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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 article, the authors discuss the current state of education in this country as well as the detrimental effects that standardization and strict curriculum alignment have, not only on students, but on educators as well.
Abstract: Standardization and curriculum alignment are the dominant curricular forces in education today. Due in part to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001, education has become singularly focused on teaching towards the test in order to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), yet data has shown that using standardized testing does not result in increased student learning or development. This article discusses the current state of education in this country as well as the detrimental effects that standardization and strict curriculum alignment have, not only on students, but on educators as well.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess whether or not their traditional spirit of social-movement unionism has been undermined by three Northern-driven forces on Central American unions: state privatizations, transnational firms restructured or enhanced their levels of subcontracting, and international supporters of unions have espoused new priorities and rechanneled funding.
Abstract: Globalization has exacerbated the impact of three Northern-driven forces on Central American unions. Transnational firms have restructured or enhanced their levels of subcontracting. Governments, while weakening labor-code implemention, have launched extensive privatization schemes. And international supporters of unions have espoused new priorities and rechanneled funding. Although all three trends have caused major difficulties for unions, this article assesses whether or not their traditional spirit of social-movement unionism has been undermined. Based on extensive interviews and primary and secondary data, the study documents union resilience in the banana and maquila sectors despite problematic corporate behavior and market conditions. Stung by state privatizations, unions that fragmented following the Central American Peace Accords have partially regrouped to resist public-health takeovers and labor-code harmonization. Facing losses in Northern funding, unions have painfully adapted to fresh organizing strategies and sensitivity to women's issues, which they found to be fundamental to successful collaboration with corporate campaigns, trade pressure, and NGOs. Despite losses, unions have tapped a broader solidarity in their struggle against the demons of globalization
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TL;DR: The authors examines the social construction of deviance in contemporary mediated society and presents basic orienting questions which link poststructuralist cultural studies with concerns of interactionist labeling, and suggests the scenario as a strategy for critiquing meaning-generation.
Abstract: This paper examines the social construction of deviance in contemporary mediated society. First, it presents basic orienting questions which link poststructuralist cultural studies with concerns of interactionist labeling. These questions are a general mapping for the study of stigmatized meaning-generation. Second, it discusses the relationship between Mills's (1959) sociological imagination and Denzin's (1989a; 1989b) twin conceptions of interpretive interactionism and interpretive biography as a suitable context for meaning creation. Lived experience and self are overlapping textual productions. Third, the concept of scenario for use in describing the process of deviance-labeling is presented. The layers of the process include the deviant event, media reconstruction, and the stigma movie. Concluding, the paper suggests the scenario as a strategy for critiquing meaning-generation. Conceptions of deviance and conformity emerge as intertwined biographical and sociocultural narratives linked to the stigma ...
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01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of articles from 1885 to 1945 in the Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, Adelaide Advertiser and Register newspapers and transcripts of Australian Broadcasting Commission talks programs is presented.
Abstract: Submitted in (partial) fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, 2012.%%%%"2nd December 2011".%%%%%%%%%%%%ch. 1 The 'organic filament': New Idealist through thought and media – ch. 2 'Higher order journalism': Australian print journalism, talks programming and New Idealism – ch. 3 'Fire, life, inspiration': Australian Idealists in the media on education – ch. 4 'The problem of today and tomorrow': Australian Idealists in the media on the state and society – ch. 5 'The hand that turned the key': Australia and the world – ch. 6 'Unite or perish': War and Post-war reconstruction – ch. 7 'A bridge between minds': the media and public reception of Australian Idealism%%%%This thesis argues that journalism has been neglected as a major source in researching histories of ideas and public intellectualism in Australia. It responds to calls by historians for a close examination of journalism and undertakes an extensive survey of articles from 1885 to 1945 in the Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, Adelaide Advertiser and Register newspapers and transcripts of Australian Broadcasting Commission talks programs.%%%%The study focuses on one form of philosophical and political thought, New Idealism, which has received little detailed academic attention in Australia. New Idealism, also known as British Idealism, was a philosophical movement of the mid to late nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century that migrated to Australia with the former students of the British philosophers T. H. Green (1836 – 1882) and Edward Caird (1835 – 1908). New Idealism was very much a practical philosophy and its followers were just as likely to be found in public lecture halls and on school boards as in university offices.%%%%In Australia this public face of New Idealism extended to the media. The thesis identifies a considerable body of previously unknown work in newspaper articles and radio broadcasts by five Australian Idealist thinkers: William Jethro Brown (1869-1930); Francis Anderson (1858 – 1941); Mungo MacCallum (1854-1942); Garnet Vere Portus (1883 – 1954) and Ernest Burgmann (1885 – 1967). Four areas of thought as revealed in the media are examined: on education; the role of the state; international relations and war and post-war reconstruction. The thesis finds a sympathetic media, particularly the Sydney Morning Herald under the proprietorship of the Fairfax family, facilitated coverage of these debates and enabled the Australian Idealists to have, at times, considerable influence as public intellectuals. This leads to a conclusion that an historical focus on the journalistic report is a highly successful research approach in intellectual history.%%%%%%%%1 online resources (315 pages) illustrations
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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take their cue directly from such cultural linkages and develop an analysis much closer to Bairoch's time scale, taking the idea of the twentieth century as the "American Century" seriously and interpret globalization as its final expression.
Abstract: We can all agree with Robert Cox (1996: 21) that it is ‘particularly important’, with a concept as ‘fashionable’ as globalization, that we ‘place it in historical perspective’. But which history? In the current debate over economic globalization, critics have queried the novelty of the geographical scale of contemporary connections by citing past economic patterns which were seemingly equally world-wide in nature. For instance, Paul Bairoch (1996: 190) has recently shown how analysis of ‘one century of external trade and foreign investments’ shows international tendencies ‘alternating with drawback’. Accordingly he is able to conclude: This fact gives a different perspective on the thesis of globalization as an irreversible movement’. Such uses of history are important for the debate but they do not necessarily provide an appropriate historical setting for analysing globalization. Most studies focus on just the last few decades, as in Cox’s (1996: 21–2) own brief analysis. This time frame is favoured also by scholars approaching globalization from a more cultural perspective. For instance, Jan Pieterse (1995: 47) refers to globalization theory as ‘the 1950s and 1960s revisited under a large global umbrella’. Mike Featherstone (1995: 87) adds a further link interpreting globalization as ‘the relentless modernizing force of American cultural imperialism’. In this paper, I take my cue directly from such cultural linkages but develop an analysis much closer to Bairoch’s time scale. In short, I take the idea of the twentieth century as the ‘American Century’ seriously and interpret globalization as its final expression.
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