{"product_id":"transitions-methods-theory-politics-methods-theory-politics-9789004520738","title":"Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics: Methods, Theory, Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe focus of this volume is on political discourse about the pattern and desirability of economic development, and how\/why historical interpretations of social phenomena connected to this systemic process alter. It is a trajectory pursued here with reference to the materialism of Marxism, via the 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. Also examined is the trajectory followed by travel writing, and how 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements   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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210848461143,"sku":"9789004520738","price":144.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transitions-methods-theory-politics-methods-theory-politics-9789004520738","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}