Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics: Essays in Historical Realism


Книга Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics: Essays in Historical Realism

Автор: Gavin A. Smith
Название: Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics: Essays in Historical Realism
Язык: English
Издательство: New York: Berghahn Books
Год: 2014
Серия: Dislocations, Vol.12
Формат: pdf
Размер: 11 mb
Страниц: 254

Contemporary forms of capitalism and the state require close analytic attention to reveal the conditions of possibility for effective counter-politics. On the other hand the practice of collective politics needs to be studied through historical ethnography if we are to understand what might make people's actions effective. This book suggests a research agenda designed to maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with ever more remote states and technologies that make capitalism increasingly rapacious. Gavin Smith opens and closes this series of interlinked essays by proposing a concise framework for untangling what he calls "the society of capital" and subsequently a potentially controversial way of seeing its contemporary features. This book tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein.
Gavin Smith is the author of Livelihood and Resistance: Peasants and the Politics of Land in Peru (1989); Confronting the Present: Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology (1999); and, with Susana Narotzky, Immediate Struggles: People, Power and Place in Rural Spain (2006). He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
 Table of contents:
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction: Intellectuals, Historical Realism and Counter-politics 1
Part I: Intellectual Infrastructure
Chapter One Capital: Structural, Phenomenological, Financial 27
Part II: Scales of History and Politics
Chapter Two The Scales of Ethnography: Periodizing Spatial
Coherence in Early-Twentieth-Century Spain 67
Chapter Three Popular Struggle, Intellectuals and Perspectives in Realist History: A Case from Late-Twentieth-Centurv Peru 86
Chapter Four History's Absent Presence in die Everyday Politics of Contemporary' Rural Spain 124
Chapter Five History as Possibilities: On the Threshold between Everyday Practice and Historical Praxis 150
Part III: Politics' Edge
Chapter Six Conditions of Possibility: Dominant Blocs and Changing Contours of the Hegemonic Field 177
Conclusion: Between Reflexivity and Engagement
References
Index
Turbobit
Dfiles

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