Spring 2016 - Pluto Press

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As we announce our Spring 2016 books, we’re excited that so many
of them address the most pressing issues today – in the UK, in
Europe, and across the globe.
Our partnership with the Left Book Club develops in leaps and
bounds with three new titles:
Being Red, by Ken Livingstone, is an apposite ref lection on the
challenges facing the Labour Party in the aftermath of the 2015
general election. Livingstone has form on this topic: his book will be
a must-read.
Samir Jeraj and Rosie Walker’s The Rent Trap paints a grim picture
of the private rental sector in the UK – and the escalating fight back
for secure, affordable accommodation for all.
And in Cut Out, Jeremy Seabrook documents the devastating effects
of the demolition of the welfare state by an ideologically-driven
Tory government.
Owen Hatherley’s The Chaplin Machine recounts the hidden (and
unexpectedly comedic) history of Soviet film, art and architecture.
And finally, for the hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising
we publish three very different books on Irish radicalism: Kieran
Allen’s 1916, Geoffrey Bell’s Hesitant Comrades and a new edition of
the bestselling biography of the heroic Bobby Sands.
Start reading!
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New Highlight
The Chaplin Machine
Slapstick, Fordism and the International
Communist Avant-Garde
Owen Hatherley
In The Chaplin Machine, Owen Hatherley unearths the hidden history
of Soviet film, art and architecture. Turning upside down the common
view that the Communist avant-garde was austere and humourless, he
reveals an unexpected comedic streak which found its inspiration in
the slapstick of the American performers Charlie Chaplin and Buster
Keaton.
Hatherley examines through this Americanised prism a comedy
of technology, which began on Henry Ford’s production lines
and transcended political and cultural boundaries to become an
international phenomenon.
What did it mean for socialists to combine the ideas of Chaplin
and Ford? Did their experiments suggest a new future conception of
work and leisure? And to what degree was this emphasis on comedy
a precursor to the weirdly festive despotism of Stalin? The Chaplin
Machine is a bold, new interpretation of twentieth-century art history.
OWEN HATHERLEY is a writer based in Woolwich and Warsaw,
contributing regularly to Architects Journal, Icon, the Guardian and New
Humanist. He is the author of several books, most recently A New Kind
of Bleak (Verso, 2012), Across the Plaza (Strelka, 2012) and Landscapes of
Communism (Allen Lane, 2015).
MAY 2016
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‘A brave, incisive, elegant and
erudite writer’
WILL SELF
‘One of the most distinctive
writers in England - acuity,
contrariness, observational
rigour, frankness and
beautifully wrought prose’
JONATHAN MEADES
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‘Ireland may yet set the torch to a European
conf lagration that will not burn out until the last
throne and last capitalist bond will be shrivelled
on the funeral pyre of the last war lord.’
James Connolly, 1914
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New Highlight
1916
Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition
Kieran Allen
Published amidst the 100th anniversary commemorations of the
Easter Rising, this alternative history of Ireland in 1916 will provide
a lesser-known narrative and analysis of events that surrounded
Ireland’s great political upheaval.
Kieran Allen clears away established assumptions by focussing on
the uprising’s revolutionary tradition; one that was betrayed, but never
eradicated, and that is needed now more than ever in a country that
has been laid low by austerity and debt repayments.
The book focuses on the clash between the socialists’ aspirations
and the republican current, and how both were ultimately crushed
in the counter-revolution that accompanied the Anglo-Irish treaty of
1921.
By re-establishing the political role of socialist republican figures
such as James Connolly, 1916: Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition explores
the militancy and radicalism that continues to haunt the Irish elite one
hundred years later.
KIERAN ALLEN is a sociology lecturer at University College Dublin. His
books include Marx and the Alternative to Capitalism (Pluto, 2011) and Max
Weber: A Critical Introduction (Pluto, 2004) as well as a number of works on
Irish society and politics.
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Hesitant Comrades
The Irish Revolution and the British Labour
Movement
Geoffrey Bell
Pb 978-0-7453-3660-2 £16.99
JANUARY 2016
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Bobby Sands
Nothing But an Unfinished Song
Denis O'Hearn
Pb 978-0-7453-3633-6 £14.99
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Launched by a collective of activists, writers and
trade unionists, the Left Book Club believes, as did
the organisers of the first Club in the 1930s, that
books, and the discussion of ideas, are vital for the
development of progressive politics in Britain.
Left
Five Book
years Club
into austerity: how we can avoid a lost decade
Being Red
A Politics For The Future
Ken Livingstone
How should the left govern? In Being Red, Ken Livingstone provides a
definitive account of both his years at the head of the Greater London
Council and his two terms as London Mayor, offering a clear-sighted
study of the democratic left’s possibilities and limitations, including
reflections on the current state of the Labour Party and a look into its
future.
At a time when many are now looking to revive Labour’s progressive
potential, Livingstone has form. His account takes us from the
self-proclaimed ‘radical socialism’ of the GLC, to his controversial
independent candidacy that saw him branded as ‘dangerous’ and ‘antibusiness’ by the Blairites, to the political battles against privatisation
and pollution that characterised his time as Mayor. At each point,
he suggests possible lessons for those who would seek to follow, or
improve, on his achievements today.
KEN LIVINGSTONE is an English politician who has twice held the leading
political role in London regional government. He served as the Leader
of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the Council was
abolished in 1986, and then as the first elected Mayor of London from
the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008. He also served as the MP for
Brent East from 1987 to 2001. His autobiography, You Can’t Say That, was
published by Faber & Faber in 2011.
FEBRUARY 2016
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Kindle 978-1-7837-1814-6 £12.99
These books are published in partnership with
the new Left Book Club, inspired by the LBC of
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Book Club
The Rent Trap
How We Fell Into It and How We Get Out of
It
Samir Jeraj and Rosie Walker
MARCH 2016
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Deregulation, revenge evictions, parliamentary corruption and dayto-day instability: these are the realities for the eleven million people
currently renting privately in the UK. At the same time, house prices
are skyrocketing and the generational promise of home ownership
is now an impossible dream for many. This is the rent-trap, an
inescapable consequence of market-induced inequality.
Samir Jeraj and Rosie Walker offer the first critical account of what
is really going on in the private rented sector and expose the powers
which are conspiring to oppose regulation. A quarter of British MPs
are landlords, rent strike is almost impossible and snap evictions are
growing, but in the light of these hurdles The Rent Trap will show how
people are starting to fight back.
Drawing on inspiration from movements in the UK, Europe and
further afield, The Rent Trap will cohere current experiences of those
fighting the financial burdens, health risks and vicious behaviour of
landlords in an attempt to put an end to the dominant narratives that
normalise rent extraction and undermine our fundamental rights.
SAMIR JERAJ is a journalist who specialises in housing and worked as a
city councillor. His work has appeared in the Guardian, New Statesman and
the New Internationalist. He has carried out investigations on the bedroom
tax, crisis financial support and drone warfare.
ROSIE WALKER is a writer and researcher interested in housing and
poverty. She has worked as a researcher for LSE, University of Bristol and
University of Brighton, and as a journalist for the Independent and Third
Sector. While writing an MSc dissertation on private renting, she was
evicted by her landlord for asking for a new chest of drawers.
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Cut Out
Living Without Welfare
Jeremy Seabrook
Britain’s welfare state, one of the greatest achievements of our
post-war reconstruction, was regarded as the cornerstone of modern
society. Today, that cornerstone is being wilfully dismantled by
a succession of governments, with horrifying consequences. The
establishment paints pictures of so-called ‘benefit scroungers’; the
disabled, the sickly and the old.
In Cut Out: Living Without Welfare, Jeremy Seabrook speaks to
people whose support from the state – for whatever reason – is
now being withdrawn, rendering their lives unsustainable. In turns
disturbing, eye-opening and ultimately humanistic, these accounts
reveal the reality behind the headlines, and the true nature of British
politics today.
JEREMY SEABROOK is a journalist and writer. He has written for the New
Statesman, Guardian, Times and Independent. He writes plays for stage and
TV and is the author of numerous books including Pauperland: Poverty and
the Poor in Britain (Hurst, 2013) and The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of
Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh (Hurst, 2015).
JUNE 2016
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Praise for previous books:
‘Seabrook has established
himself as Britain’s
finest anatomist of class,
deindustrialisation, migration
and the spiritual consequences
of neoliberalism’
SUKHDEV SANDHU, GUARDIAN
These books are published in partnership with
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the 1930s. www.leftbookclub.com
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Revolutionary Lives
Paul Robeson
The Artist as Revolutionary
Gerald Horne
A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of
American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen
languages. These could be the crowning achievements of a life welllived, yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling of social justice led him
to abandon both the NFL and Hollywood and become one of the most
important political activists of his generation - battling both Jim Crow
and Joseph McCarthy.
Gerald Horne's new biography uses Robeson's remarkable and
revolutionary life to tell the story of the 20th century's great political
struggles: against racism, against colonialism, and for international
socialism. This critical and searching account provides an opportunity
for readers to comprehend the triumphs and tragedies of the
revolutionary progressive movement of which Robeson was not just a
part, but, perhaps, its most resonant symbol.
JANUARY 2016
272pp 198mm x 129mm 10 photographs
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OCTOBER 2015
176pp 198mm x 129mm
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GERALD HORNE holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History
and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He has
published more than thirty books including The Counter-Revolution of
1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the USA (NYU Press, 2014) and
Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African
American Freedom Struggle (University of Illinois Press, 2013).
AUGUST 2013
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AUGUST 2015
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NOVEMBER 2011
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Revolutionary Lives
Mohandas Gandhi
India’s Non-violent revolutionary?
Talat Ahmed
This book introduces the life of the most iconic figure of Indian
nationalism. Gandhi remains an inspirational individual for
contemporary audiences. As an apostle of non-violence, he is
celebrated in countless books and films.
Today, in an age of permanent war, Gandhi’s message of non-violent
resistance resonates internationally among a new generation. And
yet he remains something of an enigma. In India he was supported
by businessmen and landlords as well as the poor. The British derided
him as an anarchist and the left condemned him as a 'mascot of
the bourgeoisie'. Today his ideas are championed and condoned by
similarly diverse groups.
Talat Ahmed’s approach is to locate Gandhi as an activist within
India's history. She engages with the contemporary debates about
Gandhi’s ideas on non-violence, direct action and strategies for social
change. This is a book that will challenge the deification of Gandhi
without airbrushing his role out of the South Asian landscape.
TALAT AHMED teaches History at the University of Edinburgh. She is a
Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a member of the British Association
for South Asian Studies. Her research focuses on the intellectual and
cultural history of modern South Asia.
MAY 2012
168pp 198mm x 129mm
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Epub 978-1-8496-4674-1 £12.99
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MAY 2012
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Epub 978-1-8496-4680-2 £12.99
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MAY 2016
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SEPTEMBER 2013
176pp 198mm x 129mm
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FEBRUARY 2014
168pp 198mm x 129mm
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Epub 978-1-7837-1017-1 £12.99
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We Slaves of Suriname
Anton de Kom
Translated and introduced by Karwan Fatah-Black and
Antonio Carmona Báez
We Slaves of Suriname is an original history of the barbaric formation
of the Dutch colony in South America. It is the life's work of Anton
De Kom, the son of a slave who became a tireless resistance fighter
and communist activist, even during the German occupation of the
Netherlands in 1940.
In his defiant account, De Kom translates his personal anger at
the situation into beautiful, passionate history and call-to-arms. A
classic account of decolonial history, We Slaves of Suriname reveals
the experience of the oppressed across the Caribbean and adds to our
understanding of struggles against slavery, imperialism and racism.
First published in Dutch in 1934, and then translated into German
and Spanish, the book now finally sees its English translation at a time
when the people of Suriname are still struggling against the vestiges of
colonialism.
JANUARY 2016
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‘Of Dutch influence, of
Dutch energy, or of Dutch
civilisation, not a trace can
be found in the interior of
Sranan.
No path, no bridge, no house
bears the marks of Dutch
history.
All that the Whites knew of
that wilderness, the refuge
of escaped slaves, was that it
filled them with fear.’
ANTON DE KOM
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ANTON DE KOM was a Surinamese resistance fighter. His only book, We
Slaves of Suriname, made him a prominent anti-colonialist author. He was
part of the Dutch resistance and the Communist Party in The Hague after
the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940. He died after being
sent to a German concentration camp in 1945.
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The Dutch Atlantic
Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation
Kwame Nimako and Glenn Willemsen. Foreword by
Stephen Small
Pb 978-0-7453-3107-2 £21.99
Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon. Forewords by Homi K. Bhabha and
Ziauddin Sardar
Pb 978-0-7453-2848-5 £13.99
New Title
Burning Country
Syrians in Revolution and War
Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami
In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand
the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of
Syria has become a warzone where foreign journalists find it almost
impossible to report on life in this devastated land.
Burning Country explores the horrific and complicated reality of life
in present-day Syria with unprecedented detail and sophistication,
drawing on new first-hand testimonies from opposition fighters, exiles
lost in an archipelago of refugee camps, and courageous human rights
activists among many others. These stories are expertly interwoven
with a trenchant analysis of the brutalisation of the conflict and the
militarisation of the uprising, of the rise of the Islamists and sectarian
warfare, and the role of governments in Syria and elsewhere in
exacerbating those violent processes. With chapters focusing on ISIS and Islamism, regional geopolitics,
the new grassroots revolutionary organisations, and the worst
refugee crisis since World War Two, Burning Country is a vivid and
groundbreaking look at a modern-day political and humanitarian
nightmare.
ROBIN YASSIN-KASSAB is a regular media commentator on Syria and the
Middle East. He is the author of the novel The Road from Damascus (Hamish
Hamilton, 2008) and a contributor to Syria Speaks (Saqi, 2014).
JANUARY 2016
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LEILA AL-SHAMI has worked with the human rights movement in Syria
and elsewhere in the Middle East. She was a founding member of TahrirICN, a network that aimed to connect anti-authoritarian struggles across
the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.
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Doomed by Hope
Essays on Arab Theatre
Edited by Eyad Houssami. Foreword by Elias Khoury
Pb 978-0-7453-3354-0 £18.99
The Dawn of the Arab
Uprisings
End of an Old Order?
Edited by Bassam Haddad, Rosie Bsheer and Ziad
Abu-Rish. Foreword by Roger Owen
Pb 978-0-7453-3324-3 £19.99
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Chomsky Perspectives
NOAM CHOMSKY, dubbed the ‘father
of modern linguistics’, is also one of the world’s
foremost political commentators; the fly in the
ointment of American imperialism. A self-professed
anarcho-syndicalist, he continues to inspire new
generations of activists through his fierce critique.
He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of
Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and the author of
over one hundred books.
His website is chomsky.info.
‘One of the radical heroes of our age’ Guardian
Credit: Andrew Rusk
MARCH 2015
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MARCH 2015
464pp 198mm x 129mm
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MARCH 2015
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MARCH 2015
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Chomsky Perspectives
MARCH 2016
312pp 198mm x 129mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3548-3 £12.99
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SEPTEMBER 2015
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A collection of essays
written between 1986
and 2001 which explore
how ‘selected incidents of
terrorism’ are used as a
cover for Western violence
across the globe. For those
who want to understand
the roots of American
military actions in Iraq
and Afghanistan, recent
interventions in Libya, and
the on-going destruction
of Palestine this collection
remains invaluable.
First published in 2002.
SEPTEMBER 2015
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A vital compilation of
Chomsky’s writings on a
broad array of subjects.
Chomsky lifts the veil of
distortions that conceals
the workings of history
and social policy, and
reveals how the ‘new’ world
order is little more than a
remarketing of the old.
First published in 1996.
MARCH 2016
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SEPTEMBER 2015
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SEPTEMBER 2015
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New Title
Macroeconomics
A Critical Companion
Ben Fine and Ourania Dimakou
APRIL 2016
224 pp 230mm x 150mm
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Macroeconomics is fundamental to our understanding of how the
world functions today. But too often our understanding is based on
orthodox, dogmatic analysis. This distinctive book draws upon years
of critical questioning and teaching and exposes how macroeconomic
theory has evolved from its origins to its current impoverished and
extreme state.
Moving from the Keynesian Revolution to the Monetarist CounterRevolution, through to New Classical Economics and New Consensus
Macroeconomics, the authors both elaborate and question the
methods and content of macroeconomic theory at a level appropriate
for both undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
Macroeconomics: A Critical Companion provides a unique alternative
to the multitude of standard textbooks by locating macroeconomic
theory in its own history. It will be perfect for those studying
macroeconomics, as well as for those looking for a new way to
understand our increasingly complicated economic system.
BEN FINE is Professor of Economics at the University of London's School of
Oriental and African Studies. He is the co-author of Marx's ‘Capital’ (Pluto,
2010). He was awarded both the Deutscher and Myrdal Prizes in 2009.
OURANIA DIMAKOU is Lecturer in Economics at the University of
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London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. She specialises in
macroeconomic theory, policy and institutional design, particularly the
central bank independence paradigm.
New Title
Microeconomics
A Critical Companion
Ben Fine
Microeconomics: A Critical Companion offers students a clear and
concise exposition of mainstream microeconomics from a heterodox
perspective. Covering topics from consumer and producer theory
to general equilibrium to perfect competition, it sets the emergence
and evolution of microeconomics in both its historical and
interdisciplinary context.
From the culmination of forty years of teaching, research and
policy advice on political economy, Ben Fine critically exposes the
methodological and conceptual content of dominant microeconomic
models without sacrificing the technical detail required for those
completing a first degree in economics or entering postgraduate
study. The result is a book which is sure to establish a strong presence
on undergraduate reading lists and in comparative literature on the
subject.
NEXT READS
Marx's 'Capital'
APRIL 2016
224pp 230mm x 150mm 26-30 diagrams
Pb 978-0-7453-3607-7 £18.99
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Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho
Pb 978-0-7453-3016-7 £14.99
Economics for Everyone - 2nd
edition
A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism
Jim Stanford
Pb 978-0-7453-3577-3 £12.99
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New Title
Egypt
Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Philip Marfleet
This exploration of the game-changing events unfolding in Egypt today
reveals the Egyptian people’s experiences five years after the start of
the 'Arab Spring'.
Philip Marfleet draws on testimonies of participants across the
political spectrum, and uncovers their engagements in the streets,
workplaces, campuses and neighbourhoods, as well as in the more
formal political arena.
Marfleet argues that the ‘revolution’ is an ongoing process best
understood by examining the complex, changing relations among
its principal actors, as well as in everyday life. Many obituaries have
been written for Egypt’s attempted revolution, but those wanting to
understand how the upheaval has created deep and fundamental shifts
in Egyptian society and politics should look no further.
PHILIP MARFLEET has worked in the fields of Development Studies,
JUNE 2016
240pp 215mm x 135mm
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Hb 978-0-7453-3552-0 £60
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International Politics, Migration and Refugee Studies and Middle East
Studies. He is currently Associate Director of the Centre for Research on
Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London. He
is author of Migration, Theory and Culture (I.B.Tauris, 2015) and co-editor
with Rabab El-Mahdi of Egypt: The Moment of Change (Zed Books, 2009).
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Tweets and the Streets
Social Media and Contemporary Activism
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Paolo Gerbaudo
Pb 978-0-7453-3248-2 £17.99
New Title
Naija Marxisms
Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria
Adam Mayer
Since the 1940s, Marxist thought has blossomed in Nigeria. The
history of ‘Naija Marxism’ is also that of the country’s labour
movement, its feminist movement, its social thought and political
economy. It has been the mainstay of party politics in the case of
illegal Marxist party formations and legal anti-feudalist forces and
in the NGO sector. Long gone are the days when Marxism meant
imported pamphlets and a disconnected ideology.
In Naija Marxisms, Adam Mayer argues that Marxism is alive and
well in Nigeria. It includes pre-eminent thinkers such as Usman Tar
and Edwin Madunagu who are currently espousing a Marxian political
economy and providing a class-based approach in the country’s
mainstream media channels.
Drawn from years of research in Nigeria and elsewhere, Naija
Marxisms breaks new ground in tracing the historical trajectories that
leftist movements underwent since the 1940s. Mayer explores the
international context of Nigerian Marxism and provides core chapters
on key thinkers including Mokwugo Okoye, Ikenna Nzimiro and Eskor
Toyo among many others.
ADAM MAYER is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Webster
MAY 2016
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University, Thailand. Formerly he served with international NGOs in
Afghanistan, before teaching Politics at American University of Nigeria,
Yola.
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Frantz Fanon
Philosopher of the Barricades
Peter Hudis
Pb 978-0-7453-3625-1 £12.99
Storming Heaven
Class Composition and Struggle in Italian
Autonomist Marxism
Steve Wright
Pb 978-0-7453-1606-2 £24.99
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New Edition
Bobby Sands
Nothing But An Unfinished Song
Denis O’Hearn
This is the best-selling biography of the IRA resistance fighter and
hunger-striker, Bobby Sands. In this updated, new edition, Denis
O’Hearn draws from a wealth of interviews with friends, comrades,
fellow prisoners and prison warders, to provide a faithful and shocking
insight into life in Northern Ireland’s H-Block prisons, an exploration
of the motivations and thoughts of the Republican strikers and the
story of one of the world’s most radical, inspirational figures.
Following his journey from its very beginnings - an ordinary boy
from a working-class background in Belfast to a highly politicised,
articulate revolutionary whose death in HM Prison Maze sent
reverberations around the world, Bobby Sands: Nothing But An
Unfinished Song captures the atmosphere of the time and the vibrancy
of the man, a militant anti-imperialist who held on to his humanity
despite living through a bitter, ugly struggle.
DENIS O’HEARN is Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University, New
York. He has studied prison communities and conflict in the H-Blocks in
Ireland, Turkish F-type prisons, and US supermax prisons. His latest book
is Living at the Edges of Capitalism (University of California Press, 2016).
APRIL 2015
448pp 198mm x 129mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3633-6 £14.99
Epub 978-1-7837-1810-8 £14.99
Kindle 978-1-7837-1811-5 £14.99
Not available in North America
‘Bobby Sands, as this
magnificent biography
reminds us, was a hero for the
whole world. We cried when
he died, but he laughed in the
face of tyranny and taught
us the deepest meaning of
comradeship’
MIKE DAVIS, POLITICAL ACTIVIST AND HISTORIAN
‘Bobby is alive and vibrant on
every page’
LAURENCE MCKEOWN, FORMER IRA HUNGER-STRIKER
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New Title
A People's History of
Modern Europe
William A. Pelz
MAY 2016
256pp 230mm x 150mm 5-10 b&w images
Pb 978-0-7453-3245-1 £18
Hb 978-0-7453-3246-8 £65
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From the monarchical terror of the Middle Ages to the mangled
Europe of the twenty-first century, A People's History of Modern Europe
tracks the history of the continent through the deeds of those whom
mainstream history tries to forget.
Europe provided the perfect conditions for a great number of
political revolutions from below. The German peasant wars of Thomas
Müntzer, the bourgeoisie revolutions of the eighteenth century, the
rise of the industrial worker in England, the turbulent journey of the
Russian Soviets, the role of the European working class throughout
the Cold War, student protests in 1968 and through to the present
day, where we continue to fight to forge an alternative to the barbaric
economic system.
With sections focusing on the role of women, this history sweeps
away the tired platitudes of the privileged upon which our current
understanding is based, and provides an opportunity to see our
history differently.
WILLIAM A. PELZ is Director of the Institute of Working Class History in
Chicago and a Professor of History at Elgin Community College. His recent
works include Wilhelm Liebknecht and German Social Democracy (Greenwood
Press, 2015), The Eugene V. Debs Reader (The Merlin Press Ltd, 2014) and
Against Capitalism: The European Left on the March (Peter Lang Publishing,
2007).
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Work, Sex and Power
The Forces that Shaped Our History
Willie Thompson
Pb 978-0-7453-3340-3 £16.99
A Marxist History of the World
From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
Neil Faulkner
Pb 978-0-7453-3214-7 £18.00
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New Title
Hesitant Comrades
The Irish Revolution and the British Labour
Movement
Geoffrey Bell
This is the first published history of the policies, actions and attitudes
of the British working class towards the Irish national revolution of
1916-21.
Drawing principally on primary sources, Bell brings to light
important incidents in British/Irish history, including how the leaders
of British trade unions were complicit in Belfast loyalist sectarianism;
the troubled nature of the Labour Party’s relations with its Irish
community; and how the Bolsheviks criticised British Marxists over
their inaction on Ireland. The author also looks at socialist debates
on the compatibility of Irish nationalism with socialism and the
contentious ‘Ulster question’. Participants examined range from
Ramsey MacDonald to Sylvia Pankhurst.
Based on in-depth research - with sources ranging from newly
discovered writings to reports of police spies - Hesitant Comrades
is a scholarly, provocative and highly engaging ground-breaking
perspective on the fragile relationship between the British left and the
Irish revolution.
GEOFFREY BELL was born in Belfast and has written extensively about
Ireland and British attitudes to ‘The Troubles’, past and recent, for print,
television and exhibitions. These include Protestants of Ulster (Pluto), and
Pack Up the Troubles (Channel Four).
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1916
Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition
Kieran Allen
FEBRUARY 2016
320pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3660-2 £16.99
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Epub 978-1-7837-1741-5 £16.99
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Pb 978-0-7453-3632-9 £12.99
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New Title
Kropotkin and the
Anarchist Intellectual
Tradition
Jim Mac Laughlin
FEBRUARY 2016
320pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3512-4 £18.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3513-1 £70
Epub 978-1-7837-1738-5 £18.99
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This book rescues Peter Kropotkin's philosophy of anarchism from the
neglect that it has suffered in mainstream histories of the social and
environmental sciences.
Stressing Kropotkin’s intellectual strengths and the philosophical
integrity of anarchism, Jim Mac Laughlin counteracts the persistent
misrepresentation of anarchism as a utopian creed or a recipe for social
chaos and political disorder. Moving beyond most previous accounts
of Kropotkin's anarchism, Mac Laughlin focuses less on the man and
his political career, instead providing a sustained and critical reading
of his extensive writings on the social, historical and scientific basis of
modern anarchism.
The result is a thorough examination of a number of key themes
in Kropotkin's philosophy, including his concerted efforts to provide
anarchism with an historical and scientific basis; the role of mutualism
and mutual aid in social evolution and natural history; the ethics of
anarchism, and the anarchist critique of state-centred nationalism and
other expressions of power politics.
JIM MAC LAUGHLIN is a political geographer and social scientist. He has
published widely on state formation, regional identities, nation-building,
social exclusion, racism, emigration and the politics of the social and
environmental sciences. Among his several books are Reimagining the
Nation-State: The Contested Terrains of Nation Building (Pluto, 2001).
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The Anarchist Turn
Edited by Jacob Blumenfeld, Chiara Bottici and
Simon Critchley
Pb 978-0-7453-3342-7 £18.99
Post-Anarchism
A Reader
Edited by Duane Rousselle and Süreyyya Evren
Pb 978-0-7453-3086-0 £21.99
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New Title
Reconstructing Karl
Polanyi
Gareth Dale
Karl Polanyi was one of the most influential political economists
of the twentieth-century and is widely regarded as the most gifted of
social democrat theorists. In Reconstructing Karl Polanyi, Gareth Dale
draws upon primary sources archived in the countries that Polanyi
called home—Hungary, Austria, Britain, the USA and Canada—to
provide a sweeping survey of his contribution to the social sciences.
Gareth Dale excavates Polanyi’s views on a range of topics neglected
in the critical literature. He reconstructs and reinterprets Polanyi’s
philosophy of history, his theory of democracy, and his critical
dialogue with Marxism.
While the central threads and motifs of this study are intellectualhistoriographical in nature, Dale also critically analyses the views of
Polanyi and his followers on issues of pressing present-day relevance,
notably the ‘clash’ between democracy and capitalism, and the nature
and trajectory of European unification.
GARETH DALE is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
at Brunel University, England. His previous books include The East German
Revolution of 1989 (MUP, 2007) and Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market
(Polity, 2010).
JUNE 2016
288pppp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3518-6 £19.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3519-3 £70
Epub 978-1-7837-1792-7 £19.99
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Bruno Latour
Reassembling the Political
Graham Harman
Pb 978-0-7453-3399-1 £19.99
Hannah Arendt
A Critical Introduction
Finn Bowring
Pb 978-0-7453-3141-6 £21.99
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New Title
Footwork
Urban Outreach and Hidden Lives
Tom Hall
Footwork offers an original street-corner ethnography drawing on
the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city. It
shows how urban modernisation, development and politics impact
on the hidden lives of people living and working on the streets. From
the homeless to street drinkers and sex workers, this book reveals the
stories of the vulnerable and isolated – people living in the city we
often choose to ignore.
Footwork follows a project conducted over five years by a team of
outreach workers, tasked to look out for the homeless and others.
Care-working is central to the book, and ‘caring’ in this context
becomes a process of exploration and discovery.
Tom Hall draws on this project in this original, unusual book,
cohering aspects of urban geography, care work and street-level
poverty, violence and isolation.
MARCH 2016
274pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3057-0 £17.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3058-7 £60
Epub 978-1-7837-1765-1 £17.99
Kindle 978-1-7837-1766-8 £17.99
TOM HALL is a lecturer at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences,
where he teaches sociology, urban theory and ethnography. He has a PhD in
anthropology from the University of Cambridge and is the author of Better
Times Than This: Youth Homelessness in Britain (Pluto, 2003).
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Anthropology's World
Life in a Twenty-first-century Discipline
Ulf Hannerz
Pb 978-0-7453-3047-1 £18.99
On the Game
Women and Sex Work
Sophie Day
Pb 978-0-7453-1758-8 £24.99
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New Title
What is Modern Israel?
Yakov M. Rabkin
Few countries provoke as much passion and controversy as Israel.
What is Modern Israel? convincingly demonstrates that its founding
ideology - Zionism - is anything but a simple reaction to antisemitism.
Dispelling the notion that every Jew is a Zionist and therefore a
natural advocate for the state of Israel, the author points to the
Protestant roots of Zionism, thus explaining the particular support
Israel musters in the United States.
Drawing on many overlooked pages of history, including English,
French, Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian sources, Yakov Rabkin shows
that Zionism was conceived as a sharp break with Judaism and Jewish
continuity. Israel’s past and present must be seen in the context of
European ethnic nationalism, colonial expansion and geopolitical
interests, rather than as an incarnation of Biblical prophecies or a
culmination of Jewish history.
YAKOV M. RABKIN is Professor of History at the University of Montréal,
Canada. He has published and edited five books and more than three
hundred articles. His most recent book is A Threat from Within: A Century of
Jewish Opposition to Zionism (Zed Books, 2006).
NEXT READ
An Israeli in Palestine
MAY 2016
240pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3581-0 £16.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3582-7 £55
Epub 978-1-7837-1783-5 £16.99
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Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel
Jeff Halper
Pb 978-0-7453-3071-6 £21.99
Overcoming Zionism
Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/
Palestine
Joel Kovel
Pb 978-0-7453-2569-9 £18.99
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New Edition
The Universal
Journalist - Fifth
Edition
David Randall
This is a fully revised and updated edition of one of the world's
leading textbooks on journalism. Translated into more than a dozen
languages, and having been in print for twenty years, David Randall's
handbook is the best guide to the 'universals' of good journalistic
practice for professional and trainee journalists worldwide.
Randall emphasises that good journalism isn't just about universal
objectives: it must also involve the acquisition of a range of skills that
will empower journalists to operate in an industry where ownership,
technology and information are constantly changing. His acclaimed
account challenges old attitudes and rejects cynical, sloppy journalism.
The updated fifth edition ensures its relevance to contemporary
readers by addressing issues such as problems of 'de-skilling' in the
media and new tools for digital research.
APRIL 2016
272pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3676-3 £17.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3681-7 £60
Epub 978-1-7837-1777-4 £14.99
Kindle 978-1-7837-1778-1 £14.99
‘A wise, witty and extremely
entertaining read. Anyone
who aspires to be a journalist
should read Randall’
BRITISH JOURNALISM REVIEW
DAVID RANDALL is a British journalist and newspaper consultant.
Formerly assistant editor of the Observer, where his news pages won
awards, he has written, edited and lectured on newspapers in Britain,
Africa and Eastern Europe. He has been the Home Editor of the Independent
and News Executive at the Independent on Sunday, amongst many other
papers.
NEXT READ
Your Right to Know
A Citizen's Guide to the Freedom of Information
Act
Heather Brooke
Pb 978-0-7453-2582-8 £21.99
The Great Reporters
David Randall
Pb 978-0-7453-2296-4 £18.99
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New Edition
The War Correspondent
- Second Edition
Greg McLaughlin
The War Correspondent looks at the role of the war reporter today: the
attractions and the risks of the job; the challenge of objectivity and
impartiality in the war zone; the danger that journalistic independence
is being compromised by military control, censorship and public
relations; as well as the commercial and technological pressures of an
intensely concentrated, competitive news media environment.
This new edition substantially updates the original, ending with
an extended section on the return of history and ideology to the
reporting of international conflict. It examines the ‘war on terror’
framework that dominated the first decade of the twenty-first century
and, as Russia imposes itself once again on the international stage,
asks if it might well give way to a new Cold War framework. If so, what
will that mean for the new generation of war correspondents, attuned
not to history or ideology but to the politics of the next conflict?
The book features interviews with prominent war and foreign
correspondents such as John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Mary Dejevsky and
Alex Thomson.
GREG MCLAUGHLIN is Senior Lecturer in Media and Journalism at the
University of Ulster. His research interests are in media and conflict and
in local media and journalism. He is author, with Stephen Baker, of The
Propaganda of Peace: The Role of Media and Culture in the Northern Ireland
Peace Process (2010).
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Power Beyond Scrutiny
Media, Justice and Accountability
Justin Schlosberg
Pb 978-0-7453-3291-8 £17.99
FEBRUARY 2016
248pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3318-2 £17.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3319-9 £60
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‘Useful and insightful
suggestions on how the
always-tense relationship
between fighting forces and
reporting media can be made
more productive and efficient’
CHOICE
How to Look Good in a War
Justifying and Challenging State Violence
Brian Rappert
Pb 978-0-7453-3179-9 £18.99
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New title
Solidarity without
Borders
Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and
Civil Society Alliances
Edited by Óscar García Agustín and Martin
Bak Jørgensen
Series: Reading Gramsci
FEBRUARY 2016
240pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3631-2 £20
Hb 978-0-7453-3626-8 £65
Epub 978-1-7837-1762-0 £20
Kindle 978-1-7837-1763-7 £20
Solidarity without Borders looks at the micropolitics of migrants as
political actors by observing alliances between migrants and trade
unions, worker organisations and different constituencies, all read
within a Gramscian context.
This book presents an argument for Gramsci’s theory of the
formation of a transnational counter-hegemonic bloc, methods of
modern resistance and new forms of solidarity between these forming
groups. With case studies of the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey, social
movements in Ireland and the Lampedusa in Hamburg among others,
the argument is explored via national contexts and structured around
political dimensions.
Four themes are discussed: the diversity of new migrant political
actors; solidarity and new alliances across borders; avoiding misplaced
alliances; and spaces of resistance. Migrants are often deprived of
agency and placed outside the mobilisations taking place across
Europe. Solidarity without Borders will demonstrate how new solidarity
relations are shaped and how these may construct a new common
ground for struggle and for developing political alternatives.
ÓSCAR GARCÍA AGUSTÍN is Associate Professor at the Department
of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has
published articles on social movements, civil society, and political and
discourse theory. He has coedited Post-Crisis Perspectives: The Common and
its Powers (Peter Lang, 2013), Civil Society and Immigration: New Ways of
Democratic Transformation (Migration Letters, 2013) and Politics of Dissent
(Peter Lang, 2015).
MARTIN BAK JØRGENSEN is Associate Professor at CoMID at the
Department for Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark.
He works within the fields of sociology, political sociology and political
science. He has published articles in Internal Migration Review and Critical
Sociology among others.
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Gramsci on Tahrir
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt
Brecht De Smet
Pb 978-0-7453-3557-5 £20
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New title
Early Persian Empires
Power Structures in Achaemenid and
Sasanid Iran
Leila Papoli Yazdi and Maryam Dezhamkhooy
The focus of this book is on two major Persian empires, the
Achaemenid and the Sasanid. These imperial regions and their lasting
traditions have dictated our current understanding of historical
developments in Iran. Today, historians who write about these
empires have focused on the political history of the ancient power
holders. Almost completely absent from existing accounts are the
ways in which political structures were reproduced through actions of
‘ordinary’ people.
In this way, Early Persian Empires deconstructs the mainstream
nationalist-influenced discourse. It looks at how the Achaemenid and
Sasanid empires are represented in contemporary Iran. What place
does this heritage have in Iranian culture today? And how are their
material remains mobilised for political ends?
The authors engage with these periods by moving beyond
colonialism and nationalism, re-reading and deconstructing the two
empires as historical examples of dictatorial systems.
MAY 2016
240 pp 215mm x 135mm
Hb 978-0-7453-3553-7 £50
LEILA PAPOLI YAZDI is a Guest Professor at Freie Universitat, Berlin and
an assistant professor in Neyshabour University, Iran. She has directed
field projects in Iran, Pakistan and Kuwait. Her recent studies have been on
gender performativity, historical propaganda, violence and archaeology.
MARYAM DEZHAMKHOOY is Post-Doctoral Fellow at Universitat
Heidelberg, Germany and an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Archaeology, Birjand University, Iran. Her recent publications are on
gender and political interpretations of the historical era of Iran.
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The Roman Empire
Roots of Imperialism
Neville Morley
Pb 978-0-7453-2869-0 £18.99
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Anthropology, Culture and Society
Participatory
Democracy and the
Entanglements of the
State
The Limits to Citizen Power
Victor Albert
JUNE 2016
224pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3617-6 £18.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3612-1 £60
Epub 978-1-7837-1798-9 £18.99
Kindle 978-1-7837-1799-6 £18.99
In the twilight of Brazil’s military regime, a new autonomous union
movement emerged in the industrial city of Santo André that would
eventually lead to the formation of the Workers’ Party and a whole
raft of participatory reform. Today, Brazil is cited, and celebrated,
as a laboratory for popular and participatory forms of government.
However, no political project can exist entirely outside the power
relations from which it is trying to emerge.
Drawing on 16 months of ethnographic research, Victor Albert
provides a critical analysis of citizen participation in Santo André, in
Greater São Paulo. He explores how a limited administrative capacity,
a fractured and largely demobilised civil society, and a clientelism
and patronage politics all cut against the democratic grain, largely
relegating the participating citizenry to playing bit parts in the theatre
of local politics in which they should have starred.
Participatory Democracy and the Entanglements of the State offers a
fascinating window into how the power relations between political
appointees, public officials and local community activists is expressed
and reproduced in everyday interactions in public assemblies and
meetings. Albert also reveals how different social actors think and feel
about citizen participation away from formal assemblies, and how
they continue to engage in what is a tenuous, and at times mutually
distrustful, tactical and strategic relationship with political patrons.
VICTOR ALBERT is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Digital
Ethnography Research Centre, at the Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology University, in Melbourne, Australia.
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Race and Ethnicity in Latin
America
Peter Wade
Pb 978-0-7453-2947-5 £18.99
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Anthropology, Culture and Society
Base Encounters
The US Armed Forces in South Korea
Elisabeth Schober
Base Encounters explores the social friction that US bases have caused
in South Korea, where the entertainment districts next to American
military installations have come under scrutiny.
The Korean peninsula is one of the most heavily militarised
regions in the world and the conflict between the North and South is
continually exacerbated by the presence of nearly 30,000 US soldiers
in the area. Crimes committed in GI entertainment areas have been
amplified by an outraged public as both a symbol for, and a symptom
of, the uneven relationship between the United States and the small
East Asian nation.
Elisabeth Schober’s ethnographic history scrutinises these
controversial zones in and near Seoul. Sharing the lives of soldiers,
female entertainers and anti-base activists, she gives a comprehensive
introduction to the social, economic and political factors that have
contributed to the tensions over US bases in South Korea.
ELISABETH SCHOBER is a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Oslo. She
received her PhD from Central European University, Hungary. Schober has
conducted ethnographic field research in Austria, Slovenia, South Korea
and the Philippines.
APRIL 2016
224pp 215mm x 135mm 8-10 photographs
Pb 978-0-7453-3605-3 £21.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3610-7 £70
Epub 978-1-7837-1771-2 £21.99
Kindle 978-1-7837-1772-9 £21.99
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Crisis in Korea
America, China and the Risk of War
Tim Beal
Pb 978-0-7453-3162-1 £21.99
The Bases of Empire
The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts
Edited by Catherine Lutz
Pb 978-0-7453-2832-4 £19.99
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Recently Published
Jallad
Death Squads and State Terror in
South Asia
Tasneem Khalil
A deep, cutting edge analysis of the
politics and state mechanisms that
perpetuate human rights abuses in
South Asia
176pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3570-4 - £12.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3571-1 - £55
Syriza
Inside the Labyrinth
Kevin Ovenden. Foreword by
Paul Mason
A political overview of the rise and
victory of Syriza in Greece, with historical
analysis.
208pp 198mm x 129mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3686-2 - £12.99
War Against the
People
Israel, the Palestinians and Global
Pacification
Jeff Halper
A disturbing insight into the new
phenomenon of the 'securocratic' war in
the modern policed world, with a focus
on the Isreali state
352pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3430-1 - £14.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3431-8 - £60
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The Last Drop
The Politics of Water
Mike Gonzalez and Marianella
Yanes
A close look at the most political
resource on earth - water
224pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3491-2 - £14.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3492-9 - £55
Islamic State
Rewriting History
Michael Griffin
A fast-paced, narrative-driven account
of the rise of Islamic State, based on
thorough research
208pp 198mm x 129mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3651-0 - £12.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3656-5 - £50
China and the
21st Century
Crisis
Minqi Li
Ambitious study of China’s place
within a capitalist world economy and
ecological crisis
232pp 230mm x 150mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3538-4 - £18.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3537-7 - £60
Recently Published
Migrant Workers' Struggles Today
Southern
Insurgency
Edited by Aziz Choudry and
Mondli Hlatshwayo
The Coming of the Global Working
Class
This global volume explores migration,
precarious employment, transformation
of paid work and the political actions of
immigrant and migrant workers
Immanuel Ness
Just Work?
272pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3583-4 - £18.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3584-1- £60
Uncovering new forms of worker
organisations in India, South Africa and
China
240pp 215mm x 135mm Pb 978-0-7453-3599-5 - £16.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3600-8 - £60
A Critical Analysis
Debt or
Democracy
Mike Cole
Public Money for Sustainability and
Social Justice
Racism
A wide-ranging account of racism today
across three countries, informed by both
historical and comparative approaches
256pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3471-4 - £19.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3472-1 - £70
Queer Lovers and
Hateful Others
Regenerating Violent Times and
Places
Jin Haritaworn
Seeks to understand how post 9/11
society creates notions of negative
racial / sexual myths, such as the new
discourse on 'Muslim homophobia'.
224pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3061-7 - £16.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3062-4 - £65
Mary Mellor
A case for the common ownership of
money as a solution to the financial crisis
224pp 215mm x 135mm PB 978-0-7453-3554-4 - £18.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3555-1 - £60
The Secure and
the Dispossessed
How the Military and Corporations
are Shaping a Climate-Changed
World
Eds Nick Buxton & Ben Hayes
A collection of essays discussing how
the elite exploit the impact of climate
change and how local communities can
resist this process.
256pp 230mm x 150mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3696-1 - £18.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3691-6 - £60
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Bestsellers
Black Skin, White
Masks
Rebel Footprints
A Guide to Uncovering London's
Radical History
Frantz Fanon. Forewords by
Homi K. Bhabha and Ziauddin
Sardar
David Rosenberg. Foreword by
Billy Bragg
An illustrated walking guide book which
explains the radical history behind
London's landmarks.
A devastating account of the feelings of
inadequacy experienced by previously
colonised people in a white world.
320pp 198mm x 129mm Hand
illustrated maps & photographs
throughout
Pb 978-0-7453-3409-7 - £12.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3410-3 - £50
224pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-2848-5 - £13.99
Hb 978-0-7453-2849-2 - £55
SECOND EDITION
David Balzer
The Corporation
That Changed the
World
A criticism of the saturation of the
'curator' in art, business and everyday
life.
Nick Robins
Curationism
How Curating Took Over the Art
World and Everything Else
144pp 198mm x 129mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3597-1 - £9.99
How the East India Company Shaped
the Modern Multinational
Expanded and revised edition of the
highly praised history of the English East
India Company.
280pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3195-9 - £17.99
Hb 9780745331966 - £65
Staying Power
The History of Black People in
Britain
Peter Fryer. Introduction by
Paul Gilroy
The definitive history of black people
in Britain, an epic story that spans the
Roman conquest to the present day.
648pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3072-3 - £21.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3073-0 - £70
The Great
University
Gamble
Money, Markets and the Future of
Higher Education
Andrew McGettigan
A critical and deeply informed survey
of the brave new world of UK Higher
Education emerging from government
cuts and market-driven reforms.
232pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3293-2 - £17.99
Hb 9780-7-4533-294-9 - £65
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How Corrupt is
Britain?
@ is for Activism
Edited by David Whyte
Joss Hands
Looks at corruption in different arms
of the British state, and calls for
fundamental political change.
Examines the transformation of politics
through digital media, including digital
television, online social networking and
mobile computing.
Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in
a Digital Culture
208pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3530-8 - £16.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3529-2 - £55
224pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-2700-6 - £18.99
Hb 978-0-7453-2701-3 - £65
The Mythology of
Work
Tweets and the
Streets
How Capitalism Persists Despite
Itself
Social Media and Contemporary
Activism
Peter Fleming
Paolo Gerbaudo
How neoliberal society has changed the
superficial nature of work in order to
transform society into a pointless labour
experience.
Analyses the impact of new social media
on activism and political dissent, from
Cairo to New York.
224pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3486-8 - £17.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3487-5 - £60
208pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3248-2 - £17.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3249-9 - £65
SECOND EDITION
The Forgotten Women of the War
on Terror
Economics for
Everyone
Victoria Brittain. Foreword
by John Berger. Afterword by
Marina Warner
Jim Stanford
Shadow Lives
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'.
192pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3326-7 - £15.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3327-4 - £55
A Short Guide to the Economics of
Capitalism
Accessible, and critical, guide to key
economic concepts, relating them to
everyday experience.
432pp 230mm x 150mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3577-3 - £12.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3464-6 - £50
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Bestsellers
On Western
Terrorism
Stitched Up
The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion
From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare
Tansy E. Hoskins
Noam Chomsky and Andre
Vltchek
Delves into the exclusive and alluring
world of fashion, to expose class
division, gender stereotyping and
wasteful consumption.
A controversial and provocative
intervention from the world's greatest
dissident intellectual.
208pp 198mm x 129mm 21 photographs
Pb 978-0-7453-3387-8 £13.99
264pp 215mm x 135mm 11 line drawings
Pb 978-0-7453-3456-1 £15
Hb 978-0-7453-3290-1 £50
Theatre of the
Oppressed
The Fair Trade
Scandal
Augusto Boal
Marketing Poverty to Benefit the
Rich
‘Should be read by everyone who
has any pretensions to political
commitment.’ John Arden
192pp 215mm x 135mm 1 figure
Pb 978-0-7453-2838-6 £15.99
Hb 978-0-7453-2839-3 £50
Ndongo Samba Sylla
A provocative and deeply informative
exploration of the Fair Trade
phenomenon, suitable for specialists
and non-specialists alike.
208pp 215mm x 135mm 8 figures
Pb 978-0-7453-3424-0 £17.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3425-7 £60
The Heretic's
Guide to Global
Finance
Hacking the Future of Money
Brett Scott
Shows how activists can tap into the
internal dynamics of the sector to
disrupt it and showcases the growing
alternative finance movement.
272pp 198mm x 129mm 2 figures
Pb 978-0-7453-3350-2 £13.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3351-9 £55
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Against Austerity
How We Can Fix the Crisis They
Made
Richard Seymour
A blistering, accessible and invigorating
polemic against the current political
consensus.
208pp 198mm x 129mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3328-1 - £12.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3329-8 £50
Bestsellers - Middle East
Inside Al-Qaeda
and the Taliban
More Bad News
From Israel
Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11
Greg Philo and Mike Berry
Syed Saleem Shahzad
A unique insight into the post-Osama
bin Laden generation of al-Qaeda and
Taliban leaders from a journalist who
interviewed many of them.
280pp 215mm x 135mm 7 maps
Pb 978-0-7453-3101-0 £18.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3102-7 £65
SECOND EDITION
A History of
Modern Lebanon
Fawwaz Traboulsi
Second updated edition of the first
comprehensive history of Lebanon
in the modern period, by a leading
Lebanese intellectual.
320pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-3274-1 £22.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3275-8 £65
Large-scale examination of media
coverage of the current conflict in the
Middle East and the impact it has on
public opinion.
488pp 215mm x 135mm
Pb 978-0-7453-2978-9 £17.99
Hb 978-0-7453-2979-6 £55
Memoirs of
an Early Arab
Feminist
The Life and Activism of Anbara
Salam Khalidi
Anbara Salam Khalidi
Foreword by Marina Warner
The first English translation of the
memoirs of Anbara Salam Khalidi, the
iconic Arab feminist.
184pp 215mm x 135mm 17 photographs
Pb 978-0-7453-3356-4 £17.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3357-1 £60
SECOND EDITION
Israeli Apartheid
A Beginner's Guide
Ben White
Updated and expanded edition of
best-selling introduction to the IsraelPalestine conflict.
224pp 198mm x 129mm 7 maps, 8 figures, 12
photographs
Pb 978-0-7453-3463-9 £11.99
Hb 978-0-7453-3464-6 £45
White City
Black City
Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and
Jaffa
Sharon Rotbard
A new urban parable which uncovers the
original Palestinian history deliberately
hidden behind the modernist façade of
Tel Aviv.
256pp 215mm x 135mm with flaps, 80
photographs
Pb 978-0-7453-3511-7 £16.99
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Index
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Fatah-Black, Karwan 14
A People’s History of Modern
Europe24
Fine, Ben Agustín, Óscar García32
Ahmed, Talat 13
Albert, Victor 34
Hesitant Comrades25
Allen, Kieran7
Horne, Gerald 12
Al-Shami, Leila15
Jeraj, Samir10
Báez, Antonio Carmona 14
Jørgensen, Martin Bak 32
Base Encounters35
Being Red9
Kropotkin and the Anarchist
Intellectual Tradition26
Bell, Geoffrey 25
Livingstone, Ken 9
Seabrook, Jeremy 11
Bobby Sands23
Mac Laughlin, Jim 26
Solidarity without Borders32
Burning Country15
Macroeconomics18
The Chaplin Machine5
Chomsky, Noam 16, 17
Marf leet, Philip 20
The Rent Trap10
Cut Out11
Mayer, Adam 21
The Universal Journalist30
Dale, Gareth27
McLaughlin, Greg 31
The War Correspondent31
de Kom, Anton 14
Microeconomics19
Walker, Rosie 10
Dezhamkhooy, Maryam 33
Mohandas Gandhi13
We Slaves of Suriname14
Dimakou, Ourania 18
Naija Marxisms21
What is Modern Israel?29
Early Persian Empires33
O’Hearn, Denis 23
Yassin-Kassab, Robin 15
Egypt 20
Papoli Yazdi, Leila33
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Participatory Democracy and
the Entanglements of the State34
Footwork28
Paul Robeson12
Hall, Tom28
Pelz, William A. 24
Hatherley, Owen 5
Pirates and Emperors,
Old and New17
Powers and Prospects17
Rabkin, Yakov M. 29
Randall, David 30
Reconstructing Karl Polanyi27
Schober, Elisabeth35
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