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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: The Long Walk to Freedom as mentioned in this paper describes how an iconic political activist and freedom fighter reflected on, and sometimes modified, four core assumptions at the heart of his struggle to overturn the White supremacist, minority hegemony and create a free South Africa.
Abstract: Nelson Mandela's autobiography The Long Walk to Freedom describes how an iconic political activist and freedom fighter reflected on, and sometimes modified, four core assumptions at the heart of his struggle to overturn the White supremacist, minority hegemony and create a free South Africa. Critical reflection's focus is on understanding the dynamics of power (and how to manipulate these) and on uncovering (and combating) ruling class hegemony. Although clearly unaware of adult education's utilization of the idea of critical reflection, Mandela's reasoning on tactics and strategy, his awareness of the need to reappraise assumptions that previously were viewed as gospel, and his use of multiple lenses through which to view his actions as a freedom fighter, exemplify the practice of critical reflection. The article does not presume any sort of historical accuracy, conducting instead a thematic content analysis of Mandela's own personal account of events, which others have challenged.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that public policy and legislation have significant influence in fostering or hindering co-operative development, such as financial mechanisms, technical assistance, and sector support infrastructure.
Abstract: This paper argues that public policy and legislation have significant influence in fostering or hindering co-operative development. Factors that influence co-operative development, such as financial mechanisms, technical assistance, and sector support infrastructure, are often treated separately in the literature without sufficiently focusing on the importance and role of public policy and legislation to establish the necessary mechanisms to effectively promote co-operative development. This paper argues that while the aforementioned factors are relevant, without grounding in a comprehensive public policy strategy, they paint only a partial picture of the co-operative development phenomenon. Public policy can create all the formerly mentioned mechanisms to develop co-operative organizations more effectively. By learning from Canadian and international co-operative experiences, this paper offers insights into enabling co-operative policy mechanisms that can benefit the Canadian social economy sector.
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...Domination and power occur through policy and law but also require support from cultural practices that legitimate and reinforce that domination (Gramsci, 1978; Herman & Chomsky, 1988)....
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19 Oct 2017
TL;DR: This article analyzed the discourse around abortion on Twitter through analysis of language and the manifested socio-cultural practices and found that abortion discourse can be classified into three ideologies: For, Against, and Neutral to Abortion.
Abstract: Social media provides a unique platform enabling public discourse around cross-cutting ideologies. In this paper, we provide a methodological lens for studying the discourses around the controversial topic of abortion on social media. Drawing from the theoretical framework of "Critical Discourse Analysis", we study discourse around abortion on Twitter through analysis of language and the manifested socio-cultural practices. First, employing a large dataset of over 700 thousand posts, we find that abortion discourse can be classified into three ideologies: For, Against, and Neutral to Abortion. We observe these ideological categories to be characterized by distinctive textual and psycholinguistic cues. Finally, we analyze the nature of discourse across ideologies against the backdrop of socio-cultural practices associated with abortion. Our findings reveal how the hegemonic nature of the rhetoric that has historically shaped the abortion debate in society is reconceptualized on Twitter. We discuss the role of social media as a public sphere that shapes critical discourse around controversial topics.
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...Among the theories related to power and ideology, Michel Foucault’s formulations of “order of discourse” and “powerknowledge” [18] and Antonio Gramsci’s notion of “cultural hegemony” [21] have been widely adopted....
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01 Jul 2002
TL;DR: The 1857 Indian Revolt as discussed by the authors was unique in that it was a "convergence of various strands of resistance on a vast and intense scale, involving mutinies of sepoys (soldiers), mass insurrections of peasants, revolts of princes in central India, and taluqdars (landholders) in newly annexed Avadh (called “Oude”) and spreading across northern India (Bose and Jalal 1998: 88).
Abstract: England, it is true, in causing a social revolution in Hindostan, was actuated only by the vilest interests, and was stupid in her manner of enforcing them. But that is not the question. The question is, can mankind fulfill its destiny without a fundamental revolution in the social state of Asia? If not, whatever may have been the crimes of England she was the unconscious tool of history in bringing about that revolution. (Karl Marx, “The British Rule in India,” New York Daily Tribune, 25 June 1853 ) By and by there will ooze out… facts able to convince John Bull himself that what he considers a military mutiny is in truth a national revolt. (Karl Marx, “The Indian Question,” New York Daily Tribune, 14 August 1857) The 1857 Revolt in British India was unique in that it was a “convergence of various strands of resistance” on a vast and intense scale, involving mutinies of sepoys (soldiers), mass insurrections of peasants, revolts of princes in central India, and taluqdars (landholders) in newly annexed Avadh (called “Oude”) and spreading across northern India (Bose and Jalal 1998: 88). In May 1857, a group of soldiers, recently mutinied from the Bengal Army at Meerut, and the rebellious villagers who joined them, entered Delhi and placed an unwilling Bahadur Shah II, the nominal heir of the old Mughal Empire, on the throne.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the way in which foreign investment in the transforming economies of Central and Eastern Europe has been deeply concerned with shifting informal collective and individual understandings about economic behaviour in the workplace.
Abstract: This article examines the way in which foreign investment in the transforming economies of Central and Eastern Europe has been deeply concerned with shifting informal collective and individual understandings about economic behaviour in the workplace. The framework of the analysis is institutionalist, drawing on the idea that markets are socially embedded and politically instituted. Informal institutions are central to the analysis; in particular, their content, creation and recreation and contestation. Further, it is argued that enabling myths have been used to to displace the legacies associated with Communist workplaces to promulgate a set of ideas and institutions considered to be in line with competitive markets. Intense competition means that firms cannot wait for these ideas to change in an evolutionary way and therefore agents are actively engaged in transferring these myths across national boundaries through circuits of intellectual capital. The main agents for the diffusion of a new set ...
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