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It focuses on the theme of workerism, or 'operaismo', which includes the refusal of work, class self-organisation, mass illegality and the extension of revolutionary agency, of of which are still practiced today by workers across the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmphasising the dynamic nature of class struggle as the distinguishing feature of workerist thought, Storming Heaven reveals how this form of radical politics developed alongside emerging social movements to great effect. It assesses the strengths and limitations of workerism as first developed by Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Sergio Bologna and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes a new chapter looking at the debates around operaismo and Autonomia since the book originally appeared in 2002, and is updated with a new foreword and afterword.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSteve Wright is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. He is the author of the classic survey of Italian autonomist theory \u003cem\u003eStorming Heaven \u003c\/em\u003e(Pluto, 2017), now in its second edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The best account in English of the developments of autonomous politics in Italy in the 1960s and '70s\" Michael Hardt, co-author with Antonio Negri of \u003cem\u003eEmpire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"As the most wide-ranging, historically nuanced and theoretically incisive treatment of the contested tradition of operaismo, Wright's book is an indispensable contribution to the study, critique or revitalisation of Italy's foremost contribution to Marxian heterodoxy\" Alberto Toscano Goldsmiths, University of London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A vital, lucid contribution to understanding how the red threads of Marxism are being rewoven into the fabric of twenty-first century radicalism\" Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of \u003cem\u003eCyber-Proletariat and Cyber-Marx\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by Harry Cleaver\u003cbr\u003e\nAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\nIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\n1. Weathering the 1950s\u003cbr\u003e\n2. Quaderni Rossi and the Workers' Enquiry\u003cbr\u003e\n3. Classe Operaia\u003cbr\u003e\n4. New Subjects\u003cbr\u003e\n5. The Creeping May\u003cbr\u003e\n6. Potere Operaio\u003cbr\u003e\n7. Toni Negri and the Operaio Sociale\u003cbr\u003e\n8. The Historiography of the Mass Worker\u003cbr\u003e\n9. The Collapse of Workerism\u003cbr\u003e\n10. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\nPostscript: Once More, With Feeling: A Bibliographic Essay\u003cbr\u003e\nAfterword to the Italian Edition by Riccardo Bellofiore \u0026amp; Massimiliano Tomba\u003cbr\u003e\nBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\nIndex\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Steve Wright\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780745399904\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 304 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Pluto\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175297232989,"sku":"9780745399904","price":36.45,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/storming_heaven.jpg?v=1654988346"},{"product_id":"towards-a-gay-communism","title":"Towards a Gay Communism: Elements of a Homosexual Critique","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in Italian in 1977, Mario Mieli's groundbreaking book is an early landmark of revolutionary queer theory – now available for the first time in a complete and unabridged English translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the most important works ever to address the relationship between homosexuality, homophobia and capitalism, Mieli's essay continues to pose a radical challenge to today's dominant queer theory and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith extraordinary prescience, Mieli exposes the efficiency with which capitalism co-opts 'perversions' which are then 'sold both wholesale and retail'. In his view, the liberation of homosexual desire requires the emancipation of sexuality from both patriarchal sex roles and capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing heavily upon Marx and psychoanalysis to arrive at a dazzlingly original vision, \u003cem\u003eTowards a Gay Communism \u003c\/em\u003eis a hitherto neglected classic that will be essential reading for all who seek to understand the true meaning of sexual liberation under capitalism today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMario Mieli was a leading figure in the Italian gay movement of the 1970s, respected as one of the movement's most profound intellectuals. He committed suicide in 1983 at the age of 30. His work \u003cem\u003eTowards a Gay Communism \u003c\/em\u003e(Pluto, 2018) was considered a controversial classic of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e What People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An indispensable, pioneering example of the long, difficult effort to articulate queer struggle with anti-capitalist struggle\" Kevin Floyd, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism \u003c\/em\u003e(University of Minnesota Press, 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mieli was ahead of his time... \u003cem\u003eTowards a Gay Communism \u003c\/em\u003ebelongs to a visionary tradition of ecstatic utopianism... A fascinating document of its departed moment, but also as renewable inspiration for our contemporary desire to envision a future that is foreign to today\" Tim Dean\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A just and timely tribute to one of theory's forgotten stars\" \u003cem\u003eTANK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword: 'I Keep My Treasure in My Arse' by Tim Dean\u003cbr\u003e Introduction by Massimo Prearo\u003cbr\u003e Translator’s Preface by Evan Calder Williams\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Homosexual Desire is Universal\u003cbr\u003e 2. Fire and Brimstone, or How Homosexuals Became Gay\u003cbr\u003e 3. Heterosexual Men, or Rather Closet Queens\u003cbr\u003e 4. Crime and Punishment\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Healthy Mind in a Perverse Body\u003cbr\u003e 6. Towards a Gay Communism\u003cbr\u003e 7. The End\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: Unpublished Preface to Homosexuality and Liberation by Mario Mieli (1980)\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: Translator’s additional note from Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175297429597,"sku":"9780745399515","price":37.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/towardsagaycommunism.jpg?v=1654988347"},{"product_id":"voices-from-the-jungle-stories-from-the-calais-refugee-camp","title":"Voices from the 'Jungle' Stories from the Calais Refugee Camp","description":"\u003cp\u003eOften called the 'Jungle', the refugee camp near Calais in Northern France epitomises for many the suffering, uncertainty and violence which characterises the situation of refugees in Europe today. But the media soundbites we hear ignore the voices of the people who lived there - people who have travelled to Europe from conflict-torn countries such as Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan and Eritrea: people with astounding stories, who are looking for peace and a better future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoices from the 'Jungle' \u003c\/em\u003eis a collection of these stories. Through its pages, the refugees speak to us in powerful, vivid language. They reveal their childhood dreams and struggles for education; the wars and persecution that drove them from their homes; their terror and strength during their extraordinary journeys. They expose the reality of living in the camp; tell of their lives after the 'Jungle' and their hopes for the future. Through their stories, the refugees paint a picture of a different kind of 'Jungle': one with a powerful sense of community despite evictions and attacks, and of a solidarity which crosses national and religious boundaries. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated with photographs and drawings by the writers, and interspersed with poems, this book must be read by everyone seeking to understand the human consequences of this world crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 'Calais Writers' of \u003cem\u003eVoices from the 'Jungle'\u003c\/em\u003e (Pluto, 2017) include Africa, Riaz Ahmad, Eritrea, Ali Haghooei, Babak Inaloo, Mani, Milkesa, Shaheen Ahmed Wali, Shaqib, Teddy and Haris Haider. All are former inhabitants of the Calais refugee camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"These first-hand accounts of the suffering endured by the refugees fleeing unmitigated horror in their homelands paints a far more vivid picture than anything we read in the press or see on television. If you want to understand fully the extent of what refugees are being forced to endure under our very noses, please read this book\" Julie Christie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Home is the first thing we experience as human beings in this world; somewhere we know, safe and warm, somewhere that keeps us. When we are forced out, we lose a little bit of ourselves; leaving us less whole. However, through these poems, these stories, we reclaim that home and the humanity that is lost with what comes with being labelled a refugee. Writing this is not only a way for the world to know us, but a way that we may know ourselves, once again\" JJ Bola, Writer, Poet, Author of \u003cem\u003eNo Place to Call Home\u003c\/em\u003e (2017)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Read this powerful book\" \u003cem\u003eCounterfire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gives those who have been ignored, dehumanised and abused because of who they are the platform they deserve to explain the reality of life as a refugee\" \u003cem\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A vital testimony to the resilience of those who spent days, weeks and months living in the Calais refugee camp\" Wasafiri\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\n1. Home\u003cbr\u003e\n2. Journeys\u003cbr\u003e\n3. Living in the ‘Jungle’: Arriving, Exploring and Settling In\u003cbr\u003e\n4. Living in and Leaving the ‘Jungle’: Connecting, Longing and Trying to Leave\u003cbr\u003e\n5. Life After the ‘Jungle’\u003cbr\u003e\nConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Calais Writers\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780745399683\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 272 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Pluto\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175297462365,"sku":"9780745399683","price":28.35,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/jungle.jpg?v=1654988348"},{"product_id":"art-after-money-money-after-art-creative-strategies-against-financialization","title":"Art after Money, Money after Art Creative Strategies Against Financialization","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe imagine that art and money are old enemies, but this myth actually reproduces a violent system of global capitalism and prevents us from imagining and building alternatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the chaos unleashed by the 'imaginary' money in financial markets to the new forms of exploitation enabled by the 'creative economy' to the way art has become the plaything of the world's plutocrats, our era of financialization demands we question our romantic assumptions about art and money. By exploring the way contemporary artists engage with cash, debt and credit, Haiven identifies and assesses a range of creative strategies for mocking, sabotaging, exiting, decrypting and hacking capitalism today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten for artists, activists and scholars, this book makes an urgent call to unleash the power of the radical imagination by any media necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMax Haiven is Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University, Canada. His books include \u003cem\u003eArt after Money, Money after Art\u003c\/em\u003e (Pluto, 2018), \u003cem\u003eCrises of Imagination, Crises of Power\u003c\/em\u003e (Zed Books, 2004), \u003cem\u003eCultures of Financialization\u003c\/em\u003e (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014) and the \u003cem\u003eRadical Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e (Zed Boooks, 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Perhaps the most theoretically creative radical thinker of the moment\" David Graeber, author of \u003cem\u003eDebt: The First 5000 Years \u003c\/em\u003e(Melville House, 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Daring, brilliant, provocative. At last a radical critique of the crypto-approach and an abolitionist approach to the problem of money and art\" Franco Berardi, Philosopher, author of \u003cem\u003eFuturability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility\u003c\/em\u003e (Verso, 2017)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFigures\u003cbr\u003e\nDedication\u003cbr\u003e\nAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\nIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\n1. 3.5 Artistic Strategies To Envision Money’s Mediation\u003cbr\u003e\n2. 6 Artists x 2 Crises x 3 Orders Of Reproduction\u003cbr\u003e\n3. 0 Participation: Benign Pessimism, Tactical Parasitics and the Encrypted Common\u003cbr\u003e\n4. Encryption: Art’s Crypt, Securitization in Numbers, Derivative Socialities\u003cbr\u003e\n5. Conclusion: Toward Abolitionist Horizons\u003cbr\u003e\nNotes\u003cbr\u003e\nSubject Index\u003cbr\u003e\nName Index\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Max Haiven\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780745338248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 304 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Pluto\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175297855581,"sku":"9780745338248","price":21.06,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/artaftermoney.jpg?v=1654988351"},{"product_id":"burning-up-a-global-history-of-fossil-fuel-consumption","title":"Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cspan class=\"pp-book__the-summary\"\u003e A history of the excesses of capitalism's rampant fossil fuel consumption since 1950. \u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCoal, gas and oil have been capitalism's main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in the last 50 years. Most alarming of all, fossil fuel consumption has grown fastest in the last three decades, since scientists confirmed that it is the main cause of potentially devastating global warming.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e In Burning Up, Simon Pirani recounts the history of fossil fuels' relentless rise since the mid twentieth century. Dispelling explanations foregrounding Western consumerism, and arguments that population growth is the main problem, Pirani shows how fossil fuels are consumed through technological, social and economic systems, and that these systems must change.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e This is a major contribution to understanding the greatest crisis of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimon Pirani is Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, and has written widely on Soviet history and energy issues. His books include Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption (Pluto, 2018), The Russian Revolution in Retreat (Routledge, 2008) and Change in Putin’s Russia (Pluto, 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFigures\u003cbr\u003eTables\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eUnits of Measurement\u003cbr\u003eAcronyms and Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Contexts\u003cbr\u003e1. Fossil Fuels Before 1950\u003cbr\u003e2. Energy Technologies\u003cbr\u003e3. Energy in Society\u003cbr\u003e4. Fossil Fuel Consumption in Numbers\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Chronologies\u003cbr\u003e5. The 1950s and 1960s: Post-War Boom\u003cbr\u003e6. The 1970s: Crises and Oil Price Shocks\u003cbr\u003e7. Patterns of Electrification\u003cbr\u003e8. The 1980s: Recession and Recovery\u003cbr\u003e9. The 1990s: Shunning the Global Warming Challenge\u003cbr\u003e10. The 2000s: Acceleration Renewed\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Reflections\u003cbr\u003e11. Interpretations and Ideologies\u003cbr\u003e12. Possibilities\u003cbr\u003e13. Conclusions\u003cbr\u003eAppendices\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading and Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'An extraordinarily ambitious, but arguably necessary task for our times'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e- Paul Warde, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e'Insightful, precise and well-written, Burning Up turns energy consumption on its head. Pirani fills a crucial gap left by a mountain of shiny but vacuous reports and not enough solid history ... Anybody fighting climate change should read this' - Mika Minio-Paluello, campaigner at Platform London and co-author of \u003cem\u003eThe Oil Road: journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London\u003c\/em\u003e (Verso, 2013)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e'This meticulous depiction of how fossil fuels are woven into our human systems - not only technological but also economic, social and political - is an invaluable aid to getting them back under control' Walt Patterson, author of \u003cem\u003eElectricity vs Fire\u003c\/em\u003e (2015)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e'Explains the technological, social and economic processes that have prioritised a particular way of satisfying society's demand for energy services' - Michael Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School, UK, author of \u003cem\u003eGlobal Energy Dilemmas\u003c\/em\u003e (2013)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e'\u003cem\u003eBurning Up\u003c\/em\u003e is a vital contribution to the climate movement. A first step to organizing around its insights will be to ensure it is widely read in the movement, and by those whose lives will be affected by climate change' - Climate and Capitalism\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e'Recommended'  CHOICE\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'This comprehensive book provides a modern history of global fossil fuel consumption. Authoritative and well researched, it provides a solid bedrock to understand the ins and outs of fuels'\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Bright Green\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e'An essential tool for understanding fossil fuel consumption in terms of the vested interests who have benefited from it' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Ann Pettifor, Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175297888349,"sku":"9780745335612","price":41.17,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/burningup.jpg?v=1654988352"},{"product_id":"choke-points-logistics-workers-disrupting-the-global-supply-chain","title":"Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain","description":"\u003cp\u003eGlobal capitalism is a precarious system. 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This book looks at case studies across the world to uncover a network of resistance by these workers who, despite their importance, often face vast exploitation and economic violence. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Experiencing first hand wildcat strikes, organised blockades and boycotts, the authors explore a diverse range of case studies, from South China dockworkers to the transformation of the port of Piraeus in Greece, and from the Southern California logistics sector, to dock and logistical workers in Chile and unions in Turkey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJake Alimahomed-Wilson is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of\u003cem\u003e Solidarity Forever? Race, Gender, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern California\u003c\/em\u003e (Lexington Books, 2016), and the editor of \u003cem\u003eChoke Points\u003c\/em\u003e (Pluto, 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImmanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author and editor of many books, including \u003cem\u003eSouthern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class \u003c\/em\u003e(Pluto, 2015) and \u003cem\u003eUrban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South\u003c\/em\u003e (Haymarket, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This phenomenal collection is a must-read for anyone interested in the dire state of the contemporary global economy. 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Choke points in global supply chains are revealed as spaces of hazard and calculation, violence and negotiation, victory and loss, passion and organisation.\"\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Brett Neilson, Research Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eIntroduction: Forging Workers’ Resistance Across the\u003cbr\u003eGlobal Supply Chain - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness\u003cbr\u003ePART I - Building Labor Power and Solidarity Across the World’s Choke Points \u003cbr\u003e1. Labor and Social Movements’ Strategic Usage of the Global Commodity Chain Structure - Elizabeth A. Sowers, Paul S. Ciccantell, and David A. Smith\u003cbr\u003e2. Across the Chain: Labor and Conflicts in the European Maritime Logistics Sector - Andrea Bottalico\u003cbr\u003e3. Durban Dockers, Labor Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism - Peter Cole\u003cbr\u003ePART II - Disruptions: Logistics Workers Resisting Exploitation \u003cbr\u003e4. Worker Militancy and Strikes in China’s Docks - Bai Ruixue and Au Loong Yu\u003cbr\u003e5. “Work Hard, Make History”: Oppression and Resistance in Inland Southern California’s Warehouse and Distribution Industry - Ellen Reese and Jason Struna\u003cbr\u003e6. Stop Treating Us Like Dogs! Workers Organizing Resistance at Amazon in Poland - Amazon workers and supporters\u003cbr\u003e7. Decolonizing Logistics: Palestinian Truckers on the Occupied Supply Chain - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Spencer Louis Potiker\u003cbr\u003ePART III - Neoliberalism and the Global Transformation of Ports\u003cbr\u003e8. Decoding the Transition in the Ports of Mumbai - Johnson Abhishek Minz\u003cbr\u003e9. Back to Piraeus: Precarity for All! - Dimitris Parsanoglou and Carolin Philipp\u003cbr\u003e10. Contested Logistics? Neoliberal Modernization and Resistance in the Port City of Valparaíso - Jorge Budrovich Sáez and Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela\u003cbr\u003e11. Logistics Workers’ Struggles in Turkey: Neoliberalism and Counterstrategies - Çağatay Edgücan Şahin and Pekin Bengisu Tepe\u003cbr\u003ePART IV - New Organizing Strategies for the Global Supply Chain \u003cbr\u003e12. “The Drivers Who Move This Country Can Also Stop It”: The Struggle of Tanker Drivers in Indonesia - Abu Mufakhir, Alfian Al’ayubby Pelu, and Fahmi Panimbang\u003cbr\u003e13. Lessons Learned from Eight Years of Experimental Organizing in Southern California’s Logistics Sector - Sheheryar Kaoosji\u003cbr\u003e14. Struggles and Grassroots Organizing in an Extended European Choke Point - Carlotta Benvegnù and Niccolò Cuppini\u003cbr\u003e15. 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He has published articles in a variety of scholarly journals, is co-editor of the book \u003cem\u003eAmerican Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers: Cooperation or Conflict?\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2017), and is the author of \u003cem\u003eHow America Became Capitalist: Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West\u003c\/em\u003e (Pluto, 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Parisot's rich and lively analysis of the domestic history of US empire helps readers understand what it was about the development of US economic, social and political institutions that made the American state so central in the making of global capitalism\" Leo Panitch, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, York University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is a relatively limited literature covering the entire course of the USA's transition to a capitalist society. In his concise but illuminating new book, James Parisot provides such an account.\" Neil Davidson, author of \u003cem\u003eHow Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Utilizing the notion of 'empire' and focusing on the geographic expansion of commodity production and circulation across the North American continent, James Parisot's provocative book will be a focus of debate in years to come\" Charles Post, City University of New York, author of \u003cem\u003eThe American Road to Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Terrific ... At the heart of American capitalism is a history of empire. 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Foley, Leo Model Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e\nList of Tables\u003cbr\u003e\n1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\nPart I: Modes of Production and Classes\u003cbr\u003e\n2. Patterns of Income Distribution\u003cbr\u003e\n3. Marx's Theory of History\u003cbr\u003e\n4. Managers in Marx's Analysis\u003cbr\u003e\n5. Sociality and Class Societies\u003cbr\u003e\n6. Managerialism and Managerial Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\n7. A Wealth of Alternative Interpretations\u003cbr\u003e\n8. Hybridization as Analytical Challenge\u003cbr\u003e\nPart II: Twelve Decades of Managerial Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\n9. Varying Trends of Inequality\u003cbr\u003e\n10. The Sequence of Social Orders\u003cbr\u003e\n11. Class and Imperial Power Structures\u003cbr\u003e\n12. The Politics of Social Change\u003cbr\u003e\n13. Tendencies, Crises and Struggles\u003cbr\u003e\nPart III: Past Attempts at the Inflection of Historical Dynamics\u003cbr\u003e\n14. Utopian Capitalism in Bourgeois Revolutions\u003cbr\u003e\n15. Utopian Socialism and Anarchism\u003cbr\u003e\n16. Self-Proclaimed Scientific Socialism\u003cbr\u003e\nPart IV: Prospects for Human Emancipation within and beyond Managerialisms\u003cbr\u003e\n15. The Economics and Politics of Managerialisms\u003cbr\u003e\n16. 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It points a possible way forward out of the tragedy of the Middle East, and more than that: a possible way forward out of the catastrophe that is capitalism. This book is of great help... A careful and detailed account that is filled with personal narrative, it is both easily accessible and very informative' - John Holloway, Professor of Sociology, Autonomous University of Puebla, author of Crack Capitalism (Pluto, 2010)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e'A deeply insightful contribution to understanding the Kurdish movement's achievements in Rojava' - ROAR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e'Gives a profound insight' - Firat News Agency\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e'A comprehensive and readable guide to the complex situation. This hugely exciting and important book has wider lessons for feminists, ecosocialists and others who want to create an anti-capitalist alternative' - Green Left Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e'Provides excellent background information about this important but little understood struggle' - The Monthly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003eTranslator’s Note    \u003cbr\u003eForeword by David Graeber\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: On the Road to Til Koçer\u003cbr\u003e1. 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Encompassing music, sport and politics, its fans welcome refugees, fight fascists and take a stand against all forms of discrimination. This book goes behind the skull and crossbones emblem to tell the story of a football club rewriting the rulebook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince the club's beginnings in Hamburg's red-light district, the chants, banners and atmosphere of the stadium have been dictated by the politics of the streets. Promotions are celebrated and relegations commiserated alongside social struggles, workers' protests and resistance to Nazism. 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Jyoti Saraswati punctures the myth of a free-market industry by revealing the role of state intervention and how vested interests and elite corruption have shaped, and continue to shape, one of the world’s most dynamic sectors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaraswati argues that the interests attached to the software industry and the policies they are pursuing are both an impediment to the growth of local software firms and to a broader-based, more egalitarian form of development in India.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This important book blasts open the myths about what is seen as the Indian economy's most successful sector.\" Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A very important intervention. Saraswati's book fills a very important gap in the existing literature.\" Chirashree Das Gupta, Associate Professor, Ambedkar University Delhi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Provides a more nuanced understanding of the IT sector in India while also placing the evolution of that sector in the broader context of the country's political economy. Original in its scope, well written, and engaging.\" Alessandra Mezzadri, Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-extend-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\"\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJyoti Saraswati\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e teaches on the Business and Political Economy Program at the Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU). He is the author of \u003cem\u003eDot.compradors\u003c\/em\u003e (Pluto, 2012) and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eBeyond the Developmental State\u003c\/em\u003e (Pluto, 2013).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40239851077725,"sku":"9780745332659","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9780745332659.jpg?v=1656388651"},{"product_id":"gadget-consciousness-collective-thought-will-and-action-in-the-age-of-social-media","title":"Gadget Consciousness: Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pp-book__the-summary\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Investigates how electronic devices we use affect our consciousness, both as individuals and classes.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat impact does our relentless fixation on gadgets have on the struggle for new kinds of solidarity, political articulation and intelligence? In this groundbreaking study, Joss Hands explores the new political and social forces that are emerging in the age of social media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Gadget Consciousness\u003c\/em\u003e examines the transformation of our consciousness as a historical political force in two senses: as individual consciousness - in terms of sentience and will - and also as class consciousness. Exploring a range of manifestations in the digital commons, he investigates what forms digital solidarity can take, and asks whether we can learn from the communisms of the past and how might solidarity be manifested in the future?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, the ubiquity of networked gadgets offers exciting new opportunities for social and political change, but also significant dangers of alienation and stupefaction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoss Hands is Reader in Critical Theory at Newcastle University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eGadget Consciousness: Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e@ is For Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in Digital Culture\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\"Our obsession with gadgets is a key token of how deeply computer-based connection is now embedded in everyday life and consciousness. Joss Hands offers a highly thoughtful and theoretically astute reading of the possibilities for human reflexivity and agency that still remain.\" Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory, London School of Economics\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\"A Swiss army knife of a book, unfolding tools to convert digital devices from exploitation and isolation to meaning and connection. Joss Hands gives us a handheld manifesto for gadget communism.\" Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths University of London\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\"Takes the seemingly apolitical and trivial concept of 'the gadget' and transforms it into a fascinating path to explore not only the most recent phase of capitalist techno-fetishism, but also, with exemplary radical experimentalism, the blasphemous idea of 'gadget communism.'\" Nick Dyer-Witheford, University of Western Ontario\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eSeries Preface \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. 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He is the co-author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRace, Crime and Resistance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2011). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcknowledgements, ix, \u003cbr\u003ePrologue, 1, \u003cbr\u003e1 Framing Islamophobia, 21, \u003cbr\u003e2 Now you see me: fantasy and misrecognition, 41, \u003cbr\u003e3 Once more, with feeling: Islamophobia and racial politics, 60, \u003cbr\u003e4 Post-politics and Islamophobia, 82, \u003cbr\u003e5 Democrat, moderate, Other, 102, \u003cbr\u003e6 Islamophobia beyond the war on terror, 123, \u003cbr\u003e7 Questions, questions, questions: reframing Islamophobia, 147, \u003cbr\u003eEpilogue, 169, \u003cbr\u003eBibliography, 174, \u003cbr\u003eIndex, 193, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHAPTER 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFraming Islamophobia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo, where to begin? Perhaps we should start at the beginning by pointing out that Islamophobia is a form of religious discrimination that emerged most forcefully as a backlash against Muslims in the wake of the terrorist atrocities that occurred on 11 September 2001. Only it didn't. The term was originally coined in the late 1980s (Quraishi 2005: 60). Then again, it had first been used some decades earlier at the start of the twentieth century (Vakil 2011). But wait, for Islamophobia is not a form of religious discrimination at all, but an emblematic expression of contemporary biopolitical racism (Tyrer 2011). Anyway, these conflicting accounts are actually of little consequence, since Islamophobia does not even exist other than as a cynically imagined political device designed to override our right to offend the foolish by critiquing their beliefs (Toynbee 2005). Since these disagreements over Islamophobia are so fundamental to its meaning, we really ought to start over from a different point of departure and begin with a recognition of its contestedness, for perhaps in this we can find the key to unlock the politics at stake in Islamophobia. To do this it is helpful to begin in Britain since this is where such contests first emerged in their current form and have been most visibly played out, and then to broaden our understanding of this field of contest to other fronts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlthough the term Islamophobia has a longer history than is often acknowledged, the publication of the Runnymede Trust's report \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIslamophobia: A Challenge for Us All\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Runnymede Trust 1997) revived the term and opened up a new political field by drawing attention to the phenomenon of discrimination against Muslims that seemed to occur in a number of fields and which was increasingly visible in media portrayals. The context in which the report was produced was shaped by two related factors. First, an earlier report on anti-Semitism published by the Trust (Runnymede Trust 1994) had recommended that a similar report on discrimination facing Muslims be produced. This implied an acknowledgement that Islamophobia's form is not unique, but that there are certain parallels with wider expressions of racism with which we are familiar in the West. Second, a significant shift in racial politics in Britain had witnessed the emergence of a Muslim identity politics that appeared to displace traditional modes of identification along the lines of established racial and ethnic signifiers, and this brought into play questions concerning the relating emergence of a form of discrimination that emerged around their naming as Muslims. The report termed this form of discrimination Islamophobia, a naming that had the effect of exceptionalising Islamophobia by disarticulating it from wider expressions of racism with which it seemed to share a family appearance. This move was cemented through the report's definition of Islamophobia as 'unfounded hostility towards Islam' (Runnymede Trust 1997: 4), which combined with the reference to Islam in its coining to open a space for conceiving of Islamophobia as a form of religious, rather than racial, discrimination. This definition was qualified with the recognition that Islamophobia 'refers also to the practical consequences of such hostility in unfair discrimination against Muslim individuals and communities, and to the exclusion of Muslims from mainstream political and social affairs' (Runnymede Trust 1997: 4). This recognition implied that religion was not the only thing at stake in Islamophobia, but that the treatment of human populations was also a factor, and as such it hinted at the possibility that its manifestations mirrored those of racism. But the curious thing about the ensuing debates was the extent to which they mobilised a curious series of narrative devices that had the effect of instituting a quest to isolate the ontically pure form taken by Muslim identities as a means of determining whether Islamophobia could most helpfully be understood as racial or religious. At the heart of these contests was the notion that subjects who are essentially religious experience religious discrimination while those who are essentially racial experience racism, and as they played out they gave way to a wider politics concerned not simply with the terms on which we can construe Islamophobia, but with the pursuit of a politics in which fictive racial certainties became the final arbiter of the political acceptability of enunciations about Muslims. A more colloquial way of expressing this would be that a wider politics was introduced through the red herring of race.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat? Ham? Are You Crazy?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA synonym occasionally substituted for red herring is MacGuffin. Alfred Hitchcock used MacGuffins to good effect in a number of films including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNorth By Northwest,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in which Roger Thornhill (played by Cary Grant) finds himself at the sharp end of a manhunt having been mistaken for a man named Kaplan who possesses secret information. Now information, whether secret or otherwise, is always a good thing to have, but in this case it counts for nought, for neither the viewer nor Roger Thornhill ever discover what it is. In any case there is no guarantee that the real keeper of this information even exists. Hitchcock used the term MacGuffin to describe such futile devices, and his explanation of the term involved a conversation between two passengers on a train. One enquired into the nature of a package in the charge of his fellow passenger. The owner replied that it was a MacGuffin, which he defined as a contraption designed for catching lions in Scotland. When the first passenger drew attention to the absence of lions from the Highlands, the owner of the mysterious package replied 'Then that's no MacGuffin' (Cohen 2005: 156). A MacGuffin is thus a pretext or red herring (Insdorf 1994: 43); a device that has a presence in spite of its apparent immateriality, which is crucial in driving the plot forwards, and yet which is at the same time insignificant since it simply does not exist – nor does it matter – outside the economy of the plot it is deployed to press.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe notion of MacGuffin is an interesting metaphor for the politics at stake in how we understand what is meant by Islamophobia. For although it is well established that there is no scientific basis for the racial categories we use, debates about Islamophobia came to entail a quest to trace the existence of this most fluid and contested of social constructions as a means of determining whether or not Islamophobia can be said to exist. Within the terms of this debate, the idea was repeatedly expressed that since Muslim identities are not properly racial, either Islamophobia cannot be accurately described as racism or, worse, it cannot be said to exist at all. Thus, rather than engaging in a substantive analysis of the nature and form of Islamophobia and its positioning within a wider racial politics, the quest to uncover the essential nature of Muslim identities (whether properly racial or not) acted as a device that could drive forward a wider narrative of denial while foreclosing politicisation around experiences of Islamophobia. Race thus took the form of a red herring that could displace particular types of debates and modes of politics and institute others. But in itself there is nothing novel about the suggestion that Muslim identities lack a phenotypical basis. Once we accept that race has no scientific basis but instead refers to the ways in which subjects are constructed as racial, then to suggest that Muslim identities lack this biological racial ground is neither remarkable nor unique among social groups (Patel and Tyrer 2011). Thus: Muslims are not properly racial – but so what? In the style of our lion-hunting rail passenger, we could perhaps retort, 'Then that's no MacGuffin'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNevertheless the notion remains that the failure to trace a phenotypal basis for Muslim identities can undercut its recognition. For example, Weller (2006: 303) frames Islamophobia as discrimination on religious grounds and notes that the refocusing of the far right British National Party's racial politics onto Muslims constitutes a 'suspension' of its racist agenda (Weller 2006: 318). This is curious, for all the evidence suggests that its focus on Islamophobia does not displace its racial politics but that it is central to its contemporary articulation. To support his argument Weller cites Islamophobic BNP literature from 2001 issued under the slogan 'Winning for White Oldham: Winning for You' (Weller 2006: 318), but this undermines his position because a politics mobilised around racialised subject positions such as White is clearly organised under the horizon of race. That its Others are rearticulated as Muslim does not dispel its racial intent, but it does open up a new form of racial politics in which the ambiguous nature of Islamophobia (whether racial or religious) presents the opportunity for disavowal and denial of racism. The contests over the nature of Islamophobia and the continued deferral of its recognition as racism thus have the effect of keeping open spaces for the pursuit of racial politics that would otherwise appear politically incorrect, anachronistic, or extreme were traditional signifiers for racial difference to be employed. Across Europe and the United States, parties of the populist far right have made the most of this kind of MacGuffinery about phenotypical race that reduces the very definition of racial politics to a surface effect of the inherent biological difference of the racialised, rather than the contested object of a wider politics. The space opened by this reliance upon notions of the ontically pure racial subject as the determinant of racism has been exploited by the far right with a certain cynically knowing innocence. For example, on a number of occasions in 2008 British National Party activists issued Islamophobic leaflets and then, when their members were arrested, staged demonstrations that would coincide with the release without charge of the activists who, of course, had not committed crimes under UK race law (Patel and Tyrer 2011: 41). In 2006 the party's leader Nick Griffin – a man previously convicted of incitement to racial hatred on account of his holocaust denial – was again tried in court for incitement to racial hatred, this time on account of his Islamophobic rhetoric. Griffin and his co-defendant were, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eof course,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e cleared on this occasion, and in his defence Griffin made the key point that his views could not be described as racist precisely because they had not attacked a race. In contemporary far right discourse this logic is especially important, for in framing the disavowal of racism it enables political parties to remain within the terms of the law. For example, after the Flemish Vlaams Blok party was subjected to a de facto ban on grounds of discrimination in 2004, its relaunch as Vlaams Belang was accompanied by attempts to formally clean up its act while making the Muslim question even more central to its rhetoric; this was, after all, possible without risking the accusation of racism. In February 2012 Vlaams Belang politician Filip Dewinter initiated a 'women against Islamization' campaign accompanied by a poster in which an attractive young woman (his daughter) posed in bikini and burka, emblazoned – the poster, not the model – with the slogans: 'Vrijheid of islam? Durven kiezen!' [Freedom or Islam? Dare to choose!]. In an interview in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDe Standaard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e under the headline 'Dochter van Filip Dewinter is een boerkababe' [Filip Dewinter's daughter is a burkababe], An-Sofie Dewinter explained her decision to participate in the campaign on the grounds that 'women are fighting against the Islamization of society. We must dare to choose between freedom and Islam' (De Standaard 2012). This provided a justification of the campaign as simply a legitimate engagement over women's rights pursued through criticism of Islam in the abstract.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut there was more to the campaign than simply a critique of religion, and it also involved Filip Dewinter taking to the streets with two burka-clad women bearing posters emblazoned with the slogan 'Stop immigratie' [Stop immigration]. Indeed, in her interview with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDe Standaard,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e An-Sofie also claimed that White women are subjected to pressure over their attire by ethnic minority youth, and noted the prospect that they may eventually have to wear a headscarf, shifting the emphasis away from a critique of religion to the threat of Others. The attempt to deny the racist nature of Islamophobia is of utility in extending a particular racial politics without risking the accusation of racism, and in doing so it also centres problematic ideas of phenotypal racial difference, not by labelling Muslims as biologically bounded but by contrasting Muslims against other minorities who are held as such. It thus guarantees the continued hold of race as the basis for organising society and distinguishing between subjects, because it holds phenotypal race as the logical arbiter of whether racism can be said to exist. However, it also constructs Muslims as a lack – as lacking raciality. An important feature of the attempts to deny Islamophobia's racist nature is that they enable the far right to present themselves as defenders of democratic values such as free speech, through the argument that they are not targeting minority populations but simply criticising religion. In fact this putative defence of free speech is not the sole preserve of the populist and far right; Richardson (2004: 128) claims that liberals have used the question of free speech as a 'stock' topic against Muslims. Indeed, when the Runnymede Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia first published its consultation paper, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e newspaper ran a headline accusing the Runnymede Trust of wanting to be Islamically Correct (Runnymede Trust 1997: 4). Writing in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e newspaper in the context of wider political debate about protection against anti-Muslim racism which she opposed, Toynbee (2005) asserted a hardened distinction between race and religion by way of arguing in turn that the notion of Islamophobia is simply a 'nonsense'. In a similar vein Kenan Malik (2005) retreated into similar factual MacGuffinery to argue not only that Muslims are not ontically racial, but moreover that the extent of Islamophobia has been exaggerated both to stifle free speech and consolidate the power of Muslim community leaders. In 2010 the novelist Ian McEwan broadened this, suggesting that to criticise Islam is not racist and that Islamists who promote such agendas are the 'shock-troops for the armchair left' (Adams 2010).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn turn this logic has given way to the emergence of a politics of offence involving contests over the right to offend Muslims. I shall return to this in Chapter 5, though for the time being I am concerned with how this has overshadowed attempts to recognise Islamophobia by reducing it simply to a question of the right to criticise religion. Thus, this politics emerges in the space opened by the contests over the nature of Islamophobia (which are themselves moored to assumptions about the ontic purity of racialised subjects). In this context the Netherlands has proved an important site of struggle over free speech. In 2004 the Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh released his controversial film \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSubmission,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e based on a script by Ayaan Hirsi Ali that engaged with the problem of violence against women in Muslim societies. Van Gogh's own advocacy for free speech was not unproblematic; some years previously he had been convicted of anti-Semitism. Following his murder at the hands of an Islamist extremist his renown grew, and the influence of the case on debates about Muslims and Islamophobia across Europe cannot be understated. Cherribi (2011) has demonstrated its role in shaping the emergence of Islamophobia beyond the Netherlands to Germany and Austria, arguing that 'neither the [Danish] cartoons [of the prophet Muhammad] nor [Geert] Wilder's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFitna\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e would have been possible without the precedent of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSubmission,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e which raised the provocative spectre of what could be made of the Western free press among Islamic fundamentalists. After \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSubmission,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 'Europe simply could not leave the topic of the free press and Islam alone' (Cherribi 2010: 209). In the Netherlands Geert Wilders, Leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), twice went to trial before finally being cleared of hate speech in 2011. Alexandre Caeiro and Frank Peter (2007) discuss a further case where in September 2006 a French teacher named Redeker wrote an article about the 'Islamic threat' that was published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLe Figaro.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e This led to criticism of the newspaper on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAl Jazeera\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and its banning in Tunisia and Egypt, while the teacher received death threats that forced him out of his job and home. In the ensuing furore \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e published a cartoon that 'perhaps best expressed the angst of large sections of French society: in a depressing and sombre modern city populated by menacing women covered in black, a white Frenchman gesticulates anxiously to a friend about to eat a sandwich: \"What? Ham? Are you crazy or what?\"' (Caeiro and Peter 2007: 26). It is perhaps also worth noting that a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e columnist also responded to Redeker's article by stating that 'We would certainly not have published it. Our \"Debates\" pages are not a place for empty insults but for analysis' (Todorov 2010: 147). In their discussion of the Redeker case Caeiro and Peter note that the attempt to represent the case as the inevitable result of a clash of civilisations silenced the voices of Muslim dissent that had condemned the appalling threats made against the teacher. In this there is an important point to be made, for the contests over Islamophobia that give way to a wider politics of offence have the effect of foreclosing politicisation against Islamophobia while opening an alternative field of racial politics that places the Muslim question at its heart. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40239856648285,"sku":"9780745331317","price":16.28,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9780745331317.jpg?v=1656388764"},{"product_id":"economics-transformed-discovering-the-brilliance-of-marx","title":"Economics Transformed: Discovering the Brilliance of Marx","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs Marx relevant? Bringing to life the classic concepts in Marx's economic thought, Robert Albritton shows that he offers great potential for study. 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