Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci

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Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci, Quintin Hoare, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

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.

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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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The COVID pandemic and social theory: Social democracy and public health in the crisis

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Sylvia Walby¹•Institutions (1)

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...These structural changes maybe systemic (Gramsci, 1971)....
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...The contestation of the narrative of the crisis can have significant implications (Gramsci, 1971; Klein, 2007, 2020; Mirowski, 2013)....
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...Is the crisis a critical turning point (Gramsci, 1971, Habermas, 1975), or a catastrophe (Diamond, 2005), or is it stabilised and absorbed (Engelen et al., 2011; Minsky, 2008 [1986]), or will it cascade through further social systems (Haas, 1958; Perrow, 1999 [1984]; Walby, 2015)?...
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Repertoires of knowledge practices: social movements in times of crisis

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Donatella Della Porta, Elena Pavan

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that knowledge becomes all the more important for movements in times of crisis, as old structures are challenged and new ones are envisaged and proved feasible, and suggest ways to expand the toolkit of social movement studies in order to empirically address knowledge practices as a meaningful part of contemporary progressive activism.

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Abstract: Purpose Starting from the assumption that knowledge becomes all the more important for movements in times of crisis, as old structures are challenged and new ones envisaged and proved feasible, the purpose of this paper is to suggest ways to expand the toolkit of social movement studies in order to empirically address knowledge practices as a meaningful part of contemporary progressive activism Design/methodology/approach The authors start by arguing that, in their effort to pursue or resist social and political changes, contemporary progressive social movements form collective spaces of knowledge production that are true laboratories for innovation For this reason, the authors begin by making a case for accounting more explicitly for knowledge production within social movement studies - not as a substitution for but, rather, as a necessary complement to current cultural approaches Building on extant literature on the nexus between movements and knowledge, the authors then outline the peculiarities of movement knowledge Findings On these bases, the authors outline the core components of what the authors call repertoires of knowledge practices - that is, the set of practices that foster the coordination of disconnected, local, and highly personal experiences and rationalities within a shared cognitive system able to provide movements and their supporters with a common orientation for making claims and acting collectively to produce social, political, and cultural changes Originality/value The authors conclude by identifying some promising avenues of research to further develop the understanding of movement practices of knowledge production and transmission

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Law Struggles and Hegemonic Processes in Neoliberal India: Gramscian Reflections on Land Acquisition Legislation

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Kenneth Bo Nielsen¹, Alf Gunvald Nilsen²•Institutions (2)

University of Oslo¹, University of Bergen²

08 Jan 2015-Globalizations

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how, in the context of an unfolding process of neoliberalisation in India, new terrains of resistance are crystallising for subaltern groups seeking to contest the marginalising consequences of this process, focusing particularly on the emergence of India's new rights agenda through a study of the making of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2013.

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Abstract: This article explores how, in the context of an unfolding process of neoliberalisation in India, new terrains of resistance are crystallising for subaltern groups seeking to contest the marginalising consequences of this process. We focus particularly on the emergence of India's ‘new rights agenda’ through a study of the making of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2013. Conceiving of the emergence of the ‘new rights agenda’ as a hegemonic process, we decipher how law-making is a complex and contradictory practice seeking to negotiate a compromise equilibrium between, on the one hand, subaltern groups vulnerable to marginalisation and capable of mobilisation; and, on the other, dominant groups whose economic interests are linked to the exploitation of the spaces of accumulation recently pried open by market-oriented reforms. The negotiation of this equilibrium, we suggest, is ultimately intended to facilitate India's process o...

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...…rights agenda as a ‘hegemonic process’ (Mallon, 1995) in which the law simultaneously serves as (i) a vehicle through which a ‘compromise equilibrium’ (Gramsci, 1998, p. 161) between social groups can be constructed in order to gain consent for a neoliberal development strategy; and (ii) a…...
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...Given that these modalities are intended to maintain ‘unstable equilibria’ of compromise ‘in which the interest of the dominant social groups prevail’ (Gramsci, 1998, p. 182) it follows that one should ask what subaltern groups can and cannot expect to achieve by routing their resistance through…...
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...But—secondly—the bill also exemplifies how the construction of such an equilibrium, and the many concessions notwithstanding, ‘cannot touch the essential’ and has to bolster ‘the decisive function exercised by the leading group in the decisive nucleus of economic activity’ (Gramsci, 1998, p. 161)....
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...Consequently, the institutions, discourses, and technologies of rule that attach to the state also become sites of contention where subaltern resistance can be articulated and pursued (Gramsci, 1998, p. 52)....
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...However, this process is a gradual and contentious one, which can only proceed through a continuous process of formation and superseding of ‘unstable equilibria . . . between the interests of the fundamental group and those of the subordinate groups’ (Gramsci, 1998, p. 182)....
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The new institutionalism and the study of the European union: The case of the social dialogue

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Michael J. Gorges¹•Institutions (1)

University of Maryland, Baltimore County¹

01 Oct 2001-West European Politics

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply new institutionalist perspectives on institutional change to the inclusion in the Maastricht Treaty of social dialogue provisions giving the social partners the right to participate in social policy making.

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Abstract: This article applies new institutionalist perspectives on institutional change to the inclusion in the Maastricht Treaty of social dialogue provisions giving the social partners the right to participate in social policy‐making. It concludes that the new institutionalism cannot explain institutional change. By relying on exogenous variables such as ‘critical junctures’, ‘leadership’ or ‘ideas’, new institutionalist analyses resort to a collection of explanations that proponents of almost any theoretical perspective could use. The new institutionalisin's failure to develop an institutionalist account of change is a serious weakness that brings into question its use as an analytical tool in EU studies.

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Rethinking Subaltern Resistance

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Uday Chandra¹•Institutions (1)

Max Planck Society¹

16 Jul 2015-Journal of Contemporary Asia

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that resistance can be reconceptualised as the negotiation rather than negation of social power, which helps us understand and critique existing structures of social domination in order to pursue emancipatory goals.

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Abstract: This special issue seeks to rethink “resistance” as a critical social science concept in the light of a range of critiques since the 1980s. The five articles in this issue draw their empirical materials from contemporary India, but their arguments have significant implications for those working on other parts of Asia and the world. The articles acknowledge the inherent ambiguities and ambivalences of subaltern resistance in the face of hegemonic social formations, yet, shorn of exoticising and homogenising tendencies, resistance can be reconceptualised as the negotiation rather than negation of social power. Such a reconceptualisation is useful to study a wide range of contentious politics from foot-dragging through protests to social revolutions under a single analytic umbrella. Resistance, in this sense, ought to be recognised as a vital part of a critical realist ontology of society, which helps us understand and critique existing structures of social domination in order to pursue emancipatory ...

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