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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 authors examines the feedback loop between governmental technologies of enumeration and surveillance and Hindu nationalist common sense that creates and sustains what I call "demographic anxiety" about Bangladeshi immigrants and Indian Muslims in the north Indian city of Jaipur.
Abstract: This article examines the feedback loop between governmental technologies of enumeration and surveillance and Hindu nationalist common sense that creates and sustains what I call “demographic anxiety” about Bangladeshi immigrants and Indian Muslims in the north Indian city of Jaipur. A series of bombings in 2008, rapidly and erroneously attributed to Bangladeshi infiltrators, brought to light the role of these forms of knowledge in struggles over city space and possible urban futures in Jaipur, as well as an incoherent but widespread construction of the demographically aggressive Muslim. I argue that “Bangladeshi” has thus become a mobile signifier that catches up disparate ways of “knowing” local populations. Drawing on personal and research experiences in Jaipur City and newspaper and other media accounts of the bombings, I track the mobilization of this signifier and its material consequences, particularly as they pertain to the fate of Jaipur's “Bangladeshi Basti,” which became the site of intense pol...
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TL;DR: Tales of the everyday city: geography and chronology in postcolonial Mombasa, Zoe Goodman, SOAS University of London, 2018.
Abstract: Goodman, Zoe (2018) Tales of the everyday city: geography and chronology in postcolonial Mombasa. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/30271 Copyright © and Moral Rights for this thesis are retained by the author and/or other copyright owners. A copy can be downloaded for personal non‐commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder/s. The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. When referring to this thesis, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given e.g. AUTHOR (year of submission) "Full thesis title", name of the School or Department, PhD Thesis, pagination.
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...120 only granted once the Kenyanisation Bureau had determined that no citizen was qualified for the position. These policies intentionally targeted Asians, given, as Maxon (1991) states, that the overwhelming majority did not choose to become citizens at independence, opting instead for British passports which they were entitled to as former British subjects....
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TL;DR: The authors emerge from several scholarly traditions, chief among them, feminist and critical ethnography; school-prison nexus; and critical feminist and race theories, and focus of focus of S...
Abstract: Background/ContextThis article emerges from several scholarly traditions, chief among them feminist and critical ethnography; school–prison nexus; and critical feminist and race theories.Focus of S...
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...My preparation for my appeal to the state—my conditioning myself into commonness, unobtrusiveness, plainness, as best I could, was in part a consent (Gramsci, 1971), an unwitting preparation for the possibility of vanishment....
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TL;DR: In this article, the role played by non-rational beliefs in the shaping of political preferences is examined. But the weaknesses of Edelman's theoretical and methodological approach, and the relative strengths of more recent research on the politics of cultural symbols render Edelmans work unable to serve as either model or springboard for the contemporary study of political symbols.
Abstract: Murray Edelman's work raised significant theoretical and methodological questions regarding the symbolic nature of politics, and specifically the role played by non‐rational beliefs (those that lack real‐world grounding) in the shaping of political preferences. According to Edelman, beneath an apparently functional and accountable democratic state lies a symbolic system that renders an ignorant public quiescent. The state, the media, civil society, interpersonal relations, even popular art are part of a mass spectacle kept afloat by empty symbolic beliefs. However suggestive it is, the weaknesses of Edelman's theoretical and methodological approach, and the relative strengths of more recent research on the politics of cultural symbols, render Edelman's work unable to serve as either model or springboard for the contemporary study of political symbols.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that by imposing penalty enhancement for hate crime, the criminal law assumes a significant symbolic role as a cue against transgression on the part of potential offenders.
Abstract: If our knowledge about so called ‘hate crime’ was confined to what we read in the national newspapers or see on the television news then the impression that we would be most likely left with is that hate crime offenders are out-and-out bigots, hate-fuelled individuals who subscribe to racist, homophobic, and other bigoted views who, in exercising their extreme hatred target their victims in premeditated violent attacks. Whilst many such attacks have occurred, the data on incidents, albeit limited, suggests instead that they are commonly committed by ‘ordinary’ people in the context of their ‘everyday’ lives. Considering the everyday circumstances in which incidents occur, this paper argues that by imposing penalty enhancement for ‘hate crime’ the criminal law assumes a significant symbolic role as a cue against transgression on the part of potential offenders.
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