Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics : : Essays in Historical Realism / / Gavin Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Gavin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Dislocations ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Intellectuals, Historical Realism and Counter-politics --; PART I Intellectual Infrastructure --; Chapter 1 – Capital: Structural, Phenomenological, Financial --; PART II Scales of History and Politics --; Chapter 2 – The Scales of Ethnography: Periodizing Spatial Coherence in Early-Twentieth-Century Spain --; Chapter 3 – Popular Struggle, Intellectuals and Perspectives in Realist History: A Case from Late-Twentieth-Century Peru --; Chapter 4 – History’s Absent Presence in the Everyday Politics of Contemporary Rural Spain --; Chapter 5 – History as Possibilities: On the Threshold between Everyday Practice and Historical Praxis --; PART III Politics’ Edge --; Chapter 6 – Conditions of Possibility: Dominant Blocs and Changing Contours of the Hegemonic Field --; Conclusion: Between Reflexivity and Engagement --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782383017; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782383017
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gavin Smith.

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” and subsequently a potentially controversial way of seeing its contemporary features. This book tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein.