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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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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of the effects of technological mediation and specifically, digital remediation on the discourse on blues music and blues culture since the introduction of the world-wide web in 1989, and the proliferation of computer-mediated communications (CMC) from 1996.
Abstract: This study presents an overview of the effects of technological mediation and specifically, digital remediation, on the discourse on blues music and blues culture since the introduction of the world-wide web in 1989, and the proliferation of computer-mediated communications (CMC) from 1996. In other words, blues music and blues culture undergo transformations of form and circulation when oral practices are first committed to text as sheet music. Further evolutions occur as performances are remediated as phonograph records and through various broadcast media during the 20th century. Each successive transformation generates discourses of authenticity, ownership and value which enable and constrain definitions of the blues aesthetic. These discourses have remained largely unexamined as part of the latest cycle of remediation to digital formats and computer-mediated virtual environments since 1996. This study presents the results of examination on key sites using online ethnography, critical discourse analysis, interview and online survey in order to better understand and illustrate the development, dissemination and perpetuation of blues music and blues culture in the digital age. Specifically, this study considers the ways that blues music and blues culture are perpetuated and affected by computer-mediated communications from the perspectives of performers, cultural workers and consumers, asking what challenges are made manifest in the present by digitally mediated representations of the past. The study finds that unequal power structures and differentiated notions of individual agency predicated on race, which are inherent in the socio-political construction of the physical world, are reproduced in contemporary on-line and virtual spaces facilitated by information communications technology (ICT) and computer-mediated communications (CMC). These spaces include the multi-media social networking site Facebook, text-based forums and newsgroups, and the music and video service YouTube. The study offers suggestions for how this might be addressed in future, and proposes further areas of research in the field, specifically focussing on the interaction of blues music and blues culture with ICT and CMC.
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...As indicated in Chapter 4, in this way the tutor represents the voice of ‘traditional’ academia as well as potentially being an ‘organic intellectual’ (Gramsci et al., 1971)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how iVillage.com, one of the most popular World Wide Web portals for women, advises them on how to integrate the demands of wage and domestic labor, focusing on the implications such advice has for gender relations within the family and for feminist politics in U.S. society.
Abstract: This article examines how iVillage.com, one of the most popular World Wide Web portals for women, advises them on how to integrate the demands of wage and domestic labor. Specifically, the article focuses on the implications such advice has for gender relations within the family and for feminist politics in U.S. society. Discursive strategies in advice generated by iVillage.com support the ideology of postfeminism, which promotes individual consumer-based solutions for a primarily middle-class audience over politics addressing the gendered division of labor, both within individual families and in social structures. Such commercial Web-site discourses are consistent with those constructed by other mainstream media.
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TL;DR: A historical review of gender in Buganda confirms that gender is a construction and that the gendering process, based partly on biological factors and partly on arbitrary and cultural traits, relates dialectally with social, cultural and political forces that have shaped Buganda society as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Not all males are men and neither are all females women. A historical review of gender in Buganda confirms that gender is a construction and that the gendering process, based partly on biological factors and partly on arbitrary and cultural traits, relates dialectally with social, cultural and political forces that have shaped Buganda's society. This essay examines this history to chart the construction and negotiation of gender among Baganda from the eighteenth century. The construction of gender in the realm of royal authority within the palace will be contrasted with gender construction among Baganda commoners outside of the palace. Aspects of gender construction in relation to the Catholic church are also briefly considered. While male-dominance and man-power have remained dominant in gender relations, with female-subordinance and women-submission still apparent, these positions have not been stable over time. Baganda females have not been passive receptors of cultural dominance, but have ins...
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TL;DR: This paper investigated the experiences of 270 return migrants from four European countries (Norway, Netherlands, UK and Portugal) and found that migrants' responses to the stigmatizing force of symbolic criminalisation do not always mean resistance, but, quite often, are placed on a continuum between the contestation and the reproduction of the stigma and the hegemony of the law.
Abstract: The criminalization of migration has, over the last decade, gained unprecedented focus in migration, criminology and socio-legal literature. Recently, there have been some developments critically revisiting the criminalization thesis, particularly with reference to the European experiences: criminal law might exist ‘on the books’ but quite often it is not actually enforced in immigration practice. Therefore, whilst the incorporation of criminal law into the immigration domain serves mainly symbolic functions to demonstrate a government’s firm grip over immigration control, it also legitimizes a discourse presenting migrants as potential criminals, cheats and abusers. This begs the following question: how do migrants respond to this increasing conflation between criminal and immigration domains in the wider social context? How are the official and public discourses over ‘crimmigrant bodies’ reflected in migrants’ everyday life experiences? Do migrants resist, reproduce or redefine this criminal labelling? I grapple with these questions while qualitatively investigating the experiences of 270 return migrants from four European countries (Norway, Netherlands, the UK and Portugal): migrants’ responses to the stigmatizing force of symbolic criminalisation do not always mean resistance, but, quite often, are placed on a continuum between the contestation and the reproduction of the stigma and the hegemony of the law.
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...Migrants, by reproducing this discourse as taken-for-granted, legitimize the hostile socio-legal environment and assert the hegemony of the law – its power to shape reality without calling attention to itself [40]....
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TL;DR: Cosmopolitanism is defined as an ethical, moral, and political philosophy that seeks to uncouple ethics from distance, arguing that each person is bound up with, and obligated to, humanity as a whole as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: For most of the last 400 years the world-system has exhibited two distinct but intertwined tendencies. On one hand, it has witnessed a proliferation of national states with well-defined borders; on the other, it has simultaneously seen unprecedented growth in interconnectedness, of flows of capital, goods, people, and information across those borders, a phenomenon we may loosely label "globalization." Such processes speak to the endless tension of capitalism between fixity and motion, which assumes economic, political, cultural forms. These two trends are also manifest within the domain of ideology, in the forms of exclusionary nationalism and inclusive cosmopolitanism, the former frequently predicated upon ostensible self-reliance and xenophobic depictions of Others and the latter seeking to forge linkages among groups, noting their mutual reliance and interdependence. Although their interactions cannot be reduced to a simple dichotomy, nationalism and cosmopolitanism offer starkly contrasting views of identity, community, and humanity, with geographical imaginations sharply at odds with one another. In this article I explore the relationship between these two worldviews and their implications for geography. Although it has a lengthy intellectual history, cosmopolitanism is relatively new to academic discourse and to world politics. Of course, within this intellectual tradition are multiple strains that vary by academic discipline and political emphasis. Briefly, "cosmopolitanism" may be defined as an ethical, moral, and political philosophy that seeks to uncouple ethics from distance, arguing that each person is bound up with, and obligated to, humanity as a whole. Cosmopolitans are moral universalists and insist on the inherent worthiness and dignity of all individuals, irrespective of their place of birth. In this view, no legitimate grounds exist for maintaining that some people--fellow nationals, community members, coreligionists--are more worthy than other people are; that is, those who live far away are culturally different or are not constitutive elements of one's self-defined community. The accident of where one is born is just that--an accident. As Peter Singer put it, "Geographical proximity is not in itself of any moral significance" (2004, 166). For Daniel Archibugi, "Cosmopolitans may be defined as those who know the world and feel at ease anywhere in it" (2008, 143). Pheng Cheah argued that it is "a universal humanism that transcends regional particularism" (1998, 22). Martha Nussbaum called it "a set of loyalties to humanity as a whole" (1994, 3). My agenda in this article is ambitious. First, I briefly review the rise of the nation-state and nationalism in order to stress their contingent, malleable nature, attempting to denaturalize what is so often reified in popular culture and consciousness. Second, I offer a historical sketch of cosmopolitanism, its tenets, and its varieties. Third, I dwell on the intersections of current forms of globalization and cosmopolitanism, arguing that the contemporary world-system has steadily undermined national states and national borders, opening a space for enacting a cosmopolitan political agenda. Fourth, I explore cosmopolitanism's challenge to, and intersections with, nationalism and their competing visions of the meaning of community. Fifth, I summarize three major objections to cosmopolitanism and offer a defense. Sixth, I point to the implications of cosmopolitanism for contemporary geography, including relational spatialities of empathy and caring. Finally, I argue the case for cosmopolitan global governance and democracy and hint at why such a system may be gradually coming into being. NATIONALISM: AN UNSYMPATHETIC CRITIQUE The 1648 Peace of Westphalia marked a pivotal moment in the emergence of the modern world economy By ending the Thirty Years' War and guaranteeing the independence of the Netherlands and Portugal, it signaled the breakup of the vast religious empires that long dominated medieval Europe. …
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