Book•
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: Foran et al. as discussed by the authors contextualize this case study of contemporary counter-hegemony in South Africa through a theoretical-conceptual approach, and a deep, colonial, historical approach.
Abstract: Author(s): Irvine, Timothy | Advisor(s): Foran, John; Lezra, Esther | Abstract: Despite apartheid’s 1994 de jure abolition, contemporary university students in South Africa transgressively protest for ongoing, radical, de facto “decolonization” that they allege, and I agree, has not occurred. My thesis historicizes and analyzes the Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) and Open Stellenbosch (OS) protests at University of Cape Town (UCT) and Stellenbosch University (SU), respectively. I analyze how university students’ protests drive counter-hegemonic social movements locally, regionally, and potentially globally. I highlight marginalized students’ imagination and articulation of alternatives to global neoliberalism, which is transgressive and perceived as radical. I contextualize this case study of contemporary counter-hegemony in South Africa through a theoretical-conceptual approach, and a deep, colonial, historical approach. I present three critical premises: (1) neoliberalism is de-democratization and covert authoritarianism; (2) universities are potential sites of critical democratization; and (3) marginalized university students drive a radical, transgressive imagination of alternative worlds. I provide critical historical background to situate South Africa within Contemporary Globalization before chronicling the emergent themes of ongoing protests. Following my South Africa case study, I briefly compare RMF and OS to other university student protests around the globe, including California and Germany. I suggest that under Contemporary Globalization, apparently dissimilar social movements share much in common, including universities’ simultaneous assimilation into, and potential for resistance against, the new, covert authoritarianism and de-democratization of global neoliberalism.
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Cites background from "Selections from the prison notebook..."
...(Smith, 2012: 11, 66, 83) Even when not overtly producing and legitimizing racist theories, colonial HEIs like UCT and SU covertly maintained Eurocentrism through individualistic, masculist, capitalist-realist pedagogies, which imported European structures for instructors, administrators, students, laborers, and physical space of the university campus....
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...UK: W. Strahan and T. Cadell Smith, D. (2012) Lonmin emails paint ANC elders as born-again robber baron....
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...(Smith, 2012) The report’s strongest indictment of a politician was a recommendation of an inquiry into South Africa National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega, and pointing out that the tactics selected by the South African Police Service (SAPS) were likely to result in bloodshed, if not better executed next time....
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...(Hoare and Smith, Gramsci, 1999; Forgacs, Gramsci; 2000) Much of Gramsci’s theories on hegemony, collusion, control, history, materialism, and capitalist-realism are filtered through translations and academic theorization about Gramsci’s own theories....
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...Darian-Smith, E. (2014) Global Studies, The Handmaiden of Neoliberalism?...
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TL;DR: This article used content and frame analysis from the review of 200 articles in 10 countries to examine the reception of Anonymous in the global press, revealing a disparity in how journalists chose to represent Anonymous and what they actually reported.
Abstract: Since 2008, Anonymous has been a rising presence in global affairs, although the group has remained relatively hidden behind the margins of media scrutiny. This study uses content and frame analysis from the review of 200 articles in 10 countries to examine the reception of Anonymous in the global press. The analysis revealed a disparity in how journalists chose to represent Anonymous and what they actually reported. Hacktivists were framed mostly as malicious pranksters, even though 82% of their operations were motivated by a defense of free speech or political causes. A cross-examination of hacktivist operations suggested an economically motivated news bias in support of those corporate and government organizations targeted by Anonymous. The study also investigated hacktivist methods and targets, highlighting the group's proclivity for crashing the websites of global institutions.
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Cites background from "Selections from the prison notebook..."
...Instead, it could be said that Anonymous embodies the Gramscian concept of a counterhegemonic movement that challenges dominant systems, including the conventional means for expressing dissent (Gramsci, 1971)....
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Dissertation•
01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: A Critical Rationalist Approach to Globalisation as discussed by the authors is an approach to globalisation based on a principal argument and thesis structure of the critical rationalist approach to the globalisation process.
Abstract: vi Acknowledgements vii Part I: A Critical Rationalist Approach to Globalisation Chapter 1 Principal Argument and Thesis Structure 1.
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Dissertation•
01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study of three television case histories in Asia is presented, which show how television is becoming global and how public service broadcasting is becoming a symbolic role, metaphors for the reconfiguration of relationships between the global and local.
Abstract: The pattern of specific examples of the processes of globalization is described. The examples all concern information f lows, which are illustrated through a comparative study of three television case histories in Asia. Also illustrated are the three different approaches to providing television services: public service (NHK in Japan), state (CCTV in China) and commercial (STAR TV, based in Hong Kong). Information flows are seen as global forces, constituted at a distance, and the focus is on the ways in which they are resisted or negotiated. NHK and CCTV are depicted as "front line" organizations which are forced to deal with globalization forces in the first instance, while the state may be slow to comprehend or react to the new realities facing it. The case histories show how television is becoming global. From that perspective, the condition of the television industry, of the production of news, and in particular of the public service broadcaster appear in a symbolic role, metaphors for the reconfiguration of relationships between the global and the local. Conclusions on the nature of globalization are linked directly to the research findings. All three case histories are based on interviews with leading participants in exemplar events: • the attempts to set up GNN, and to 'internationalize' NHK; • CCTV's defense of its dominant position, under pressure from upheavals both in Chinese society and the government bureaucracy, at the same time as it has itself become a major revenue earner and its role has changed as China enters the WTO; and • the establishment, sale and erratic progress of STAR TV. This is contextualized through a broader discussion about the role of public service broadcasters, and of information and commwlication generally. A causal layered analysis is applied, with a concluding argument in favor of public service television. Several models are suggested, and four scenarios offered, to indicate how public service television could develop.
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12 Nov 2014
TL;DR: The role of occupational therapists as activists as well as reflectors drawing on comparisons with cultural practice in community publishing is outlined and the development of a language that will enable the recognition and exploration of power differentials is discussed.
Abstract: In this article we argue for the development of an understanding of human occupation as being inherently political. Occupational therapy is broadly about the experience of ‘doing’ as the basis of social participation. This requires access to the means of participation: space, facilities and resources for different forms of human action, and occupational therapists need to develop an understanding of how access to these means is regulated. In this article we develop an argument for the development of a political occupational therapy. We do this by outlining the role of occupational therapists as activists as well as reflectors drawing on comparisons with cultural practice in community publishing; by discussing the development of a language that will enable the recognition and exploration of power differentials, and by delineating the importance of experiential knowledge.
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