History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

Vucinich, Alexander; Lukács, Georg; Livingstone, Rodney

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“…The third notion of the material builds on Althusser's critique and notion of overdetermination, while rejecting his idea of capitalism reproducing itself without agents. Rooted in the humanist Marxist tradition that sees class as a historical and relational entity rather than an objective reality (Lukács, 1971), ‘ Material as Praxis’ (MAP) accounts posit an immanent critique of transcendentalism oriented towards the constitutive effect between social relations and natural necessity. The goal was to provide a materialism more encompassing of agency and subjectivities by understanding reality as partly constituted by human knowledge and Marxism philosophically rather than scientifically.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why and how ontology matters: A cartography of neoliberalism(s) and neoliberalization(s)

Knio

2022

J Theory Soc Behav

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In this article, I discuss the importance of ontology and its implications, demonstrated in the examples of different approaches to neoliberalism. The lack of careful ontological considerations leads to confusing and often contradictory usages of the term 'neoliberalism', obfuscating its usefulness. Instead, I suggest a cartography which consists of integrating two ontological debates -structure-agency and material-ideational -through the interplay between

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Why and how ontology matters: A cartography of neoliberalism(s) and neoliberalization(s)

Knio

2022

J Theory Soc Behav

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“…Much of the literature on Burma describes conditions in the country thusly, even when evidence demonstrates that governmental interventions are refracted, perverted, undermined, or ignored by their objects. Specifically, this literature invokes "reification," a concept developed by Lukács (1971Lukács ( [1922) to describe the way commodification under capitalism restructures entire social systems. For Lukács, the dominance of the commodity, and the way it stands as a thing (res) that conceals as it congeals the human labor power that created it, transforms all relations in capitalist society into exchange value.…”

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Reassessing Reification: Ethnicity amidst “Failed” Governmentality in Burma and India

Prasse‐Freeman

2023

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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In part because a single colonial project eventually formally incorporated Burma as an appendage to British colonial rule of India, Burma scholars persistently draw on historiography and anthropology of India to assert that ethnic categories in Burma were “reified” and hierarchized by colonial governmentality and ensuing postcolonial statecraft. This article disputes such assumed equivalences, re-theorizing “reification” through the concept of governmentality to distinguish modes of regulation and the kinds of social responses incited, suggesting that India and Burma stand as respective exemplars of distinct governmental forms. Specifically, scholarship represents Indian population groups (of caste, tribe, ethnicity, etc. permutations) as being reified by dense and reinforcing applications of knowledge/power. Even when these various and interlinking regulatory apparatuses “fail” to accurately describe social reality, they interpellate a response from subject populations, a process that operates to dialectically reinforce the categories. Conversely, similar governmental apparatuses desultorily implemented in Burma have operated differently. While they have succeeded in making South Asian and Muslim subjects into Burma’s self-perceived constitutive outside, governmentality has “doubly failed” on its taingyintha (indigenous) subjects. Poor knowledge of these Burmese peoples has foreclosed intensive projects of knowledge production, leading to “misinterpellation,” a form of metapragmatic awareness in which subjects recognize that discourses misdescribe them, and then strategically maneuver with(in) those labels. Ethnic emblems become hollow integuments navigable with comparative ease, as individuals modify their particular bodily and dispositional indices. The article concludes by encouraging comparative postcolonial governmentality studies that would delineate particularities in a concept (governmentality) that often remains unnuanced.

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“…We can hear echoes of St Augustine, who went inwards to go upwards to God (Taylor, 1989: 134), and of certain Marxist notions of false consciousness where emancipation requires overcoming ideological distortion (e.g. Lukács, 1972).…”

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Becoming an Activist: Individualisation and a Democratic Contentious Ethos in ‘How to’ Books

Gøtzsche-Astrup

2022

Sociology

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The article explores a new aspect of the interplay of individualisation and democracy. I ask how individualisation affects a contentious ethos, a set of ethical relations that contentious actors cultivate towards themselves and others in articulating their idea of the good. I analyse the ethea in the public through ‘how to become an activist’ books. The books instruct individuals in how they should turn inwards and work on themselves to become activists. I delineate three ethea: individuals can work on themselves to discover their passion, connect to an impersonal truth or situate themselves in a structural context. These may undermine collective political projects but can also facilitate deep democratic engagement.

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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

Cited by 249 publications

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Why and how ontology matters: A cartography of neoliberalism(s) and neoliberalization(s)

Why and how ontology matters: A cartography of neoliberalism(s) and neoliberalization(s)

Reassessing Reification: Ethnicity amidst “Failed” Governmentality in Burma and India

Becoming an Activist: Individualisation and a Democratic Contentious Ethos in ‘How to’ Books

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