A necessarily historical materialist moment for whom? A tale of two literary rhythms

2021 ◽  
pp. 004711782199160
Author(s):  
Ian Bruff

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (184) ◽  
pp. 403-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Sander

This article argues that social movement research must be renewed by a historical-materialist perspective to be able to understand the emergence and effects of the relatively new climate justice movement in Germany. The previous research on NGOs and social movements in climate politics is presented and the recent development of the climate justice movement in Germany is illustrated. In a final step two cases of climate movement campaigns are explained by means of the historical-materialist movement analysis proposed by the author.



2021 ◽  
pp. 004711782199161
Author(s):  
Cemal Burak Tansel

This forum brings together critical engagements with Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton’s Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis to assess the prospects and limits of historical materialism in International Studies. The authors’ call for a ‘necessarily historical materialist moment’ in International Studies is interrogated by scholars working with historical materialist, feminist and decolonial frameworks in and beyond International Relations (IR)/International Political Economy (IPE). This introductory essay situates the book in relation to the wider concerns of historical materialist IR/IPE and outlines how the contributors assess the viability of Bieler and Morton’s historical materialist project.





2019 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Seth Chaiklin

The concept of age has a central role in the theoretical structure of L. S. Vygotsky’s approach to analysing child development. This concept is presented in the first part of this article. The presentation is organized around three conceptual challenges, the role or function of the age concept in a theory of human development, the psychological “content” of an age, and how to evaluate development in relation to an age. Main points include: (a) age, as a psychological concept, is formed through historical, material practice, (b) the concept has practical importance, but (c) for the most part the concept is still only a theoretical sketch. The second part of the article takes up methodological problems involved in working with and further developing this theoretical concept. Use of the concept in relation to pedagogical interventions may be especially productive.



2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Everaldo José da Silva Lima ◽  
Jamerson Antônio de Almeida da Silva

O presente artigo tem por objetivo analisar as concepções de trabalho docente e formação de professores nos documentos oficiais do Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação à Docência – PIBID, entre o segundo governo Lula (2007-2010) e os governos Dilma (2011-2016). Utilizamos como estratégia teórico-metodológica o enfoque da dialética materialista histórica e a abordagem qualitativa hermenêutica-dialética. Através da análise de conteúdo concluímos que as concepções de trabalho docente e formação de professores expressas nos relatórios do PIBID são orientadas pelas teorias “do profissionalismo”, “produtivista” e “da responsabilização” e pelas pedagogias “do professor reflexivo”, “das competências” e “do aprender a aprender”. AbstractThe objective of this article is to analyze the conceptions of teacher work and teacher training in the official documents of the Institutional Program of Initiatives for Teaching - PIBID, between the second Lula government (2007-2010) and the Dilma governments (2011-2016) . We use as theoretical methodological strategy the approach of the historical materialist dialectic and the qualitative hermeneutic-dialectic approach. Through content analysis, we conclude that the conceptions of teacher work and teacher education expressed in the PIBID reports are guided by the theories of “professionalism”, “productivist”, “accountability” and pedagogies “reflective teacher” and “learning to learn”. KeywordsIntroduction to Teaching - PIBID; Conceptions of Teaching Work and Teacher Training; Evaluation of Educational Policies.





2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce E. Parry ◽  

In this essay, we offer our views on some of the fundamental issues involved in creating a revolutionary Marxist position, which we feel must be involved in any adequate systematic analysis of the current development of capitalism and distinguish it from a Keynesian analysis whose inevitable politics are at best Social Democratic. We are not interested in boilerplate Marxism but rather in a sharp and clear analysis of the present day conjuncture as viewed through a historical materialist lens



Author(s):  
Gerrit Krueper

Based on early Marx’s concept of the species-being, this paper provides a (historical) materialist definition of an ontology of being human and argues that it enables a theorization of a human post humanism. Such theory is based on the fact that cognitive capitalism’s rise of technology translates the human body into literal instruments of labor. However, the link of technology with the laborer enables a transfer of skills and powers that extend the body’s capabilities: creating thus, what this paper terms, the cyber-body. The material reality of this cyber-body is ambivalent: It is a reality of exploitation and abstraction, designed to eventually create infinite capital accumulation, as well as a reality of liberation from the social divisions of class, gender, race, and sexuality by use of its network connecting capabilities. Put together, this ambivalence recovers the real species-being.



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