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Critical theory
About: Critical theory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5372 publications have been published within this topic receiving 164765 citations.
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TL;DR: This article examined descriptions of a heated controversy over the proposed closure of the only primarily black high school in a large urban city, and found that four strands of discursive conflict emerged: the purpose of school; the relationship of school and community; communication; and the issue of racism.
Abstract: Using critical race discourse analysis, this study examines descriptions of a heated controversy over the proposed closure of the only primarily black high school in a large urban city. Participants included community members and the district and school leaders who were key in the controversy. Based on Foucault’s analysis of power we looked for conflicts in the narratives of the participants in their description of the controversy. Four strands of discursive conflict emerged: the purpose of school; the relationship of school and community; communication; and the issue of racism. Taking these four strands together, the themes found in the discourse of the community members enacted an emancipatory knowledge paradigm, while the themes found in the discourse of the administrators enacted a technical-rational, instrumental paradigm of knowledge.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the critique of capitalism is largely absent in International Relations and that the theoretical resources deployed among ‘radical’ International Relations help explain this phenomenon.
Abstract: Critique is back on the scholarly agenda. Since the financial crisis, critique has been debated in philosophy and sociology with renewed rigour. International Relations is currently picking up on these developments. Yet, the critique of capitalism is largely absent in International Relations. This article argues that the theoretical resources deployed among ‘radical’ International Relations help explain this phenomenon. In order to rectify this, the article aims to resituate Marx at the centre of the debate about critique. Based on a discussion of the understandings of critique by Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour, the article shows that their conscious focus on the small and the contingent has prevented a more totalizing strategy of critique from taking hold. The article illustrates this unwillingness to situate social life in our capitalist social whole by zooming in on ‘resistant’ intervention scholarship. Speaking to the nature of International Relations more broadly, in a second step, the article shows that this lack of ‘totalizing’ analysis has been present in International Relations and International Political Economy since their inception. Taking into account Marxian and Critical Theoretical understandings of totality, the article outlines a totalizing strategy of critique. This strategy has two components: it takes capitalism as such seriously; and it offers a methodology to implement this substantial shift using Marx’s dynamic method of ‘concretization’.
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21 Nov 2019
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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: The Normative Term Justice, Ethics, Truth Part 3 Post-Disciplinary Debates: Societies Post-Modernity, Civil Society, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Globalisation, Nature, Domination/Liberation, Self, Gender, Sexuality, Race, Post-Coloniality as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Part 1 General Theory without Foundations New Critical Theory, Semiotic-Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Cultural Studies Part 2 The Normative Term Justice, Ethics, Truth Part 3 Post-Disciplinary Debates: Societies Postmodernity, Civil Society, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Globalisation, Nature, Domination/Liberation, Self, Gender, Sexuality, Race, Post-Coloniality.
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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: Rage and Hope as discussed by the authors is a collection of the most controversial and provocative interviews granted by Peter McLaren from around the turn of the twenty-first century, offering a lucid and penetrating window into the thought and humanity of one of the world's most influential critical educators.
Abstract: Rage and Hope, a collection of the most controversial and provocative interviews granted by Peter McLaren from around the turn of the twenty-first century, offers a lucid and penetrating window into the thought and humanity of one of the world's most influential critical educators. This book will be an indispensable resource in courses on critical pedagogy, the sociology of education, critical theory, cultural studies, political science, multiculturalism, postcolonialism, and the social foundations of education.
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