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Culture and Tactics
Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci’s work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice. While scholars of social and political movements tend to analyze tactics in terms of their effectiveness in achieving specific outcomes, Robert F. Carley argues by contrast that tactics are, above all, what social movements do. They are not mere means to an end so much as they are a public form of expression pointing out injustices and making just demands. Rooted in a highly original analysis of the tactically mediated relationship between race and mobilization in the work of Italian philosopher and revolutionary Antonio Gramsci, Culture and Tactics demonstrates ...
A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development
In contrast to neo-classical mainstream approaches to economics, this innovative Modern Guide addresses the complex reality of economic development as an inherently uneven process, exploring the ways of theorizing and empirically exploring the mechanisms with which the unevenness manifests itself. It covers a wide array of issues influencing wealth and poverty, technological innovation, ecology and sustainability, financialization, population, gender, and geography, considering the dynamics of cumulative causations created by the interplay between these factors.
José Carlos Mariátegui
This volume explores the life, work, and impact of the Peruvian thinker José Carlos Mariátegui (1894–1930), particularly his political biography, his intellectual production, and his critique of Eurocentrism. This posthumous fame is based on the idea that, in the whole of his political-theoretical project, the relationship between Latin America and Marxism was not built using a mechanical linking of effects and causes, of the blatant copy of the theory produced in Europe, of the immediate application of positivist formulas. In this complex relationship, enigmatic and insinuating, a dissonant historical temporality emerged in Latin America. The apparently unbalanced temporalities marked the matrix of capitalist exploitation, but also present, in Mariátegui’s view, glimmers of future possibilities. This book is essential reading for scholars of social sciences and history interested in understanding the historical roots and political dilemmas of Latin American and European societies from the unique perspective of one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century.
Latin American Social Movements and Progressive Governments
This book examines the tensions and convergences between social movements and twenty-first century progressive Latin American governments. Focusing on feminist, indigenous, environmental, rural, and labor movements, leading scholars present a well-rounded picture on a controversial topic and argue against the accepted view that robust Latin American social movements are independent of the state. This cutting-edge book will be an invaluable supplement for Latin American studies and beyond for courses on democracy, peace studies, labor studies, gender studies, and ethnic studies.
Autonomy
In Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art's autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how art can, in confronting its material determinations, suspend the logic of capital by demanding interpretive attention. He applies his readings of Marx, Hegel, Adorno, and Jameson to a range of literature, photography, music, television, and sculpture, from Cindy Sherman's photography and the novels of Ben Lerner and Jennifer Egan to The Wire and the music of the White Stripes. He demonstrates that through their attention and commitment to form, such artists turn aside the determination posed by the demand of the market, thereby defeating the foreclosure of meaning entailed in commodification. In so doing, he offers a new theory of art that prompts a rethinking of the relationship between art, critical theory, and capitalism.
Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance
This global encyclopedic work serves as a comprehensive collection of global scholarship regarding the vast fields of public administration, public policy, governance, and management. Written and edited by leading international scholars and practitioners, this exhaustive resource covers all areas of the above fields and their numerous subfields of study. In keeping with the multidisciplinary spirit of these fields and subfields, the entries make use of various theoretical, empirical, analytical, practical, and methodological bases of knowledge. Expanded and updated, the second edition includes over a thousand of new entries representing the most current research in public administration, pub...
Gramsci in the World
Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks have offered concepts, categories, and political solutions that have been applied in a variety of social and political contexts, from postwar Italy to the insurgencies of the Arab Spring. The contributors to Gramsci in the World examine the diverse receptions and uses of Gramscian thought, highlighting its possibilities and limits for understanding and changing the world. Among other topics, they explore Gramsci's importance to Caribbean anticolonial thinkers like Stuart Hall, his presence in decolonial indigenous movements in the Andes, and his relevance to understanding the Chinese Left. The contributors consider why Gramsci has had relatively little impa...
Latin America's Pink Tide
This timely book analyzes the governing experiences of the nine major pro-leftist governments in Latin America. The individual country case study chapters are preceded by chapters that frame the discussion by considering the theoretical implications of the Pink Tide experience relating to globalization, the state, and neo-extractivism. The contributors examine the Pink Tide policies and rhetoric that gained widespread approval and led to the long tenure of many of these governments. These included ambitious social programs, prioritizing the needs of the poor, nationalistic foreign policy, economic nationalism, and asserting control of strategic sectors of the economy. The book continues by t...
Terra viva
Autora de importantes obras que discutem os ataques ao meio ambiente por grandes empresas e o efeito desastroso de um mau uso do solo, a doutora em física quântica e ativista ambiental Vandana Shiva faz nesse livro uma volta a suas raízes, revendo uma trajetória que acabaria por definir os movimentos em que se engajou. Assim, ela aborda fases como a infância rural vivida na Índia, sua criação na fazenda dos pais em meio às florestas, a educação libertária que recebeu deles, passando pela mudança de vida e de perspectiva que teve ao entrar na faculdade e viver em grandes centros urbanos na Índia e no exterior. Tudo isso culminando na descoberta dos movimentos de luta em defesa d...
Ser mãe é f*d@!
Amo meu filho, detesto ser mãe. Em anos recentes, mulheres têm acionado as mídias sociais para debaterem uma série de problemáticas relacionadas à vivência feminina, à maternidade e à não maternidade. Demandas, contradições, piadas, desabafos, críticas, incentivos, disputas, conselhos, denúncias, ironias e gentilezas se emaranham das postagens às seções de comentários. A pesquisadora e escritora Ana Luiza de Figueiredo Souza mergulhou (e permanece mergulhada) nesse fenômeno para investigar os movimentos históricos por trás dele, quais conjunturas políticas, econômicas, socioculturais e tecnológicas permitem que ele aconteça, junto a atritos e redes de apoio que surgem entre mulheres com posicionamentos e trajetórias distintas. Baseado em pesquisa vencedora do Prêmio Compós e na própria atuação em campo da pesquisadora, o livro apresenta um original e necessário panorama sobre as tensões que perpassam a delicada — e não por isso menos intensa — relação entre mulheres com ou sem filhos e aquilo que foi construído como destino de todas elas: a maternidade.
