The Passive Revolutionary Route to the Modern World: Italy and India in Comparative Perspective

Riley, Dylan; Desai, Manali

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“…This is a central lesson of Elias' (2000) "civilizing process" and all of Bourdieu's more diachronic works (e.g., Bourdieu 1996Bourdieu [1992). It is also a primary mechanism of the transition to capitalist modernity in much of continental Europe and beyondthrough so-called "revolutions from above" and "passive revolutions" (Riley and Desai 2007)-and, according to some, even in the classic case of England (albeit through different means) (Brenner 1985;Lachmann 2000). To properly explain social change, then, we require a better understanding of social reproduction.…”

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The Pacification of Elite Lifestyles: State Formation, Elite Reproduction, and the Practice of Hunting in Early Modern England

Brundage

2017

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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What explains the remarkable metamorphosis of elites from warrior nobilities into well-mannered aristocrats in early modern Europe? Existing accounts emphasize the coercive force of emerging states or the novel enticements of royal courts. Well suited to the paradigmatic case of early modern France, such arguments fail to explain cases, like England, in which elites developed pacified lifestyles in the absence of a dominant royal court and largely prior to the monopolization of physical force. This essay shows that explaining such cases requires greater attention to the historical variability of elites’ own interests and strategies. I argue that European elites (also) developed pacified lifestyles insofar as they came to reproduce themselves through strategies that operated without their personal use of physical violence (including, but not limited to, royal courts). Such strategies were contingent on varying configurations of inter-elite and elite–non-elite relations. I employ this perspective to explain the marginalization of violent skills and codes in the lifestyles of early modern English elites, focusing empirically on the practice of hunting, a defining ritual of elite lifestyles. The hunting evidence suggests that the landed gentry were the first English elite to develop a pacified lifestyle. Yet the gentry were neither subject to the coercion of a centralized state nor incorporated into a court society. Instead, I show that the gentry—and later, the nobility and monarchy—developed pacified lifestyles because they came to reproduce themselves through legal strategies, the successful performance of which required nonviolent skills and habits.

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The Pacification of Elite Lifestyles: State Formation, Elite Reproduction, and the Practice of Hunting in Early Modern England

Brundage

2017

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“…Dylan Riley andManali Desai (2007, cited by Morton, 2010a: 12), describe passive revolution as "a technique of statecraft that an emergent bourgeois class may deploy by drawing in subaltern social classes while establishing a new state on the basis of capitalism." In other words, passive revolution and capitalism go hand in hand.…”

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From Passive to Radical Revolution in Venezuela’s Populist Project

Brading¹

2014

Latin American Perspectives

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“…Tug;al refers to how an extant hegemony absorbs the demands, strategies and institutions of popular mass-movements and comments on how revolutionary 59, Gramsci 2007Gramsci , p. 9: Q6 §io (1930, 60, , p. 115: QioII §6i (1932. 61, Buci-Glucksmann 1980, p. 315, 62, Gramsci 1971, p, 219: Qi3 §27 (1932, 63, See Riley and Desai 2007, transformation in such instances is avoided. Tug¡al therefore recognises the process of incorporation of revolutionary movements into existing systems as a 'passive revolution'.…”

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The Limits of Sociological Marxism?

Morton¹

2013

Hist Mater

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Within the agenda of historical-materialist theory and practice Sociological Marxism has delivered a compelling perspective on how to explore and link the analysis of civil society, the state, and the economy within an explicit focus on class exploitation, emancipation, and rich ethnography. This article situates a major analysis of state formation, the rise of the justice and Development Party (AKP), and the growth of a broader Islamist movement in Turkey within the main current of Sociological Marxism, It does so in order to critically examine the rather bold revision of the theory of hegemony at the heart of Cihan Tugal's Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism, which posits the separate interaction of political society, civil society and the state in theorising hegemonic politics in Turkey, My contention is that the revision of hegemony that this analysis offers and its state-theoretical commitments are deeply problematic due to the reliance on what I term 'ontological exteriority, meaning the treatment of state, civil society and the economy as always-already separate spheres. The focus of the critique then moves toward highlighting a frustrating lack of direct engagement with Antonio Gramsci's writings in this disquisition on hegemony and passive revolution, which has important political consequences. While praise for certain aspects of ethnographic and spatial analysis is raised, it is argued that any account of the reordering of hegemony and the restructuring of spatial-temporal contexts of capital accumulation through conditions of passive revolution also needs to draw from a more sophisticated state theory, a direct reading of Gramsci, and broader scalar analysis of spatial relations and uneven development under capitalism.

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The Passive Revolutionary Route to the Modern World: Italy and India in Comparative Perspective

Cited by 19 publications

References 23 publications

The Pacification of Elite Lifestyles: State Formation, Elite Reproduction, and the Practice of Hunting in Early Modern England

The Pacification of Elite Lifestyles: State Formation, Elite Reproduction, and the Practice of Hunting in Early Modern England

From Passive to Radical Revolution in Venezuela’s Populist Project

The Limits of Sociological Marxism?

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