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Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci
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TL;DR: The first selection published from Gramsci's Prison Notebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s as discussed by the authors, was the first publication of the Notebooks in the UK.
Abstract: Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, written between 1929 and 1935, are the work of one of the most original thinkers in twentieth century Europe. Gramsci has had a profound influence on debates about the relationship between politics and culture. His complex and fruitful approach to questions of ideology, power and change remains crucial for critical theory. This volume was the first selection published from the Notebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s. It contains the most important of Gramsci's notebooks, including the texts of The Modern Prince, and Americanism and Fordism, and extensive notes on the state and civil society, Italian history and the role of intellectuals. 'Far the best informative apparatus available to any foreign language readership of Gramsci.' Perry Anderson, New Left Review 'A model of scholarship' New Statesman
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TL;DR: In this paper, a world system theory conceptualisation of hegemony allows for an interpretation of hegemonic military actions as the defence of a universal prime modernity, which refers to an ideal organization of society projected by the hegemonies as a form of integrative power.
Abstract: Just war theory has a long established reputation in the social sciences for evaluating the morality of the military actions of states. However, this analysis has rested upon assumptions of territorial sovereignty and the equal rights of states. The actions of hegemonic powers violate these twin assumptions through their expression of extra‐territorial reach. To avoid charges of immoral behaviour hegemonic powers must use the just war rhetoric of territoriality to justify their extra‐territorial acts. A world‐systems theory conceptualisation of hegemony allows for an interpretation of hegemonic military actions as the defence of a universal prime modernity. Prime modernity refers to an ideal organization of society projected by the hegemonic power as a form of integrative power. For the hegemonic power, threat is perceived as a rejection of the prime modernity anywhere rather than the language of border violations that dominates the foundations of just war theory. Using the language embedded in government...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take a more sympathetic view of the potentials within struggles for the right to water, recognizing that such struggles can take many different forms, and they urge scholars to adopt more nuanced and geographically sensitive analyses of the conditions out of which movements for water have emerged.
Abstract: This Advanced Review analyzes recent debates over the human right to water. While accepting critiques from scholars that the right to water risks entrenching unequal and unjust forms of water governance, the paper nevertheless takes a more sympathetic view of the potentials within struggles for the right to water. Recognizing that such struggles can take many different forms, we urge scholars to adopt more nuanced and geographically sensitive analyses of the conditions out of which movements for the right to water have emerged. We reject the claim that the right to water depoliticises struggles for water justice and we instead find conditions of possibility for deeper and more lasting changes to water governance within struggles for the right to water. WIREs Water 2015, 2:97–105. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1067
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Conflict of interest: The authors have declared no conflicts of interest for this article.
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship of education to modernity, pragmatism, and one of pragmaticism's major international spokespersons, John Dewey, and found that these three themes have found a certain prominence in contemporary scholarship for thinking about the problems, issues and dilemmas of the present.
Abstract: This book explores the relationship of education to modernity, pragmatism, and one of pragmatism’s major international spokespersons, John Dewey. As I look across a number of social science and philosophy journals today, these three themes have found a certain prominence in contemporary scholarship for thinking about the problems, issues, and dilemmas of the present.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw attention to the study of "unofficially sacred" sites in geographies of religion, which provide significant insights into the construction of religious identity and community, and the intersections of sacred and secular.
Abstract: In this paper I draw attention to the study of ‘unofficially sacred’ sites in geographies of religion, which provide significant insights into the construction of religious identity and community, and the intersections of sacred and secular. I show that such sites deserve as much attention as places of worship (the more conventional focus in the geographical study of religion) in our understanding of the place of religion in contemporary urban society. In particular, using the case of Islamic religious schools in Singapore, I examine how Muslim identities and community are negotiated within multicultural and multireligious contexts, and particularly within one in which there is a highly ‘educative’ state [Gramsci, 1971 Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci (International Publishers, New York)] that seeks to guide nation formation and the manufacture of consensus, and which strives to achieve a secular, modernist vision of society, characterized by economic progress and development. The s...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of Ottomanism and its discursive evolution from the concept's origins in the nineteenth century to its present practice are investigated. And the current practice of "banal Ottomanism" by the AK Party is analyzed as a symbolic component of the current re-identification of Turkish society, facilitating the reintroduction of Islamic-Ottomanist traditions into everyday routines.
Abstract: This article problematizes the much-used but under-analysed concept of Ottomanism, exploring its discursive evolution from the concept's origins in the nineteenth century to its present practice. Investigating its roots in an elitist multicultural project, the paper examines its integral role as part of the opposing intellectual subculture during the early Republican era and its later re-politicization as ‘neo-Ottomanism’ in Turkey's Ozal-era foreign policy. The current practice of ‘banal Ottomanism’ by the AK Party is analysed as a symbolic component of the current re-identification of Turkish society, facilitating the reintroduction of Islamic-Ottomanist traditions into everyday routines.
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