Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics Transitions
Methods, Theory, Politics
Published on 26. August 2023
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Paperback/Softback
293 pages
979-8-88890-010-9 (ISBN)
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Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics focuses on the political discourse about both the pattern and the desirability of economic development, and how/why historical interpretations of social phenomena connected to this systemic process can alter. It is a trajectory pursued here with reference to the materialism of Marxism, via mid-nineteenth century ideas about race, through the development decade, the 'cultural turn', debates about modes of production and their respective labour regimes, culminating in the role played by immigration before and after the Brexit referendum.
Brass also turns his attention to trajectory followed by travel writing, unearthing the way that many of its core assumptions overlap with those made in the social sciences and development studies. The object is to account for the way concepts informing these trajectories do or do not alter.
Brass also turns his attention to trajectory followed by travel writing, unearthing the way that many of its core assumptions overlap with those made in the social sciences and development studies. The object is to account for the way concepts informing these trajectories do or do not alter.
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English
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Chicago
United States
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
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413 gr
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979-8-88890-010-9 (9798888900109)
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Tom Brass formerly lectured in the SPS Faculty at Cambridge University and directed studies for Queens' College. He edited The Journal of Peasant Studies for almost two decades, and has published extensively on agrarian issues and rural labour relations, including Marxism Missing, Missing Marxism.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction (Steps Forward or Backwards?)
??Reified Notions, Fantasmic Representations?
??Transition, Critique, Silence
??Marxist Methodology?
??A Lesser Status and a Distant Place?
??A Distant Place as a Greater Status
??Themes
part 1
Travelling On
1?Racisms (Home and Away)
?Introduction: A Place in the World
?Blood of the Founders
?The Good Things of This World
?Music, Speech, Passion
?A Faint Uneasy Movement
?They Are Our Brothers
?One's Own Free Will
?To See with Distorted Vision
?Avoiding the Question
?Samuel Smiles Revisited
?A Dearth of Workers
?Steady Work, Job Security
?Conclusion
2?Anti-capitalisms (Lessons Unlearned by Postmodernists)
?Introduction: The Anti-capitalism of Pro-slavery Discourse
?For the Mutual Benefit of Both
?Pro-slavery and/as (Conservative) Anti-capitalism
?Forging New Chains for Themselves
?All Capital Is Created by Labour
?(Pro-slavery) Contradictions, (Postmodern) Similarities
?Pro-slavery, Postmodernism, and Identity Politics
?Empowering Populism
?Conclusion
3?Transitions (Real and Imagined)
?Introduction: Simple Transitions?
?The Parting to Come?
?Trading Places
?Feudalism, but Not Yet ...
?Free but Tied?
?Workers, or Tenants?
?Modes and Beams
?How Do We Know?
?Since the Beginning of the World
?Conclusion
4?Trajectories (to and from Unfreedom)
?Introduction: Quo Vadis, Domine?
?1950 to 1980
?1980 to 2000
?2000 to the Present
?Theory, Methods, Problems
?India: 18th Century Onwards
?India: 1960s Onwards
?UK: 2015 Onwards
?Conclusion
part 2
On Travel
5?Travellers, or Tourists? (Journeys Outside Europe)
?Introduction: An Instinctive Simplicity, a Thoughtless Idealism
?Hello, I Must Be Going
?Tourists Who Are Not Tourists
?The Ruin(s) of Time, the Time of Ruin(s)
?Is Your Journey Really Necessary?
?Traveller's Tales
?Ragpickers of History
?Unevolved People
?Pristine Other, Untouched Land
?Conclusion
6?Tourists, or Travellers? (European Journeys)
?Introduction: Songs of Travel
?City and Countryside
?Class, Race, Blood
?Away from Home
?Always Defeated?
?Land, Politics, Fascism
?Peasants, Ancient and Modern
?Conclusion
7?Arrivals, Not Departures (on Never Leaving Venice)
?Introduction: Venice, Tourism and the Agrarian Myth
?The Ox Spoke
?It Is Not Easy to Do One's Duty
?Loaded Pistols, Ominous Chatter
?Real and Loveable?
?A Dream Long Lost
?Conclusion
8?Other Worlds (Neo-populist Journeys)
?Introduction: Worlds of Difference?
?Chayanov: The Economic Case
?Chayanov: The Economic Case Against
?Chayanov: The Political Case Against
?Undiscovered Country?
?Journeys: Space, Time, Politics
?Valuable Warnings, Wholesome Reprimands
?Conclusion
??Conclusion (Better Worlds?)
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction (Steps Forward or Backwards?)
??Reified Notions, Fantasmic Representations?
??Transition, Critique, Silence
??Marxist Methodology?
??A Lesser Status and a Distant Place?
??A Distant Place as a Greater Status
??Themes
part 1
Travelling On
1?Racisms (Home and Away)
?Introduction: A Place in the World
?Blood of the Founders
?The Good Things of This World
?Music, Speech, Passion
?A Faint Uneasy Movement
?They Are Our Brothers
?One's Own Free Will
?To See with Distorted Vision
?Avoiding the Question
?Samuel Smiles Revisited
?A Dearth of Workers
?Steady Work, Job Security
?Conclusion
2?Anti-capitalisms (Lessons Unlearned by Postmodernists)
?Introduction: The Anti-capitalism of Pro-slavery Discourse
?For the Mutual Benefit of Both
?Pro-slavery and/as (Conservative) Anti-capitalism
?Forging New Chains for Themselves
?All Capital Is Created by Labour
?(Pro-slavery) Contradictions, (Postmodern) Similarities
?Pro-slavery, Postmodernism, and Identity Politics
?Empowering Populism
?Conclusion
3?Transitions (Real and Imagined)
?Introduction: Simple Transitions?
?The Parting to Come?
?Trading Places
?Feudalism, but Not Yet ...
?Free but Tied?
?Workers, or Tenants?
?Modes and Beams
?How Do We Know?
?Since the Beginning of the World
?Conclusion
4?Trajectories (to and from Unfreedom)
?Introduction: Quo Vadis, Domine?
?1950 to 1980
?1980 to 2000
?2000 to the Present
?Theory, Methods, Problems
?India: 18th Century Onwards
?India: 1960s Onwards
?UK: 2015 Onwards
?Conclusion
part 2
On Travel
5?Travellers, or Tourists? (Journeys Outside Europe)
?Introduction: An Instinctive Simplicity, a Thoughtless Idealism
?Hello, I Must Be Going
?Tourists Who Are Not Tourists
?The Ruin(s) of Time, the Time of Ruin(s)
?Is Your Journey Really Necessary?
?Traveller's Tales
?Ragpickers of History
?Unevolved People
?Pristine Other, Untouched Land
?Conclusion
6?Tourists, or Travellers? (European Journeys)
?Introduction: Songs of Travel
?City and Countryside
?Class, Race, Blood
?Away from Home
?Always Defeated?
?Land, Politics, Fascism
?Peasants, Ancient and Modern
?Conclusion
7?Arrivals, Not Departures (on Never Leaving Venice)
?Introduction: Venice, Tourism and the Agrarian Myth
?The Ox Spoke
?It Is Not Easy to Do One's Duty
?Loaded Pistols, Ominous Chatter
?Real and Loveable?
?A Dream Long Lost
?Conclusion
8?Other Worlds (Neo-populist Journeys)
?Introduction: Worlds of Difference?
?Chayanov: The Economic Case
?Chayanov: The Economic Case Against
?Chayanov: The Political Case Against
?Undiscovered Country?
?Journeys: Space, Time, Politics
?Valuable Warnings, Wholesome Reprimands
?Conclusion
??Conclusion (Better Worlds?)
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index