The Role of Capitalist Class Relations in the Restructuring of Medicine

2019 ◽  
pp. 65-81
Author(s):  
Beth Mintz
Keyword(s):  
Class Relations ◽  
Capitalist Class

Austerity, Women and the Role of the State

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Dabrowski
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Gendered Politics ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
The Uk

Using interviews with women from diverse backgrounds, the author of this book makes an invaluable contribution to the debates around the gendered politics of austerity in the UK. Exploring the symbiotic relationship between the state's legitimization of austerity and women's everyday experiences, the book reveals how unjust policies are produced, how alternatives are silenced and highlights the different ways in which women are used or blamed. By understanding austerity as more than simply an economic project, the book fills important gaps in existing knowledge on state, gender and class relations in the context of UK austerity. Delivering a timely account of the misconceptions of policies, discourses and representations around austerity in the UK, the book illustrates the complex ways through which austerity is experienced by women in their everyday lives.

scholarly journals Recepcja idei postmodernizmu w pedagogice radykalnej Petera McLarena

Chowanna ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Wojciech Kruszelnicki
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
General Level ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Capitalist Class ◽  
Radical Pedagogy ◽  
Postmodern Theory ◽  
Social Struggle ◽  
The Status

The aim of this paper is to comprehensively reconstruct the reception of postmodernism in Peter McLaren’s critical/radical pedagogy. On a more general level, the article discusses the pedagogical perils of uncriticalinfatuation with poststructuralist and postmodernist principles of dismantling grand metanarratives and debunking the notions of truth, totality, and universalism and replacing them with the notions of pluralism and perspectivism. The author seeks to verify the statement that McLaren’s response to postmodern developments in philosophy and social theory is in as much similar to that of Henry Giroux’s that it produces a project of education informed by postmodern ideas. The thesis – advanced in the mid 1990s by Tomasz Szkudlarek – is refuted on the basis of thorough a analysis of both earlier and more contemporary texts of McLaren where the main tenets of postmodern theory are severely criticized. The argument about the evolution of McLaren’s thought from a cautious appropriation of some elements of postmodernism to its downright condemnation is supported by the theory of its increasing radicalization under the influence of Marxism. The alternative to the illusory radicality of postmodernism – denounced as affirming the status-quo – is “pedagogy of revolution,” which emerges as strictly political, interventionist praxis whose aim is no longer discourse analysis but concrete social struggle against the oppressive capitalist class relations.

The Role of Estate and Land Commissions and Committees in Solving the Agrarian Question in the Central Caucasus in the 40-70s of 19th Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-47
Author(s):  
Diana F. Afaunova
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Great Practical Importance ◽  
Agrarian Question ◽  
Central Caucasus ◽  
History Of ◽  
Source Of Information

The article is devoted to the work of the committees and commissions that worked in the Terek region in the 40-70s of 19th century. The article analyzes the reasons for the creation, composition, tasks and main activities of the committees. The study examines the attempts of these committees and commissions to resolve the agrarian issue in the Central Caucasus. The conclusion shows the importance of their activities for the study of agrarian and class relations in the region. The author comes to the conclusion that the activities of the committees and commissions were of great practical importance. Thanks to their work, it was possible to ease the severity of social conflicts in the region. They laid the foundation for the settlement of the land issue, which continued in the following decades. Thanks to the painstaking work of the committees and commissions, a huge amount of materials was collected. They are of great importance for studying the history of that time. The materials of these committees and commissions in most cases were the main source of information, which formed the basis for the research of historians and ethnographers of different generations.

Emergence of the Transnational Capitalist Class in Sports: Manchester United Football Club (mufc) and the English Premier League (epl)

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 520-542
Author(s):  
Sivakumar Velayutham ◽  
Ajantha Velayutham
Keyword(s):  
Social Activity ◽  
Transnational Corporation ◽  
Capitalist Class ◽  
Corporate Structure ◽  
Football Club ◽  
Premier League ◽  
English Premier League ◽  
Global Financial System ◽  
Modern Technologies

Transnational capitalism has been described as the emerging new stage of capitalism characterized by sharp increases in foreign direct investment, the rise of a global financial system, and increased interlocking of positions within the global corporate structure in many countries and industries. These have been identified as some empirical indicators of the transnational integration of capitalists. This thesis has however rarely been applied to sports probably because it could be considered the antithesis of transnational capitalism. First, sports more than any other form of social activity is associated with nationalism, and second, sport has traditionally been associated with amateurism.The transformation of Manchester United Football Club (mufc) from a local club to a transnational corporation within the English Premier League (epl) is used as an example of the colonization of sport by the transnational capitalist class (tcc). The study highlights a number of emerging characteristics of transnational capitalism. First, the study points to the emergence of transnational capitalist class (tcc) centers with London and England as one of them. Second, the study also highlights the role of modern technologies of communication and media, and branding in the emergence transnational capitalism.

scholarly journals Reform and Religious Heterodoxy in Thomas Robert Malthus’s “Crises” and the First Edition of the Essay on the Principle of Population

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Traditional Class

The first edition of Thomas Robert Malthus’ Essay on the Principle of Population is best understood as an exploration of human nature and the role of necessity in shaping the individual and society.  The author’s liberal education, both from his father and his tutors at Warrington and Cambridge, is evident in his heterodox views on hell, his Lockean conceptualization of the mind, and his Foxite Whig politics.  Malthus’ unpublished essay, “Crises,” his sermons, and the the last two chapters of the Essay (which were excised from subsequent editions) reveal a pragmatic, compassionate side of the young author that was under appreciated by both his contemporary critics and modern historians.  The Essay has been mischaracterized by David McNally (2000) as a “Whig response to Radicalism” and by Patricia James (1979) as a reaction by Malthus against his father’s liberalism.  This article argues that when he wrote the first edition of the Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus was himself a liberal dissenter and Foxite Whig rather than an orthodox Anglican or a Burkean defender of traditional class relations. 

Generational Precarity, Education, and the Crisis of Capitalism: Conventional, Neo-Keynesian, and Marxian Perspectives

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander J. Means
Keyword(s):  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Sociology Of Education ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Critical Sociology ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Marxian Analysis ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

In the wake of the global financial crisis, societies across the world are attempting to manage potentially destabilizing levels of youth unemployment and underemployment. New terms have entered the popular lexicon such as ‘generation jobless’, ‘the new underclass’, and ‘the precariat’ in order to describe a generation of young people struggling to acquire secure livelihoods in the most dismal labor market since the Great Depression. This article draws on analytical resources from critical sociology of education and heterodox political economy in order to critique orthodox economic diagnoses of generational precarity as a human capital problem. It argues that while neo-Keynesian accounts provide an important corrective to certain aspects of conventional (neoclassical/neoliberal) viewpoints, they ultimately fall short of the explanatory power of Marxian analysis, particularly concerning the primacy of class relations and the contradictory role of employment within an increasingly crisis-ridden global capitalism.

Globalization, technology and the transnational capitalist class

foresight ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Harris
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Capitalist Class ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Era ◽  
Class Theory ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how capitalism has developed into a deeply integrative economic system of financial investments and manufacturing. This process of globalization has brought about the emergence of a transnational capitalist class that rules the world’s economy. Financialization, created by the speed and interconnectivity of information technologies, is a key element that has produced immense wealth for a few while reducing their dependence on the labor of workers. This system of global accumulation has lead to a crisis of democracy with several different possible outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – This paper begins with an historical examination of capitalism and capitalist class formation by tracing developments from nation-centric capitalism to globalization. A conceptual explanation of the development of the transnational capitalist class (TCC) is offered. Research on current economic data to support the thesis on the emergence of the TCC in both its private and statist forms is included, as well as an examination of the latest technology developments that affect financialization and how this impacts class relations. The conclusion analyzes the development of democracy as a class dialectic, and the impact of globalization that is altering the historic relationships between capital and labor. The paper ends with a discussion of possible political/economic futures. Findings – Globalization is a new era in which capitalism has deepened its inherent tendency toward creating world markets and production. This process has been greatly enhanced by the new technological tools of financial production. Organizing and overseeing this system of global accumulation is the transnational capitalist class. The emergence of this class has transformed class relations based within the historic perimeters of nation-states, and it threatens the content and character of democracy that arose out of the bourgeois democratic revolutions in America and France. Originality/value – Transnational Capitalist Class Theory is a recently developed field of research. It is a new critic of mainstream international relations analysis which centers on nation to nation relationships. It also differs with world system theory which divides countries into a center/peripheral analysis. Within the field of TCC research, this paper offers an original historic perspective between global economics and the development of democracy. It also makes new theoretical connections between information technology, financialization and the destruction of the social contract.

6. The dream machine

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Brian Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Department Store ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Food Markets ◽  
Central Image

‘The dream machine’ looks at the role of the 'machine' in the writing of Zola. Many of Zola’s novels are organized round a machine (like the distilling machine in L’Assommoir) or a great central image or entity that functions like a machine (the food markets in The Belly of Paris, the coal mine in Germinal). In The Ladies’ Paradise the ‘machine’ is the department store, inspired by the Bon Marché, Paris’s first such store. A symbol of capitalism, the Second Empire, and the modern city, it is emblematic of consumer culture and contemporary changes in gender attitudes and class relations, representing modernity and ‘progress’. Shopping became a new leisure activity, allowing middle-class women to venture into public spaces and enjoy the new culture of the commodity; but in the process they were themselves commodified. Octave Mouret, the store’s owner-manager, masterfully exploits the desires of his female customers. But when he falls in love with his salesgirl Denise Baudu, he discovers that she resists commodification.

Enriching Discourse Theory: the Discursivematerial Knot1 As a Non-Hierarchical Ontology

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Carpentier
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Critical Fields ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Constructive Dialogue

Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory has played a significant role in thinking through the political role of knowledge and ideology, without ignoring the significance of the material, also in relation to its post-Marxist agenda and the de-essentialisation of class relations. At the same time, there is a need to enrich discourse theory, by finding a better balance between the discursive and the material, and by providing a better theoretisation of the entanglement of the discursive and the material. This article remains grounded in, and loyal to, discourse theory, but aims to learn from new materialism in order to develop a non-hierarchical theory of entanglement, as a discursive-material knot. In particular, it investigates the theoreticalconceptual potential of three concepts, namely the assemblage, the invitation and the investment. This theoretical development also has strategic importance, in that it facilitates a better and more constructive dialogue between different (critical) fields, for instance, between those that are explicitly engaged with discourse theory and new materialism, but also between the emancipatory project(s) that post-Marxism advocates, namely cultural studies and (critical) political economy.

Neoliberalism and the Formation of the English Premier League

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anirban Karak
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Capitalist Class ◽  
Premier League ◽  
Accumulation By Dispossession ◽  
Class Power ◽  
English Premier League

I have argued elsewhere1 that the formation of the English Premier League (EPL) can be interpreted as an instance of accumulation by dispossession. This paper complements that analysis by arguing that the theory of “Social Structures of Accumulation” can also be used to locate the formation of the EPL within the modalities of the structural changes that characterized the move to neoliberalism. The conclusion remains that the role of football2 in the neoliberal restoration of capitalist class power cannot be ignored.

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