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  • 2000-2004  (5)
  • 2004  (1)
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  • Berkeley : University of California Press
  • English Studies  (5)
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  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520926578
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.5
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1860 ; Industrialisierung ; Klassengesellschaft ; Sprache ; USA
    Abstract: In this innovative book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in America during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production. These disorienting changes raised a host of questions about what machinery would accomplish. Would it promote equality or widen the distance between rich and poor? Among the most contentious questions were those focusing on the social consequences of mechanization: while machine enthusiasts touted the extent to which machines would free workers from toil, others pointed out that people needed to tend machines, and that that work was fundamentally degrading and exploitative. Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shopowners-and the overseers, foremen, or managers they employed-and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine. Rice presents fascinating discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His eloquent narrative demonstrates that class is as much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle.
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  • 2
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520204344 , 0520204352 , 0520917537 , 0585389365 , 1597347833 , 9780520204348 , 9780520204355 , 9780520917538 , 9780585389363 , 9781597347839
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (274 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies on the history of society and culture 41
    Uniform Title: De la postcolonie
    DDC: 302.3/096
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    Keywords: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Negotiating ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Interpersonal Relations ; HISTORY / General ; Postcolonialism ; Power (Social sciences) ; Subjectivity ; Wirtschaft ; Power (Social sciences) ; Postcolonialism ; Subjectivity ; Politische Theorie ; Postkolonialismus ; Entkolonialisierung ; Herrschaft ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Entkolonialisierung ; Postkolonialismus ; Politische Theorie ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Postkolonialismus ; Herrschaft ; Afrika ; Postkolonialismus
    Note: Original title: De la postcolonie , Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-269) and index
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  • 3
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520917538
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (211 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Studies on the History of Society and Culture v.41
    DDC: 302.3096
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    Keywords: Postkolonialismus ; Subsaharisches Afrika
    Abstract: Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection of essays-his first book to be published in English-develops and extends debates first ignited by his well-known 1992 article "Provisional Notes on the Postcolony," in which he developed his notion of the "banality of power" in contemporary Africa. Mbembe reinterprets the meanings of death, utopia, and the divine libido as part of the new theoretical perspectives he offers on the constitution of power. He works with the complex registers of bodily subjectivity - violence, wonder, and laughter - to profoundly contest categories of oppression and resistance, autonomy and subjection, and state and civil society that marked the social theory of the late twentieth century. This provocative book will surely attract attention with its signal contribution to the rich interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and postcolonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism.
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  • 4
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520204352 , 9780520204355 , 0520204344
    Language: English
    Pages: 274 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    Series Statement: Studies on the history of society and culture 41
    Uniform Title: Notes provisoires sur la postcolonie
    DDC: 302.3096
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    Keywords: Postkolonialismus ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 245-269 , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis  (kostenfrei)
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  • 5
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520924949
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (367 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305
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    Keywords: Literatur ; Identität ; Postmoderne
    Abstract: "Identity" is one of the most hotly debated topics in literary theory and cultural studies. This bold and groundbreaking collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences for how people experience the world. Advocating a "postpositivist realist" approach to identity, the essays examine the ways in which theory, politics, and activism clash with or complement each other, providing an alternative to the widely influential postmodernist understandings of identity. Although theoretical in orientation, this dynamic collection deals with specific social groups-Chicanas/os, African Americans, gay men and lesbians, Asian Americans, and others-and concrete social issues directly related to race, ethnicity, sexuality, epistemology, and political resistance. Satya Mohanty's brilliant exegesis of Toni Morrison's Beloved serves as a launching pad for the collection. The essays that follow, written by prominent and up-and-coming scholars, address a range of topics-from the writings of Cherrie Moraga, Franz Fanon, Joy Kogawa, and Michael Nava to the controversy surrounding racial program housing on college campuses-and work toward a truly interdisciplinary approach to identity.
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