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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: The integration of traditional (offline and face to face) and virtual ethnographic methods can aid researchers interested in developing understandings of relationships between online and offline cultural life, and examining the diffuse and sometimes global character of youth resistance as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The integration of traditional (offline and face ‐ to ‐ face) and virtual ethnographic methods can aid researchers interested in developing understandings of relationships between online and offline cultural life, and examining the diffuse and sometimes global character of youth resistance. In constructing this argument, I have used insights from studies on youth activism and the rave subculture. These studies also informed my central theoretical suggestion: that an approach to research underscored by a sensitivity to everyday experiences and the power structures framing these experiences can (still) be a powerful guide for understanding flows and circuits of resistance in Internet ‐ influenced cultures. Key words: globalization, qualitative research, social movements, rave culture, virtual ethnography L’integration de methodes ethnographiques traditionnelles (hors ligne et en presentiel) ou recourant aux TIC peut aider les chercheurs a mieux comprendre les relations entre la vie culturelle en ligne et hors ligne et a etudier le caractere diffus et parfois planetaire de la resistance des jeunes. L’auteur fonde son argumentation sur des observations tirees d’etudes portant sur l’activisme chez les jeunes et la sous ‐ culture techno ‐ rave. Ces etudes servent egalement de point de depart a l’hypothese centrale de l’auteur, a savoir qu’une approche de la recherche qui est sensible aux experiences quotidiennes et aux structures du pouvoir encadrant ces experiences peuvent (encore) servir de guide precieux pour comprendre les courants et circuits de resistance dans les cultures sous l’influence d’Internet. Mots cles : mondialisation, recherche qualitative, mouvements sociaux, culture techno ‐ rave, ethnographie virtuelle

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the contribution that fait l'organisation de l'espace dans ces sites a la production and au maintien des discours dominants, and find that certains aspects of ces travaux sont fondes implicitement sur des conceptions de la personne qui sont specifiques aux courants de pensee posterieurs.
Abstract: Les recherches recentes sur les monuments neolithiques britanniques decrivent la contribution que fait l'organisation de l'espace dans ces sites a la production et au maintien des discours dominants. Cet article soutient que certains aspects de ces travaux sont fondes implicitement sur des conceptions de la personne qui sont specifiques aux courants de pensee posterieurs au Siecle des Lumieres. La conception des rapports de pouvoir qui en resulte pour la periode neolithique est quelque peu statique et unidimensionnelle. Une solution a ce probleme est apportee par les litteratures publiees sur l'anthropologie et le feminisme, dans lesquelles une caracterisation alternative du sujet comme fondamentalement fluide et relationnel est esquissee. Ceci facilite une conception versatile et contextuelle des rapports de pouvoir qui peut etre conciliee plus facilement avec les signes que les monuments neolithiques presentent de la creation et de la re-interpretation permanentes des significations des espaces.

93 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a critical analysis of older adult education in Malta is presented. But the analysis is limited to three intersecting lines of unequality: positive aging, elitism, and gender.
Abstract: This article reports a critical analysis of older adult education in Malta. In educational gerontology, a critical perspective demands the exposure of how relations of power and inequality, in their myriad forms, combinations, and complexities, are manifest in late-life learning initiatives. Fieldwork conducted at the University of the Third Age (UTA) in Malta uncovered the political nature of elder-learning, especially with respect to three intersecting lines of unequality—namely, positive aging, elitism, and gender. A cautionary note is, therefore, warranted at the dominant positive interpretations of UTAs since late-life learning, as any other education activity, is not politically neutral.

93 citations

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TL;DR: The purpose of this research was to determine how power influenced participation in decision-making, agenda setting, and the shaping of perceived needs within a community-based food security planning process, with particular reference to disen-franchised stakeholders.
Abstract: A community food security movement has begun to address problems of hunger and food insecurity by utilizing a community-based approach. Although various models have been implemented, little empirical research has assessed how power operates within community-based food security initiatives. The purpose of this research was to determine how power influenced participation in decision-making, agenda setting, and the shaping of perceived needs within a community-based food security planning process, with particular reference to disenfranchised stakeholders. Power influenced participation in decision-making, agenda setting, and the shaping of perceived needs through managing 1) problem framing, 2) trust, 3) knowledge, and 4) consent. To overcome these mechanisms of power, practitioners need to address individual-, community-, and institutional-level barriers to participation in community-based food security planning processes. Practitioners and researchers can work with disenfranchised groups to determine which agents have the power to create desired changes by utilizing theory-based methods and strategies that focus on changing external determinants at multiple levels.

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TL;DR: For instance, this paper pointed out that narrative research, in all of its various manifestations, is deeply implicated in contemporary conflicts over theory, methodology, and politics in scholarly investigation, and pointed out the emergence of a post-paradigmatic age: new configurations emerge while earlier formulations persist, and various versions deconstruct and recombine.
Abstract: Throughout the 1980s, a different kind of academic inquiry gained momentum, one that invited the interpretations of previously ignored informants. It is difficult to imagine a scholar who has not noticed the many new publications featuring life stories and personal narratives. Yet, like the concurrent, and not unconnected, proliferation of volumes on \"the self and \"the postmodern,\" this phenomenon can seem both pervasive and elusive. Narrative research, in all of its various manifestations, is deeply implicated in contemporary conflicts over theory, methodology, and politics in scholarly investigation. Rather than providing evidence of a paradigm shift, however, an examination of these unruly developments would more likely confirm the arrival of a postparadigmatic age: New configurations emerge while earlier formulations persist, and various versions deconstruct and recombine. Nevertheless, I believe that it is possible to perceive some complex patterns of growth and change in this area. The aim of this chapter is not to curb the exhilarating experimentation that characterizes the current enthusiasm for narrative research. Rather, my purpose here is to familiarize readers with contemporary examples of narrative research in education while deliberating over definitions, examining explanations for the present popularity of such research, considering social purposes, addressing existing criticisms, and indicating innovative contributions.

93 citations