Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world.
\nWe live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday lives of women even more difficult. What would a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. A place where women can walk without harassment.
\nIn Feminist City , through history, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built into our cities, homes, and neighborhoods. Kern offers an alternative vision of the feminist city. Taking on fear, motherhood, friendship, activism, and the joys and perils of being alone, Kern maps the city from new vantage points, laying out an intersectional feminist approach to urban histories and proposes that the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping a new urban future. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and women-friendly cities together. **
A searing critique of participatory art by an iconoclastic historian.Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous, ranging from art historians such as Grant Kester, curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud and Nato Thompson, to performance theorists such as Shannon Jackson. Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as \u201csocial practice.\u201d Claire Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. This itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada; the Situationist International; Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina and Paris; the 1970s Community Arts Movement; and the Artists Placement Group. It concludes with a discussion of long-term educational projects by contemporary artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tania Bruguera, Pawe? Althamer and Paul Chan.Since her controversial essay in Artforum in 2006, Claire Bishop has been one of the few to challenge the political and aesthetic ambitions of participatory art. In Artificial Hells, she not only scrutinizes the emancipatory claims made for these projects, but also provides an alternative to the ethical (rather than artistic) criteria invited by such artworks. Artificial Hells calls for a less prescriptive approach to art and politics, and for more compelling, troubling and bolder forms of participatory art and criticism.
\u201cThis is a field-defining volume. Based on ten years of comparative field research and a unique combination of medical and anthropological expertise, Didier Fassin\u2019s Humanitarian Reason avoids moralizing in favor of careful sociological analysis. Humanitarianism emerges both as a form of reason and as a key force in the contemporary arts of government. \u201c --Claudio Lomnitz, Columbia University, author of Death and the Idea of Mexico\"This is a rigourous, principled, and compelling account of the emergence of humanitarianism and of what happens when humanitarianism is put into practice. Through a tour of various humanitarian projects in France and elsewhere, Didier Fassin develops a compelling case for a sea change in our social imaginary, one in which an ethics of suffering and compassion has come to displace a politics of rights and justice. Fassin moves with finesse between constructionist and realist arguments in this major transatlantic work of 'ethnographic reason' from one of the most interesting voices writing today.\" --Michael Lambek, University of Toronto; editor of Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action\u201cThe rise of a field of humanitarian action accompanies cultural transformations in the category of the human and the idea of responsibility. In this important book, Didier Fassin addresses the nature of obligation to strangers and solidarity amid inequality, and connects these themes to the question of whether to think of global moral community as an attractive ideal, a problematic fantasy, or both.\u201d --Craig Calhoun, President of the Social Science Research Council and author of Nations Matter
Chapters incl: Race and culture; The diversity of cultures; The ethnocentric attitude; Archaic and primitive cultures; etc **
The concept of Anthropocene has been incorporated within a hegemonic narrative that represents 'Man' as the dominant geological force of our epoch, emphasizing the destruction and salvation power of industrial technologies. This Element develops a counter-hegemonic narrative based on the perspective of earthcare labour \u2013 or the 'forces of reproduction'. It brings to the fore the historical agency of reproductive and subsistence workers as those subjects that, through both daily practices and organized political action, take care of the biophysical conditions for human reproduction, thus keeping the world alive. Adopting a narrative justice approach, and placing feminist political ecology right at the core of its critique of the Anthropocene storyline, this Element offers a novel and timely contribution to the environmental humanities. **
What does it mean to live dangerously? This is not just a philosophical question or an ethical call to reflect upon our own individual recklessness. It is a deeply political issue, fundamental to the new doctrine of \u2018resilience\u2019 that is becoming a key term of art for governing planetary life in the 21st Century. No longer should we think in terms of evading the possibility of traumatic experiences. Catastrophic events, we are told, are not just inevitable but learning experiences from which we have to grow and prosper, collectively and individually. Vulnerability to threat, injury and loss has to be accepted as a reality of human existence.
\nIn this original and compelling text, Brad Evans and Julian Reid explore the political and philosophical stakes of the resilience turn in security and governmental thinking. Resilience, they argue, is a neo-liberal deceit that works by disempowering endangered populations of autonomous agency. Its consequences represent a profound assault on the human subject whose meaning and sole purpose is reduced to survivability. Not only does this reveal the nihilistic qualities of a liberal project that is coming to terms with its political demise. All life now enters into lasting crises that are catastrophic unto the end. **
Alchemical Psychology combines all of Hillman\u2019s papers on the alchemical imagination from 1980 to the present. Hillman called the early attempt to present his way of grasping this material, in the 1960s at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, \"Alchemical Opus/AnalyticalWork.\" His intention then as now is to give psychoanalysis another method for imagining its ideas and procedures by showing how alchemy bears directly on psychological life, more clinically immediate and less spiritually progressivist. **
Manifestos and immodest proposals from China's most famous artist and activist, culled from his popular blog, shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009. In 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, and autobiographical writings. He wrote about the Sichuan earthquake (and posted a list of the schoolchildren who died because of the government's \u201ctofu-dregs engineering\u201d), reminisced about Andy Warhol and the East Village art scene, described the irony of being investigated for \u201cfraud\u201d by the Ministry of Public Security, made a modest proposal for tax collection. Then, on June 1, 2009, Chinese authorities shut down the blog. This book offers a collection of Ai's notorious online writings translated into English\u2015the most complete, public documentation of the original Chinese blog available in any language. The New York Times called Ai \u201ca figure of Warholian celebrity.\u201d He is a leading figure on the international art scene, a regular in museums and biennials, but in China he is a manifold and controversial presence: artist, architect, curator, social critic, justice-seeker. He was a consultant on the design of the famous \u201cBird's Nest\u201d stadium but called for an Olympic boycott; he received a Chinese Contemporary Art \u201clifetime achievement award\u201d in 2008 but was beaten by the police in connection with his \u201ccitizen investigation\u201d of earthquake casualties in 2009. Ai Weiwei's Blog documents Ai's passion, his genius, his hubris, his righteous anger, and his vision for China. **
Uno degli antropologi pi\u00f9 noti nel panorama italiano riesce a comunicarci il volto sfaccettato e ambiguo della parola cultura in poco pi\u00f9 di cento pagine, con un linguaggio chiaro e appassionato, con rigore metodologico e soprattutto con una grande apertura mentale e una rara empatia nei confronti dell'\"altro\", unico requisito davvero necessario per evitare di cadere in millantate \"guerre tra culture\". Di \"cultura\" nel tempo sono state date definizioni diverse, per tentare di imbrigliare un concetto cos\u00ec deformabile. Eppure viviamo di cultura e la invochiamo spesso. Ma noi europei paghiamo ancora un prezzo molto alto per il modo tutto nostro che abbiamo di considerarci al mondo, da uomini bianchi, occidentali, avanzati e vincenti. Per prendere le distanze da questo eurocentrismo, l'antropologia ha dovuto fare sforzi enormi, in decenni di studi sul campo, per avvicinare e comprendere \"dall'interno\" le migliaia di culture che condividono con noi il pianeta. Ne abbiamo ricavato una lezione di modestia e un arricchimento impensabile anche solo una generazione fa. **
\u201cCities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.\u201d \u2014 from\u00a0Invisible Cities In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo \u2014 Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear. \u201cInvisible Cities\u00a0changed the way we read and what is possible in the balance between poetry and prose . . . The book I would choose as pillow and plate, alone on a desert island.\u201d \u2014 Jeanette Winterson
An apprentice writer has an entirely unexpected encounter with literary genius Jorge Luis Borges that will profoundly alter his life and work. A poignant and comic literary coming-of-age memoir. This is a jewel of a book. --Ian McEwan In 1971
\nJay Parini was an aspiring poet and graduate student of literature at University of St Andrews in Scotland; he was also in flight from being drafted into service in the Vietnam War. One day his friend and mentor, Alastair Reid, asked Jay if he could play host for a visiting Latin American writer while he attended to business in London. He agreed--and that writer turned out to be the blind and aged and eccentric master of literary compression and metaphysics, Jorge Luis Borges. About whom Jay Parini knew precisely nothing. What ensued was a seriocomic romp across the Scottish landscape that Borges insisted he must see, all the while declaiming and reciting from the literary encyclopedia that was his head, and Jay Parini's eventual reckoning with his vocation and personal fate.
The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the challenge postcolonial studies poses to conventional Western thought. With Mediterranean Crossings , he challenges insufficient prevailing characterizations of the Mediterranean by offering a vibrant interdisciplinary and intercultural interpretation of the region\u2019s culture and history. The \u201cMediterranean\u201d as a concept entered the European lexicon only in the early nineteenth century. As an object of study, it is the product of modern geographical, political, and historical classifications. Chambers contends that the region\u2019s fundamentally fluid, hybrid nature has long been obscured by the categories and strictures imposed by European discourse and government. In evocative and erudite prose, Chambers renders the Mediterranean a mutable space, profoundly marked by the linguistic, literary, culinary, musical, and intellectual dissemination of Arab, Jewish, Turkish, and Latin cultures. He brings to light histories of Mediterranean crossings\u2014of people, goods, melodies, thought\u2014that are rarely part of orthodox understandings. Chambers writes in a style that reflects the fluidity of the exchanges that have formed the region; he segues between major historical events and local daily routines, backwards and forwards in time, and from one part of the Mediterranean to another. A sea of endlessly overlapping cultural and historical currents, the Mediterranean exceeds the immediate constraints of nationalism and inflexible identity. It offers scholars an opportunity to rethink the past and present and to imagine a future beyond the confines of Western humanistic thought. **
https://mediterranean-blues.blog/2019/10/18/migration-the-mediterranean-and-the-fluid-archives-of-modernity/
From one of the world\u2019s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country.
\nFor decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honors for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her attention to the current political crisis that has polarized American since the 2016 election.
\nAlthough today\u2019s atmosphere is marked by partisanship, divisive rhetoric, and the inability of two halves of the country to communicate with one another, Nussbaum focuses on what so many pollsters and pundits have overlooked. She sees a simple truth at the heart of the problem: the political is always emotional. Globalization has produced feelings of powerlessness in millions of people in the West. That sense of powerlessness bubbles into resentment and blame. Blame of immigrants. Blame of Muslims. Blame of other races. Blame of cultural elites. While this politics of blame is exemplified by the election of Donald Trump and the vote for Brexit, Nussbaum argues it can be found on all sides of the political spectrum, left or right.
\nDrawing on a mix of historical and contemporary examples, from classical Athens to the musical Hamilton , The Monarchy of Fear untangles this web of feelings and provides a roadmap of where to go next. **
Vuolteenaho, J & Puzey, G 2018, 'Armed with an Encyclopedia and an Axe': The socialist and post-socialiststreet toponymy of East Berlin revisited through Gramsci. in R Rose-Redwood, D Alderman & M Azaryahu(eds), The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics, and Place. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 74-97. DOI: 20.500.11820/03a459fd-fd4b-4e29-8d29-572d72408152
Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society. The argument critically explores a middle ground between Marxist political ecology and Actor-Network Theory. **
Rachel Carson's National Book Award\u2013winning classic effortlessly mingles detailed fieldwork and inspiring prose to reveal a deep understanding of the earth's most precious, mysterious resource\u2014the ocean
With more than one million copies sold, Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us became a cultural phenomenon when first published in 1951 and cemented Carson's status as the preeminent natural history writer of her time. Her inspiring, intimate writing plumbs the depths of an enigmatic world\u2014a place of hidden lands, islands newly risen from the earth's crust, fish that pour through the water, and the unyielding, epic battle for survival.
Firmly based in the scientific discoveries of the time, The Sea Around Us masterfully presents Carson's commitment to a healthy planet and a fully realized sense of wonder.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Rachel Carson including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the Beinecke Rare Book and...
\"Come scrisse Marc Bloch (1949), \u00abnoi, volentieri, contiamo per secoli\u00bb ma, \u00abper disgrazia, nessuna legge della storia impone che gli anni il cui millesimo termina con la cifra 1 coincidano con i punti critici dell'evoluzione umana\u00bb. Non \u00e8 dunque un problema se questo libro, pur intitolandosi Il Novecento, si apre con la prima guerra mondiale e si inoltra nel nuovo millennio. Anzi: sempre secondo Bloch ragionando per secoli \u00abnoi ci diamo l'aria di distribuire secondo un rigoroso ritmo pendolare, arbitrariamente scelto, realt\u00e0 alle quali questa regolarit\u00e0 \u00e8 assolutamente estranea. \u00c8 una sfida al buon senso. Naturalmente ne usciamo molto male. Bisogna cercare di meglio\u00bb.\" **
\u201cOne of the most significant literary personalities in the world.\u201d\u2014Italo Calvino
\nGeorges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User\u2019s Manual , was only forty-six when he died in 1982. Despite a tragic childhood, during which his mother was deported to Auschwitz, Perec produced some of the most entertaining essays of the age. His literary output was deliberately varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec\u2019s non-fictional work, the first to appear in English, demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humor, and accessibility.
\nAs he contemplates the many ways in which we occupy the space around us, as he depicts the commonplace items with which we are familiar in a startling, engrossing way, as he recounts his psychoanalysis while remaining reticent about his feelings or depicts the Paris of his childhood without a trace of sentimentality, we become aware that we are in the presence of a remarkable, virtuoso writer.
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This unique collection is the first to bring attention to Antonio Gramsci\u2019s work within geographical debates. Presenting a substantially different reading to Gramsci scholarship, the collection forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and development theory. * Offers the first sustained attempt to foreground Antonio Gramsci\u2019s work within geographical debates * Demonstrates how Gramsci articulates a rich spatial sensibility whilst developing a distinctive approach to geographical questions * Presents a substantially different reading of Gramsci from dominant post-Marxist perspectives, as well as more recent anarchist and post-anarchist critiques * Builds on the emergence of Gramsci scholarship in recent years, taking this forward through studies across multiple continents, and asking how his writings might engage with and animate political movements today * Forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and development theory, building on Gramsci\u2019s innovative philosophy of praxis
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La scuola in pratica, con il suo coacervo di routine, stili di pensiero ed azione, imprese collettive e sforzi solitari, ritualit\u00e0, gerghi specialistici e colloquiali, risorse, strumenti, storie di vita e di battaglia... In questo manuale, esplorando il rapporto tra scuola, antropologia e migrazioni, l'autrice mostra come l'educazione sia un'attivit\u00e0 legata all'esperire pi\u00f9 che al conoscere: richiede coinvolgimento attivo dei partecipanti, coordinamento delle loro energie individuali e soprattutto immaginazione, ossia l'abilit\u00e0 creativa di estrapolare dal vissuto sociale la propria visione del mondo. In un periodo in cui la prospettiva antropologica sta acquisendo maggiore rilevanza nel mondo della scuola questa nuova edizione, ampiamente aggiornata, potr\u00e0 orientare allievi e insegnanti nel difficile compito del confronto quotidiano con la multiculturalit\u00e0 nelle classi, tenendoli al riparo da insidiosi riduzionismi.
Finalmente la Nazione delle Piante, la pi\u00f9 importante, diffusa e potente nazione della Terra, prende la parola.
\n\u00abIn nome della mia ormai pluridecennale consuetudine con le piante, ho immaginato che queste care compagne di viaggio, come genitori premurosi, dopo averci reso possibile vivere, vengano a soccorrerci osservando la nostra incapacit\u00e0 a garantirci la sopravvivenza. Come? Suggerendoci una vera e propria costituzione su cui costruire il nostro futuro di esseri rispettosi della Terra e degli altri esseri viventi. Sono otto gli articoli della costituzione della Nazione delle Piante, come otto sono i fondamentali pilastri su cui si regge la vita delle piante, e dunque la vita degli esseri viventi tutti.\u00bb
In this playful yet informative manifesto, a leading plant neurobiologist presents the eight fundamental pillars on which the life of plants\u2014and by extension, humans\u2014rests.
\nEven if they behave as though they were, humans are not the masters of the Earth, but only one of its most irksome residents. From the moment of their arrival, about three hundred thousand years ago\u2014nothing when compared to the history of life on our planet\u2014humans have succeeded in changing the conditions of the planet so drastically as to make it a dangerous place for their own survival. The causes of this reckless behavior are in part inherent in their predatory nature, but they also depend on our total incomprehension of the rules that govern a community of living beings. We behave like children who wreak havoc, unaware of the significance of the things they are playing with.
\nIn The Nation of Plants , the most important, widespread, and powerful nation on Earth finally gets to speak. Like attentive parents, plants, after making it possible for us to live, have come to our aid once again, giving us their rules: the first Universal Declaration of Rights of Living Beings written by the plants. A short charter based on the general principles that regulate the common life of plants, it establishes norms applicable to all living beings. Compared to our constitutions, which place humans at the center of the entire juridical reality, in conformity with an anthropocentricism that reduces to things all that is not human, plants offer us a revolution. **
with a new introduction by ERIC J. HOBSBAWM \"Very usefully pulls the key passages from Gramsci's writings into one volume, which allows English-language readers an overall view of his work. Particularly valuable are the connections it draws across his work and the insights which the introduction and glossary provide into the origin and development of some key Gramscian concepts.\" --Stuart Hall, Professor of Sociology, Open University The most complete one-volume collection of writings by one of the most fascinating thinkers in the history of Marxism, The Antonio Gramsci Readerfills the need for a broad and general introduction to this major figure. Antonio Gramsci was one of the most important theorists of class, culture, and the state since Karl Marx. In the U.S., where his writings were long unavailable, his stature has lately so increased that every serious student of Marxism, political theory, or modern Italian history must now read him. Imprisoned by the Fascists for much of his adult life, Gramsci wrote brilliantly on a broad range of subjects: from folklore to philosophy, popular culture to political strategy. Still the most comprehensive collection of Gramsci's writings available in English, it now features a new introduction by leading Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, in addition to its biographical introduction, informative introductions to each section, and glossary of key terms.
\n\nThe most complete one-volume collection of writings by one of the most fascinating thinkers in the history of Marxism, The Antonio Gramsci Reader fills the need for a broad and general introduction to this major figure.
Antonio Gramsci was one of the most important theorists of class, culture, and the state since Karl Marx. In the U.S., where his writings were long unavailable, his stature has lately so increased that every serious student of Marxism, political theory, or modern Italian history must now read him.
Imprisoned by the Fascists for much of his adult life, Gramsci wrote brilliantly on a broad range of subjects: from folklore to philosophy, popular culture to political strategy. Still the most comprehensive collection of Gramsci's writings available in English, it now features a new introduction by leading Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, in addition to its biographical introduction, informative introductions to each section, and glossary of key terms.
Forgacs has produced a significant one-volume collection of most of the important writings of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), a political thinker who has gained great influence in recent years. Forgacs stresses the \"complexity and vitality\" of Gramsci's views on hegemony, war, art, education, and popular culture, as well as politics. The book is divided into two parts--the first covers the period from 1916-26, the second comes from Gramsci's notebooks written while imprisoned by the Fascists. Particularly valuable are the chapter introductions and a glossary of key terms which facilitate an understanding of Gramsci's philosophy. An invaluable collection for public and academic libraries.
- John R. Sillito, Weber State Coll. Lib., Ogden, Ut.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
This collection of Gramsci's pre-prison writings, newly translated and including a number of pieces not previously available in English, covers the whole gamut of his journalistic activity, ranging from general cultural criticism to commentaries on local, national and international events. These early articles reveal the genesis of many of the themes of the Prison Notebooks, such as the function of intellectuals, the importance of cultural hegemony in holding societies together, and the role of the party in organizing a revolutionary consciousness. In particular, the collection highlights the specifically Italian political, cultural and social origins and relevance of much of Gramsci's innovatory reworking of certain central concepts of Marxist thought. It will be of interest to a broad range of scholars and students concerned with the history of political, social and cultural thought in the twentieth century.
This edition of letters by Antonio Gramsci vividly evokes the 'great and terrible world' in which he lived, a description he used a number of times in his correspondence. The letters show Gramsci beginning to form the theoretical concepts that come to fuller fruition in the Prison Notebooks, but they also give an essential and rounded picture of Gramsci's development, politically, intellectually and emotionally - the latter especially through letters to his family and wife. Broadly speaking, the letters are of three types: early letters to Gramsci's family; overtly political letters from Turin, Moscow, Vienna, and Rome; and letters to the Schucht sisters, including Jul'ka, whom he married while in Moscow. The political letters constitute a fascinating insight into the period, both with regard to the Communist International and, more often, to Italian politics. The volume also includes the famous letter of 1926 in which Gramsci, writing in the name of the Italian Party's Political Bureau, criticises the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party for their handling of internal opposition. The book follows a broadly chronological structure, and includes a general introduction, a guide to the main personalities involved, and additional contextual information for each chapter. It also includes some little-known photographic material.
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'This collection of Gramsci's early correspondence provides new insight into his life and work. Through these letters, we follow the development of Gramsci's own thought and his involvement with the international communist movement. This book will prove an indispensable resource, not only to Gramsci scholars, but to anyone interested in the history of the left more widely.' Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism and Ghosts Of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures 'This is a meticulous translation of a selection of Gramsci's pre-prison letters with an extensive introduction that places them in their historical context. These letters furnish fascinating new insights into both his personal and political life. Gramsci the man and Gramsci the politician emerge in new depth and detail. The volume is an invaluable asset to anyone interested in better understanding his ideas and his humanity.' Professor Anne Showstack Sassoon, author of Gramsci and Contemporary Politics\u00a0
This volume brings together Gramsci's writings on religion, education, science, philosophy and economic theory. The theme that links these writings is the investigation of ideology at its different levels, and the structures which embody and reproduce it. Concepts such as subalternity and corporate consciousness, hegemony and the building of a counter-hegemony necessary for the formation of a new historical bloc, thus recur throughout the book. They complement some of the more overtly political writing published in the 1971 selection from the \"Notebooks\".
\n\nContains many of the key elements of Gramsci's writings, including 'The Modern Prince' and 'Americanism and Fordism' and observation on the state, Italian history and the role of intellectuals.
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Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism and an all-around outstanding intellectual figure. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom. Nevertheless, in his prison notebooks, he recorded thousands of brilliant reflections on an extraordinary range of subjects, establishing an enduring intellectual legacy. Columbia University Press's multivolume Prison Notebooksis the only complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's seminal writings in English. The notebooks' integral text gives readers direct access not only to Gramsci's influential ideas but also to the intellectual workshop where those ideas were forged. Extensive notes guide readers through Gramsci's extraordinary series of reflections on an encyclopedic range of topics. Volume 3 contains notebooks 6, 7, and 8, in which Gramsci develops his concepts of hegemony, civil society, and the state; reflects extensively on the Renaissance, the Reformation, and Machiavelli's political philosophy; and offers a trenchant critique of the cultural and political practices of fascism. A detailed analysis of positivism and idealism brings Gramsci's philosophy of praxis and conception of historical materialism into sharp relief. Also included are the author's extensive observations on articles and books read during his imprisonment.
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In a time when activists in Ferguson, Palestine, Baltimore, and Hong Kong immediately connect across vast distances, this book makes clear that new Black radical politics is thoroughly internationalist and redraws the links between Black resistance and anti-capitalism. Featuring the key voices in this new intellectual wave, this collection outlines one of the most vibrant areas of thought today.
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Cultural Studies. African American Studies. Visual Arts. THE FACT OF BLACKNESS: FRANTZ FANON AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION is a collection of essays that create a far-reaching and original dialogue between cultural theory and visual practice. The rich insights which emerge from this collection explain why Frantz Fanon's seminal texts of the 1950s and 60s, Black Skin White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth , have re-emerged at the forefront of postcolonial studies. Ranging between the contemporary politics of location, everyday traumas of social inequality, and the structures and technologies of representation, these dialogues re-affirm the contention of Fanon's writings: that narrative, the media, image and symbol lie at the very heart of the practice of politics and social knowledge. Includes essays by Homi K. Bhabha, Stuart Hill, bell hooks, Kobena Mercer, Fran\u00e7oise Verg\u00e8s, Lola Young, and many others. **
\"Lyric, descriptive, informative, and moving.\" -Bill Sharp, The New York Times Book Review When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life. \"[Lost Woods] gives a new generation an opportunity to rediscover the legendary biologist and ecologist. . . . These writings-essays, letters, magazine pieces, speeches-show us the evolution of a decent woman from scholar to warrior for all that's right.\" -Carolyn See, The Washington Post \"This wonderful new book allows us to discover and learn anew from the scientist who taught ecology to the world.\" -San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle \"Lear unveils in Carson's own words how she developed as a scientist and a writer, uniting science and literature to create works that still resonate today.\" -Elizabeth Abbott, Toronto Globe and Mail \"What comes across most profoundly here is Carson's innate understanding-spiritual as much as scientific-of the connectedness of all living things, and her ability to describe complicated concepts in phrases that sing. . . . Read this book.\" -Bruce Mirken, Pacific Sun Linda Lear is author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
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\n\nRachel Carson\u2019s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson\u2019s passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In 2012 we invite you to join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of this great work.
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is now 35 years old. Written over the years 1958 to 1962, it took a hard look at the effects of insecticides and pesticides on songbird populations throughout the United States, whose declining numbers yielded the silence to which her title attests. \"What happens in nature is not allowed to happen in the modern, chemical-drenched world,\" she writes, \"where spraying destroys not only the insects but also their principal enemy, the birds. When later there is a resurgence of the insect population, as almost always happens, the birds are not there to keep their numbers in check.\" The publication of her impeccably reported text helped change that trend by setting off a wave of environmental legislation and galvanizing the nascent ecological movement. It is justly considered a classic, and it is well worth rereading today.
This new edition of Carson's classic features a new introduction by Vice President Al Gore.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
First published in 1990, Border Dialogues explores some of the territories of contemporary culture, philosophy and criticism. It touches on arguments surrounding Nietzsche and Italian \u2018weak thought\u2019, the mysteries of being \u2018British\u2019, and with more immediate concerns such as computers, fashion, gender and ethnicity. The chapters explore how such different strands are joined together, and how this can lead to a reassessment of contemporary cultural criticism. This innovative and interesting reissue will be of particular interest to students of critical theory, cultural studies, radical philosophy and deconstruction.
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The Post-Colonial Question brings together renowned and emerging critical voices to respond to questions raised by the concept of the \"post-colonial.\" The stellar list of contributors moves from imperious histories to today's hybrid rhythms of urban life, from African-American writings to uneasy mixtures of nationalisms and religion in the post-colonial city. Together, they explore the diverse cultures and disparate narratives which shape our increasingly volatile global furture. Contributors include Homi K. Bhabha, Iain Chambers, Lidia Curti, Paul Gilroy, Lawrence Grossberg, Stuart Hall, Hanif Kureishi, Angela McRobbie, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Vron Ware.
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Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities is a ground-breaking work that revaluates the cultural and political understandings of the world today from the perspective of the south. Largely located in the Mediterranean, and in understandings of a \u2018southern question\u2019 that extends beyond local and national confines, the arguments and perspectives proposed seek to explore the historical formation and political configurations of a multiple modernity.
Drawing upon the interdisciplinary lines of thought developed within cultural and postcolonial studies, the work develops a concept of heritage beyond the concerns and obsessions of the Anglo-American world. It offers a counter-hegemony construction of the figure of the migrant and \u2018other\u2019 as a disruptive force in the construction of the idea of the West. It proposes a rethinking of the geo-political economies of knowledge and power, lived and viewed from elsewhere. This accessibility written book should be of interest to anyone interested in the construction of modernity and the future of postcolonial studies.
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In this compelling book Iain Chambers shows migration from, and connections with, the South to be central to the story of Europe, but in paradoxical ways. This globality has been both systematically denied and cited in framing Europe as exception and exceptional, at odds with people and traditions from an imagined elsewhere. Chambers locates this duality at the heart of the European apparatus of power, suggesting that if not addressed as such, it will always obstruct a more extensive understanding of Europe as trans-cultural. An original, powerful and much needed book in these terrifying times. (Ash Amin, Professor, University of Cambridge, author of Land of Strangers, Polity, 2012)
This is an intellectual tour de force that gives us a fresh take on postcolonial interrogations and confrontations. Celebrating interruptions, gaps and dissonances, the book is an ode to broken archives and submerged histories, marked by cruelty and violence but also offering new imaginaries for the future. Beautifully written, with the recognizable poetic style that distinguishes Chambers\u2019 theoretical engagement, the book also takes on art, photography and cinema as a way of rethinking modernity, incorporating other bodies and voices. (Sandra Ponzanesi, Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Iain Chambers is concerned to link in an elegant and powerful manner knowledges appropriate to the Mediterranean region, together with the south of the world more generally, with the critical interrogation of received ideas about identification within existing political and cultural boundaries. He is one of the most important writers making the legacy of Stuart Hall and Antonio Gramsci relevant today. In this \u2018post truth\u2019 era, Chambers insists on questioning both \u201cwho is speaking\u201d and \u201cwhere they are speaking from\u201d. I have benefited immensely both from his work, as well as his specific interest in contemporary art practice, including my own, that I have been able to pursue in conversations in London, Naples and elsewhere. (Isaac Julien, artist, filmmaker and Chair of Global Arts, University of the Arts, London)
Moving seamlessly across centuries, continents and genres, this collection of essays offers a persistent and urgent interrogation of our contemporary global colonial order. As with the works of art discussed, the essay form itself, composed through Chambers\u2019 flowing prose, functions as a form of \u2018heresy\u2019 \u2013 as part of an unauthorized, \u2018southern\u2019 archive that interrupts and fractures hegemonic modernity, re-assembling its ruins. (Shela Sheikh, Lecturer, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Erudite and decidedly planetary in orientation, Chambers not only poses a compelling epistemological and methodological challenge to the European social sciences. In an era of rapidly contracting borders and ever-shrinking space for dissenting narratives, his appeal to \u2018turn the outside in\u2019 is also an urgently needed call to imagine alternative futures, premised on our intersections and framed by our imbrications. (Rachel Busbridge, Research Associate, La Trobe University, Australia)
Iain Chambers' profound meditation on the figure of the migrant recasts contemporary migration, not as an exceptional \"crisis,\" but as expressive of the generative structures and colonial origins of European modernity. Chambers' penetrating epistemological critique identifies the colonial imperatives that continue to condition and authorize academic disciplines. A timely and eloquent call to reassemble the \"broken archive\" of Western knowledge through an engagement with alternative rationalities and creative practices. (Sarah Casteel, Associate Professor, Carleton University, Canada)
Iain Chambers shows the impossibility of making the world transparent, fully understandable and unilaterally controllable, that is, the morbid dream Western reason has cultivated during the last five centuries. (Cultural Sociology)
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Iain Chambers is presently Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at the Oriental University in Naples where he has been Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies, and presently coordinates the PhD programme in \u2018Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone world'. He is known for his interdisciplinary and intercultural work on music, popular and metropolitan cultures. More recently he has transmuted this line of research into a series of postcolonial analyses of the formation of the modern Mediterranean.
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At a time of societal urgency surrounding ecological crises from depleted fisheries to mineral extraction and potential pathways towards environmental and ecological justice, this book re-examines ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) from a historical and comparative perspective. The theory of ecologically unequal exchange posits that core or northern consumption and capital accumulation is based on peripheral or southern environmental degradation and extraction. In other words, structures of social and environmental inequality between the Global North and Global South are founded in the extraction of materials from, as well as displacement of waste to, the South. This volume represents a set of tightly interlinked papers with the aim to assess ecologically unequal exchange and to move it forward. Chapters are organised into three main sections: theoretical foundations and critical reflections on ecologically unequal exchange; empirical research on mining, deforestation, fisheries, and the like; and strategies for responding to the adverse consequences associated with unequal ecological exchange. Scholars as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from the spirited re-evaluation and extension of ecologically unequal exchange theory, research, and praxis.
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\u201cEcologically Unequal Exchange stands for what is now widely recognized as a key area of investigation in environmental sociology. In this varied collection, R. Scott Frey, Paul K. Gellert, and Harry F. Dahms bring together a number of interesting essays on the topic, adding to this burgeoning literature, and in a way that will undoubtedly influence the further development of the field.\u201d (John Bellamy Foster, Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon; author (with Paul Burkett) of Marx and the Earth)
\n\u201cState-of-the-art theory and analysis of global inequality and power in the web of life. Ecologically Unequal Exchange offers a series of creative, insightful, and empirically-grounded accounts of how capitalism forges destructive and unequal developments, with gruesome impacts on humans and the rest of nature.\u201d (Jason W. Moore, Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University; author of Capitalism in the Web of Life)
\nAt a time of societal urgency surrounding ecological crises from depleted fisheries to mineral extraction and potential pathways towards environmental and ecological justice, this book re-examines ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) from a historical and comparative perspective. The theory of ecologically unequal exchange posits that core or northern consumption and capital accumulation is based on peripheral or southern environmental degradation and extraction. In other words, structures of social and environmental inequality between the Global North and Global South are founded in the extraction of materials from, as well as displacement of waste to, the South. This volume represents a set of tightly interlinked papers attempting to assess ecologically unequal exchange and to move it forward. Chapters are organised into three main sections: theoretical foundations and critical reflections on ecologically unequal exchange; empirical research on mining, deforestation, fisheries, and the like; and strategies for responding to the adverse consequences associated with unequal ecological exchange. Scholars as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from the spirited re-evaluation and extension of ecologically unequal exchange theory, research, and praxis. \u00a0
In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development , analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia\u2019s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN). Escobar offers a detailed ethnographic account of PCN\u2019s visions, strategies, and practices, and he chronicles and analyzes the movement\u2019s struggles for autonomy, territory, justice, and cultural recognition. Yet he also does much more. Consistently emphasizing the value of local activist knowledge for both understanding and social action and drawing on multiple strands of critical scholarship, Escobar proposes new ways for scholars and activists to examine and apprehend the momentous, complex processes engulfing regions such as the Colombian Pacific today. Escobar illuminates many interrelated dynamics, including the Colombian government\u2019s policies of development and pluralism that created conditions for the emergence of black and indigenous social movements and those movements\u2019 efforts to steer the region in particular directions. He examines attempts by capitalists to appropriate the rainforest and extract resources, by developers to set the region on the path of modernist progress, and by biologists and others to defend this incredibly rich biodiversity \u201chot-spot\u201d from the most predatory activities of capitalists and developers. He also looks at the attempts of academics, activists, and intellectuals to understand all of these complicated processes. Territories of Difference is Escobar\u2019s effort to think with Afro-Colombian intellectual-activists who aim to move beyond the limits of Eurocentric paradigms as they confront the ravages of neoliberal globalization and seek to defend their place-based cultures and territories. **
Ecofeminism as Politics' was one of the first works to bridge feminist and ecological concerns, and remains a key text for the study of gender and the environment. First published in 1997, it showed how the ecology movement has been held back by conceptual confusion over the implications of gender difference. While much that passes in the name of feminism is actually an obstacle to ecological change and global democracy, Salleh argues that ecofeminism reaches beyond contemporary social movements as a political synthesis of four revolutions in one: ecology is feminism is socialism is post-colonial struggle. Informed by a critical postmodern reading of Marxism, Salleh integrates discourses on science, the body, culture, nature and political economy. Highlighting the importance of finding commonalities between ecofeminist and indigenous struggles, the book remains a ground-breaking work of deep ecology, social ecology, eco-socialism and postmodern feminism through the lens of an ecofeminist deconstruction. grossly naive.
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\nSince the \u201970s, the countries of the Global South have struggled to build political movements. Prashad analyzes the failures of neoliberalism, as well as the rise of the BRICS countries, the World Social Forum, issuebased movements like Via Campesina, the Latin American revolutionary revival \u2013 in short, efforts to create alternatives to the neoliberal project advanced militarily by the US and its allies and economically by the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and other instruments of the powerful. Just as The Darker Nations asserted that the Third World was a project, not a place, The Poorer Nations sees the Global South as a term that properly refers not to geographical space but to a concatenation of protests against neoliberalism.
\nIn his foreword to the book, former Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali writes that Prashad \u201chas helped open the vista on complex events that preceded today\u2019s global situation and standoff.\u201d The Poorer Nations looks to the future while revising our sense of the past.
Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer hardware; the global dissemination of the internet and mobile phones in the new millennium: all these have revolutionised the access of previously marginalised populations to the cultural flows of global modernity.
\nYet this access also engenders a pirate occupation of the modern: it ducks and deranges the globalised designs of property, capitalism and personhood set by the North. Positioning itself against Eurocentric critiques by corporate lobbies, libertarian readings or classical Marxist interventions, this volume offers a profound postcolonial revaluation of the social, epistemic and aesthetic workings of piracy. It projects how postcolonial piracy persistently negotiates different trajectories of property and self at the crossroads of the global and the local.
In a world overwhelmingly unjust and seemingly deprived of alternatives, this book claims that the alternatives can be found among us. These alternatives are, however, discredited or made invisible by the dominant ways of knowing. Rather than alternatives, therefore, we need an alternative way of thinking of alternatives. Such an alternative way of thinking lies in the knowledges born in the struggles against capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy, the three main forms of modern domination. In their immense diversity, such ways of knowing constitute the Global South as an epistemic subject. The epistemologies of the South are guided by the idea that another world is possible and urgently needed; they emerge both in the geographical north and in the geographical south whenever collectives of people fight against modern domination. Learning from and with the epistemic South suggests that the alternative to a general theory is the promotion of an ecology of knowledges based on intercultural and interpolitical translation.
Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world.
\nWe live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday lives of women even more difficult. What would a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. A place where women can walk without harassment.
\nIn Feminist City , through history, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built into our cities, homes, and neighborhoods. Kern offers an alternative vision of the feminist city. Taking on fear, motherhood, friendship, activism, and the joys and perils of being alone, Kern maps the city from new vantage points, laying out an intersectional feminist approach to urban histories and proposes that the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping a new urban future. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and women-friendly cities together. **
A searing critique of participatory art by an iconoclastic historian.Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous, ranging from art historians such as Grant Kester, curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud and Nato Thompson, to performance theorists such as Shannon Jackson. Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as \u201csocial practice.\u201d Claire Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. This itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada; the Situationist International; Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina and Paris; the 1970s Community Arts Movement; and the Artists Placement Group. It concludes with a discussion of long-term educational projects by contemporary artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tania Bruguera, Pawe? Althamer and Paul Chan.Since her controversial essay in Artforum in 2006, Claire Bishop has been one of the few to challenge the political and aesthetic ambitions of participatory art. In Artificial Hells, she not only scrutinizes the emancipatory claims made for these projects, but also provides an alternative to the ethical (rather than artistic) criteria invited by such artworks. Artificial Hells calls for a less prescriptive approach to art and politics, and for more compelling, troubling and bolder forms of participatory art and criticism.
\u201cThis is a field-defining volume. Based on ten years of comparative field research and a unique combination of medical and anthropological expertise, Didier Fassin\u2019s Humanitarian Reason avoids moralizing in favor of careful sociological analysis. Humanitarianism emerges both as a form of reason and as a key force in the contemporary arts of government. \u201c --Claudio Lomnitz, Columbia University, author of Death and the Idea of Mexico\"This is a rigourous, principled, and compelling account of the emergence of humanitarianism and of what happens when humanitarianism is put into practice. Through a tour of various humanitarian projects in France and elsewhere, Didier Fassin develops a compelling case for a sea change in our social imaginary, one in which an ethics of suffering and compassion has come to displace a politics of rights and justice. Fassin moves with finesse between constructionist and realist arguments in this major transatlantic work of 'ethnographic reason' from one of the most interesting voices writing today.\" --Michael Lambek, University of Toronto; editor of Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action\u201cThe rise of a field of humanitarian action accompanies cultural transformations in the category of the human and the idea of responsibility. In this important book, Didier Fassin addresses the nature of obligation to strangers and solidarity amid inequality, and connects these themes to the question of whether to think of global moral community as an attractive ideal, a problematic fantasy, or both.\u201d --Craig Calhoun, President of the Social Science Research Council and author of Nations Matter
Chapters incl: Race and culture; The diversity of cultures; The ethnocentric attitude; Archaic and primitive cultures; etc **
The concept of Anthropocene has been incorporated within a hegemonic narrative that represents 'Man' as the dominant geological force of our epoch, emphasizing the destruction and salvation power of industrial technologies. This Element develops a counter-hegemonic narrative based on the perspective of earthcare labour \u2013 or the 'forces of reproduction'. It brings to the fore the historical agency of reproductive and subsistence workers as those subjects that, through both daily practices and organized political action, take care of the biophysical conditions for human reproduction, thus keeping the world alive. Adopting a narrative justice approach, and placing feminist political ecology right at the core of its critique of the Anthropocene storyline, this Element offers a novel and timely contribution to the environmental humanities. **
What does it mean to live dangerously? This is not just a philosophical question or an ethical call to reflect upon our own individual recklessness. It is a deeply political issue, fundamental to the new doctrine of \u2018resilience\u2019 that is becoming a key term of art for governing planetary life in the 21st Century. No longer should we think in terms of evading the possibility of traumatic experiences. Catastrophic events, we are told, are not just inevitable but learning experiences from which we have to grow and prosper, collectively and individually. Vulnerability to threat, injury and loss has to be accepted as a reality of human existence.
\nIn this original and compelling text, Brad Evans and Julian Reid explore the political and philosophical stakes of the resilience turn in security and governmental thinking. Resilience, they argue, is a neo-liberal deceit that works by disempowering endangered populations of autonomous agency. Its consequences represent a profound assault on the human subject whose meaning and sole purpose is reduced to survivability. Not only does this reveal the nihilistic qualities of a liberal project that is coming to terms with its political demise. All life now enters into lasting crises that are catastrophic unto the end. **
Alchemical Psychology combines all of Hillman\u2019s papers on the alchemical imagination from 1980 to the present. Hillman called the early attempt to present his way of grasping this material, in the 1960s at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, \"Alchemical Opus/AnalyticalWork.\" His intention then as now is to give psychoanalysis another method for imagining its ideas and procedures by showing how alchemy bears directly on psychological life, more clinically immediate and less spiritually progressivist. **
Manifestos and immodest proposals from China's most famous artist and activist, culled from his popular blog, shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009. In 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, and autobiographical writings. He wrote about the Sichuan earthquake (and posted a list of the schoolchildren who died because of the government's \u201ctofu-dregs engineering\u201d), reminisced about Andy Warhol and the East Village art scene, described the irony of being investigated for \u201cfraud\u201d by the Ministry of Public Security, made a modest proposal for tax collection. Then, on June 1, 2009, Chinese authorities shut down the blog. This book offers a collection of Ai's notorious online writings translated into English\u2015the most complete, public documentation of the original Chinese blog available in any language. The New York Times called Ai \u201ca figure of Warholian celebrity.\u201d He is a leading figure on the international art scene, a regular in museums and biennials, but in China he is a manifold and controversial presence: artist, architect, curator, social critic, justice-seeker. He was a consultant on the design of the famous \u201cBird's Nest\u201d stadium but called for an Olympic boycott; he received a Chinese Contemporary Art \u201clifetime achievement award\u201d in 2008 but was beaten by the police in connection with his \u201ccitizen investigation\u201d of earthquake casualties in 2009. Ai Weiwei's Blog documents Ai's passion, his genius, his hubris, his righteous anger, and his vision for China. **
Uno degli antropologi pi\u00f9 noti nel panorama italiano riesce a comunicarci il volto sfaccettato e ambiguo della parola cultura in poco pi\u00f9 di cento pagine, con un linguaggio chiaro e appassionato, con rigore metodologico e soprattutto con una grande apertura mentale e una rara empatia nei confronti dell'\"altro\", unico requisito davvero necessario per evitare di cadere in millantate \"guerre tra culture\". Di \"cultura\" nel tempo sono state date definizioni diverse, per tentare di imbrigliare un concetto cos\u00ec deformabile. Eppure viviamo di cultura e la invochiamo spesso. Ma noi europei paghiamo ancora un prezzo molto alto per il modo tutto nostro che abbiamo di considerarci al mondo, da uomini bianchi, occidentali, avanzati e vincenti. Per prendere le distanze da questo eurocentrismo, l'antropologia ha dovuto fare sforzi enormi, in decenni di studi sul campo, per avvicinare e comprendere \"dall'interno\" le migliaia di culture che condividono con noi il pianeta. Ne abbiamo ricavato una lezione di modestia e un arricchimento impensabile anche solo una generazione fa. **
\u201cCities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.\u201d \u2014 from\u00a0Invisible Cities In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo \u2014 Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear. \u201cInvisible Cities\u00a0changed the way we read and what is possible in the balance between poetry and prose . . . The book I would choose as pillow and plate, alone on a desert island.\u201d \u2014 Jeanette Winterson
An apprentice writer has an entirely unexpected encounter with literary genius Jorge Luis Borges that will profoundly alter his life and work. A poignant and comic literary coming-of-age memoir. This is a jewel of a book. --Ian McEwan In 1971
\nJay Parini was an aspiring poet and graduate student of literature at University of St Andrews in Scotland; he was also in flight from being drafted into service in the Vietnam War. One day his friend and mentor, Alastair Reid, asked Jay if he could play host for a visiting Latin American writer while he attended to business in London. He agreed--and that writer turned out to be the blind and aged and eccentric master of literary compression and metaphysics, Jorge Luis Borges. About whom Jay Parini knew precisely nothing. What ensued was a seriocomic romp across the Scottish landscape that Borges insisted he must see, all the while declaiming and reciting from the literary encyclopedia that was his head, and Jay Parini's eventual reckoning with his vocation and personal fate.
The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the challenge postcolonial studies poses to conventional Western thought. With Mediterranean Crossings , he challenges insufficient prevailing characterizations of the Mediterranean by offering a vibrant interdisciplinary and intercultural interpretation of the region\u2019s culture and history. The \u201cMediterranean\u201d as a concept entered the European lexicon only in the early nineteenth century. As an object of study, it is the product of modern geographical, political, and historical classifications. Chambers contends that the region\u2019s fundamentally fluid, hybrid nature has long been obscured by the categories and strictures imposed by European discourse and government. In evocative and erudite prose, Chambers renders the Mediterranean a mutable space, profoundly marked by the linguistic, literary, culinary, musical, and intellectual dissemination of Arab, Jewish, Turkish, and Latin cultures. He brings to light histories of Mediterranean crossings\u2014of people, goods, melodies, thought\u2014that are rarely part of orthodox understandings. Chambers writes in a style that reflects the fluidity of the exchanges that have formed the region; he segues between major historical events and local daily routines, backwards and forwards in time, and from one part of the Mediterranean to another. A sea of endlessly overlapping cultural and historical currents, the Mediterranean exceeds the immediate constraints of nationalism and inflexible identity. It offers scholars an opportunity to rethink the past and present and to imagine a future beyond the confines of Western humanistic thought. **
https://mediterranean-blues.blog/2019/10/18/migration-the-mediterranean-and-the-fluid-archives-of-modernity/
From one of the world\u2019s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country.
\nFor decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honors for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her attention to the current political crisis that has polarized American since the 2016 election.
\nAlthough today\u2019s atmosphere is marked by partisanship, divisive rhetoric, and the inability of two halves of the country to communicate with one another, Nussbaum focuses on what so many pollsters and pundits have overlooked. She sees a simple truth at the heart of the problem: the political is always emotional. Globalization has produced feelings of powerlessness in millions of people in the West. That sense of powerlessness bubbles into resentment and blame. Blame of immigrants. Blame of Muslims. Blame of other races. Blame of cultural elites. While this politics of blame is exemplified by the election of Donald Trump and the vote for Brexit, Nussbaum argues it can be found on all sides of the political spectrum, left or right.
\nDrawing on a mix of historical and contemporary examples, from classical Athens to the musical Hamilton , The Monarchy of Fear untangles this web of feelings and provides a roadmap of where to go next. **
Vuolteenaho, J & Puzey, G 2018, 'Armed with an Encyclopedia and an Axe': The socialist and post-socialiststreet toponymy of East Berlin revisited through Gramsci. in R Rose-Redwood, D Alderman & M Azaryahu(eds), The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics, and Place. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 74-97. DOI: 20.500.11820/03a459fd-fd4b-4e29-8d29-572d72408152
Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society. The argument critically explores a middle ground between Marxist political ecology and Actor-Network Theory. **
Rachel Carson's National Book Award\u2013winning classic effortlessly mingles detailed fieldwork and inspiring prose to reveal a deep understanding of the earth's most precious, mysterious resource\u2014the ocean
With more than one million copies sold, Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us became a cultural phenomenon when first published in 1951 and cemented Carson's status as the preeminent natural history writer of her time. Her inspiring, intimate writing plumbs the depths of an enigmatic world\u2014a place of hidden lands, islands newly risen from the earth's crust, fish that pour through the water, and the unyielding, epic battle for survival.
Firmly based in the scientific discoveries of the time, The Sea Around Us masterfully presents Carson's commitment to a healthy planet and a fully realized sense of wonder.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Rachel Carson including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the Beinecke Rare Book and...
\"Come scrisse Marc Bloch (1949), \u00abnoi, volentieri, contiamo per secoli\u00bb ma, \u00abper disgrazia, nessuna legge della storia impone che gli anni il cui millesimo termina con la cifra 1 coincidano con i punti critici dell'evoluzione umana\u00bb. Non \u00e8 dunque un problema se questo libro, pur intitolandosi Il Novecento, si apre con la prima guerra mondiale e si inoltra nel nuovo millennio. Anzi: sempre secondo Bloch ragionando per secoli \u00abnoi ci diamo l'aria di distribuire secondo un rigoroso ritmo pendolare, arbitrariamente scelto, realt\u00e0 alle quali questa regolarit\u00e0 \u00e8 assolutamente estranea. \u00c8 una sfida al buon senso. Naturalmente ne usciamo molto male. Bisogna cercare di meglio\u00bb.\" **
\u201cOne of the most significant literary personalities in the world.\u201d\u2014Italo Calvino
\nGeorges Perec, author of the highly acclaimed Life: A User\u2019s Manual , was only forty-six when he died in 1982. Despite a tragic childhood, during which his mother was deported to Auschwitz, Perec produced some of the most entertaining essays of the age. His literary output was deliberately varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec\u2019s non-fictional work, the first to appear in English, demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humor, and accessibility.
\nAs he contemplates the many ways in which we occupy the space around us, as he depicts the commonplace items with which we are familiar in a startling, engrossing way, as he recounts his psychoanalysis while remaining reticent about his feelings or depicts the Paris of his childhood without a trace of sentimentality, we become aware that we are in the presence of a remarkable, virtuoso writer.
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This unique collection is the first to bring attention to Antonio Gramsci\u2019s work within geographical debates. Presenting a substantially different reading to Gramsci scholarship, the collection forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and development theory. * Offers the first sustained attempt to foreground Antonio Gramsci\u2019s work within geographical debates * Demonstrates how Gramsci articulates a rich spatial sensibility whilst developing a distinctive approach to geographical questions * Presents a substantially different reading of Gramsci from dominant post-Marxist perspectives, as well as more recent anarchist and post-anarchist critiques * Builds on the emergence of Gramsci scholarship in recent years, taking this forward through studies across multiple continents, and asking how his writings might engage with and animate political movements today * Forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and development theory, building on Gramsci\u2019s innovative philosophy of praxis
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La scuola in pratica, con il suo coacervo di routine, stili di pensiero ed azione, imprese collettive e sforzi solitari, ritualit\u00e0, gerghi specialistici e colloquiali, risorse, strumenti, storie di vita e di battaglia... In questo manuale, esplorando il rapporto tra scuola, antropologia e migrazioni, l'autrice mostra come l'educazione sia un'attivit\u00e0 legata all'esperire pi\u00f9 che al conoscere: richiede coinvolgimento attivo dei partecipanti, coordinamento delle loro energie individuali e soprattutto immaginazione, ossia l'abilit\u00e0 creativa di estrapolare dal vissuto sociale la propria visione del mondo. In un periodo in cui la prospettiva antropologica sta acquisendo maggiore rilevanza nel mondo della scuola questa nuova edizione, ampiamente aggiornata, potr\u00e0 orientare allievi e insegnanti nel difficile compito del confronto quotidiano con la multiculturalit\u00e0 nelle classi, tenendoli al riparo da insidiosi riduzionismi.
Finalmente la Nazione delle Piante, la pi\u00f9 importante, diffusa e potente nazione della Terra, prende la parola.
\n\u00abIn nome della mia ormai pluridecennale consuetudine con le piante, ho immaginato che queste care compagne di viaggio, come genitori premurosi, dopo averci reso possibile vivere, vengano a soccorrerci osservando la nostra incapacit\u00e0 a garantirci la sopravvivenza. Come? Suggerendoci una vera e propria costituzione su cui costruire il nostro futuro di esseri rispettosi della Terra e degli altri esseri viventi. Sono otto gli articoli della costituzione della Nazione delle Piante, come otto sono i fondamentali pilastri su cui si regge la vita delle piante, e dunque la vita degli esseri viventi tutti.\u00bb
In this playful yet informative manifesto, a leading plant neurobiologist presents the eight fundamental pillars on which the life of plants\u2014and by extension, humans\u2014rests.
\nEven if they behave as though they were, humans are not the masters of the Earth, but only one of its most irksome residents. From the moment of their arrival, about three hundred thousand years ago\u2014nothing when compared to the history of life on our planet\u2014humans have succeeded in changing the conditions of the planet so drastically as to make it a dangerous place for their own survival. The causes of this reckless behavior are in part inherent in their predatory nature, but they also depend on our total incomprehension of the rules that govern a community of living beings. We behave like children who wreak havoc, unaware of the significance of the things they are playing with.
\nIn The Nation of Plants , the most important, widespread, and powerful nation on Earth finally gets to speak. Like attentive parents, plants, after making it possible for us to live, have come to our aid once again, giving us their rules: the first Universal Declaration of Rights of Living Beings written by the plants. A short charter based on the general principles that regulate the common life of plants, it establishes norms applicable to all living beings. Compared to our constitutions, which place humans at the center of the entire juridical reality, in conformity with an anthropocentricism that reduces to things all that is not human, plants offer us a revolution. **
with a new introduction by ERIC J. HOBSBAWM \"Very usefully pulls the key passages from Gramsci's writings into one volume, which allows English-language readers an overall view of his work. Particularly valuable are the connections it draws across his work and the insights which the introduction and glossary provide into the origin and development of some key Gramscian concepts.\" --Stuart Hall, Professor of Sociology, Open University The most complete one-volume collection of writings by one of the most fascinating thinkers in the history of Marxism, The Antonio Gramsci Readerfills the need for a broad and general introduction to this major figure. Antonio Gramsci was one of the most important theorists of class, culture, and the state since Karl Marx. In the U.S., where his writings were long unavailable, his stature has lately so increased that every serious student of Marxism, political theory, or modern Italian history must now read him. Imprisoned by the Fascists for much of his adult life, Gramsci wrote brilliantly on a broad range of subjects: from folklore to philosophy, popular culture to political strategy. Still the most comprehensive collection of Gramsci's writings available in English, it now features a new introduction by leading Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, in addition to its biographical introduction, informative introductions to each section, and glossary of key terms.
\n\nThe most complete one-volume collection of writings by one of the most fascinating thinkers in the history of Marxism, The Antonio Gramsci Reader fills the need for a broad and general introduction to this major figure.
Antonio Gramsci was one of the most important theorists of class, culture, and the state since Karl Marx. In the U.S., where his writings were long unavailable, his stature has lately so increased that every serious student of Marxism, political theory, or modern Italian history must now read him.
Imprisoned by the Fascists for much of his adult life, Gramsci wrote brilliantly on a broad range of subjects: from folklore to philosophy, popular culture to political strategy. Still the most comprehensive collection of Gramsci's writings available in English, it now features a new introduction by leading Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, in addition to its biographical introduction, informative introductions to each section, and glossary of key terms.
Forgacs has produced a significant one-volume collection of most of the important writings of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), a political thinker who has gained great influence in recent years. Forgacs stresses the \"complexity and vitality\" of Gramsci's views on hegemony, war, art, education, and popular culture, as well as politics. The book is divided into two parts--the first covers the period from 1916-26, the second comes from Gramsci's notebooks written while imprisoned by the Fascists. Particularly valuable are the chapter introductions and a glossary of key terms which facilitate an understanding of Gramsci's philosophy. An invaluable collection for public and academic libraries.
- John R. Sillito, Weber State Coll. Lib., Ogden, Ut.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
This collection of Gramsci's pre-prison writings, newly translated and including a number of pieces not previously available in English, covers the whole gamut of his journalistic activity, ranging from general cultural criticism to commentaries on local, national and international events. These early articles reveal the genesis of many of the themes of the Prison Notebooks, such as the function of intellectuals, the importance of cultural hegemony in holding societies together, and the role of the party in organizing a revolutionary consciousness. In particular, the collection highlights the specifically Italian political, cultural and social origins and relevance of much of Gramsci's innovatory reworking of certain central concepts of Marxist thought. It will be of interest to a broad range of scholars and students concerned with the history of political, social and cultural thought in the twentieth century.
This edition of letters by Antonio Gramsci vividly evokes the 'great and terrible world' in which he lived, a description he used a number of times in his correspondence. The letters show Gramsci beginning to form the theoretical concepts that come to fuller fruition in the Prison Notebooks, but they also give an essential and rounded picture of Gramsci's development, politically, intellectually and emotionally - the latter especially through letters to his family and wife. Broadly speaking, the letters are of three types: early letters to Gramsci's family; overtly political letters from Turin, Moscow, Vienna, and Rome; and letters to the Schucht sisters, including Jul'ka, whom he married while in Moscow. The political letters constitute a fascinating insight into the period, both with regard to the Communist International and, more often, to Italian politics. The volume also includes the famous letter of 1926 in which Gramsci, writing in the name of the Italian Party's Political Bureau, criticises the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party for their handling of internal opposition. The book follows a broadly chronological structure, and includes a general introduction, a guide to the main personalities involved, and additional contextual information for each chapter. It also includes some little-known photographic material.
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'This collection of Gramsci's early correspondence provides new insight into his life and work. Through these letters, we follow the development of Gramsci's own thought and his involvement with the international communist movement. This book will prove an indispensable resource, not only to Gramsci scholars, but to anyone interested in the history of the left more widely.' Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism and Ghosts Of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures 'This is a meticulous translation of a selection of Gramsci's pre-prison letters with an extensive introduction that places them in their historical context. These letters furnish fascinating new insights into both his personal and political life. Gramsci the man and Gramsci the politician emerge in new depth and detail. The volume is an invaluable asset to anyone interested in better understanding his ideas and his humanity.' Professor Anne Showstack Sassoon, author of Gramsci and Contemporary Politics\u00a0
This volume brings together Gramsci's writings on religion, education, science, philosophy and economic theory. The theme that links these writings is the investigation of ideology at its different levels, and the structures which embody and reproduce it. Concepts such as subalternity and corporate consciousness, hegemony and the building of a counter-hegemony necessary for the formation of a new historical bloc, thus recur throughout the book. They complement some of the more overtly political writing published in the 1971 selection from the \"Notebooks\".
\n\nContains many of the key elements of Gramsci's writings, including 'The Modern Prince' and 'Americanism and Fordism' and observation on the state, Italian history and the role of intellectuals.
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Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism and an all-around outstanding intellectual figure. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom. Nevertheless, in his prison notebooks, he recorded thousands of brilliant reflections on an extraordinary range of subjects, establishing an enduring intellectual legacy. Columbia University Press's multivolume Prison Notebooksis the only complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's seminal writings in English. The notebooks' integral text gives readers direct access not only to Gramsci's influential ideas but also to the intellectual workshop where those ideas were forged. Extensive notes guide readers through Gramsci's extraordinary series of reflections on an encyclopedic range of topics. Volume 3 contains notebooks 6, 7, and 8, in which Gramsci develops his concepts of hegemony, civil society, and the state; reflects extensively on the Renaissance, the Reformation, and Machiavelli's political philosophy; and offers a trenchant critique of the cultural and political practices of fascism. A detailed analysis of positivism and idealism brings Gramsci's philosophy of praxis and conception of historical materialism into sharp relief. Also included are the author's extensive observations on articles and books read during his imprisonment.
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In a time when activists in Ferguson, Palestine, Baltimore, and Hong Kong immediately connect across vast distances, this book makes clear that new Black radical politics is thoroughly internationalist and redraws the links between Black resistance and anti-capitalism. Featuring the key voices in this new intellectual wave, this collection outlines one of the most vibrant areas of thought today.
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Cultural Studies. African American Studies. Visual Arts. THE FACT OF BLACKNESS: FRANTZ FANON AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION is a collection of essays that create a far-reaching and original dialogue between cultural theory and visual practice. The rich insights which emerge from this collection explain why Frantz Fanon's seminal texts of the 1950s and 60s, Black Skin White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth , have re-emerged at the forefront of postcolonial studies. Ranging between the contemporary politics of location, everyday traumas of social inequality, and the structures and technologies of representation, these dialogues re-affirm the contention of Fanon's writings: that narrative, the media, image and symbol lie at the very heart of the practice of politics and social knowledge. Includes essays by Homi K. Bhabha, Stuart Hill, bell hooks, Kobena Mercer, Fran\u00e7oise Verg\u00e8s, Lola Young, and many others. **
\"Lyric, descriptive, informative, and moving.\" -Bill Sharp, The New York Times Book Review When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life. \"[Lost Woods] gives a new generation an opportunity to rediscover the legendary biologist and ecologist. . . . These writings-essays, letters, magazine pieces, speeches-show us the evolution of a decent woman from scholar to warrior for all that's right.\" -Carolyn See, The Washington Post \"This wonderful new book allows us to discover and learn anew from the scientist who taught ecology to the world.\" -San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle \"Lear unveils in Carson's own words how she developed as a scientist and a writer, uniting science and literature to create works that still resonate today.\" -Elizabeth Abbott, Toronto Globe and Mail \"What comes across most profoundly here is Carson's innate understanding-spiritual as much as scientific-of the connectedness of all living things, and her ability to describe complicated concepts in phrases that sing. . . . Read this book.\" -Bruce Mirken, Pacific Sun Linda Lear is author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
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\n\nRachel Carson\u2019s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson\u2019s passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world, and her eloquent book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the landmark books of the twentieth century.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In 2012 we invite you to join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of this great work.
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is now 35 years old. Written over the years 1958 to 1962, it took a hard look at the effects of insecticides and pesticides on songbird populations throughout the United States, whose declining numbers yielded the silence to which her title attests. \"What happens in nature is not allowed to happen in the modern, chemical-drenched world,\" she writes, \"where spraying destroys not only the insects but also their principal enemy, the birds. When later there is a resurgence of the insect population, as almost always happens, the birds are not there to keep their numbers in check.\" The publication of her impeccably reported text helped change that trend by setting off a wave of environmental legislation and galvanizing the nascent ecological movement. It is justly considered a classic, and it is well worth rereading today.
This new edition of Carson's classic features a new introduction by Vice President Al Gore.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
First published in 1990, Border Dialogues explores some of the territories of contemporary culture, philosophy and criticism. It touches on arguments surrounding Nietzsche and Italian \u2018weak thought\u2019, the mysteries of being \u2018British\u2019, and with more immediate concerns such as computers, fashion, gender and ethnicity. The chapters explore how such different strands are joined together, and how this can lead to a reassessment of contemporary cultural criticism. This innovative and interesting reissue will be of particular interest to students of critical theory, cultural studies, radical philosophy and deconstruction.
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The Post-Colonial Question brings together renowned and emerging critical voices to respond to questions raised by the concept of the \"post-colonial.\" The stellar list of contributors moves from imperious histories to today's hybrid rhythms of urban life, from African-American writings to uneasy mixtures of nationalisms and religion in the post-colonial city. Together, they explore the diverse cultures and disparate narratives which shape our increasingly volatile global furture. Contributors include Homi K. Bhabha, Iain Chambers, Lidia Curti, Paul Gilroy, Lawrence Grossberg, Stuart Hall, Hanif Kureishi, Angela McRobbie, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Vron Ware.
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Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities is a ground-breaking work that revaluates the cultural and political understandings of the world today from the perspective of the south. Largely located in the Mediterranean, and in understandings of a \u2018southern question\u2019 that extends beyond local and national confines, the arguments and perspectives proposed seek to explore the historical formation and political configurations of a multiple modernity.
Drawing upon the interdisciplinary lines of thought developed within cultural and postcolonial studies, the work develops a concept of heritage beyond the concerns and obsessions of the Anglo-American world. It offers a counter-hegemony construction of the figure of the migrant and \u2018other\u2019 as a disruptive force in the construction of the idea of the West. It proposes a rethinking of the geo-political economies of knowledge and power, lived and viewed from elsewhere. This accessibility written book should be of interest to anyone interested in the construction of modernity and the future of postcolonial studies.
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In this compelling book Iain Chambers shows migration from, and connections with, the South to be central to the story of Europe, but in paradoxical ways. This globality has been both systematically denied and cited in framing Europe as exception and exceptional, at odds with people and traditions from an imagined elsewhere. Chambers locates this duality at the heart of the European apparatus of power, suggesting that if not addressed as such, it will always obstruct a more extensive understanding of Europe as trans-cultural. An original, powerful and much needed book in these terrifying times. (Ash Amin, Professor, University of Cambridge, author of Land of Strangers, Polity, 2012)
This is an intellectual tour de force that gives us a fresh take on postcolonial interrogations and confrontations. Celebrating interruptions, gaps and dissonances, the book is an ode to broken archives and submerged histories, marked by cruelty and violence but also offering new imaginaries for the future. Beautifully written, with the recognizable poetic style that distinguishes Chambers\u2019 theoretical engagement, the book also takes on art, photography and cinema as a way of rethinking modernity, incorporating other bodies and voices. (Sandra Ponzanesi, Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Iain Chambers is concerned to link in an elegant and powerful manner knowledges appropriate to the Mediterranean region, together with the south of the world more generally, with the critical interrogation of received ideas about identification within existing political and cultural boundaries. He is one of the most important writers making the legacy of Stuart Hall and Antonio Gramsci relevant today. In this \u2018post truth\u2019 era, Chambers insists on questioning both \u201cwho is speaking\u201d and \u201cwhere they are speaking from\u201d. I have benefited immensely both from his work, as well as his specific interest in contemporary art practice, including my own, that I have been able to pursue in conversations in London, Naples and elsewhere. (Isaac Julien, artist, filmmaker and Chair of Global Arts, University of the Arts, London)
Moving seamlessly across centuries, continents and genres, this collection of essays offers a persistent and urgent interrogation of our contemporary global colonial order. As with the works of art discussed, the essay form itself, composed through Chambers\u2019 flowing prose, functions as a form of \u2018heresy\u2019 \u2013 as part of an unauthorized, \u2018southern\u2019 archive that interrupts and fractures hegemonic modernity, re-assembling its ruins. (Shela Sheikh, Lecturer, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Erudite and decidedly planetary in orientation, Chambers not only poses a compelling epistemological and methodological challenge to the European social sciences. In an era of rapidly contracting borders and ever-shrinking space for dissenting narratives, his appeal to \u2018turn the outside in\u2019 is also an urgently needed call to imagine alternative futures, premised on our intersections and framed by our imbrications. (Rachel Busbridge, Research Associate, La Trobe University, Australia)
Iain Chambers' profound meditation on the figure of the migrant recasts contemporary migration, not as an exceptional \"crisis,\" but as expressive of the generative structures and colonial origins of European modernity. Chambers' penetrating epistemological critique identifies the colonial imperatives that continue to condition and authorize academic disciplines. A timely and eloquent call to reassemble the \"broken archive\" of Western knowledge through an engagement with alternative rationalities and creative practices. (Sarah Casteel, Associate Professor, Carleton University, Canada)
Iain Chambers shows the impossibility of making the world transparent, fully understandable and unilaterally controllable, that is, the morbid dream Western reason has cultivated during the last five centuries. (Cultural Sociology)
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Iain Chambers is presently Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at the Oriental University in Naples where he has been Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies, and presently coordinates the PhD programme in \u2018Cultural and Postcolonial Studies of the Anglophone world'. He is known for his interdisciplinary and intercultural work on music, popular and metropolitan cultures. More recently he has transmuted this line of research into a series of postcolonial analyses of the formation of the modern Mediterranean.
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At a time of societal urgency surrounding ecological crises from depleted fisheries to mineral extraction and potential pathways towards environmental and ecological justice, this book re-examines ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) from a historical and comparative perspective. The theory of ecologically unequal exchange posits that core or northern consumption and capital accumulation is based on peripheral or southern environmental degradation and extraction. In other words, structures of social and environmental inequality between the Global North and Global South are founded in the extraction of materials from, as well as displacement of waste to, the South. This volume represents a set of tightly interlinked papers with the aim to assess ecologically unequal exchange and to move it forward. Chapters are organised into three main sections: theoretical foundations and critical reflections on ecologically unequal exchange; empirical research on mining, deforestation, fisheries, and the like; and strategies for responding to the adverse consequences associated with unequal ecological exchange. Scholars as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from the spirited re-evaluation and extension of ecologically unequal exchange theory, research, and praxis.
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\u201cEcologically Unequal Exchange stands for what is now widely recognized as a key area of investigation in environmental sociology. In this varied collection, R. Scott Frey, Paul K. Gellert, and Harry F. Dahms bring together a number of interesting essays on the topic, adding to this burgeoning literature, and in a way that will undoubtedly influence the further development of the field.\u201d (John Bellamy Foster, Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon; author (with Paul Burkett) of Marx and the Earth)
\n\u201cState-of-the-art theory and analysis of global inequality and power in the web of life. Ecologically Unequal Exchange offers a series of creative, insightful, and empirically-grounded accounts of how capitalism forges destructive and unequal developments, with gruesome impacts on humans and the rest of nature.\u201d (Jason W. Moore, Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University; author of Capitalism in the Web of Life)
\nAt a time of societal urgency surrounding ecological crises from depleted fisheries to mineral extraction and potential pathways towards environmental and ecological justice, this book re-examines ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) from a historical and comparative perspective. The theory of ecologically unequal exchange posits that core or northern consumption and capital accumulation is based on peripheral or southern environmental degradation and extraction. In other words, structures of social and environmental inequality between the Global North and Global South are founded in the extraction of materials from, as well as displacement of waste to, the South. This volume represents a set of tightly interlinked papers attempting to assess ecologically unequal exchange and to move it forward. Chapters are organised into three main sections: theoretical foundations and critical reflections on ecologically unequal exchange; empirical research on mining, deforestation, fisheries, and the like; and strategies for responding to the adverse consequences associated with unequal ecological exchange. Scholars as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from the spirited re-evaluation and extension of ecologically unequal exchange theory, research, and praxis. \u00a0
In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development , analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia\u2019s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN). Escobar offers a detailed ethnographic account of PCN\u2019s visions, strategies, and practices, and he chronicles and analyzes the movement\u2019s struggles for autonomy, territory, justice, and cultural recognition. Yet he also does much more. Consistently emphasizing the value of local activist knowledge for both understanding and social action and drawing on multiple strands of critical scholarship, Escobar proposes new ways for scholars and activists to examine and apprehend the momentous, complex processes engulfing regions such as the Colombian Pacific today. Escobar illuminates many interrelated dynamics, including the Colombian government\u2019s policies of development and pluralism that created conditions for the emergence of black and indigenous social movements and those movements\u2019 efforts to steer the region in particular directions. He examines attempts by capitalists to appropriate the rainforest and extract resources, by developers to set the region on the path of modernist progress, and by biologists and others to defend this incredibly rich biodiversity \u201chot-spot\u201d from the most predatory activities of capitalists and developers. He also looks at the attempts of academics, activists, and intellectuals to understand all of these complicated processes. Territories of Difference is Escobar\u2019s effort to think with Afro-Colombian intellectual-activists who aim to move beyond the limits of Eurocentric paradigms as they confront the ravages of neoliberal globalization and seek to defend their place-based cultures and territories. **
Ecofeminism as Politics' was one of the first works to bridge feminist and ecological concerns, and remains a key text for the study of gender and the environment. First published in 1997, it showed how the ecology movement has been held back by conceptual confusion over the implications of gender difference. While much that passes in the name of feminism is actually an obstacle to ecological change and global democracy, Salleh argues that ecofeminism reaches beyond contemporary social movements as a political synthesis of four revolutions in one: ecology is feminism is socialism is post-colonial struggle. Informed by a critical postmodern reading of Marxism, Salleh integrates discourses on science, the body, culture, nature and political economy. Highlighting the importance of finding commonalities between ecofeminist and indigenous struggles, the book remains a ground-breaking work of deep ecology, social ecology, eco-socialism and postmodern feminism through the lens of an ecofeminist deconstruction. grossly naive.
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\nSince the \u201970s, the countries of the Global South have struggled to build political movements. Prashad analyzes the failures of neoliberalism, as well as the rise of the BRICS countries, the World Social Forum, issuebased movements like Via Campesina, the Latin American revolutionary revival \u2013 in short, efforts to create alternatives to the neoliberal project advanced militarily by the US and its allies and economically by the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and other instruments of the powerful. Just as The Darker Nations asserted that the Third World was a project, not a place, The Poorer Nations sees the Global South as a term that properly refers not to geographical space but to a concatenation of protests against neoliberalism.
\nIn his foreword to the book, former Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali writes that Prashad \u201chas helped open the vista on complex events that preceded today\u2019s global situation and standoff.\u201d The Poorer Nations looks to the future while revising our sense of the past.
Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer hardware; the global dissemination of the internet and mobile phones in the new millennium: all these have revolutionised the access of previously marginalised populations to the cultural flows of global modernity.
\nYet this access also engenders a pirate occupation of the modern: it ducks and deranges the globalised designs of property, capitalism and personhood set by the North. Positioning itself against Eurocentric critiques by corporate lobbies, libertarian readings or classical Marxist interventions, this volume offers a profound postcolonial revaluation of the social, epistemic and aesthetic workings of piracy. It projects how postcolonial piracy persistently negotiates different trajectories of property and self at the crossroads of the global and the local.
In a world overwhelmingly unjust and seemingly deprived of alternatives, this book claims that the alternatives can be found among us. These alternatives are, however, discredited or made invisible by the dominant ways of knowing. Rather than alternatives, therefore, we need an alternative way of thinking of alternatives. Such an alternative way of thinking lies in the knowledges born in the struggles against capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy, the three main forms of modern domination. In their immense diversity, such ways of knowing constitute the Global South as an epistemic subject. The epistemologies of the South are guided by the idea that another world is possible and urgently needed; they emerge both in the geographical north and in the geographical south whenever collectives of people fight against modern domination. Learning from and with the epistemic South suggests that the alternative to a general theory is the promotion of an ecology of knowledges based on intercultural and interpolitical translation.