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Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci

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 recent years, two events stand out as eminently subversive of the intellectual landscape: the sudden demise of the USSR as one of the two main loci of world power and the gradual rise of East Asia to epicenter of world-scale processes of capital accumulation as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: History continually messes up the neat conceptual frameworks and the more or less elegant theoretical speculations with which we endeavor to understand the past and forecast the future of the world we live in. In recent years, two events stand out as eminently subversive of the intellectual landscape: the sudden demise of the USSR as one of the two main loci of world power and the gradual rise of East Asia to epicenter of world -scale processes of capital accumulation. Although each event has received more than its due of scholarly attention, it is their joint occurrence that has the most significant conceptual and theoretical implications.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a systematic framework for identifying the key components of water management in tourism destinations and describes a "bottom-up" modelling procedure for assessing the relative eco-efficiency of various strategies for conserving this essential resource.
Abstract: Faced with intensifying demand for and diminishing supplies of water, the sustainability of many tourism destinations is dependent on using innovative eco‐efficient strategies to manage water resources. However, the task of assessing the relative merits of various management strategies is challenging due to a complex array of water consumption and wastewater issues in tourism destinations. This research describes a systematic framework for identifying the key components of water management in tourism destinations and describes a “bottom‐up” modelling procedure for assessing the relative eco‐efficiency of various strategies for conserving this essential resource. It then applies the model to strategies being considered for implementation in Whistler, British Columbia—one of North America's leading mountain resort destinations. The research contributes to sustainable planning theory and practice by describing a forecasting model for assessing the eco‐efficiency of water management strategies in tou...

25 citations

Book ChapterDOI
01 Jul 2002
TL;DR: The paralysis and inconsequentiality of postcolonial theory in the face of globalized capitalism are so patently clear as to make it unnecessary to rehearse any further the criticisms of Aijaz Ahmad, Arif Dirlik, Neil Lazarus, and others.
Abstract: The paralysis and inconsequentiality of postcolonial theory in the face of globalized capitalism are so patently clear as to make it unnecessary to rehearse any further the criticisms of Aijaz Ahmad, Arif Dirlik, Neil Lazarus, and others (Ahmad 1995b; Dirlik 1994b; Lazarus 1999a; Schulze-Engler 1998; Stummer 1998). The objections to postcolonial theory leveled by these critics range from the charge that it fetishizes textuality and offers a sly if civil evasion of “contemporary imperialist practices” (Davies 1998: 23), to the charge that it exemplifies what Benita Parry calls an “elective disaffiliation from the variable articulations of an emancipatory politics” (1998: 48). This is not just because the genre is devoted to specialized studies of widow-burning or British colonization of the Indian subcontinent, Australia, Canada and South Africa (Ashcroft, Griffiths, and Tiffin 1989). The explanation is more than theoretical or discursive. Robert Young, the editor of the new magazine, Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies , identifies its symptomatology: “The rise of postcolonial studies coincided with the end of Marxism as the defining political, cultural and economic objective of much of the third world” (1998: 8–9). This diagnosis is more wishful thinking than a factual statement. Postcolonialism seems to require a post-Marxism as “supplement,” a prophylactic clearing of the ground (Loomba 1998a; Moore-Gilbert 1997). What is meant by post-Marxism or the “end of Marxism” is really the reconfiguration of the international class struggle between the imperial metropoles and the masses of the periphery.

25 citations

Dissertation
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: This thesis is for research or private study purposes only, and the author's right to be identified as the author of this thesis is recognized.
Abstract: • Any use you make of these documents or images must be for research or private study purposes only, and you may not make them available to any other person. • Authors control the copyright of their thesis. You will recognize the author's right to be identified as the author of this thesis, and due acknowledgement will be made to the author where appropriate. • You will obtain the author's permission before publishing any material from their thesis.

25 citations


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  • ...And how does the ‘hidden curriculum’ work to foster hegemony in a Communist civilisation, which seems to “dominate by consent” (Gramsci, 1971)?...

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Book
23 Dec 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss money and moralism, slaves and servants, black markets, and gilt chains, and the choice of the best of the three types.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Money and moralism 2. Slaves and spending 3. Servants served 4. Black markets 5. Gilt chains 6. The choice Conclusion.

25 citations