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1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Dislocations ; volume 12
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Dislocations ; v. 12.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Capital: structural, phenomenological, financial -- The scales of ethnography : periodizing spatial coherence in early twentieth-century, Spain -- Popular struggle, dissident intellectuals and perspectives in realist history : a case from late twentieth-century Peru -- History's absent presence in the everyday politics of contemporary rural Spain -- On the threshold between everyday practice and historical praxis -- Conditions of possibility : dominant blocs and changing contours of the hegemonic field -- Conclusion : between reflexivity and engagement : tensions in the praxis of intellectuals. |
| Summary |
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 a. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Intellectuals -- Political activity.
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Intellectuals -- Political activity. |
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Ethnology -- Political aspects.
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Ethnology -- Political aspects. |
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Ethnology. |
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Social movements.
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Social movements. |
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Protest movements.
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social movements. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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Protest movements. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Social movements. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Gavin A. Intellectuals and (counter- ) politics 9781782383000 (DLC) 2013042958 (OCoLC)857402775 |
| ISBN |
9781782383017 (electronic book) |
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1782383018 (electronic book) |
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9781782383000 |
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178238300X |
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