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Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci
01 Jan 2015-
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, the authors take a Gramscian perspective in suggesting that what becomes "uncivil" is any practice and organization that substantially contests the structuring enclosures of hegemonic order, of which civil society is a necessary part.
Abstract: In this article we ask how ‘civil society’ actors and organizations can become constructed and treated as ‘uncivil society’. We contest the notion that ‘uncivil’ necessarily equates with the dark qualities of violence and organized criminality. Instead, we take a Gramscian perspective in suggesting that what becomes ‘uncivil’ is any practice and organization that substantially contests the structuring enclosures of hegemonic order, of which civil society is a necessary part. To trace this, we consider ways in which a global grass-roots media network called Indymedia has established and maintained itself as a counter-hegemonic media-producing organization. In this case, a conscious positioning and self-identification as counter-hegemonic has been accompanied by the framing and sometimes violent policing of nodes and practices of this network as ‘uncivil’ by cooperating state authorities. This is in the absence of association of this network with organized violence or crime. We intend our reflections to contribute to a deepening theorization of the terms ‘civil’ and ‘uncivil’ as they are becoming used in social movement and globalization studies.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how intermediary organisations make social entrepreneurship palatable for a broader audience by establishing it as an object of desire, drawing on affect-oriented extensions of Laclau and Mouffe's poststructuralist theory.
Abstract: The rapid rise of alternative organisations such as social enterprises is largely due to the promotional activities of intermediary organisations. So far, little is known about the affective nature of such activities. The present article thus investigates how intermediary organisations make social entrepreneurship palatable for a broader audience by establishing it as an object of desire. Drawing on affect-oriented extensions of Laclau and Mouffe’s poststructuralist theory, hegemonisation is suggested as a way of understanding how social entrepreneurship is articulated through a complementary process of signification and affective investment. Specifically, by examining Austrian intermediaries, we show how social entrepreneurship is endowed with a sense of affective thrust that is based on three interlocking dynamics: the articulation of fantasies such as ‘inclusive exclusiveness’, ‘large-scale social change’ and ‘pragmatic solutions’; the repression of anxiety- provoking and contentious issues (constitutive quiescences); as well as the use of conceptually vague, floating signifiers (moments of indeterminacy). Demonstrating that the hegemonisation of social entrepreneurship involves articulating certain issues whilst, at the same time, omitting others, or rendering them elusive, the article invites a counter-hegemonic critique of social entrepreneurship, and, on a more general level, of alternative forms of organising, that embraces affect as a driving force of change, while simultaneously affirming the impossibility of harmony and wholeness.
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...Thus, as a general rule, any increase in specificity risks to disturb the hegemonic potential of an articulation, since it decreases the ability to establish a ‘compromise equilibrium’ (Gramsci, 1971) by winning the consent of diverse groups of people....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the evolu tion of a theoretical framework for teachin g critically about race and racism in the arts and reflect on the collaborative theory-bu ild-in g process to develop the m odel, ou r u se of the arts to create spaces of teaching and learning.
Abstract: B ackground/C ontext: R esearch in E u rope an d the U n ited States show s that racial positionshapes an d gives voice to the stories people tell abou t race an d racism , an d filters how su chstories are perceived an d u n derstood by listen ers. A lthou gh n ot u n iform ly the case, peoplefrom the m ajority W hite racial grou p ten d to em phasize forw ard progress an d the declin in gsign ifican ce of race. M in oritized people of color m ore often n ote the en du rin g im pact ofracism as a barrier to racial progress.P urpose: T his article describes the evolu tion of a theoretical m odel for teachin g criticallyabou t racism an d racial stories u tilizin g the arts. W e reflect on the collaborative theory-bu ild-in g process u sed to develop the m odel, ou r u se of the arts to create spaces of teachin g an dlearn in g w here racial stories can be u n settled an d reexam in ed, an d the poten tial of thism odel to gu ide edu cation al projects in w hich participan ts con stru ct altern ative storiesgeared tow ard social ju stice.R esearch D esign: T his is an an alytic essay that describes the developm en t of a theoreticalcon stru ct.C onclusions/R ecom m endations:W e discu ss plan s for fu tu re research on the relevan ce of them odel for teachers, teacher staff developm en t, an d cu rricu lu m design in secon dary an d post-secon dary classroom s an d in com m u n ity-based dialogu es an d collaborative action n etw orks.
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TL;DR: It is argued that biological oceanography of sharks is fundamentally linked to human dimensions, and theories and systematic study of human dimensions in oceanography are crucial to provide more comprehensive understanding of complete social-marine systems.
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...For example, how do we know when we have enough knowledge to make a decision? Or, perhaps more pernicious, when do we know too much? Often, natural resource management overlooks the fact that more research and better knowledge do not necessarily improve decision making, in part because knowledge may be trumped or even ignored by power and more profoundly, power may control the creation or dominant modes of knowledge that emerge for the exploitation of its subject (Gramsci, 1971; Foucault, 1977)....
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TL;DR: The authors argue that blogging can be understood as part of a history of recreational scholarly engagement accompanying professional writing genres but that is increasingly difficult to maintain in the neoliberal framework of the corporate university.
Abstract: This article marks the beginning of a series of investigations in which I hope to offer a sympathetic account of the opportunities new media technologies provide for intellectual practice. It argues that blogging can be understood as part of a history of recreational scholarly engagement accompanying professional writing genres but that is increasingly difficult to maintain in the neoliberal framework of the corporate university.
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