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Common Notions 19 and 20: Notes for a New Insurrection (Updated
Book SynopsisIn an uprising heard around the world, people in Argentina took to the streets on December 19th & 20th, 2001, shouting “¡Qué se vayan todos!” These words (All of them out!), and the thousands of people banging pots and pans, opened a period of intense social unrest and political creativity that led to the collapse of government after government. Neighborhoods organized themselves into hundreds of popular assemblies across the country, the unemployed workers movement acquired a new visibility, workers took over factories and businesses. Deeply involved in these movements were the activists who made up Colectivo Situaciones. With the embers of that December’s aftermath still burning, Colectivo Situaciones militantly researched and wrote 19 and 20. Locating themselves among the “horizontally organized subjectivities that insisted on not being represented by politicians but maintaining and developing their own powers of political expression” that Micheal Hardt notes in his introduction, Colectivo Situaciones gathers, interrogates, and offers forth the words of unemployed workers, factory occupiers, insurgent intellectuals, and children of the disappeared. From their investigations is revealed the birth of a new social protagonism and the de-institutional power (potencia) they wield. 19 and 20 has been praised as this generation's 18th Brumaire and as Marx’s analysis of that struggle helped set the stage for, twenty years later, the Paris Commune we find ourselves here. Revisiting and exploring the forms of counterpower that emerged from the shadow of neoliberal rule we find the book's potencia has only grown. In the intervening years the analysis of Colectivo Situaciones has been passed from hand to hand and multitudes of citizens from different countries have learned their own ways to chant ¡Qué se vayan todos!, from Iceland to Tunisia, from Spain to Greece, from Tahrir Square to Black Lives Matter. Colectivo Situaciones’ practice of militant research--of engaging with movements’ own thought processes--resonates with everyone seeking to think current events and movements, and through that to gather the foundation of a commune for the 21st century.Trade Review“19 & 20 is a book-event that has become a key for social movements around the world. In it, Colectivo Situaciones practice militant research as an act of listening (escucha) and experimentation that translates the powerful mobilizations that took the streets to end neoliberal plundering (saqueo) into an inspiring and crucial praxis of thinking. Learning from the events instead of imposing old categories on their singularities, this book is a crucial source of inspiration on militant research and situated thinking. A singular work of pedagogy from below, this new edition comes in a timely moment where the deepening of the neoliberal expropriation of life that the pandemic has made so explicit meets with the tenth anniversary of the global uprisings of 201. Today, once again, 19 & 20 offers a crucial map for experimenting in the situated praxis of political thought.” —Susana Draper, coeditor of Femincide and Global Accumulation and author of Afterlives of Confinement and 1968 Mexico“Assemblies may become thinking machines. And experiments of resistance may give rise to alternative experiences of sociability. Colectivo Situaciones develops out of these findings, that emerged within the 2001 resurrection in Argentina, a powerful reflexive research: a truly magnificent effort to explore the potentialities of a future beyond capitalism.”—Stavros Stavrides, author of Towards the City of Thresholds “This is a book born in the barricades, neighborhood assemblies, and factory occupations of Argentina’s 2001 uprising against neoliberalism. Written by movement participants, it’s an inspiring account of the rebellion and a grassroots model of how to research and theorize a movement that forged a new way of doing politics from below. The English translation of such a classic book that’s been passed around revolutionary circles for decades is a cause for celebration and hitting the streets!”—Benjamin Dangl, author of The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia “Twenty years ago, Argentina erupted in blockades and assemblies, occupations, demonstrations, and communal kitchens. In both its circumstances and forms, the 2001 uprising presaged the protests of 2011 and the struggles of our time. Colectivo Situaciones’ 19 & 20 provided both the sharpest analysis of that moment and a model of theoretical practice: nimble, dialogical, embedded in the movements with whom it thought, made in common. To rediscover it today is to do more than reconnect with the recent past; it is inevitably also to ask how it illuminates what we have lived since, and how we can continue to extend its lessons into the future.”—Rodrigo Nunes, author of Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization “A long decade before Occupy Wall Street, Argentineans poured into the streets to reject austerity and short the circuits of neoliberal capitalism, proving that state violence was no match for popular refusal. But this is not a book about Argentina or even Latin America as a whole, a brutal laboratory where neoliberalism was imposed in blood and fire. It's about a way of thinking that is also a doing, about what the concrete experience of rebellion teaches us about how the world moves, and how to turn that movement into thought. Find yourself in this book.”—Geo Maher, author of Building the Commune and A World Without Police The 2001 uprising in Argentina is a major flashpoint in a wave of popular struggles that repudiated the neoliberal capitalist order and authored new forms of non-capitalist social construction. Colectivo Situaciones gives us important analyses of the uprising and its legacies, the roots of Argentina’s financial and political crisis, and changes in contemporary forms of anticapitalist mobilization and resistance. Their close attention to grassroots practices of resistance, political organizing, and world-making is emblematic of their method of militant research, which itself has been an inspiration to so many. Those interested in contemporary social movements, political theory, and the history of Argentina and the region will find much to appreciate in this wonderful new edition.—Jennifer S. Ponce de León, author of Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World WarTable of ContentsTranslator’s Preface by Nate Holdren & Sebastian Touza Preface by Michael HardtThe Ballad of Buenos Aires by toni negriIntroduction to the 20th Anniversary Edition by Marcello Tarì Introduction by Colectivo Situaciones The Great TransformationFrom the Market as Utopia to BiopowerThe New Social Protagonism: An Ethical Operation December 19th and 20th, 2001: A New Type of Insurrection Insurrection Without a SubjectWords and Silences: From Interpretation to the UnrepresentableRupture of the Chain of TerrorDe-instituent InsurrectionProblems and ChallengesThe Positive “No”IrreversibilityInsurrectional ViolenceIn the Streets Situational Thought in Market ConditionsThought and ConsciousnessKnowing and ThinkingQuestions of Visibility Multiplicity and Counterpower in the Piquetero Experience The Roadblock as PrecedentThe Conjuncture and the Options of ThoughtRepresentation The Inclusion of the Excluded ... As ExcludedPiqueteros as a Political IllusionFrom Multiplicity to CounterpowerThinking the Radicality of StruggleThe Case of the MTDs (Unemployed Workers’ Movement)Identity as CreationThe 19th and 20th Looting, Social Bond, and the Ethic of the Teacher-MilitantLiberation and Dependency?LootingAt School Expression and RepresentationAnother Logic: ExpressionThat Obscure Object of DesireA Paradoxical Situation: the Negation of Representation from RepresentationShortcuts Neighborhood AssembliesFrom 19th and 20th to the AssemblyThe Neighborhood as Space of SubjectificationPolitical DesperationBeing ThereAssemblies and PiquetesMemory and Nation The Diffuse Network: From Dispersion to MultiplicityConsensus and HegemonyThe Neoliberal RevolutionExplicit Network and Disconnection (The Barter Club)The Norm and the Ethic of Self-AffirmedMarginalizationFrom Dispersion to MultiplicityDiffuse NetworkSituational Knowledges (The Escraches)Counterpower Epilogue Appendix 1: On the Barter Club Appendix 2: Causes and Happenstance: Dilemmas of Argentina’s New Social ProtagonismThe Surprise (Rupture, De-institution and Visibility)Phenomenology of an Apparent ReconstructionThe Ballot Boxes and the StreetsPhenomenology of Counterpower Appendix 3: That December Two Years from the 19th and 20th Afterword: Disquiet in the ImpasseImpasse: Time SuspendedGovernmentality and New GovernanceNew Governance and Good GovernmentLatin America: Traversing the CrisisMythologiques the Crafts of Politics
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Arcade Publishing Socialism: Past and Future
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Simon & Schuster Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild
Book SynopsisA “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal), “spirited and inspiring” (Jacobin) tour through the ages in search of the thinkers and communities that have dared to reimagine how we might better live our daily lives.In the 6th century BCE, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras—a man remembered today more for his theorem about right-angled triangles than for his progressive politics—founded a commune in a seaside village in what’s now southern Italy. The men and women there shared their property, lived as equals, and dedicated themselves to the study of mathematics and the mysteries of the universe. Ever since, humans have been dreaming up better ways to organize how we live together, pool our resources, raise our children, and determine who’s part of our families. Some of these experiments burned brightly for only a brief while, but others carry on today: from the Danish cohousing communities that share chores and deepen neighborly bonds, to matriarchal Colombian ecovillages where residents grow their own food; and from Connecticut, where new laws make it easier for extra “alloparents” to help raise children not their own, to China where planned microdistricts ensure everything a busy household might need is nearby. One of those startlingly rare books that upends what you think is possible, Everyday Utopia provides a “powerful reminder that dreaming of better worlds is not just some fantastical project, but also a political one” (Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad). This “must-read” (Thomas Piketty, New York Times bestselling author of A Brief History of Equality) offers a radically hopeful vision for how to build more contented and connected societies, alongside a practical guide to what we all can do in the meantime to live the good life each and every day.
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Green Publishing Company Guerrilla Warfare Large Print
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Labour Women in Power: Cabinet Ministers in the
Book SynopsisThis book examines the political lives and contributions of Margaret Bondfield, Ellen Wilkinson, Barbara Castle, Judith Hart and Shirley Williams, the only five women to achieve Cabinet rank in a Labour Government from the party’s creation until Blair became Prime Minister. Paula Bartley brings together newly discovered archival material and published work to provide a survey of these women, all of whom managed to make a mark out of all proportion to their numbers. Charting their ideas, characters, and formative influences, Bartley provides an account of their rise to power, analysing their contribution to policy making, and assessing their significance and reputation. She shows that these women were not a homogeneous group, but came from diverse family backgrounds, entered politics in their own discrete way, and rose to power at different times. Some were more successful than others, but despite their diversity these women shared one thing in common: they all functioned in a male world.Trade Review“This new account, therefore, which considers the five Labour women cabinet ministers appointed before 1997 … is to be welcomed as an important contribution to the field. … The book is very welcome for the level of detail and new insights it provides. It will serve as an important text on the topic and its accessible style means that it will have appeal to academic readers, to students at all levels and to a wider readership.” (Helen Glew, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 58 (1), 2023)“This book is a welcome addition to histories of women within the labour movement. … It is hoped it will inspire readers to seek answers as to why, after a 100 years of serving as MPs, there has still never been a female leader of the Labour Party.” (June Hannam, Women's History Review, March 3, 2021)“While Labour Women in Power draws on a rich array of historical sources, there is little reference to feminist institutionalism or the more systematic accounts now available of the gendered mediation of women politicians. … Nonetheless, there is good material to draw on, making it a worthy addition to the bookshelf.” (Marian Sawer, Labour History, Vol. 119, November, 2020)“Bartley’s work makes an invaluable contribution to writing the achievements of these phenomenal women back into the history books. … Bartley’s account of these formidable women and their achievements is a treasure trove of facts and stories.” (Rachel Reeves, FABIAN REVIEW, fabian.org.uk, Vol. 131 (4), 2019)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: A Woman in a Man’s World: Margaret Bondfield’s Early Career, 1873-1929.- Chapter 3: Over the Glass Cliff: The First Female Cabinet Minister, 1929-1953.- Chapter 4: The Mighty Atom: Ellen Wilkinson, 1891-1945.- Chapter 5: The First Female Minister of Education, 1945-1947.- Chapter 6: A Political Apprenticeship: Barbara Castle, 1910-1964.- Chapter 7: In and Out of Cabinet, 1964-2002.- Chapter 8: From Burnley to Lanark: Judith Hart, 1924-1968.- Chapter 9: The First Woman Paymaster General and Beyond, 1968-1991.- Chapter 10: Climbing the Parliamentary Ladder: Shirley Williams, 1930-1974.- Chapter 11: In the Cabinet and Out of Labour, 1974-2018.- Chapter 12: Conclusion.
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Bohlau Verlag November 1918: Revolution an der Ostsee und im
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Harrassowitz History of the Greek Left: Translated and Revised
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Staatssozialismen im Vergleich: Staatspartei
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Zwischen Herkunft und Zukunft: ›Heimat‹ in der
Book Synopsis›Heimat‹ gilt gemeinhin als bürgerlich-konservativ. Doch auch die Sozialdemokratie bezog sich positiv auf den Begriff. Ihr Begriffsverständnis changierte zwischen einem universalistischen Zukunftsversprechen und einer herkunftsbezogenen Orientierung an Region und Nation. Die Studie untersucht sozialistische Heimat-Konzepte im späten Kaiserreich und in der Weimarer Republik erstmals systematisch. Sie leistet so nicht nur einen innovativen Beitrag zur Labour History, sondern trägt wesentlich zu einer geschichtswissenschaftlichen Neubewertung des gesamtgesellschaftlichen Heimat-Diskurses im Untersuchungszeitraum bei.
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Campus Verlag Re/imaginations of Disability in State Socialism:
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Peter Lang AG Psychologie Im Nationalsozialismus
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Peter Lang AG Two Sides of the Same Coin: Examples of Free and
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Development and Dystopia – Studies in Post–Soviet
Book SynopsisThis book dissectsfrom both philosophical and empirical viewpointsthe peculiar developmental challenges, geopolitical contexts, and dystopic stalemates that post-Soviet societies face during their transition to new political and cultural orders. The principal geographical focus of the essays is Ukraine, but most of the assembled texts are also relevant and/or refer to other post-Soviet countries. Mikhail Minakov describes how former Soviet nations are trying to re-invent, for their particular circumstances, democracy and capitalism while concurrently dealing with new poverty and inequality, facing unusual degrees of freedom and responsibility for their own future, coming to terms with complicated collective memories and individual pasts. Finally, the book puts forward novel perspectives on how Western and post-communist Europe may be able to create a sustainable pan-European common space. These include a new agenda for pan-European political communication, new East-Central European regional security mechanisms, a solution for the chain of separatist-controlled populations, and anti-patronalist institutions in East European countries.Trade Review"Mykhailo Minakov is a leading observer of contemporary Ukrainian, Russian and European politics and society. His work is a vital source for understanding the deeper phenomena that drive changeand lack of itin these states. With this book, he has tackled a subject worthy of his talents, and offers a multi-layered perspective on some of the central dilemmas of post-Soviet political culture and social development."Matthew Rojansky, Kennan Institute"Accurate and balanced account of the most recent history of Ukraine presented by an involved observer. Good sample of the Ukrainian vision of the phenomenon called 'The Ukrainian crisis'obviously extends Ukraine's borders."Prof. Georgiy Kasianov, Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Ukraine"Development and Dystopia is a philosophers inquiry into the political processes that shaped the post-Soviet world and a political analysts search for the philosophical underpinnings of the changes that those processes brought about. Both of Mikhail Minakovs probes focus on Ukraine, but his ultimate goal is to illuminate the broader scope of the East European transformations. Anyone wishing to delve beyond newspaper headlines and pundits clichés in order to understand what is really going on in that world can do no better than pick up this book."Prof. Dr. Serhii Plokhii, Director, Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Legal Change in Post–Communist States – Progress,
Book SynopsisReformers had high hopes that the end of communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union would lead to significant improvements in legal institutions and the role of law in public administration. However, the cumulative experience of 25 years of legal change since communism has been mixed, marked by achievements and failures, advances and moves backward. This bookwritten by a team of socio-legal scholarsprobes the nuances of this process and starts the process to explain them. It covers developments across the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and it deals with both legal institutions (courts and police) and accountability to law in public administration, including anti-corruption activities. In explaining their findings, the authors probe the impact of such factors as the type of political regime (democratic to authoritarian), international influences (such as the European Union), and culture (legal and political). The volumes contributors are: Mihaela Serban, Kim Lane Scheppele, Kriszta Kovacs, Alexei Trochev, Peter Solomon, Olga Semukhina, Maria Popova, Vincent Post. Marina Zaloznaya, William Reisinger, Vicki Hesli Claypool, Kaja Gadowska, and Elena Bogdanova.
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ibidem Roundhouse Joe Berke and the 1967 Congress on the
Book SynopsisThe âSummer of Loveâ brought all sorts of unusual people and events to London but perhaps nothing so extraordinary as the Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation.
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Book SynopsisâœWe build the road, the road builds us!â Highways and identities building in socialist Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
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V&R unipress GmbH Kunst in der DDR – 30 Jahre danach
Book SynopsisDie Kunst der DDR wird heute wesentlich differenzierter beurteilt als nach der Wiedervereinigung vor 30 Jahren. Neue Sichtweisen werden geöffnet, die jedoch häufig aus westlicher Perspektive mit den Kriterien Repression und Widerstand arbeiten. In dem Band wird dagegen das Kunstsystem als ein Feld wechselseitiger Einflussnahmen verstanden, auf dem kunstpolitische Beschlüsse zunehmend der Weiterentwicklung der Künste folgten und selbst künstlerische Vorstellungen von Sozialismus verhandelbar waren. Von Autorinnen und Autoren aus Ost- und Westdeutschland sowie den USA wird sowohl in umfassenden Beiträgen beispielsweise über den sich wandelnden Begriff des Sozialistischen Realismus berichtet als auch in Fallstudien das Wirken bestimmter Künstler analysiert. Today, East German art is evaluated in a far more differentiated manner than after the fall of the Berlin Wall more than 30 years ago. New perspectives have been opened, yet influenced by a western perspective based on criteria such as repression and resistance. This volume however, understands the art system as a field of mutual influence in which art-political decisions increasingly supported the development of arts, and in which even artistic conceptions of socialism were negotiable. Authors from East and West Germany and the USA not only present comprehensive contributions on the changing concept of Socialist Realism but also analyse the works of specific artists in case studies.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Social Policies and Institutional Reform in
Book SynopsisThe economic crisis in the wake of the COVID pandemic is putting Cuba's socialism to a severe test. The government in Havana has added a fundamental reform of the economy, institutional structure and social policies to the agenda. This volume brings together contributions from leading international experts as well as from the island itself, analysing the economic, political and social challenges Cuba is facing today.
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Canut Publishers A Marxist Reading of Young Baudrillard.
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Canut Publishers Into the Depths of History. Research on Marx's
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Central European University Press Promises of 1968: Crisis, Illusion and Utopia
Book SynopsisOffers a state of the art reassessment of the importance and consequences of the events associated with 1968, the year that radically influenced the landscape of the post-1945 world. In the context of the ColdWar, 1968 was a transnational moment of revolt against the status quo. The essays go beyond the East-West divide in the process of identifying the common features of the sixties, and offer a synthesis of approaches, gathering important re-assessments of the intellectual history of 1968. Some of the most distinguished scholars of the subject include former sixty-eighters, who critically re-evaluate the events. The historical analyses are based on new archival research pursued in a number of countries. The book gives novel theoretical insights in the nature and significance of the decade; and integrates 1968 with its pre-history and aftermath.Trade ReviewThe volume blazes fresh trails through exploring the intellectual developments that contributed to 1968 and how the landscape of ideas was transformed by the events of that year. The innovative use of biographical information, especially of intellectuals, is one of the great strengths of this volume which breaks new ground in terms of empirical analysis as well as the evaluation of long-term intellectual developments. This is a weighty and sophisticated contribution to understanding the battle of ideas and the flow of events that shaped the ideological evolution of Europe in the 1960s and beyond. Tom Gallagher, University of BradfordTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Picking Up the Pieces-1968 between Memory and Theory Revolutions and Revolutionaries, Lessons of the Years of Crises 1968 in Poland: Spoiled Children, Marxists, and Jews In Search of a New Left Rethinking the Political Scientifically: Brief Reflections on 1968 by a Child of the Seventies What Did They Think They Were Doing? The Political Thought of (the West European) 1968 Revisited Thinking Politically: Raymond Aron and the Revolution of 1968 in France The Divided Spirit of the Sixties Part Two: Lessons and Legacies of 1968 The Year 1968 and Its Results: An East European Perspective The Prague Spring 1968: Post-Communist Reflections From Revisionism to Dissent: The Creation of Post-Marxism in Central Europe after 1968 Post-Marxist Mentality and the Intellectual Challenge to Ideology after 1968 Yugoslavia's 1968: The Great Surrender 1968 Romania: Intellectuals and the Failure of Reform Part Three: 1968 in Pieces: Case Studies of Transformation Betrayed Promises: Nicolae CeauA escu, the Romanian Communist Party, and the Crisis of 1968 The Kremlin, the Prague Spring, and the Brezhnev Doctrine 1968 and the Terrorist Aftermath in West Germany The Prague Spring: Resistance and Surrender of the PCI Dont Push Us, Comrade!A"-De Gaulle in Bucharest Conclusion: 1968-Did It Matter? Contributors Index
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Central European University Press Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of
Book SynopsisNothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid employees were known to few and their actual numbers remain uncertain. Its informers and collaborators operated clandestinely under pseudonyms and met their officers in secret locations. Its files were inaccessible, even to most party members. The people the secret police recruited or interrogated were threatened so effectively that some never told even their spouses, and many have held their tongues to this day, long after the regimes fell. With the end of communism, many of the newly established governments - among them Romania's - opened their secret police archives. From those files, especially her own voluminous one, as well as her personal memories and interviews with acquaintances that turned out be informers, the author has carried out historical ethnography of the Romanian Securitate. Secrets and Truths is not only of historical interest but has implications for understanding the rapidly developing "security state" of the neoliberal present.Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Pronunciation Introduction: What Was the Securitate? Chapter 1.An Archive and Its Fictions Chapter 2.The Secrets of a Secret Police Chapter 3.Knowledge Practices and the Social Relations of Surveillance Conclusion: The Radiant Future? Bibliography Index
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Deep & Deep Publications Karl Heinrich Marx 1818-1883: Great Western
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Deep & Deep Publications World's Greatest Socialist Thinkers
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Cosmo Publications Socialism: A Political Reader
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Aakar Books China and Socialism: Market Reforms and Class
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Tulika Books Interpreting the World to Change It – Essays for
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Almuzara Historia del Comunismo
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Linkgua Siete Ensayos de Interpretación de la Realidad
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Aarhus University Press Looking to Europe: The EC Policies of the British
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Museum Tusculanum Press Mondegruppen: Kampen om kunsten og socialismen i
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NIAS Press Reinventing Social Democratic Development:
Book SynopsisIn an age where vast global forces are bringing massive change, can social democratic development be reinvented? Drawing on similar concerns to those voiced by Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump in their US presidential primary campaigns, this pioneering book by concerned scholars looks at experiences of social democratic development in Scandinavia and India. By comparing situations both in the North and South, they seek to explore the possibilities for the reinvention of social democracy in an age of uneven development in the South and growing inequality globally.Trade Review'The authors brilliantly link the experiences of social democracy in the global North (Sweden and Norway) and South (India), pointing to parallels with Latin America and Africa also. ... a pioneering contribution to understanding how mobilisation can achieve serious alternatives to neoliberalism.' - Jeremy Seekings, Professor of Political Studies and Sociology, University of Cape Town; '[N]ot only a bold and original contribution to comparative politics and development but also indispensable reading for those interested in the revitalization of the social democratic project.' - Patrick Heller, Professor of Sociology and International Studies, Brown University; '[S]harpens the global intellectual and political challenge to show if and how a democratic and anti-authoritarian model combining economic and social development is feasible.' - Hakan A. Bengtsson, Executive Director, The Stockholm Arena GroupTable of ContentsPreface; Notes on the Authors; PART ONE: INTRODUCTION; 1. Social Democratic Development (Olle Tornquist with John Harriss); PART TWO: COMPARATIVE ANALYSES; 2. Lineages of Democratic Development: India and Scandinavia (John Harriss and Olle Tornquist); 3. Comparative Notes on Indian Experiments in Social Democracy: Kerala and West Bengal (John Harriss and Olle Tornquist); PART THREE: POLITICAL COLLECTIVITIES; 4. From Local Citizenship to the Politics of Universal Welfare: Scandinavian Insights (Hilde Sandvik); 5. What are the Prospects for a Social Democratic Alliance in India Today? (John Harriss); PART FOUR: LINKAGES BETWEEN STATE AND SOCIETY; 6. Governance Reforms in India (N. C. Saxena); 7. Strengthening Control or Fostering Trust? Indian Politics and Scandinavian Experiences (Torsten Svensson); PART FIVE: RIGHTS AND WELFARE; 8. The Chequered History of Social Rights in India (Neera Chandhoke); 9. Welfare State - India and Scandinavia: Social Rights, Decommodification, Democracy (Fredrik Engelstad); PART SIX: EQUITY AND GROWTH; 10. Social Equality as a Development Strategy (Kalle Moene); 11. Democratic Development in India: Reflections on Problems and Prospects (Pranab Bardhan); PART SEVEN: CONCLUSIONS; 12. Implications for Scandinavian Social Democracy and International Cooperation (Olle Tornquist); 13. What Are the Prospects Now for Social Democratic Development? (Olle Tornquist and John Harriss); Bibliography; Index
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Viella I Riformismi Socialisti Al Tempo del
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Viella Editrice Dietro l'Eguaglianza: Consumi E Strategie Di
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Viella Editrice I Socialisti E Il Sindacato: 1943-1984
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Brill Co-operative Struggles: Work Conflicts in
Book SynopsisIn Co-operative Struggles, Denise Kasparian expands the theoretical horizons regarding labour unrest by proposing new categories to make visible and conceptualize conflicts in the new worker co-operativism of the twenty-first century. After the depletion of neoliberal reforms at the dawn of the twenty-first century in Argentina, co-operativism gained momentum, mainly due to the recuperation of enterprises by their workers and state promotion of co-operatives through social policies. These new co-operatives became actors not just in production but in social struggle. Their peculiarity lies in the fact that they shape a socio-productive form not structured on wage relations: workers are at the same time members of the organisations. Why, how and by what cleavages and groupings do these co-operative workers without bosses come into conflict?Trade Review"Denise Kasparian’s Co-operative Struggles provides an in-depth study of two worker co-operatives in the Buenos Aires area today to reveal how co-operatives emerge, are governed, and disappear. She successfully confronts people’s implicit assumptions about co-operatives with observations from everyday realities of working in Argentinian worker co-operatives in the 2000s and 2010s. Her research thereby puts several dominant myths about the co-operative economy into perspective [...] Sociological research provides a litmus test that checks which myths have become invalid or are not applicable to a particular economic sector. Kasparian has admirably shown how such a test would work in the specific political and economic conjuncture of contemporary Argentina". Tim Christiaens, in Critical Sociology, 8 April 2022. Critical Sociology “El libro amplía los horizontes teóricos sobre el conflict laboral, proponiendo nuevas categorías para visibilizar y conceptualizar las contiendas en el nuevo cooperativismo de trabajo del siglo XXI”. In Centro de Estudios de Sociología del TrabajoUniversidad de Buenos Aires, 21/04/2022. "This book, made up of two unlikely types of cooperatives, one formed voluntarily and the other formed through state-sponsorship, contributes to the literature of self-management and co-operatives and provides a deeper understanding that aspects of the democratization of conflict in co-operatives are context-specific. Future research should deepen and expand the study of self-management and conflict in the broader ecosystem of worker-recuperated, state-sponsored and traditional worker co-operatives, and thus contribute further to generalizable ideas about self-management." Stefan Ivanovski, in ILR Review, ILR ReviewTable of ContentsForeword The Democratisation of Conflict Acknowledgements List of Figures, Tables and Images Introduction 1 The Question of Work Conflicts in New Co-operatives 2 Dimensions of New Social Conflicts in Co-operative Socio-productive Contexts 3 The Challenge of Comparing Paradigmatic but Non-equivalent Experiences: Studying a Whole That Acts as a Whole 4 The Structure of the Book 1 Co-operatives ‘Made in Argentina’ The Process of Enterprise Recuperation by Their Workers 1 The Socio-genesis of the Processes of Enterprise Recuperation 1.1 When Worker Resistance Becomes an Offensive Movement 1.2 The Widespread Crisis of 2001–2002, or Adding Fuel to the Fire 1.3 The Movement of the Flames 2 The Evolution of Enterprise Recuperation Processes 2.1 The Fuel of the Growing Economy Keeps the Flames of Production Moving 2.2 The Moral Economy of Work in the Continued Presence of Enterprise Recuperations 2.3 “Argentina Is One Big, Recuperated Factory”: Public Policies for Recuperated Enterprises 2.4 The Movement’s Fragmentation, Co-operative Convergence and Union Rapprochement 2 Incubated Co-operatives Co-operative Formation under the Argentina Works Programme 1 Social Schemes with Work Requirement: From Workfare to the Argentina Works Programme 2 The Mediation of Unemployed Workers’ Organisations: Civil Associations, Productive Units and Co-operatives 3 The Dual Logic of the Argentina Works Programme’s Socio-genesis: Creating Jobs and Co-ordinating Local Politics 4 Induced Co-operatives? The Struggle of Unemployed Workers’ Organisations 4.1 The Evolution of the Argentina Works Programme 4.2 The Intensity and Dynamics of Contentious Action 4.3 The Demands and Forms of Contentious Action 3 Keeping and Having a Job A Milestone in Constitutive Conflicts 1 ‘Occupy, Resist, Produce’ … and Have! 2 From ‘Induction’ to the ‘Co-operative without Brokers’ 3 A Comparative Lens on Constitutive Conflicts 4 The Recuperated Enterprise and Social Power in Production 1 Recuperators, Activists and the ‘Born and Bred’ 2 Property Relations: Social Possession and Differential Appropriation of the Fruits of Labour 3 The Logic of Production and the Issue of Sustainability in Recuperated Enterprises 4 The Political Dimension: Between Self-management and Delegation 5 Social Groupings and Potential Antagonisms: Opportunity Hoarding, Enterprise Projects and Work Generations 5 The Argentina Works Co-operative and State Power in Production 1 The Labour and Socio-spatial Precarity of Argentina Works Programme Workers 2 Property Relations: Social Possession and Autonomy 3 The Logic of Production: Between Subsistence and Political Accumulation 4 The Political Dimension: State Power and Co-management 5 Social Groupings and Potential Antagonisms: State Officials, Co-operative Members and Activists 6 The Production of Co-operative Conflict 1 Board Removals: Conflicts over the Running and Expansion of the Productive Process 2 Regulations, Sanctions and Exclusions: From ‘Founder Members’ to ‘Founderer Members’ 3 “We Fought over the River Module”: The Conflict over Autonomous Work 4 Between Subsistence Consumption and Political Accumulation in the Social Organisation 5 A Comparative Lens 7 Conclusions 1 The New Twenty-First-Century Co-Operativism and Its Struggles Around Work 2 What Patterns of Conflicts are There without Bosses? Towards a Theory of Unrest in Worker Co-operatives 3 From Prelude to Present: A Toolbox for New Research Questions Bibliography Index
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Amsterdam University Press The Spell of Capital: Reification and Spectacle
Book SynopsisThis book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukács's concept of reification, in which social aspects of humanity are viewed in objectified terms, and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle, where the world is packaged and presented to consumers in uniquely mediated ways. Bringing the original, yet now often forgotten, theoretical contexts for these terms back to the fore, Johan Hartle and Samir Gandesha offer a new look at the importance of Western Marxism from its early days to the present moment-and reveal why Marxist cultural critique must continue to play a vital role in any serious sociological analysis of contemporary society.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reification and Spectacle: The Timeliness of Western Marxism 1. Reification as Structural Depoliticization: The Political Ontology of Lukács and Debord Johan F. Hartle 2. 'Reification' Between Autonomy and Authenticity: Adorno On Musical Experience Samir Gandesha 3. 'All reification is a forgetting' - Benjamin, Adorno, and the Dialectic of Reification Thijs Lijster 4. Utopian Interiors: The Art of Situationist Urbanism from Reification to Play Tyrus Miller 5. 'The Brilliance of Invisibility': Tracking the Body in the Society of the Spectacle Sudeep Dasgupta 6. Art Criticism in the Society of the Spectacle: The Case of October Noortje de Leij 7. Spectacle and Politics: Is There a Political Reality in the Spectacle of Society? Kati Röttger 8. Reification, Sexual Objectification, and Feminist Activism Willow Verkerk 9. Reified Life: Vitalism, Environmentalism, and Reification in Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle and A Sick Planet Joost de Bloois 10. Images of Capital: An Interview with Zachary Formwalt Samir Gandesha and Johan F. Hartle
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Aakar Books Socialism:: A Reader
Book SynopsisCommunicative capitalism distorts public memory, erasing history of social and political struggles. Book explores socialism's impact and interpretations, offering diverse perspectives on its generology.
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