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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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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: The authors map out the nature of hybridity of ESL learners/speakers that results from their resistance and/or acceptance of Western cultural discourses that are embedded within English curriculum texts taught to Muslim ESL learners at higher educational institutes in Pakistan.
Abstract: The primary objective of this research study is to map out the nature of hybridity of ESL learners/speakers that results from their resistance and/or acceptance of Western cultural discourses that are embedded within English curriculum texts taught to Muslim ESL learners at higher educational institutes in Pakistan.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the phenomenon of knowledge transfer within multinational corporations (MNCs), and how the imperatives of thought and action that constitute new knowledge are received in the terrain that constitutes the MNC subsidiary.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the phenomenon of knowledge transfer within multinational corporations (MNCs), and how the imperatives of thought and action that constitute new knowledge are received in the terrain that constitutes the MNC subsidiary.Design/methodology/approach – This study employs an ethnographic approach, and juxtaposes primary data collection with a variety of secondary data sources.Findings – The data are analyzed in light of the theoretical construct of hegemony, and three themes theorized that underlie the process of knowledge transfer. These include knowledge loss at the local level, the coercive practices that ensure knowledge transfer, and the invocation of imperial subjectivities by the headquarters of the MNC when dealing with subsidiaries from poorer nations.Originality/value – This paper goes beyond the mainstream approaches into organizational knowledge transfer, by analyzing these issues in light of political economy, and the changing landscape of industri...
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TL;DR: The authors propose a modified "articulation" model of parties, emphasizing parties' role in assembling and naturalizing political coalitions within structural constraints, and show that underlying social structures and institutions did not affect labor party support as expected.
Abstract: Why is there no labor party in the United States? This question has had deep implications for U.S. politics and social policy. Existing explanations use “reflection” models of parties, whereby parties reflect preexisting cleavages or institutional arrangements. But a comparison with Canada, whose political terrain was supposedly more favorable to labor parties, challenges reflection models. Newly compiled electoral data show that underlying social structures and institutions did not affect labor party support as expected: support was similar in both countries prior to the 1930s, then diverged. To explain this, I propose a modified “articulation” model of parties, emphasizing parties’ role in assembling and naturalizing political coalitions within structural constraints. In both cases, ruling party responses to labor and agrarian unrest during the Great Depression determined which among a range of possible political alliances actually emerged. In the United States, FDR used the crisis to mobilize new const...
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: It is the argument of this book that health systems exist to fulfil purposes, including protecting and improving health and the provision of professional, ethical, accountable and accessible health care for all.
Abstract: It is the argument of this book that health systems exist to fulfil purposes, including protecting and improving health and the provision of professional, ethical, accountable and accessible health care for all. Therefore policies that influence the nature and extent of health care commercialization should be designed to further those purposes. To achieve this, better economic, social and technical analysis of health care commercialization is required as a foundation for effective health policy.
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01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: Fascism today the prison of ideas classical fascism an alternative method Marxists against Mussolini and Hitler Thalheimer, Silone, Gramsci, Trotsky beyond 1933 Marxists and the Holocaust.
Abstract: Fascism today the prison of ideas classical fascism an alternative method Marxists against Mussolini and Hitler Thalheimer, Silone, Gramsci, Trotsky beyond 1933 Marxists and the Holocaust.
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