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Book SynopsisCollectivities, in brief, is a term describing the intellectual and creative potential of groups. Collectivities then mark a position in the connection between disciplinary fields; a position that is simultaneously productive of new knowledge and new politics. In Collectivities: Politics at the Intersections of Disciplines Robert Carley looks at the classical ideas and theorists that have influenced interdisciplinary work in the humanistic and social-scientific disciplines as well as contemporary cases of interdisciplinary meeting points, specifically cultural studies, Chicana/o studies and radical sociology (e.g. critical, liberation, public, and Marxist approaches). He discusses the intellectual, creative, and political potential of these groupings. Noting that interdisciplinary groups often come together to address political or social problems, Carley provides an analysis of these groupings as well as ways of understanding their work. He suggests that we might understand interdiscip
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Rethinking the Relationship between Political Economy and Culture Chapter 3: Rethinking the Relationship between the Structured Subject and Cultural Creativity Chapter 4: Revisiting Conjuncture or Revisiting the Relationship between the Political Economy and Culture: The Contributions of Antonio Gramsci Chapter 5: The Meteorology Analogy: Cultural Scholarship in Stormy Conditions Chapter 6: Radical Sociology and the Prefiguration of Cultural Studies: Marxism, Differentiation Maps, Interdisciplinary Reason, and Methodological Politics References About the Author
