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Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics: Essays in Historical Realism
Gavin Smith
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Paperback. Gavin Smith 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. He tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein. Series: Dislocations. Num Pages: 254 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: JHMC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
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 concise framework for untangling what he calls the society of capital ... Read more
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 concise framework for untangling what he calls the society of capital ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
Series
Dislocations
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785333477
SKU
V9781785333477
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About Gavin Smith
Gavin Smith is the author of Livelihood and Resistance: Peasants and the Politics of Land in Peru (1989); Confronting the Present: Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology (1999); and, with Susana Narotzky, Immediate Struggles: People, Power and Place in Rural Spain (2006). He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
Reviews for Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics: Essays in Historical Realism
In Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics, Gavin Smith reaffirms his stature as one of the most important anthropologists writing today. By way of a tightly woven set of arguments, he simultaneously challenges and inspires us to expand our historical, geographical, and theoretical imaginations to meet the pressing interpretive and political challenges of the global present. The publication of Intellectuals and (Counter-) ... Read more