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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786538503321

Autore

Smith Gavin A.

Titolo

Intellectuals and (counter-) politics : essays in historical realism / / Gavin Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78533-347-X

1-78238-301-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Dislocations ; ; Volume 12

Disciplina

303.48

303.48/4

Soggetti

Intellectuals - Political activity

Ethnology - Political aspects

Social movements

Protest movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Capital: Structural, Phenomenological, Financial; Chapter 2 - The Scales of Ethnography; Chapter 3 - Perspectives in Realist History; Chapter 4 - History's Absent Presence; Chapter 5 - History as Possibilities; Chapter 6 - Conditions of Possibility; Conclusion; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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