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Thesis Eleven 

SAGE Publishing
About: Thesis Eleven is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Modernity & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 0725-5136. Over the lifetime, 1447 publications have been published receiving 13219 citations. The journal is also known as: Thesis 11.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the black American ghetto and the French working-class banlieue at century's turn, and highlight three distinctive spatial properties of ''advanced marginality'' - territorial fixation and stigmatization, spatial alienation and the dissolution of 'place', and the loss of a hinterland.
Abstract: The comparative sociology of the structure, dynamics, and experience of urban relegation in the United States and the European Union during the past three decades reveals the emergence of a new regime of marginality. This regime generates forms of poverty that are neither residual, nor cyclical or transitional, but inscribed in the future of contemporary societies insofar as they are fed by the ongoing fragmentation of the wage labour relationship, the functional disconnection of dispossessed neighbourhoods from the national and global economies, and the reconfiguration of the welfare state in the polarizing city. Based on a methodical comparison between the black American ghetto and the French working-class banlieue at century's turn, this article spotlights three distinctive spatial properties of `advanced marginality' — territorial fixation and stigmatization, spatial alienation and the dissolution of `place', and the loss of a hinterland — and draws out their implications for the formation of the `pre...

589 citations

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TL;DR: The transformation of universities is central to a more general intensification of social inequality, privatization of public institutions, and reorganization of the relation of access to knowledge as mentioned in this paper, which is also a pivotal instance for asking basic questions about the senses in which the university is or may be "public": where does its money come from? (2) who governs? (3) who benefits? and (4) how is knowledge produced and circulated?
Abstract: Universities have flourished in the modern era as central public institutions and bases for critical thought. They are currently challenged by a variety of social forces and undergoing a deep transformation in both their internal structure and their relationship to the rest of society. Critical theorists need to assess this both in order to grasp adequately the social conditions of their own work and because the transformation of universities is central to a more general intensification of social inequality, privatization of public institutions, and reorganization of the relation of access to knowledge. This is also a pivotal instance for asking basic questions about the senses in which the university is or may be ‘public’: (1) where does its money come from? (2) who governs? (3) who benefits? and (4) how is knowledge produced and circulated?

248 citations

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TL;DR: Globalization cuts both ways as discussed by the authors and not only valorizes the local in a cultural sense, but constructs the local as the tribal in a political sense, by reallocating poverty and stigma from above without even the residual responsibility of noblesse oblige.
Abstract: Globalization cuts both ways. Not only does it valorize the local in a cultural sense, it constructs the local as the tribal. Processes of geopolitical fragmentation give those in power even more room to manoeuvre. Glocalization involves the reallocation of poverty and stigma from above without even the residual responsibility of noblesse oblige. Geographical and social mobility are dichotomized; populations are refigured as tourists and vagabonds. Globalization thus reinforces already existing patterns of domination, while globalization indicates trends to dispersal and conflict on neo-traditional grounds. The privileged walk, or fly away; the others take revenge upon each other.

237 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argue that social-welfare struggles should become more central for feminists and expose the system's underlying gender norms and show how administrative practices preemptively define women's needs, and then situate these state practices in a larger terrain of struggle over the interpretation of social needs where feminists can intervene.
Abstract: I argue that social-welfare struggles should become more central for feminists. To clarify these, I offer an analysis of the U.S. welfare system. I expose the system's underlying gender norms and show how administrative practices preemptively define women's needs. I then situate these state practices in a larger terrain of struggle over the interpretation of social needs where feminists can intervene.

178 citations

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202330
202262
202157
202056
201951
201856