Class And Nation

Author : Étienne Balibar,Immanuel Wallerstein
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789600094

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Race, Nation, Class by Étienne Balibar,Immanuel Wallerstein Pdf

Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decolonization, how is it that racism remains a growing phenomenon? What are the special characteristics of contemporary racism? How can it be related to class divisions and to the contradictions of the nation-state? And how far, in turn, does racism today compel us to rethink the relationship between class struggles and nationalism? This book attempts to answer these fundamental questions through a remarkable dialogue between the French philosopher Etienne Balibar and the American historian and sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein. Each brings to the debate the fruits of over two decades of analytical work, greatly inspired, respectively, by Louis Althusser and Fernand Braudel. Both authors challenge the commonly held notion of racism as a continuation of, or throwback to, the xenophobias of past societies and communities. They analyze it instead as a social relation indissolubly tied to present social structures-the nation-state, the division of labor, and the division between core and periphery-which are themselves constantly being reconstructed. Despite their productive disagreements, Balibar and Wallerstein both emphasize the modernity of racism and the need to understand its relation to contemporary capitalism and class struggle. Above all, their dialogue reveals the forms of present and future social conflict, in a world where the crisis of the nation-state is accompanied by an alarming rise of nationalism and chauvinism.

Author : Jeff Pratt
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056838553

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Class, Nation and Identity by Jeff Pratt Pdf

Examines the class dimensions of identity politics and the symbols and meaning inherent in class movements.

Author : Robin Mann,Steve Fenton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137466747

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Nation, Class and Resentment by Robin Mann,Steve Fenton Pdf

This timely book provides an extensive account of national identities in three of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom: Wales, Scotland and England. In all three contexts, identity and nationalism have become questions of acute interest in both academic and political commentary. The authors take stock of a wealth of empirical material and explore how attitudes to nation and state can be understood by relating them to changes in contemporary capitalist economies, and the consequences for particular class fractions. The book argues that these changes give rise to a set of resentments among people who perceive themselves to be losing out, concluding that class resentments, depending on historical and political factors relevant to each nation, can take the form of either sub-state nationalism or right wing populism. Nation, Class and Resentment shows that the politics of resentment is especially salient in England, where the promotion of a distinct national identity is problematic. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology and politics, will find this study of interest.

Author : Don Kalb,Gábor Halmai
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857452047

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Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class by Don Kalb,Gábor Halmai Pdf

Since 1989 neo-nationalism has grown as a volatile political force in almost all European societies in tandem with the formation of a neoliberal European Union and wider capitalist globalizations. Focusing on working classes situated in long-run localized processes of social change, including processes of dispossession and disenfranchisement, this volume investigates how the experiences, histories, and relationships of social class are a necessary ingredient for explaining the re-emergence and dynamics of populist nationalism in both Eastern and Western Europe. Featuring in-depth urban and regional case studies from Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Italy and Scotland this volume reclaims class for anthropological research and lays out a new interdisciplinary agenda for studying identity politics in the intensifying neoliberal conjuncture.

Author : Samir Amin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038868209

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Class and Nation, Historically and in the Current Crisis by Samir Amin Pdf

Author : Kath Woodward
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0415329671

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Questioning Identity by Kath Woodward Pdf

What is really happening when people either individually or in groups identify with particular definitions of themselves or strike out to take up new identities? Do gender, class and ethnicity offer some stability, or are they limiting?

Author : Ms. Sharon Sassler,Amanda Miller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520962101

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Cohabitation Nation by Ms. Sharon Sassler,Amanda Miller Pdf

“We have fun and we enjoy each other’s company, so why shouldn’t we just move in together?”—Lauren, from Cohabitation Nation Living together is a typical romantic rite of passage in the United States today. In fact, census data shows a 37 percent increase in couples who choose to commit to and live with one another, forgoing marriage. And yet we know very little about this new “normal” in romantic life. When do people decide to move in together, why do they do so, and what happens to them over time? Drawing on in-depth interviews, Sharon Sassler and Amanda Jayne Miller provide an inside view of how cohabiting relationships play out before and after couples move in together, using couples’ stories to explore the he said/she said of romantic dynamics. Delving into hot-button issues, such as housework, birth control, finances, and expectations for the future, Sassler and Miller deliver surprising insights about the impact of class and education on how relationships unfold. Showcasing the words, thoughts, and conflicts of the couples themselves, Cohabitation Nation offers a riveting and sometimes counterintuitive look at the way we live now.

Author : Edward J. Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199609864

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Proust, Class, and Nation by Edward J. Hughes Pdf

Edward J. Hughes here seeks to assess how Proust and his novel 'A la Recherche du Temps Perdu' might be understood in relation to issues of class and nation.

Author : Epifanio San Juan
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 073911722X

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In the Wake of Terror by Epifanio San Juan Pdf

"In the Wake of Terror inquires into the historical conditions and possibilities of radical change in the post-9/11 world of globalized capitalism. E. San Juan, Jr., focuses on numerous problems, including those of racism, class antagonisms, and subalternity in the United States. Global violence is also examined in relation to the anti-imperialist struggle of diverse communities in the Philippines. Written from a historical materialist perspective, this work of cultural criticism is of interest to the academic or lay person."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Ber Borochov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000675092

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Class Struggle and the Jewish Nation by Ber Borochov Pdf

This volume contains the first broad selection of essays made available in English by Ber Borochov, one of the leading intellectuals of the early Zionist movement. Borochov founded the Labor Zionist party in 1906, and was the pillar of the Israeli Labor party from whose ranks arose such figures as David Ben-Gurion and Itzhak Ben-Tsvi. He is best remembered for his ability to synthesize socialism and nationalism.Borochov argues that early Marxist theory failed to understand the causes of nationalism and views it only as a temporary phenomenon. Borochov tried to synthesize socialism with Jewish nationalism. Zionism was a movement necessary to free oppressed Eastern European Jews and permit them to further socialist ideals in their own nation-state. The dilemma is that socialist internationalism requires national culture to be of no further value once a socialist victory occurs in a country. Borochov's essays provide an important, if largely unknown perspective on these questions.

Author : Monthly Review Press,Samir Amin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1981-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0853455236

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Class and Nation, Historically and in the Current Crisis by Monthly Review Press,Samir Amin Pdf

Author : Wendy Joy Darby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000323986

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Landscape and Identity by Wendy Joy Darby Pdf

In England, perhaps more than most places, people's engagement with the landscape is deeply felt and has often been expressed through artistic media. The popularity of walking and walking clubs perhaps provides the most compelling evidence of the important role landscape plays in people's lives. Not only is individual identity rooted in experiencing landscape, but under the multiple impacts of social fragmentation, global economic restructuring and European integration, membership in recreational walking groups helps recover a sense of community. Moving between the 1750s and the present, this transdisciplinary book explores the powerful role of landscape in the formation of historical class relations and national identity. The author's direct field experience of fell walking in the Lake District and with various locally based clubs includes investigation of the roles gender and race play. She shows how the politics of access to open spaces has implications beyond the immediate geographical areas considered and ultimately involves questions of citizenship.

Author : Jennifer Elrick
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487527808

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Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism by Jennifer Elrick Pdf

In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s immigration policy. In response to external economic and political pressures for change, high-level bureaucrats developed new admissions criteria gradually and experimentally while personally processing thousands of individual immigration cases per year. Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism shows how bureaucrats’ perceptions and judgements about the admissibility of individuals – in socioeconomic, racial, and moral terms – influenced the creation of formal admissions criteria for skilled workers and family immigrants that continue to shape immigration to Canada. A qualitative content analysis of archival documents, conducted through the theoretical lens of a cultural sociology of immigration policy, reveals that bureaucrats’ interpretations of immigration files generated selection criteria emphasizing not just economic utility, but also middle-class traits and values such as wealth accumulation, educational attainment, entrepreneurial spirit, resourcefulness, and a strong work ethic. By making "middle-class multiculturalism" a demographic reality and basis of nation-building in Canada, these state actors created a much-admired approach to managing racial diversity that has nevertheless generated significant social inequalities.

Author : Katherine Newman,Victor Tan Chen
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807041406

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The Missing Class by Katherine Newman,Victor Tan Chen Pdf

Named one of the Best Business Books of 2007 by Library Journal The Missing Class gives voice to the 54 million Americans, including 21 percent of the nation's children, who are sandwiched between poor and middle class. While government programs help the needy and politicians woo the more fortunate, the "Missing Class" is largely invisible and ignored. Through the experiences of nine families, Katherine Newman and Victor Tan Chen trace the unique problems faced by individuals in this large and growing demographic-the "near poor." The question for the Missing Class is not whether they're doing better than the truly poor-they are. The question is whether these individuals, on the razor's edge of subsistence, are safely ensconced in the Missing Class or in danger of losing it all. The Missing Class has much to tell us about whether the American dream still exists for those who are sacrificing daily to achieve it.

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780786740796

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Blood, Class and Empire by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's "special relationship" with Britain. But as events have shown, especially in the wake of 9/11, the political and cultural ties between America and Britain have grown stronger. Blood, Class and Empire examines the dynamics of this relationship, its many cultural manifestations -- the James Bond series, PBS "brit Kitsch," Rudyard Kipling -- and explains why it still persists. Contrarian, essayist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens notes that while the relationship is usually presented as a matter of tradition, manners, and common culture, sanctified by wartime alliance, the special ingredient is empire; transmitted from an ancien regime that has tried to preserve and renew itself thereby. England has attempted to play Greece to the American Rome, but ironically having encouraged the United States to become an equal partner in the business of empire, Britain found itself supplanted.