Search Results for: education crisis

E. P. Thompson, 1924-1993; Madan Sarup, 1930-1993

...Study of Phenomenological and Marxist Approaches to Education (RKP) 1982: Education, State and Crisis: A Marxist Perspective_(RKP) 1984: Marxism, Structuralism, Education: Theoretical Developments in the Sociology of Education (Falmer) 1986: The Politics of Multicultural Education (Routledge) 1989 (2nd ed., 1993): An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Post-Modernism (Harvester) 1991: Education and the Ideologies ofRacism (Trentham Books...

The future of post-socialism

...ur than to expropriate capital. This is one basis for Labour’s emphasis on education and training. Anne Phillips, in her comment, states some sympathy with Brown’s aim of empowering individuals to improve their position in the labour market – accepting as facts of life the occupational slots which the labour market generates, and seeking to improve mobility between them – but she also notes that without state intervention to change these slots, by...

Philosophizing the everyday: The philosophy of praxis and the fate of cultural studies

...work of emancipation itself. This marks what was to become the fundamental crisis of a hermeneutics of the everyday as it mutates into cultural studies in the mid-1970s: with the widespread turn to a redemptive model of ideology, the critique of the everyday was now identifiable with self-representation and the free creativity of the enunciating subject, setting in place the generalized inflation of cultural questions as a way of thinking about soci...

Life is mine: Feminism, self-determination and basic income

...vio/230102 ^ Nel Noddings, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984). ^ Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework (Bristol: Power of Women Collective and Falling Wall Press, 1975), accessed January 2021, https://caringlabor.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/federici-wages-against-housework.pdf ^ Cristina Morini, ‘Take Care: Society of Care and Self-determination Income’, Cogut Institute...

‘By contraries execute all things’: Figures of the savage in European philosophy

...s extremely proud, sensitive to the complete worth of freedom, and even in education tolerates no encounter that would make him feel a lowly subjugation. Lycurgus probably gave laws to such savages, and if a law-giver were to arise among the six nations, one would see a Spartan republic arise in the new world … Among all the savages there are none among whom the female sex stands in greater real regard than those of Canada. In this perhaps they ev...

Realism and Social Science: Some Comments on Roy Bhaskar's 'The Possibility of Naturalism'

...fer promise of a solution. If it is supposed that during periods of social crisis, the underlying generative structures of society become visible to them, then one result of crisis will be a transformation of participant actors’ conceptions of their activities. These new conceptualisations may now serve as raw materials in the production of new knowledge of the social £orm.26 There are, however, some serious difficulties in the way of such a proce...

Lyotard and the Politics of Antifoundationalism

...asked by the professionalist student, the State, or institutions of higher education is no longer “Is it true?” put “What use is it?” In the context of the mercantilization of knowledge, more often than not this question is equivalent to: “Is it saleable?” And in the context of power-growth: “Is it efficient?” •.• What no longer makes the grade is competence as defined by other criteria true/false, just/unjust, etc. [34] Few left-wing theorists wo...

Globalization is ordinary: The transnationalization of cultural studies

...contradictory responses to the democratizing of the institutions of higher education in postwar Britain, on the one hand, and the effects of the Hollywoodization of cultural practices, on the other, but also a perceived crisis in post-imperial hegemonic culture. In this regard, the observations made by Homi Bhabha on culture as an enunciative practice are crucial: Culture only emerges as a problem, or a problemmatic, at the point at which there is...

Masses, class and the power of suggestion

...ucation dans le somnambulisme provoqué’ [On the influence of imitation and education in induced somnambulism]. This is a dispassionate but all the more merciless analysis of Charcot’s laboratory, which appears here, in some ways, very similar to that of a sideshow hypnotist. In Delboeuf’s eyes, the Salpêtrière was after all only a theatre where hysteria was staged according to a technique very close to that used, for instance, by the magnetiser Do...

Destruction styles: Black aesthetics of rupture and capture

Dossier: Decolonising the University

...ndhi-statue-removed-from-university-of-ghana. ^ RhodesMustFall Writing and Education subcommittees, The Johannesburg Salon 9 (2015), 128; RhodesMustFall & National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU), ‘#Outsourced’, Youtube video, 7 October 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pu_pm5g3Ao. ^ ‘Cecil Rhodes loses his nose’, News24, 22 September 2015, https://www.news24.com/news24/mynews24/cecil-rhodes-loses-his-nose-20150922; Mpho...

Politics Re-entered: The State in its Place

...priorities. To talk about ‘the polltles of education’, for example, as if education, which entalls a movement from ignorance to understanding, did not raise special questions of appropriate power and authority relations, would be absurd. From my endeavour to see a particular classroom situation in political terms it certainly does not follow that I must see teachers as standover men exercising illegitimate power over helplessly caged victims. Wha...

Feminist activism and presidential politics: Theorizing the costs of the ‘insider strategy’

...and local governments, while overt campaigns against governmental health, education, poverty and housing expenditures have been launched with full force. In the first days of his second term, Clinton attempted to construct himself as a pro-public-education president, but his major initiative in this area was a tax break that will mostly benefit the middle class. While the repeal of welfare rights was justified in terms of balanced-budget rhetoric, p...

Auguste Blanqui, heretical communist: Dossier: Blanqui's Eternal Gap

Dossier: Blanqui's Eternal Gap

...onary. Let the people awaken to the republic.’ We ind here the idea of the educational prerequisite that he holds dear. But the contradiction thus appears to be a vicious cycle. The revolution requires an educated people, but to enable this education the people must begin by taking power. How to become everything from nothing? That is the recurring issue. It is the enigma that haunts modern revolutions. Marx himself, who lucidly describes the phys...

Boycotting Israel:  Academia, activism and the futures of American Studies

...ace of ‘the socioeconomic inequalities that are part and parcel’ of higher education under capitalism, particularly in the USA. Here Cheyfitz lists a rather different set of trends: (1) the reversal of popular access to US higher education since the 1980s; (2) the disarticulation of multicultural curricula from class – from the very economic system that prevents the subjects of these varied cultures from studying them; (3) the universities’ replac...

Andeanizing philosophy: Rodolfo Kusch and indigenous thought

...emplary, for instance their The Metamorphosis of Heads: Textual Struggles, Education and Land in the Andes, Pittsburgh University Press, Pittsburgh, 2006. 2. ^ See Philip Derbyshire, ‘Who was Oscar Masotta? Psychoanalysis in Argentina’, Radical Philosophy 158, November/December 2009, pp. 11–23. 3. ^ Though the Argentine national anthem does refer to Argentines as ‘sons’ of the Inca, a legacy of the legitimation crisis of Independence and its searc...

Who Made the French Revolution?: An Essay on Current Historiography

...apidly abandoned the political front. The urban poor were driven by a food crisis to challenge it at the same time (pp. 81-84). In Mazauric’ s view, this account, rather than giving Enlightenment culture the predominant role (like Furet and Richet), shows how ‘revolutionary politics’ was a concrete and continuous creation, the realisation of a mode of government and of action in a complex situation, … not mechanically reducible to the ideology whi...

The space of flows and timeless time: Manuel Castells’s The Information Age

...s of identity, ʻthe nation-state is called into question, drawing into its crisis the very notion of political democracyʼ. [36] In these circumstances, resistance to exploitation, inequality and domination (the agenda of emancipatory politics) does not disappear but comes to be rooted primarily in the space of places, bypassing the institutions of civil society and the framework of the nation-state. At the same time, resistance is more likely to t...

Empire, or multitude: Transnational Negri

...lasted well into the 1970s. It was probably the sustained character of the crisis, combined with political marginalization, that brought Negri and his intellectual circle into more or less direct contact with transformations in the labour process that were to be analysed later, elsewhere, as post-Fordism, ʻflexible accumulationʼ or ʻcultural economyʼ. [4] The difference in the approach of Negri and his colleagues, however, is that it constitutes wh...

The end of politics: Culture, nation and other fundamentalisms

...ll number of states, the USA supreme among them. This is a sign of chronic crisis, not of an unequivocal fate called globalization. Its outcomes will be decided politically, in fields of conflict recognizable as states. ‘the political’ and the cultural principle ʻThe concept of the stateʼ, Carl Schmitt wrote in the late 1920s, ʻpresupposes the concept of the political.ʼ [2] By the political he meant a practice defined by collective, public relations...

Pandemic suspension

...rms of the ‘masochistic’ and insurrectional tendencies within the pandemic crisis. Nonetheless, the crucial question remains: how can we use the lessons of this crisis to turn the ‘ideal suspension’ into a real social transformation? Notes As Susan Neiman claimed, ‘The eighteenth century used the word Lisbon much as we use the word Auschwitz today’. See Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought: an Alternative History of Philosophy (Princeton: Princeto...

David Cameron’s Tea Party

...e economy. We will have longer working lives, less money to live on, fewer educational opportunities, and less support when we are ill or unemployed. This is not just a drive for a ‘smaller state’. As Stefan Collini wrote of the highereducation reforms recommended by Lord Browne, which include removing 80 per cent of government funding for teaching: ‘This is more than simply a “cut”, even a draconian one: it signals a redefinition of higher educat...