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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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05 Jun 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the development of indigenous community based organizations (ICOs) that are located within the social and solidarity economy (SSE) in Colombia, examining to what extent their experiences embody key tenets of the BV model.
Abstract: There has been a recent increase in the number of publications about the indigenous philosophy of Buen Vivir (BV) as an alternative paradigm to mainstream development theory. However, there is a dearth of theoretically grounded empirical research that interrogates the impact of BV as an alternative development model within the social and solidarity economy (SSE) in Latin America. Therefore, this thesis aims to address this research gap by investigating the development of indigenous community based organisations (ICOs) that are located within the SSE in Colombia, examining to what extent their experiences embody key tenets of the BV model. By drawing upon insights from post-development (BV) and postcolonial theories (Bhabha’s mimicry and hybridity), this thesis develops and critically explores a multi-level model for understanding the development of ICOs in Colombia, considering the micro, meso and macro levels.
Using participatory video research, this research draws upon evidence from a multiple case study research with five indigenous communities (Curripaco, Puinave, Yanacona, Misak and Wayuu) in three geographic regions (the Amazons, Cauca and Guajira). The thesis uses the following types of data collection: secondary data sources, video focus groups, video semi-structured interviews, observations and field notes. The analysis of the multiple case study using Nvivo, discovers that ICOs operate as hybrid organisations that are influenced by their indigenous cultural practices, as well as the dominant Western forms legitimised by the SSE norms (mimicry). Overall, this thesis reveals that the ICOs’ experiences are consistent with the values and pillars that embody the key tenets of the BV model. The findings demonstrate that the current policy discourse provides little scope for engagement for ICOs in Colombia, even though evidence shows their contribution to the national economy. In doing so, this thesis offers an opportunity for policy makers to rethink and re-evaluate the existing policies in relation to indigenous communities and the SSE sector, to provide a pathway consistent with some elements of the BV model to contribute to the national development plan.
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TL;DR: One of the more familiar tropes in development-related literature is that impoverished people are neither passive recipients of development nor passive victims of process that have caused their sufferings as discussed by the authors, which is not true.
Abstract: One of the more familiar tropes in development-related literature is that impoverished people are neither passive recipients of development nor passive victims of process that have caused their mar...
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Cites background from "Selections from the prison notebook..."
...Gramsci recognized that transitions to socialism were unlikely to succeed unless oppositions had built up substantial legitimacy, or what he called hegemony (Gramsci, 1971; Kipfer, 2008)....
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TL;DR: In 2005, Guatemalan community forest concessionaires achieved a remarkable legislative victory that reversed a green land grab in the Maya Biosphere as mentioned in this paper, where they were able to reverse a green grab.
Abstract: In 2005, Guatemalan community forest concessionaires achieved a remarkable legislative victory that reversed a green land grab in the Maya Biosphere. The fight over this space, the Mirador Basin, provides valuable contributions to analyses of global land grabs, grassroots politics and power relations underpinning environmental governance. First, the fight for the Mirador Basin illustrates how green land grabs create new natures, rather than simply enclosing existing green spaces. Second, it contributes to recent scholarship detailing land-grabbing practices of resistance, acquiescence and incorporation ‘from below’ by describing how Maya Biosphere community forest concessionaires were able to reverse a green grab. Lastly, I argue this successful reversal largely rests on the articulation and mobilization of a new rights-bearing subject – the forest concessionaire. Struggles for land in the Maya Biosphere illustrate that practices and relations of green governance do not always create disciplined, neo-libe...
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...In contrast to orthodoxMarxists, Gramsci (1971) did not see class consciousness automatically deriving from working-class experience, nor did he blame ‘false consciousness’ for workers failing to identify with their own class interests....
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TL;DR: The de Liberis Educandis, emanating from the circle of Plutarch, provides directives for fathers in the education of sons as mentioned in this paper, and the argument for the intervention of fathers is expressed and even conceived in rhetorical forms.
Abstract: The de Liberis Educandis, emanating from the circle of Plutarch, provides directives for fathers in the education of sons. The argument for the intervention of fathers is expressed and even conceived in rhetorical forms. Excellence in speaking is understood as the result and the proof of free birth, a test of legitimacy. The speech of wives, concubines, nurses, slaves, freedmen, flatterers, and the vile constitute threats to the ideal education and ideal man. The author's prescriptions are more concerned with creating ideal relationships among menÑfather, teacher, and young studentÑthan with particulars of curriculum.
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Dissertation•
13 Jul 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a table of contents for VI ACRONYMS and IX FIGURES, and discuss general orIENTation and problem-factualization of problems.
Abstract: ................................................................................................................................................... IV TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................................................. VI ACRONYMS ................................................................................................................................................... IX FIGURES ........................................................................................................................................................ X CHAPTER 1 ..................................................................................................................................................... 2 GENERAL ORIENTATION AND PROBLEM FORMULATION .......................................................................... 2 1.
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Cites background from "Selections from the prison notebook..."
...It is impossible for one class to predominantly victimise a social formation through repressive state apparatus without having a hegemony over ideological state apparatus (Althusser, 1968; Althusser, 1971; Althusser, 2006; Gramsci et al., 1971)....
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...It produces a theoretical consciousness, which is implicit in its application, adopted from the past, uncritically absorbed and often powerfully produces a condition of moral and political passivity (Gramsci, 2000; Gramsci et al., 1971)....
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...The functions of these institutions are organisational, coercive and connective in exercising direct domination on a social formation (Gramsci et al., 1971) which consequently perpetuates the victimisation....
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