouscircumstances on 26 March 2010. The remarkable events thatfollowed are analysed by Tim Beal and woven into a larger study of theincreasingly volatile relations between North and South Korea and USconcern about the rise of China.South Korea’s stance towards the North has hardened significantlysince the new conservative government came to power. Beal arguesthat the South moved quickly to use the sinking of the Cheonan toput international pressure on the North, even before the cause of thesinking had been established. The US followed suit by attempting topressurise China into condemning North Korea. The media reportsat the time presented an open and shut case of unprovoked NorthKorean aggression, but the evidence points towards the accidentaltriggering of a South Korean mine as the cause and South Koreanfabrication to incriminate the North.With the South bent on forcing the fall of the North’s regimewith US help and China unlikely to stand idly by, this book offersan essential guide to the key factors behind the crisis and possiblesolutions.Tim Beal has researched and taught widely on Asian politics and businessand is currently focused on North Korea. He has recently retired from theSchool of Marketing and International Business at Victoria University ofWellington in New Zealand. He is the author of North Korea: The StruggleAgainst American Power (Pluto, 2005).NEXT READNorth Korea on the BrinkStruggle For SurvivalGlyn Ford and Soyoung KwonPb 978-0-7453-2598-9 £19.99North KoreaThe Struggle Against American PowerTim BealPb 978-0-7453-2013-7 £21.9910www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

From armed struggle to democratic politicsKings to ComradesNepal’s Maoist Movement and theDemocratic TransitionNishchal BasnyatKings to Comrades takes a unique look at one of the most successfulrevolutions of the twenty-first century: the Maoist revolution inNepal.Nishchal Basnyat incorporates rare interviews with Nepal’s Maoistleaders and newly discovered documentary evidence that help usbetter understand the Maoist war in Nepal and its outcome. In anaccessible style, Basnyat explores the causes of the Maoist revolutionand the characteristics of the decade-long war. He goes on to analysethe fascinating process by which the rebels were transformed into apolitical party and ultimately democratised.This book will provide invaluable material for anyone studyingNepal as well as students of communist movements, third-worldrevolutions and rebel-to-party transformations.Nishchal Basnyat is the Lt. Charles Fiske III Harvard Scholar at TrinityCollege, Cambridge University. A graduate of Harvard University, he wasawarded the John Harvard Scholarship for academic distinction, theThomas T. Hoopes Prize for his thesis and was the editor-in-chief of theHarvard South Asian Journal. He writes on Nepalese politics for nationaland international newspapers.November 2011320pp 215mm x 135mm 10 chartsPb 978-0-7453-3097-6 £17.99Hb 978-0-7453-3098-3 £60NEXT READDispatches From the People’sWar in NepalLi OnestoPb 978-0-7453-2340-4 £23.99The Cultural Politics ofMarketsEconomic Liberalization and Social Change inNepalKatharine Neilson RankinPb 978-0-7453-1944-5 £18.99www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 11

Helping HIV/AIDS affected children rebuild their livesHope Amidst DespairHIV/AIDS-Affected Children in Sub-SaharanAfricaOctober 2011192pp 215mm x 135mmPb 978-0-7453-3153-9 £14.99Hb 978-0-7453-3154-6 £45“Susanna Grannis’ bookbrings us up-to-date withhow the HIV/AIDS epidemicis affecting Africa’s children.The stigma attached to thedisease may be diminishing,but children’s grief at theirparent’s death remains raw.It’s a sensitive and informativebook.Emma Guestauthor Children of AIDS: Africa’s Orphan Crisis (Pluto,2003)Susanna W. GrannisOf the 16 million children to have been orphaned by AIDS worldwide,almost 15 million live in sub-Saharan Africa. Hope Amidst Despairfocuses on these children and those who are made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.Of the millions affected, many live in deep poverty, experiencelittle schooling, have unmet health and psychological issues and bearthe burden of stigma. Their plight is often ignored and, as a result,they lead lives of isolation and exclusion that threaten their futures.The book gives voice to HIV/AIDS orphans, allowing them to telltheir stories and explain the challenges they face. Susanna Grannis,founder of CHABHA (Children Affected by HIV/AIDS), shows throughfirst-hand experience and research how young community leaders can,with help, effectively promote children’s wellbeing and independence.Readers learn of the complexities and possibilities involved in positivedevelopment through the analysis of data on children from fivedifferent countries in sub-Saharan Africa.This will be an essential title for HIV/AIDS campaigners, studentsof development studies, policy makers, donors, and anyone concernedabout the welfare of children in developing countries.Susanna W. Grannis founded and led, until 2010, CHABHA, ChildrenAffected by HIV/AIDS. CHABHA partners with community-based children’sassociations in Africa. She was professor and dean at the University ofIllinois at Chicago, Queens College - CUNY, and at the Bank Street Collegeof Education. Her previous publications (as Susanna W. Pflaum) focused onchildren’s education.NEXT READThe Politics of PreventionA Global Crisis in AIDS and EducationTania Boler and David ArcherPb 978-0-7453-2732-7 £11.99Children of AIDSAfrica’s Orphan CrisisEmma GuestPb 978-0-7453-2075-5 £21.9912www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

A food crisis in the Middle EastThe Empty Bread BasketFood and Farming in the Fertile CrescentRami Zurayk and Tariq TellThe Fertile Crescent, the region encompassing Iraq, Syria, Lebanon,Jordan and Palestine, has, despite its name, historically facedchallenges to food security from Imperial powers and, more recently,foreign agribusiness.The Empty Bread Basket unravels the paradoxes of food and empirein the Fertile Crescent using a comparative and historical politicaleconomy of agrarian change. The structures that condition ruraldevelopment in the region are traced historically, as the result ofcapitalist development and colonially mediated state-building thatbegan during the 19th century Ottoman Tanzimat reform andaccelerated with the imposition of Western colonialism after WorldWar I. The contemporary food dependence of the Fertile Crescent isexplained as the cumulative outcome of these historical processes andthe agendas of Western governments and international developmentagencies.As commodity prices soar across the world, food security is set tobecome a key issue for students studying Middle Eastern politics anddevelopment studies.May 2012272pp 215mm x 135mmPb 978-0-7453-3176-8 £18.99Hb 978-0-7453-3175-1 £65Rami Zurayk is Professor in the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciencesat the American University of Beirut (AUB). He has worked extensively indevelopment throughout the Middle East and has served as a consultant tothe United Nations and the World Bank. He is the author of Food, Farmingand Freedom (2011).Tariq Tell is the author of Social Origins of Hashemite Rule (2010). Hehas published on Jordanian-Palestinian relations, political liberalisationunder King Hussein and on the agrarian development of the East Bank, aswell as editing two academic works on the social and political history ofmodern Jordan.NEXT READSeasons of HungerFighting Cycles of Starvation Among the World’sRural PoorStephen Devereux, Bapu Vaitla and SamuelHauenstein Swan. Foreword by Robert ChambersPb 978-0-7453-2826-3 £9.99Hunger Watch Report 2007-08The Justice of Eating - the Struggle For Food andDignity in Recent Humanitarian CrisesAction Against Hunger, edited by SamuelHauenstein Swan and Bapu VaitlaPb 978-0-7453-2746-4 £8.99www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 13

Series: How to Read TheoryHow to Read Adornoand Horkheimer’sDialectic ofEnlightenmentNicholas R. LawrenceSeries: How to Read TheoryTheodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenmentis a formative text in the canon of critical theory, and a classic oftwentieth-century thought. Nick Lawrence’s excellent guide aidsstudents in their study of this central work.We now take for granted that the so-called ‘enlightenment’ is acomplicated and contested idea, yet Adorno and Horkheimer wereamong the first to argue that rational and progressive discourse –premised on the goal of controlling nature and liberating humanityfrom fear – can carry within it the seeds of regression. This bookintroduces students to the context within which Dialectic ofEnlightenment was written, giving special attention to the intellectualdebates surrounding its composition. Key concepts from the text -such as ‘enlightenment’, ‘myth’ and ‘the domination of nature’ - aredescribed and contextualised.This book is an invaluable tool for students and lecturers who needto engage with this key text.December 2011160pp 177mm x 125mmPb 978-0-7453-3034-1 £12.99Hb 978-0-7453-3035-8 £45Nicholas R. Lawrence is Associate Professor in the Department ofEnglish and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.NEXT READNegativity and RevolutionAdorno and Political ActivismEdited by John Holloway, Fernando Matamoros andSergio TischlerPb 978-0-7453-2836-2 £22.99How to Read Marx’s CapitalStephen ShapiroPb 978-0-7453-2561-3 £14.99www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 15

Why do films on the Iraq war fail at the box office?A ‘Toxic Genre’The Iraq War FilmsJune 2011216pp 215mm x 135mm 16 photographsPb 978-0-7453-3129-4 £18.99Hb 978-0-7453-3130-0 £60“A criticalmultidimensionalanalysis of how film culturedeals with war and politics.Clearly written, broadlyinformed, and engaginglyinsightful.Michael Parentiauthor of The Face of Imperialism“An excellent and originalanalysis. Lucidly argued.Geoff KingDirector of the Screen Media Research Centre at BrunelUniversity, London“One of the best studiesyet of filmmaking in ourcontemporary age of war. Anindispensable guide both toa challenging cycle of filmsand to the wider struggle ofcinema to be seriously politicaltoday.David SlocumProfessor at the Berlin School of Creative Leadership,Steinbeis University and editor of Hollywood and WarMartin BarkerOver the last five years, a cycle of films has emerged addressing theongoing Iraq conflict. Some became well-known and one of them, TheHurt Locker, won a string of Oscars. But many others disappeared intoobscurity. What is it about these films that led Variety to dub them a‘toxic genre’?Martin Barker analyses the production and reception of theserecent Iraq war films. Among the issues he examines are the borrowingof soldiers’ YouTube styles of self-representation to generate an‘authentic’ Iraq experience, and how they take refuge in ‘apolitical’post-traumatic stress disorder. Barker also looks afresh at some classicissues in film theory: the problems of accounting for film ‘failures’, theshaping role of production systems, the significance of genre-namingand the impact of that ‘toxic’ label.A ‘Toxic Genre’ is fascinating reading for film studies students andanyone interested in cinema’s portrayal of modern warfare.Martin Barker is Research Professor at Aberystwyth University. Hehas researched and published widely on topics ranging from comic books,censorship campaigns, arguments over ‘dangerous media’, methods of filmanalysis, and audiences for films ranging from Judge Dredd and Crash toBeing John Malkovich and The Lord of the Rings.NEXT READReel PowerHollywood Cinema and American SupremacyMatthew Alford. Foreword by Michael ParentiPb 978-0-7453-2982-6 £14.99From Antz to TitanicReinventing Film AnalysisMartin Barker and Thomas AustinPb 978-0-7453-1579-9 £18.9916www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

Creative alternatives to money-based economiesLife Without MoneyBuilding Fair and Sustainable EconomiesEdited by Anitra Nelson and Frans TimmermanThe money-based global economy is failing. The credit crunchundermined capitalism’s ability to ensure rising incomes andprosperity while market-led attempts to combat climate change arefought tooth and nail by business as environmental crises continue.We urgently need to combat those who say ‘there is no alternative’to the current system, but what would an alternative look like? Thecontributors to Life Without Money argue that it is time radical, nonmarketmodels were taken seriously. The book brings together diversevoices presenting strong arguments against our money-based system’sability to improve lives and prevent environmental disaster. Crucially,it provides a direct strategy for undercutting capitalism by refusingto deal in money, and offers money-free models of governance andcollective sufficiency.Life Without Money is written by high-profile activist scholars,including Harry Cleaver, Ariel Salleh and John O’Neill, making it anexcellent text for political economy and environmental courses, as wellas an inspiring manifesto for those who want to take action.Anitra Nelson is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School ofGlobal Studies, Social Science and Planning at RMIT University (Australia).She is the author of Marx’s Concept of Money: The God of Commodities (1999)and edited Steering Sustainability in an Urbanizing World: Policy Practice andPerformance (2007).November 2011256pp 215mm x 135mmPb 978-0-7453-3165-2 £17.99Hb 978-0-7453-3316-8 £60Frans Timmerman was socialist faction leader in the Australian LaborParty and political adviser to members of parliament. He edited FreePalestine (1979–1990), published by the General Palestinian Delegation inAustralia.NEXT READThe Future of MoneyFrom Financial Crisis to Public ResourceMary MellorPb 978-0-7453-2994-9 £17.99Basic IncomeThe Material Conditions of FreedomDaniel RaventósPb 978-0-7453-2629-0 £16.99www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 17

New series: The Future of World CapitalismRemaking ScarcityFrom Capitalist Inefficiency to EconomicDemocracyCostas PanayotakisSeries: The Future of World CapitalismOctober 2011224pp 215mm x 135mmPb 978-0-7453-3099-0 £18.99Hb 978-0-7453-3100-3 £60The dominant schools of neoclassical and neoliberal economics tell usthat material scarcity is an inevitable product of an insatiable humannature. Against this, Costas Panayotakis argues that scarcity is in fact aresult of the social and economic processes of the capitalist system.The overriding importance of the logic of capital accumulationaccounts for the fact that capitalism is not able to make a rational useof scarce resources and the productive potential at the disposal ofhuman society. Instead, capitalism produces grotesque inequalities andunnecessary human suffering, a toxic consumerist culture that fails tosatisfy, and a deepening ecological crisis.Remaking Scarcity is a powerful challenge to the current economicorthodoxy. It asserts the core principle of economic democracy, thatall human beings should have an equal say over the priorities of theeconomic system, as the ultimate solution to scarcity and ecologicalcrisis.“Scarcity, capitalistproducedscarcity, provesto be an extraordinarilyenlightening vantage pointfrom which to analyzeboth capitalism and itssocialist alternatives. CostasPanayotakis’s book provides anextremely scholarly, insightfuland well-argued contribution– with ecology and feminismgiven the attention oftendenied them – to this cruciallyimportant literature. HighlyRecommended!Bertell OllmanDepartment of Politics, New York University, author ofDance of the Dialectic: Marx’s Method and other worksCostas Panayotakis teaches Sociology at New York City Collegeof Technology. He has published on political economy, ecology andsocial movements and has been interviewed by numerous radio and TVprogrammes in the United States and abroad. He is the Book Review editorof the international journal Capitalism Nature Socialism.NEXT READInequality and the GlobalEconomic CrisisDouglas DowdPb 978-0-7453-2943-7 £18.99Tax JusticePutting Global Inequality on the AgendaEdited by Matti Kohonen and Francine MestrumPb 978-0-7453-2861-4 £18.9918www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

New series: The Future of World CapitalismThe Birth of CapitalismA 21st Century PerspectiveHenry HellerSeries: The Future of World CapitalismIn the light of the deepening crisis of capitalism and continued non-Western capitalist accumulation, Henry Heller re-examines the debatessurrounding the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe andelsewhere.Focusing on arguments about the origin, nature and sustainabilityof capitalism, Heller offers a new reading of the historical evidenceand a critical interrogation of the transition debate. He advances theidea that capitalism must be understood as a political as well as aneconomic entity. This book breathes new life into the scholarship,taking issue with the excessively economistic approach of RobertBrenner, which has gained increasing support over the last ten years.It concludes that the future of capitalism is more threatened than everbefore.The new insights in this book make it essential reading for engagedstudents and scholars of political economy and history.Henry Heller is a Professor of History at the University of Manitoba,Canada. He is the author of The Cold War and the New Imperialism: A GlobalHistory, 1945-2005 (2006); The Bourgeois Revolution in France (2006) andLabour, Science and Technology in France 1500-1620 (1996).August 2011320pp 215mm x 135mmPb 978-0-7453-2959-8 £19.99Hb 978-0-7453-2960-4 £65NEXT READMarx’s ‘Capital’Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-FilhoPb 978-0-7453-3016-7 £12.99Economics TransformedDiscovering the Brilliance of MarxRobert AlbrittonPb 978-0-7453-2657-3 £17.99www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 19

Why Ireland’s economy crashed so badly...Ireland’s EconomicHistoryCrisis and Uneven Development in theNorth and SouthSeptember 2011256pp 215mm x 135mmPb 978-0-7453-3030-3 £17.99Hb 978-0-7453-3031-0 £60Gerard McCannWith clarity and depth, Gerard McCann explores the complexdevelopments that have shaped Ireland’s economic development,north and south, and led to recurring crises and instability.The Irish economy has been traditionally portrayed as a productof its political divisions and the colonial legacy, divided and analysedin terms of the hegemonic tensions that exist on the island.Influenced by these divisions, academics have tended to look at atwo-region approach to economic development, without adequatelyacknowledging the interactive nature of the island economy as a sourceof the crises or as a solution to systemic divergence.McCann’s definitive and dynamic history of the Irish economycircumvents conventional analyses and investigates the economicdevelopment of the island economy as a whole, highlighting whereaggressive differentiation has been divisive and destabilising. Heconcludes by considering an alternative integrated and cohesiveprocess of economic development.Gerard McCann is a Senior Lecturer in European Studies and Geographyat St Mary’s University College (Queen’s University, Belfast). He is Directorof the Global Dimension in Education project and coordinates partnershipinitiatives with colleges in Africa and the Middle East. He has writtenextensively on the European Union’s development and education policies.NEXT READWe the Peoples of EuropeSusan GeorgePb 978-0-7453-2633-7 £14.99Cosmopolitan IrelandGlobalisation and Quality of LifeCarmen Kuhling and Kieran KeohanePb 978-0-7453-2649-8 £17.9920www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

...And how to pick up the piecesTowards a SecondRepublicIrish Politics after the Celtic TigerPeadar Kirby and Mary P. MurphyDuring the 1990s and 2000s, the Irish ‘Celtic Tiger’ model ofdevelopment was hailed as a model for other European countries, butthe global economic crisis has completely removed the credibility ofIreland’s approach. So where does the country go now?Towards a Second Republic analyses Ireland’s economics, politicsand society, drawing important lessons from its cycles of boomand bust. Peadar Kirby and Mary Murphy expose the winners andlosers from the current Irish model of development and relates thesedistributional outcomes to the use of power by Irish elites. The authorsexamine the role of the EU and compare Ireland’s crisis and responsesto those of other states.More than just an analysis of the economic disaster in Ireland,the book is also a proposal to construct new and more effectiveinstitutions for the economy and society. It is a must read for studentsof Irish politics and political economy.Peadar Kirby is Professor of International Politics and Public Policy inthe University of Limerick. He is the author of Celtic Tiger in Collapse (2010)and co-editor of Transforming Ireland (2009).October 2011256pp 215mm x 135mm 2 figuresPb 978-0-7453-3055-6 £17.99Hb 978-0-7453-3056-3 £60Mary P. Murphy is a lecturer in Irish Politics and Society, NationalUniversity of Ireland Maynooth. She has published in journals includingCommunity Development Journal and New Political Economy. She has workedin various campaigning groups and is an advocate for social justice andequality.NEXT READSinn Féin and the Politics ofLeft RepublicanismEoin Ó BroinPb 978-0-7453-2462-3 £18.99Understanding ContemporaryIrelandEdited by Brendan Bartley and Rob KitchinPb 978-0-7453-2594-1 £21.99www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 21

Series: Modern European ThinkersHerbert MarcuseAn Aesthetics of LiberationMalcolm MilesSeries: Modern European ThinkersDecember 2011208pp 215mm x 135mm 3 black & white imagesPb 978-0-7453-3038-9 £22.95Hb 978-0-7453-3039-6 £65When capitalism is clearly catastrophically out of control and itsexcesses cannot be sustained socially or ecologically, the ideas ofHerbert Marcuse become as relevant as they were in the 1960s. This isthe first English introduction to Marcuse to be published for decades,and deals specifically with his aesthetic theories and their relation to acritical theory of society.Although Marcuse is best known as a critic of consumer society,epitomised in the classic One-Dimensional Man, Malcolm Milesprovides an insight into how Marcuse’s aesthetic theories evolvedwithin his broader attitudes, from his anxiety at the rise of fascism inthe 1930s through heady optimism of the 1960s, to acceptance in the1970s that radical art becomes an invaluable progressive force whenpolitical change has become deadlocked.Marcuse’s aesthetics of liberation, in which art assumes a primaryrole in interrupting the operation of capitalism, made him a key figurefor the student movement in the 1960s. As diverse forms of resistancerise once more, a new generation of students, scholars and activistswill find Marcuse’s radical theory essential to their struggle.Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory at the Universityof Plymouth. He is the author of Urban Utopias: The Built and SocialArchitectures of Alternative Settlements (2008), Cities & Cultures (2007),Urban Avant-Gardes: Art, Architecture & Change (2004), and Art, Space &the City (1997). He is co-editor of the Routledge Critical Introductions toUrbanism series.NEXT READMagical MarxismSubversive Politics and the ImaginationAndy MerrifieldPb 978-0-7453-3059-4 £17.99Crack CapitalismJohn HollowayPb 978-0-7453-3008-2 £17.9922www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

Series: Modern European ThinkersHannah ArendtA Critical IntroductionFinn BowringSeries: Modern European ThinkersHannah Arendt is one of the most famous political theorists of thetwentieth century, yet in the social sciences her work has rarely beengiven the attention it deserves. This careful and comprehensive studyintroduces Arendt to a wider audience.Finn Bowring shows how Arendt’s writings have engaged with andinfluenced prominent figures in the sociological canon, and how herideas may shed light on some of the most pressing social and politicalproblems of today. He explores her critique of Marx, her relationshipto Weber, the influence of her work on Habermas and the parallels anddiscrepancies between her and Foucault. This is a clearly written andscholarly text which surveys the leading debates over Arendt’s work,including discussions of totalitarianism, the public sphere and thenature of political responsibility.This book will bring new perspectives to students and lecturers insociology and politics.Finn Bowring is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences,Cardiff University. He is the author of André Gorz and the Sartrean Legacy(2000), and Science, Seeds and Cyborgs: Biotechnology and the Appropriationof Life (2003). His writing has also appeared in numerous scholarlyjournals, such as New Left Review, Telos, Radical Philosophy, Sociology,Capital and Class, Social Science and Medicine, Sociological Review, AnarchistStudies and Critical Social Policy.NEXT READCapitalism’s New ClothesEnterprise, Ethics and Enjoyment in Times ofCrisisColin CreminPb 978-0-7453-2814-0 £19.99August 2011320pp 215mm x 135mmPb 978-0-7453-3141-6 £19.99Hb 978-0-7453-3142-3 £65“Hannah Arendt: A CriticalIntroduction presents anoriginal and highly developedperspective on the influence ofArendt’s thinking on the socialsciences, just as scholars in anumber of related disciplinesare beginning to rethink therelevance of Arendt’s workbeyond political theory.Dimitris PapadopoulosReader in Sociology and Organisation at the Universityof Leicester and co-author of Escape Routes (Pluto, 2008)Jurgen HabermasDemocracy and the Public SphereLuke GoodePb 978-0-7453-2088-5 £22.99www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 23

The ups and downs of Eastern Europe’s economiesFirst the Transition,then the CrashEastern Europe in the 2000sSeptember 2011264pp 215mm x 135mm 6 FiguresPb 978-0-7453-3115-7 £25Hb 978-0-7453-3116-4 £75Edited by Gareth DaleThe 1989-91 upheavals in Eastern Europe sparked a tremendousacceleration of change. With the reverberations throughout the regionof the global crisis of 2008-10 a new phase has begun. This volumeidentifies and explores its major features.The book focuses on the relationships between geopolitics, theworld economy and class restructuring. The authors, from Eastern andWestern Europe, have been shaping scholarly debate about EasternEurope’s entry into the global political economy. Together, theircontributions show us a world far away from the simple neoliberalconceit of creaking communist economies witnessing rapid transitionsto efficient markets, democracy and political liberty. Neoliberalinterpretations of the global crash are also challenged.With chapters covering the Balkans, Czech Republic, Hungary,Latvia, Poland, Russia and Ukraine, this is a thorough and completesurvey of the brutal reality of capitalism for Eastern Europe.Gareth Dale is senior lecturer in politics and international relations atBrunel University. He belongs to the editorial boards of Debatte: Journalof Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, and International Socialism.His previous books include a trilogy on East Germany, and a study of thewritings of Karl Polanyi.NEXT READChange in Putin’s RussiaPower, Money and PeopleSimon PiraniPb 978-0-7453-2690-0 £17.99Poland’s New CapitalismJane HardyPb 978-0-7453-2456-2 £17.9924www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

Can the welfare state survive the cuts?The Rise and Fall of theWelfare StateAsbjørn WahlIn an age of government imposed austerity, and after 30 years of neoliberalrestructuring, the future of the welfare state looks increasinglyuncertain. Asbjørn Wahl offers an accessible analysis of the situationacross Europe, identifies the most important challenges and presentspractical proposals for combating the assault on welfare.Wahl argues that the welfare state should be seen as the result ofa class compromise forged in the 20th century, which means that itcannot easily be exported internationally. He considers the enormousshifts in power relations and the profound internal changes to thewelfare state which have occurred during the neo-liberal era, pointingto the paradigm shift that the welfare state is going through. This isillustrated by the shift from welfare to workfare and increased topdowncontrol.As well as being a fascinating study in its own right that will appealto students of economics and politics, The Rise and Fall of the WelfareState also points to an alternative way forward for the trade unionmovement based on concrete examples of struggles and alliancebuilding.Asbjørn Wahl is director of the Campaign for the Welfare State. Heis also an adviser at the Norwegian Union of Municipal and GeneralEmployees and holds an elected position at the International TransportWorkers’ Federation. He is an active member of the Labour andGlobalisation network.NEXT READDecent CapitalismA Blueprint for Reforming our EconomiesSebastian Dullien, Hansjörg Herr and ChristianKellermannPb 978-0-7453-3109-6 £17.99Labour and the Challenges ofGlobalizationWhat Prospects For Transnational Solidarity?Edited by Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg andDevan PillayPb 978-0-7453-2756-3 £21.99November 2011240pp 215mm x 135mm 10 figures, 4 tablesPb 978-0-7453-3139-3 £18.99Hb 978-0-7453-3140-9 £60“This scholarly andthoughtful yet accessiblebook is relevant to the wholeof Europe and the world. Thesocial model of the WelfareState is one of the greatestconquests in the entire historyof human emancipationand the ongoing attempt todestroy it is a crime againsthumanity. We should read it,learn from it and organise soas to fight back with all ourstrength.Susan GeorgePresident of the Board of the Transnational Institute“An importantcontribution to thecurrent debate about thefuture of the welfare state.A must read for debatersand policy makers who seekinspiration.Peter WaldorffGeneral Secretary of the PSIwww.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 25

Series: Anthropology, Culture and SocietyHumans and OtherAnimalsCross-Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal InteractionsSamantha HurnSeries: Anthropology, Culture and SocietyDecember 2011228pp 215mm x 135mmPb 978-0-7453-3119-5 £18.99Hb 978-0-7453-3120-1 £60Humans and Other Animals is about the myriad and evolving waysin which humans and animals interact, the divergent culturalconstructions of humanity and animality found around the world, andindividual experiences of other animals.Samantha Hurn explores the work of anthropologists andscholars from related disciplines concerned with the growing field ofanthrozoology. Case studies from a wide range of cultural contexts arediscussed, and readers are invited to engage with a diverse range ofhuman-animal interactions including blood sports (such as hunting,fishing and bull fighting), pet keeping and ‘petishism’, eco-tourismand wildlife conservation, working animals and animals as food. Theidea of animal exploitation raised by the animal rights movements isconsidered, as well as the anthropological implications of changingattitudes towards animal personhood, and the rise of a posthumanistphilosophy in the social sciences more generally.Key debates surrounding these issues are raised and assessed and,in the process, readers are encouraged to consider their own attitudestowards other animals and, by extension, what it means to be human.Samantha Hurn is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of WalesTrinity Saint David where she convenes an award-winning MA programmein Anthrozoology. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Wales,Andalusia, South Africa and Swaziland.NEXT READEco-Sufficiency and GlobalJusticeWomen Write Political EcologyEdited by Ariel SallehPb 978-0-7453-2863-8 £19.99Sick PlanetCorporate Food and MedicineStan CoxPb 978-0-7453-2740-2 £16.9926www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

Series: Anthropology, Culture and SocietyThe Capability of PlacesMethods for Modelling CommunityResponse to Intrusion and ChangeSandra WallmanSeries: Anthropology, Culture and SocietyHow can we assess the ability of a place to respond to challengeslike migration, recession and disease? Places which seem similarcan respond very differently, and with varying degrees of success, toexternal threats and to the interventions designed to manage them.In this magisterial work, drawing on decades of research, SandraWallman explores how we can measure and compare the resilience ofcommunities, looking in detail at neighbourhoods in London, Romeand Zambia. Each locale is examined as a system which is more or lessopen or closed; open systems tend to be more resilient when facedwith external challenges.As well as being a fascinating study in its own right, the bookincludes detailed accounts of the research methods used, as well asa user-friendly typology for classifying local systems, making it aninvaluable tool for students, researchers and policy-makers.Sandra Wallman is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology atUniversity College London. She is the author of Kampala Women Getting by:Wellbeing in the Time of AIDS and Eight London Households.NEXT READHome Spaces, Street StylesContesting Power and Identity in a South AfricanCityLeslie J. BankPb 978-0-7453-2327-5 £19.99The Trouble with CommunityAnthropological Reflections on Movement, Identityand CollectivityVered Amit and Nigel RapportPb 978-0-7453-1746-5 £21.99August 2011192pp 215mm x 135mm 30 figuresPb 978-0-7453-3145-4 £21.99Hb 978-0-7453-3146-1 £70“Fieldwork, comparison,team collaboration,longitudinal research – allin one study, and one book!There is a sophisticatedethnographic eye, and aproductive synthesis ofperspectives from socialanthropology and relatedfields. As anthropologistsrenew their methodology, toface widening practical andtheoretical challenges, theycan learn much from SandraWallman’s team.Ulf HannerzProfessor Emeritus of Social Anthropology, StockholmUniversity and author of Cultural Complexity (1992),Transnational Connections (1996) and Anthropology’sWorld (Pluto, 2010).www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 27

Series: Anthropology, Culture and SocietyThe Gas FieldDiscordant Developments and the Politics ofSurvival in BangladeshKaty GardnerSeries: Anthropology, Culture and SocietyDecember 2011216pp 215mm x 135mmPb 978-0-7453-3149-2 £17.99Hb 978-0-7453-3150-8 £60What happens when a vast multinational mining company operatesa gas plant situated close to four densely populated villages in ruralBangladesh? How does its presence contribute to local processesof ‘development’? And what do corporate claims of ‘communityengagement’ involve? Drawing from author Katy Gardner’slongstanding relationship with the area, The Gas Field reveals thecomplex and contradictory ways that local people attempt to connectto, and are disconnected by, foreign capital.Everyone has a story to tell: whether of dispossession andscarcity, the success of Corporate Social Responsibility, or imperialistexploitation and corruption. Yet as Gardner argues, what reallymatters in the struggles over resources is which of these stories areheard, and the power of those who tell them.Based around the discordant narratives of dispossessed landowners, urban activists, mining officials and the rural landless, TheGas Field touches on some of the most urgent economic and politicalquestions of our time, including resource ownership and scarcity,and the impact of foreign investment and industrialisation on globaldevelopment.Katy Gardner lectures in Social Anthropology at the University ofSussex and is the author of several books including, Global Migrants, LocalLives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh (1995) and, with DavidLewis, Anthropology, Development and the Post-modern Challenge (Pluto,1996).NEXT READThe Political Economy of NGOsState Formation in Sri Lanka and BangladeshJude L. FernandoPb 978-0-7453-2171-4 £19.99Songs At the River’s EdgeStories From a Bangladeshi VillageKaty GardnerPb 978-0-7453-1094-7 £19.9928www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

Paradigm PublishersSecond EditionJuly 2011656pp 241mm x 184mmPb 978-1-6120-5029-4 £29.95Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New ZealandNinth EditionA ContemporaryIntroduction toSociologyCulture and Society in TransitionJeffrey C. Alexander, Kenneth Thompson andLaura D. EdlesA Contemporary Introduction to Sociology is the first truly newintroductory sociology textbook in decades, written by leadingsociologists at the cutting edge of theory and research.The second edition continues to invite students to reflect upontheir lives within the context of the combustible leap from modernto postmodern life. The authors show how culture is central tounderstanding many world problems as they challenge readers toconfront the risks and potentialities of a postmodern era in which thefutures of both the physical and social environment seem uncertain.As culture rapidly changes in the 21st century, the authors havebroadened their analysis to cover developments in social media andnew data on gender and transgender issues.Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor ofSociology at Yale University, where he is Codirector of the Center forCultural Sociology. Among his many influential books is The Civic Sphere(2006).Kenneth Thompson is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the OpenUniversity, UK, and has held positions at Yale, UCLA and Rutgers. He is theauthor of Moral Panics (1998).The Urban WorldJ. John PalenLong the leading text in urban sociology, The Urban World continuesto provide a comprehensive, balanced, up-to-date, cross-cultural lookat cities and suburbs around the world. Offering a 21st century viewof the changing urban scene, the text covers evolving urban patternsand the changing nature of urban life. Combining expert scholarshipwith a readable style that students appreciate, J. John Palen is one ofAmerica’s leading urban sociologists, who travels the world and addsnew insights gleaned firsthand to each succeeding edition of his text.The ninth edition includes a wealth of updates including the2010 US census data and the impact of the recession on the urbanlandscape. The rapid developments in Indian and Chinese cities arealso covered.October 2011416pp 235mm x 178mmPb 978-1-6120-5043-0 £45Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New ZealandJ. John Palen is Professor Emeritus at Virginia CommonwealthUniversity. He is the author of over a dozen books and has received theVirginia Commonwealth University Distinguished Scholar Award. He is aDistinguished Fulbright Chair and has held the Fulbright Chair in NorthAmerican Studies at the University of Calgary.36www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

Paradigm PublishersThe Long SixtiesFrom 1960 to Barack ObamaTom HaydenIn this unique and compelling book Tom Hayden argues that BarackObama would not have been able to mount a successful presidentialcampaign without the movements of the 1960s.The Long Sixties shows that movements throughout history triumphover Machiavellians, gaining social reforms while leaving bothrevolutionaries and reactionaries frustrated. Hayden argues that the1960s left a critical imprint on America, from civil rights laws to thebirth of the environmental movement, and forced open the politicalprocess to women and people of colour. He urges President Obama tocontinue this legacy with a popular programme of economic recovery,green jobs and health care reform.The Long Sixties is a carefully researched history which will beof interest to activists, journalists and historians as the fiftiethanniversary of the 1960s begins.Tom Hayden , activist, senator, and Professor at Occidental College, isauthor most recently of Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s (Red HenPress, 2003).Boycotts and DixieChicksCreative Political Participation at Home andAbroadAndrew S. McFarlandBoycotts and Dixie Chicks introduces the concept of ‘creative politicalparticipation’, collective political actions which do not use traditionalmethods and which are innovative, collaborative and creative incharacter.Andrew S. McFarland discusses creative participation on issuesconcerning the environment, political corruption, consumer rights,and transnational issues. He draws on specific examples includinganti-corruption demonstrations in contemporary rural China,community action in 1890s Wisconsin, consumer boycotts of ShellOil, ExxonMobil, the Nestlé Corporation, and the Dixie Chicksmusic group, the ‘colour revolutions’ and transnational fair trade andtransparency activism.Written in an engaging, everyday language and using a widevariety of sources and case studies, Boycotts and Dixie Chicks ishighly recommended for students of alternative social and politicalmovements and sociology.Andrew S. McFarland is Professor of Political Science and a Fellow ofthe Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois-Chicago.July 2011192pp 229mm x 152mmPb 978-1-5945-1740-2 £12.99Hb 978-1-5945-1739-6 £16.99Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New ZealandApril 2011192pp 229mm x 152mmPb 978-1-5945-1820-1 £14.99Hb 978-1-5945-1819-5 £55Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New Zealandwww.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 37

Paradigm PublishersAmerican SocietyToward a Theory of Societal CommunityTalcott Parsons, edited by Giuseppe Sciortino.Foreword by Jeffrey C. AlexanderSeries: The Yale Cultural Sociology SeriesNever before published, American Society is the product of TalcottParsons’ last major theoretical project.Completed just a few weeks before his death, this is Parsons’promised ‘general book on American society’. It offers a systematicpresentation and revision of Parson’s landmark theoretical positionson modernity and the possibility of objective sociological knowledge.Even after the passage of many years, American Society imparts aremarkably provocative interpretation of US society and a creativeapproach to social theory.July 2011537pp 229mm x 152mmPb 978-1-5945-1228-5 £29.95Hb 978-1-5945-1227-8 £55Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New ZealandTalcott Parsons (1902–1979) was the eminent Harvard sociologistwho sought to integrate all the social sciences into a science of humanaction. Among his influential books are The Structure of Social Action (1967)and Politics and Social Structure (1969).Giuseppe Sciortino , Associate Professor of Sociology at the Universitàdi Trento, Italy, is the editor of Parsons’ The Structure of Social Action andContemporary Debates (2001).Globalizing SportHow Organizations, Corporations, Media,and Politics are Changing SportGeorge H. SageSport is enjoyed by millions of people across the world, and bothwatching and playing sport constitutes a major part of modern leisuretime. But sport is also a huge worldwide industry.In Globalizing Sport, George Sage invites readers to explore a deeperunderstanding of the global dynamics of sport – not only competitionsbut of the big businesses of money, media coverage, athletic appareland more. He shows how phenomena such as migration, labour,commerce and politics affect the athletes and the fans, continuallyreshaping the business and experience of sport.Globalizing Sport puts sport in its political, economic and socialcontext, revealing its connections with businesses, countries, mediaoutlets and education systems.April 2011272pp 229mm x 152mmPb 978-1-5945-1758-7 £16.99Hb 978-1-5945-1757-0 £60Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New ZealandGeorge H. Sage is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Kinesiologyat the University of Northern Colorado. He has authored or co-authored16 books. He was inducted into the National Association for Sport andPhysical Education Hall of Fame in 2006.38www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

Paradigm PublishersEnding HungerWorldwideGeorge KentWhy does hunger persist in a world of plenty? Ending HungerWorldwide challenges the naïve notion that everyone wants hungerto end, arguing that the powerful care – but not enough to make adifference.George Kent argues that the central focus in overcoming hungershould be on building stronger communities. It is these communitieswhich can provide mutual support to ensure that people don’t gohungry. Kent demonstrates that there is not a shortage of food but ofwhat Amartya Sen terms ‘opportunities’, and that developing tightknitcommunities will lead to more opportunities for the hungry andundernourished.Ending Hunger Worldwide challenges dominant market-ledsolutions, and will be essential reading for activists, NGO workers anddevelopment students looking for a fresh perspective.George Kent is a Professor of Political Science at the Universityof Hawai’i. His work centres on finding remedies for social problems,particularly finding ways to strengthen the weak in the face of the strong.He works on human rights, international relations, peace, development,and environmental issues, with a special focus on nutrition and children.August 2011240pp 229mm x 152mmPb 978-1-5945-1893-5 £17.99Hb 978-1-5945-1892-8 £60Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New ZealandDemocratic Policing ina Changing WorldPeter K. ManningDemocratic policing today is a widely used approach to policing notonly in Western societies but increasingly around the world. Yet itis rarely defined and it is little understood by the public and even bymany of its practitioners.Peter K. Manning draws on political philosophy, sociology andcriminal justice to develop a widely applicable fundamental conceptionof democratic policing. In the process he delineates today’s relationshipbetween democracy and policing.Democratic Policing in a Changing World documents the failureof police reform, showing that each new approach – such as crimemapping and ‘hot spots’ policing – fails to alter any fundamentalpractice and has in fact increased social inequalities. He offers a newand better approach for scholars, policy makers, police, governmentsand societies.Peter K. Manning is the Brooks Professor of Criminal Justice atNortheastern University-Boston. He is the author of Policing Technology: AnEthnographic Study of Crime Mapping (2007).June 2011256pp 229mm x 152mmPb 978-1-5945-1546-0 £18.99Hb 978-1-5945-1545-3 £50Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New Zealandwww.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 39

Paradigm PublishersBinding Their WoundsAmerica’s Assault on Its VeteransRobert J. Topmiller and T. Kirby NeillThe victims of US military campaigns are usually nameless civilians infar away places, but there are also victims closer to home - the soldiersso often used and then discarded by the establishment. Binding TheirWounds is a book about US veterans written by a US veteran - Bob‘Doc’ Topmiller.Topmiller fought in Vietnam, founded a school for orphans there,and become a professor of history before he tragically committedsuicide. Close friend and scholar Kerby Neill stepped in to completethe book. The result is a history of US veterans and their treatment bythe US establishment from the early republic to the recent wars in Iraqand Afghanistan.Binding Their Wounds offers policy recommendations to improvepost-conflict treatment and care for veterans which are long overdue.July 2011224pp 229mm x 152mmPb 978-1-5945-1572-9 £14.99Hb 978-1-5945-1571-2 £60Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New ZealandRobert J. Topmiller served in Vietnam and later became a professor ofhistory at Eastern Kentucky University. He wrote two books on Vietnam:The Lotus Unleashed: The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam 1964–1966 (2002) and Red Clay on My Boots: Encounters with Khe Sanh 1968 to2005 (2007).T. Kirby Neill is a Navy veteran and clinical psychologist. He is theauthor of Helping Others Help Children: Clinical Supervision of ChildPsychotherapy (2006).Family of FreedomPresidents and African Americans in theWhite HouseKenneth T. WalshBarack Obama is the first African American President, but the historyof African Americans in the White House long predates him. Thebuilding was built by slaves, and African Americans have worked in itever since, from servants to advisors.In charting the history of African Americans in the White House,Kenneth T. Walsh illuminates the trajectory of racial progress in theUS. He looks at Abraham Lincoln and his black seamstress and valet,debates between President Johnson and Martin Luther King over civilrights, and the role of black staff members under Nixon and Reagan.Family of Freedom gives a unique view of US history as seen throughthe experiences of African Americans in the White House.May 2011288pp 229mm x 152mmHb 978-1-5945-1833-1 £17.99Kenneth T. Walsh is one of the longest-serving White Housecorrespondents in history and former president of the White HouseCorrespondents’ Association. He is an adjunct professorial lecturer ofcommunication at American University in Washington, DC.Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New Zealand40www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

Paradigm PublishersBeyond BoundariesThe Manning Marable ReaderManning Marable, edited by Russell RickfordManning Marable, historian and political scientist at ColumbiaUniversity, has been a consistent voice challenging inequality andinjustice in the social sciences for decades. Beyond Boundaries bringstogether Marable’s best writing from the last two decades and willprove invaluable to anyone seeking to challenge race, class and genderinequalities today.A pioneering intellectual in the field of black studies and thefounder of Columbia’s Institute for Research in African-AmericanStudies, Marable blends the disciplines of history, political science andsociology to address contemporary concerns and social issues.Manning Marable is one of America’s most influential and widelyread scholars. Since 1993, he has been Professor of Public Affairs, PoliticalScience, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University.From 1993 to 2003, he was founding director of the Institute for Researchin African-American Studies at Columbia University.Russell Rickford is an Assistant Professor of History at DartmouthUniversity. He is the author of a biography of Dr Betty Shabazz, MalcolmX’s wife.The New EvolutionarySocial ScienceHuman Nature, Social Behavior, and SocialChangeHeinz-Jürgen Niedenzu, Tamás Meleghyand Peter Meyer. Foreword by Stephen K.SandersonSocial scientists have long declared their autonomy from the naturalsciences, and in doing so have tended to neglect important biologicalconstraints on human nature. Many sociological theories havesuggested a nearly complete malleability of patterns of social life.The New Evolutionary Social Science challenges this view by buildingon Stephen K. Sanderson’s ‘Darwinian conflict theory’ which set out tosynthesise sociological theories with key findings from biology into anoverarching scientific paradigm.The New Evolutionary Social Science develops a new basis forunderstanding social change and the world’s future through a betterintegration of the natural and social sciences.Heinz-Jürgen Niedenzu is Associate Professor of Sociology at theUniversity of Innsbruck, Austria.Tamás Meleghy is Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck.Peter Meyer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Augsburg,Germany.July 2011336pp 229mm x 152mmPb 978-1-5945-1862-1 £17.99Hb 978-1-5945-1861-4 £60Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New ZealandMay 2011270pp 229mm x 152mmPb 978-1-5945-1397-8 £25Hb 978-1-5945-1396-1 £65Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New Zealandwww.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 41

Paradigm PublishersDeploying OurselvesIslamist Violence, Globalization, and theResponsible Projection of U.S. ForceDavid A. WestbrookSeries: Great Barrington BooksIn Deploying Ourselves, David A. Westbrook puts the case for majorreform of US national security. He argues that today’s national securityestablishment is outdated and entrenched in a model of defence morebefitting the post-World War II Cold War era than today’s realities.In a world without military peers, Westbrook argues, the US mustre-create its institutions in order to wield influence globally, based onco-operation with other states and groups. Deploying Ourselves includesspecific proposals to make US national security institutions moredemocratically accountable.July 2011192pp 229mm x 152mmPb 978-1-5945-1744-0 £14.99Hb 978-1-5945-1743-3 £55Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New ZealandMay 2011208pp 229mm x 152mmPb 978-1-5945-1654-2 £19.99Hb 978-1-5945-1653-5 £55Not available in North America, Japan, Australiaand New ZealandDavid A. Westbrook is Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar andProfessor of Law at the University at Buffalo. His books include City of Gold:An Apology for Globalization in a Time of Discontent (2003) and Out of Crisis:Rethinking Our Financial Markets (2009).Bureaucratic Cultureand Escalating WorldProblemsAdvancing the Sociological ImaginationBernard Phillips, edited by J. DavidKnottnerusSeries: The Sociological ImaginationOn the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The SociologicalImagination by C. Wright Mills, the ‘bureaucratic ethos’ that hedescribed continues to define our world more than ever before.In Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems elevencontributors systematically continue and develop Mills’ broad visionof the scientific method. They analyse escalating bureaucratic barriersthat prevent us from solving our many pressing social, environmental,and economic problems.Bernard Phillips was a student of C. Wright Mills. He taught at theUniversities of North Carolina, Illinois and Boston.J. David Knottnerus is Professor of Sociology at Oklahoma StateUniversity. He has authored and coedited numerous articles and booksin the areas of social theory, social psychology, and social structure/inequality.42www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

Paradigm PublishersImmortality inSportsWib LeonardA sociological account of sport using theidea of the ‘postself’ - how individualsregard themselves and want to beremembered by the public.On MediaMaking Sense of PoliticsDoris A. GraberRenowned media scholar challengesthe view that the US public has becomeignorant. Her research shows thatpeople understand many political issues.August 2011128pp 216mm x 140mmHb 978-1-5945-1960-4£50September 2011160pp 203mm x 127mmHb 978-1-5945-1474-6£55September 2011416pp 235mm x 156mmHb 978-1-5945-1946-8£95Handbook onWorld SocialForum ActivismEdited by Jackie Smith,Ellen Reese, Scott Byrd andElizabeth SmytheDocuments the rise of the World SocialForums. Succinct chapters include ananalysis of the social forum decisionmaking process.July 2011224pp 229mm x 152mmPb 978-1-5945-1731-0£16.99Cheese Factorieson the MoonWhy Earmarks Are Good forAmerican DemocracyScott A. Frisch and Sean Q.KellyArgues that congressional ‘earmarks’,which direct funds to specific projects,are good for American democracy.September 2011144pp 229mm x 152mmHb 978-1-5945-1940-6£55RevolutionizingFeminismAnne E. LacsamanaThe first feminist analysis of thecontemporary human rights crisis in thePhilippines, where over 1,000 activistshave been murdered since 2002.Second EditionDecember 2011304pp 229mm x 152mmHb 978-1-5945-1988-8£65Trafficking andProstitutionReconsideredNew Perspectives on Migration, SexWork, and Human RightsEdited by Kamala Kempadoo,Jyoti Sanghera and BandanaPattanaikNew and updated edition of theacclaimed collection on humantrafficking. Includes a new introduction,updated chapters and a whole newsection.www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 43

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Paradigm PublishersThe Global Powerof TalkNegotiating America’s InterestsReligion, Politics,Society, and theStateDecember 2011224pp 229mm x 152mmHb 978-1-5945-1942-0£60Fen Osler Hampson and I.William ZartmanA sharp analysis of negotiation failuresin US foreign policy. The authors seek toimprove ‘talk power’ as an alternative to‘gun power’.September 2011256pp 229mm x 152mmHb 978-1-5945-1921-5£60Edited by Jonathan FoxLeading scholars offer new insightsinto the global intersection of religionand politics, using a wide range of casestudies and perspectives.August 2011272pp 229mm x 152mmHb 978-1-5945-1934-5£60Uprising atBowling GreenHow the Quiet Fifties became thePolitical SixtiesNorbert Wiley, Joseph B. Perryand Arthur G. NealVivid history of a pivotal student protestwhich has been largely forgotten butmarked the transition from 1950sconservatism to 1960s radicalism.June 2011256pp 229mm x 152mmHb 978-1-5945-1951-2£60Medicine andPublic Healthat the End ofEmpireHoward WaitzkinThe untold story of how corporationshave influenced global health care,including recent changes to health carein the US after the financial crisis.Party Systemsand CountryGovernancePublic Sociologyand Civil SocietyGovernance, Politics, and PowerKenneth Janda and Jin-YoungKwakPatricia Mooney NickelJuly 2011224pp 229mm x 152mmHb 978-1-5945-1932-1£60Based on analysis of political partysystems in 212 countries, the authorsprovide a range of invaluable insightsinto how to build good governance.August 2011224pp 229mm x 152mmHb 978-1-5945-1976-5£60Combines various academicunderstandings of the practice ofknowledge and governance in relationto conceptions of public sociology andcivil society.www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 45

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IndexAlert 2011! 31Alexander, Jeffrey C. 36Alexander, Jeffrey C. 34American Society 36Assault on Universities, The 1Azoulay, Ariella 6Bailey, Michael 1Barat, Frank 7Barker, Martin 14Basnyat, Nishchal 9Beal, Tim 8Beyond Boundaries 39Binding Their Wounds 38Birth of Capitalism, The 17Border Watch 27Bowring, Finn 21Boycotts and Dixie Chicks 35Bryner, Gary C. 42Bureaucratic Culture andEscalating World Problems 40Byrd, Scott 41Capability of Places, The 25Cheese Factories on the Moon 41Cities 42Contemporary Introduction to Sociology, A 34Corporate Complicity in Israel’s Occupation 7Cortright, David 33Crashing the Tea Party 32Crisis in Korea 8Dale, Gareth 22Democratic Policing in a Changing World 37Deploying Ourselves 40DiMaggio, Anthony 32Donald, Alastair 4ECP 31Edles, Laura D. 34Empty Bread Basket, The 11Ending Hunger Worldwide 37Ending Obama’s War 33Face of Imperialism, The 32Family of Freedom 38First the Transition, then the Crash 22Fisas Armengol, Vicenç 31Flammable Societies 29Fox, Jonathan 43Freedman, Des 1Freire, Paulo 42Frisch, Scott A. 41From Palestine to Israel 6Future of Kurdistan, The 29Gardner, Katy 26Gas Field, The 26Global Power of Talk, The 43Globalizing Sport 36Goldstone, Jack A. 42Graber, Doris A. 41Grannis, Susanna W. 10Hall, Alexandra 27Hampson, Fen Osler 43Handbook on World Social Forum Activism 41Hannah Arendt 21Happel, Klaus 29Hayden, Tom 35Heller, Henry 17Herbert Marcuse 20History Of Democracy, The 28Hope Amidst Despair 10How To Read Adorno And Horkheimer’sDialectic Of Enlightenment 13How To Read Foucault’s Discipline And Punish 12Humans and Other Animals 24Hurn, Samantha 24Immortality in Sports 41Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban 2Ireland’s Economic History 18Irizarry, Jason 42Janda, Kenneth 43Kaufmann, Eric P. 42Kelly, Sean Q. 41Kempadoo, Kamala 41Kent, George 37Kings to Comrades 9Kirby, Peadar 19Knottnerus, J. David 40Kwak, Jin-Young 43Lacsamana, Anne E. 41Latinization of U.S. Schools, The 42Lawrence, Nicholas R. 13Leonard, Wib 41Life Without Money 15Logan, Owen J 29Long Sixties, The 35Lure of the City, The 4Manning, Peter K. 37Marable, Manning 39McCann, Gerard 18McFarland, Andrew S. 35McNeish, John-Andrew 29Medicine and Public Health at theEnd of Empire 43Meleghy, Tamás 39Meyer, Peter 39Miles, Malcolm 20Mohamedou, Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould 3Monroe, Kristen Renwick 42Murphy, Mary P. 19Neal, Arthur G. 43Neill, T. Kirby 38Nelson, Anitra 15New Evolutionary Social Science, The 39Nickel, Patricia Mooney 43Niedenzu, Heinz-Jürgen 39Obama in Office 33Öcalan, Abdullah 29On Media 41Palen, J. John 34Panayotakis, Costas 16Parenti, Michael 32Parsons, Talcott 36Party Systems and Country Governance 43Pattanaik, Bandana 41Peace Processes Yearbook 2011 31Pedagogy of Commitment 42Penny, Laurie 5Perry, Joseph B. 43Phillips, Bernard 40Political Demography 42Prison Writings Volume II 29Protecting the Global Environment 42Public Sociology and Civil Society 43Reese, Ellen 41Religion, Politics, Society, and the State 43Remaking Scarcity 16Revolutionizing Feminism 41Rickford, Russell 39Riot Porn 5Rise and Fall of the Welfare State, The 23Roper, Brian S. 28Sage, George H. 36Sanderson, Stephen K. 39Sanghera, Jyoti 41Scannell, Raymond Joshua 42Schwan, Anne 12Science, Ethics, and Politics 42Sciortino, Giuseppe 36Shahzad, Syed Saleem 2Shapiro, Stephen 12Smith, Jackie 41Smythe, Elizabeth 41Street, Paul 32Tell, Tariq 11Thompson, Kenneth 34Thurber, James A. 33Timmerman, Frans 15Toft, Monica Duffy 42Topmiller, Robert J. 38Towards a Second Republic 19‘Toxic Genre’, A 14Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered 41Understanding Al Qaeda 3Uprising at Bowling Green 43Urban World, The 34Wahl, Asbjørn 23Waitzkin, Howard 43Walker, Alice 7Wallman, Sandra 25Walsh, Kenneth T. 38Westbrook, David A. 40Wiley, Norbert 43Williams, Austin 4Winstanley, Asa 7Yildiz, Kerim 29Zartman, I. William 43Zurayk, Rami 1150www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress

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