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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: In this paper, the authors argue that cosmopolitanism leaves intact the privileges of the global elite by erasing the continuities between cosmo-moronism, neo-colonialism and economic globalization.
Abstract: In recent discussions on transnational justice, there has been renewed interest in cosmopolitanism as an ethico-political imperative and commitment to planetary conviviality in a postnational, globalized world. In the face of growing global interdependence, the project of cosmopolitanism promises to facilitate a transnational citizen’s movement, which could potentially galvanize the establishment of democratic global institutions. The figure of the ‘cosmopolitan’ has gained prominence as an agent of global justice, peace and democracy. In the face of increased transnational movement of capital, commodities, people, ideas, and images, cosmopolitans seemingly overcome narrow territorial-based affiliations in favour of an allegiance to all of humanity. Such an expansive consciousness of world citizenship has the pursuit of ‘solidarity across borders’ as its normative ideal. Detractors of liberal cosmopolitanism highlight the spectre of global capital which is seen as the necessary pre-condition for the emergence of a cosmopolitan sensibility. It is argued that cosmopolitanism leaves intact the privileges of the global elite by erasing the continuities between cosmopolitanism, neo-colonialism and economic globalization. This leaves us with the challenge of how to reimagine cosmopolitanism from and for the postcolonial world? How can the discontinuity between the dispensers of justice and rights and those coded as receivers be undone? The paper critically engages with discourses of global justice, development politics, human rights, decolonisation and democratisation from a feminist-postcolonial perspective.
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TL;DR: The UK National Consensus Conference on Plant Biotechnology was organized by the Science Museum and held in Regent's College, London, in November 1994 A Lay Paneldrawn from the public questioned expert witnesses from the industry and its opponents and then presented their conclusions in a report as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The UK National Consensus Conference on Plant Biotechnology was organized by the Science Museum and held in Regent's College, London, in November 1994 A Lay Paneldrawn from the public questioned expert witnesses from the industry and its opponents and then presented their conclusions in a report It was the first time a newtechnology had been exposed to this type of deliberative consultation in the UK This conference was an attempt to fix an agreed consensus on the future of a highly contentious technology At stake in this debate was who represents popular feelings about the social and environmental effects of this new technology Public discussion of biotechnology is increasing in frequency and intensity However, sustained face-to-face encounters between members of the public, biotech experts and environ-mentalists are still rare events The article explores the ways in which this encounter was framed, including the production of the identities of expert and lay person Enduring problems rem
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply a neo-Gramscian lens to the multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions: a lens comprised of multiple interrelated concepts, including hegemony, historical bloc, integral state, war of position, passive revolution and trasformismo.
Abstract: Transition scholars are increasingly addressing questions of power and politics in their explanations of the direction and form of sustainability transitions. Drawing on insights from neo-Gramscian scholarship to enhance the conceptualisation of power in sustainability transitions, we develop a theoretical account of how combinations of incumbent actor resistance and accommodation contribute to regime stability and change. We use this to understand how incumbent firms and their industry organisations contribute to the (re)production of a socio-technical regime by drawing on material, institutional and discursive forms of power to execute strategies of resistance and accommodation. This helps embellish understandings not only of the nature of the power of specific incumbent actors tied to a particular regime, but also of the operation of incumbency as a deeper system of power. We apply a neo-Gramscian lens to the multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions: a lens comprised of multiple interrelated concepts, including hegemony, historical bloc, integral state, war of position, passive revolution and trasformismo, whose contributions we outline in turn.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a study of intergenerational transfers of contaminated objects, referred to as "heirlooms", is presented, with a theoretical framework for Motivations, Object Symbolism, and the Embedded Self.
Abstract: This article is based on a study of intergenerational transfers of contaminated objects, colloquially referred to as “heirlooms.” Motivations and processes are described within the central dialectic of an individual actor seeking positive affect through the pursuit of connectedness and worthiness and in the context of the larger social order. Object symbolism is examined from the perspectives of the individual actor, society, and culture. The family is conceptualized as a special case of the “other.” A theoretical framework is developed that draws extensively on Walter Goldschmidt’s notion of “The Culturally Embedded Self” in The Human Career: The Self in a Symbolic World (1990) and on Sidney Levy’s work as presented in Brands, Consumers, Symbols, and Research (1999). This framework is referred to with the acronym MOSES for Motivations, Object Symbolism, and the Embedded Self.
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Dissertation•
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a Table of Table of contents of the paper "Acknowledgments and acknowledgments of the authors of this paper: https://www.sal.org.
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