The Contemporary Significance of <scp>G</scp>ramsci's Critique of Civil Society

Patnaik, Arun Kumar

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“…Gramsci realised the immense importance of being critical of the powers instituted within civil society, while at the same time remaining a believer in the power of the civil society (Patnaik 2012). If one looks at the Shaheen Bagh protests, they are to the purist mere civil society protests because there is effectively not enough political motivation embedded within them.…”

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Locating Gramsci in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh: Perspectives on the iconic women’s protest in India

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2020

Capital & Class

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The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019, in India was widely contested by both political parties and various civil society formations. Shaheen Bagh, a sit-in protest demonstration which continued for over a hundred days in the nation’s capital from mid-December 2019 to late March 2020, occupied the central position within the corpus of these protest demonstrations. The protests at Shaheen Bagh were led by poor, Muslim working-class women, who had come out on the streets protesting and asserting their rights amidst the dominant ruling-class communal politics. The Shaheen Bagh protests were a potent force of the working-class and oppressed minorities of the country. The paper brings in Marxist and Gramscian perspectives to explain how Shaheen Bagh has contributed to Indian left-wing politics. The paper argues that the women in Shaheen Bagh have been successful in bridging the gap between the civil society and political society in the country and has to an extent, altered the very nature of Indian politics. Moreover, the assertive nature of the Muslim women regarding their religion and the support which they garnered from the Indian left, widely accused by many of being Islamophobic in nature, has wide repercussions as far as political and social alliances between the left and Muslim politics in India is concerned. The present paper locates the protest within the notion of subaltern unity and tries to analyse the possible impacts of the support for the protests, within and beyond the anti-CAA protest movement, from the Indian left.

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“…However, for Wright (2006Wright ( , 2010Wright ( , 2013, interstitial activities are less pushing back at the dominant hegemony than simply ignoring it, refusing to accept its terms and conditions, measuring by a different scale. It might be clearer to describe interstitial activities as non-hegemonic, more concerned with the power to act, to effect change in the world, than in taking power over others; the power to be or to do versus power over (Katz, 2006;Holloway 1995Holloway , 2002Holloway , 2010Gibson-Graham, 2006;Escobar 2010;Patnaik 2012). Interstitial transformations develop in many different ways which is why they, and that which is common between them, can be overlooked relatively easily.…”

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Financial accounting for the common good – from a social economy perspective

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This thesis is a pragmatic exploration of concepts to be found in social economy organisations with a view to improving the connection between financial accounting practice and organisational impact in the social and physical world. It approaches financial accounting from a social economy perspective. The research draws on ideas from Aristotle, contrasting the pursuit of wealth for its own sake – chrematistics – with the pursuit of the wise allocation of resources towards a good society in which people can flourish – economics. It also uses Kantian concepts of creative agency and experience as essentially limited and emergent, to discuss the inevitability of diverse views of flourishing. The study develops through three stages. First, there is a qualitative case study exploration of ideas of purpose found in a range of social enterprises. Second, there is analysis of the findings using theories drawn from development studies and sociology. Third, there is a discussion of the implications for current practice in accounting for financial resources, specifically contrasting not for profit accounting with for profit accounting. The findings suggest that the social economy accommodates myriad possible purposes, both macro and micro, within and between organisations, with the organisational macro purpose acting as the internal orchestrator of other priorities. Our current not for profit formats and systems for financial accounting, if understood in non-philanthropic, multiple macro and micro purposes terminology, provide a starting point for the development of financial accounting as a tool for Aristotelian economics; for the allocation of resources to meet diverse needs and interests. The study contributes to critical accounting research, particularly the strand focused on flourishing, from the perspective of the social economy. It shows that the multiple purposes approach, by accommodating choice of organisational macro purpose, can encompass profit as a macro purpose but the for profit approach is too narrow to accommodate any other purpose. It demonstrates that we already have in practice a broader, more flexible way of accounting for financial resources than for profit accounting, and suggests that this approach should be recognized and further developed.

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Capturing the Gramscian Project in Critical Pedagogy: Towards a Philosophy of Praxis in Education

Manojan

2019

Review of Development and Change

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As theory and praxis of emancipatory education, critical pedagogy has been profoundly influenced by the ideas of Antonio Gramsci on ‘ideology’, ‘hegemony’, ‘intellectuals’ and ‘human consciousness’. The works of Paulo Freire and his critical pedagogy are found analogous in many ways to Gramsci’s Marxism specifically in terms of the importance given to cultural action of subalterns. The imperative in critical pedagogy is to construct counter-hegemonic positions against the imperatives of the dominant class agenda of limiting subalterns from entering into the making of history. As a praxis it aims at unravelling the potentialities within subalterns through their wisdom, practical knowledge and everyday common sense and thereby transforming educational regimes as spaces of social justice and human liberation. This article attempts to capture the contours of critical pedagogy and explores how Gramsci’s Marxism has influenced the formation of critical pedagogy and its intellectual trajectories.

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The Contemporary Significance of Gramsci's Critique of Civil Society

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Locating Gramsci in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh: Perspectives on the iconic women’s protest in India

Locating Gramsci in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh: Perspectives on the iconic women’s protest in India

Financial accounting for the common good – from a social economy perspective

Capturing the Gramscian Project in Critical Pedagogy: Towards a Philosophy of Praxis in Education

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