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Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics Transitions - Tom Brass

Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics Transitions

Methods, Theory, Politics

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Buch | Softcover
293 Seiten
2023
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
979-8-88890-010-9 (ISBN)
CHF 52,35 inkl. MwSt
Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics focuses on the political discourse about both the pattern and the desirability of economic development, and how/why historical interpretations of social phenomena connected to this systemic process can alter. It is a trajectory pursued here with reference to the materialism of Marxism, via mid-nineteenth century ideas about race, through the development decade, the 'cultural turn', debates about modes of production and their respective labour regimes, culminating in the role played by immigration before and after the Brexit referendum.


Brass also turns his attention to trajectory followed by travel writing, unearthing the way that many of its core assumptions overlap with those made in the social sciences and development studies. The object is to account for the way concepts informing these trajectories do or do not alter.

Tom Brass formerly lectured in the SPS Faculty at Cambridge University and directed studies for Queens' College. He edited The Journal of Peasant Studies for almost two decades, and has published extensively on agrarian issues and rural labour relations, including Marxism Missing, Missing Marxism.

Acknowledgements


List of Figures and Tables


Introduction (Steps Forward or Backwards?)

  Reified Notions, Fantasmic Representations?


  Transition, Critique, Silence


  Marxist Methodology?


  A Lesser Status and a Distant Place?


  A Distant Place as a Greater Status


  Themes




part 1

Travelling On

1 Racisms (Home and Away)

 Introduction: A Place in the World


 Blood of the Founders


 The Good Things of This World


 Music, Speech, Passion


 A Faint Uneasy Movement


 They Are Our Brothers


 One’s Own Free Will


 To See with Distorted Vision


 Avoiding the Question


 Samuel Smiles Revisited


 A Dearth of Workers


 Steady Work, Job Security


 Conclusion




2 Anti-capitalisms (Lessons Unlearned by Postmodernists)

 Introduction: The Anti-capitalism of Pro-slavery Discourse


 For the Mutual Benefit of Both


 Pro-slavery and/as (Conservative) Anti-capitalism


 Forging New Chains for Themselves


 All Capital Is Created by Labour


 (Pro-slavery) Contradictions, (Postmodern) Similarities


 Pro-slavery, Postmodernism, and Identity Politics


 Empowering Populism


 Conclusion




3 Transitions (Real and Imagined)

 Introduction: Simple Transitions?


 The Parting to Come?


 Trading Places


 Feudalism, but Not Yet …


 Free but Tied?


 Workers, or Tenants?


 Modes and Beams


 How Do We Know?


 Since the Beginning of the World


 Conclusion




4 Trajectories (to and from Unfreedom)

 Introduction: Quo Vadis, Domine?


 1950 to 1980


 1980 to 2000


 2000 to the Present


 Theory, Methods, Problems


 India: 18th Century Onwards


 India: 1960s Onwards


 UK: 2015 Onwards


 Conclusion




part 2

On Travel

5 Travellers, or Tourists? (Journeys Outside Europe)

 Introduction: An Instinctive Simplicity, a Thoughtless Idealism


 Hello, I Must Be Going


 Tourists Who Are Not Tourists


 The Ruin(s) of Time, the Time of Ruin(s)


 Is Your Journey Really Necessary?


 Traveller’s Tales


 Ragpickers of History


 Unevolved People


 Pristine Other, Untouched Land


 Conclusion




6 Tourists, or Travellers? (European Journeys)

 Introduction: Songs of Travel


 City and Countryside


 Class, Race, Blood


 Away from Home


 Always Defeated?


 Land, Politics, Fascism


 Peasants, Ancient and Modern


 Conclusion




7 Arrivals, Not Departures (on Never Leaving Venice)

 Introduction: Venice, Tourism and the Agrarian Myth


 The Ox Spoke


 It Is Not Easy to Do One’s Duty


 Loaded Pistols, Ominous Chatter


 Real and Loveable?


 A Dream Long Lost


 Conclusion




8 Other Worlds (Neo-populist Journeys)

 Introduction: Worlds of Difference?


 Chayanov: The Economic Case


 Chayanov: The Economic Case Against


 Chayanov: The Political Case Against


 Undiscovered Country?


 Journeys: Space, Time, Politics


 Valuable Warnings, Wholesome Reprimands


 Conclusion




  Conclusion (Better Worlds?)




Bibliography


Author Index


Subject Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Chicago
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-13 979-8-88890-010-9 / 9798888900109
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