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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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18 Nov 2016
TL;DR: Brooks et al. as discussed by the authors explored the changing nature of journalism as a space of contested power relations and networked communities, focusing specifically on how online news organizations, born digitally, become legitimate.
Abstract: The Subfield of Online Journalism: A Study of the Legitimizing Practices of Online News Organizations by Gillian Brooks Traditional news organizations exist within an apparatus of accountability, held together by their reputation and the professionalization of the occupation of journalism. Legitimacy in journalism has solidified over time; but with the emergence of online media, traditional journalistic standards have been challenged as online news organizations attempt to establish a new standard. This study explores the changing nature of journalism as a space of contested power relations and networked communities, focusing specifically on how online news organizations, born digitally, become legitimate. Based on close to 200 hours of interviews conducted over a period of six months at prominent online news organizations in the United States, this dissertation seeks to identify the manner in which online news organizations, specifically Breitbart.com, The Drudge Report, and The Huffington Post, gain legitimacy in the subfield of online journalism. There exists a unique structured space internal to the subfield of online journalism – a subfield of practices and power relations – with online organizations accumulating varying degrees of social capital in order to legitimize their role within this evolving ecology. In relying on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of the field, Mark Suchman’s work on organizational legitimacy, and Anand Narasimhan and Mary Watson’s work on field formation, this study outlines the conditions under which certain online news organizations can participate and gain legitimacy in this emerging subfield. I argue that three characteristics determine whether an online news organization can be considered legitimate; in analyzing these characteristics, I demonstrate how they help to create legitimacy in specific cases. If media scholars are to understand how online news organizations have emerged in recent years and become a key source for information, an interrogation of this unique space, in all of its complexities, is essential.

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TL;DR: The subject under scrutiny is power, and the attempt of this dissertation is to analyze its notion through the lens of a Law & Economics approach as mentioned in this paper, which has dealt with institutions as structures of power and countervailing power determined by a complex architecture of jural relations.
Abstract: [Pre-print version] The subject is not remote, philosophical nor esoteric; no one should venture into it with the feeling that it is a mystery that only the privileged can penetrate. Moreover, no one should surrender to a subject of such a great practical importance as this. The subject under scrutiny is power, and the attempt of this dissertation is to analyze its notion through the lens of a Law & Economics approach. This work has dealt with institutions as structures of power and countervailing power determined by a complex architecture of jural relations. The work is organized as follows. Section A is aimed at introducing the four elements to be considered in any analysis upon power relations: jural positionality, Commonsian transaction, cumulative effects, and, lastly, the jural incompleteness. These four 'components' allow us to investigate power in its three manifestations within the Coasean institutions, namely in the market, in the firm and in the State. This is the goal of section B.

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01 Jan 2013
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Cites background from "Selections from the prison notebook..."

  • ...Echoing sentiments that power may circulate and operate most effectively where it is least obvious (Gramsci 1971; Foucault 1998 [1978]; Mitchell 1990), the move to foreground the ordinary in contexts characterised by conflict highlights processes of repair and maintenance in conjunction with…...

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  • ...As advanced by Antonio Gramsci (1971), ‘hegemony’ has been widely translated into popular discourse as ‘common sense,’ a given order which seems natural, inevitable and enduring....

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  • ...Yet as developed by Gramsci (1971), at its inception hegemony speaks directly to domination, or the securing of control through leadership....

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  • ...Dependent only partially upon material force or coercion, domination relies upon processes of “continuous absorption” made possible through mechanisms and apparatuses of political, moral and intellectual influence and attraction (Gramsci 1971: 58-60)....

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  • ...clearly the micro politics of domination in Israel-Palestine, the ways in which consent is socially manufactured through both passivity and action (Gramsci 1971)....

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Journal Article
TL;DR: This article presented detailed accounts of central approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis, such as Fairclough's critical approach, Wodak's discourse-historical approach and Van Dijk's socio-cognitive approach.
Abstract: This article aims to present detailed accounts of central approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis. It focuses on the work of three prominent scholars such as Fairclough’s critical approach, Wodak’s discourse-historical approach and Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach. This study concludes that a combination of these three approaches can be useful to critical analysis of texts.

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Cites background from "Selections from the prison notebook..."

  • ...…main types of power: (1) the “coercive power”, which is based on force i.e., power of the military, power of violent men, etc.; and, (2) the “persuasive power”, which is “based on knowledge, information, or authority” such as “the power of parents, professors, or journalists” (see Gramsci, 1971)....

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the learning of English in a Chinese university in Jiangsu and the university's preferential language policy, which allowed Uyghur minority students from Xinjiang to be enrolled despite their lower scores in the entrance examination.
Abstract: We focus on the learning of English in a Chinese university in Jiangsu and the university’s preferential language policy, which allowed Uyghur minority students from Xinjiang to be enrolled despite their lower scores in the entrance examination. Guided by the constructs of language ideologies [Kroskrity, P. V. (2000). Regimes of language: Ideologies, politics, identities. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press] and language regimes [Sonntag, S. K., & Cardinal, L. (2015). Introduction. In L. Cardinal & S. K. Sonntag (Eds.), State traditions and language regimes (pp. 3–26). Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press], we adopted an ethnographic approach [McCarty, T. L. (2015). Ethnography in language planning and policy research. In F. M. Hult & D. C. Johnson (Eds.), Research methods in language policy and planning: A practical guide (pp. 81–93). Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell] to investigate how Uyghur students viewed their English learning and how the university responded to macro-level natio...

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Cites background from "Selections from the prison notebook..."

  • ...Drawing on Bourdieu (1991) and Gramsci (1971) – both of whom emphasize the hidden or invisible power invested in ideologies – she problematizes how the state practices ideological hegemony by advocating the indispensability of English language acquisition....

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