Publications
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Understanding Al Qaeda
(2011)
This book controversially argues that Al Qaeda has clear aims, and that the only way to defeat it is to engage with its arguments in a serious way. Since the publication of the first edition in 2006, Mohamedou has brought ...
The War Correspondent - Second Edition
(2016)
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 ...
Lost Worlds
(2009)
Think of Latin America and what do you see? Escape? Adventure? Chaos? Oblivion? Lost Worlds explores how these stereotypes came into being and what they tells us about ourselves.
Examining a range of texts, from Southey's ...
Working the Phones
(2016-11-20)
*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017*
Over a million people in the UK work in call centres, and the phrase has become synonymous with low-paid and high stress work, dictatorial ...
Global Cities At Work
(2009)
This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders and change the sheets on the bed. Global Cities at Work draws on testimony collected from ...
The European Radical Left
(2021)
Is today’s left really new? How has the European radical left evolved? Giorgos Charalambous answers these questions by looking at three moments of rapid political change - the late 1960s to late 1970s; the turn of the ...
Using Gramsci
(2016-11-01)
This is a new approach to one of the greatest political theorists, Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks are one of the most popular Marxist texts available and continue to inspire readers across the world. Here, ...
Arms and the People
(2012)
This collection examines the relationship between mass movements and the military. Some argue that it is impossible to achieve and protect a revolution without the support of the army, but how can the support of the army ...
Work, Sex and Power
(2015-02-20)
This is the history of the world, from the origins of the Cosmos to the present day, seen through three major narratives: work, sex and power - the forces that have done more than any other to shape the world as we see it ...
The Profit Doctrine
(2016)
The economics profession has a lot to answer for. After the late 1970s, the ideas of influential economists have justified policies that have made the world more prone to economic crisis, remarkably less equal, more polluted ...