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Subject(s)

• Intellectuals—Political activity [Browse]
• Ethnology—Political aspects [Browse]
• Social movements [Browse]
• Protest movements [Browse]

Series

• Dislocations ; Volume 12. [More in this series]
• Dislocations ; Volume 12 [More in this series]

Summary note

Contemporary forms of capitalism and the state require close analytic attention to reveal the conditions of possibility for effective counter-politics. On the other hand the practice of collective politics needs to be studied through historical ethnography if we are to understand what might make people's actions effective. This book suggests a research agenda designed to maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with ever more remote states and technologies that make capitalism increasingly rapacious. Gavin Smith opens and closes this series of interlinked essays by proposing

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Contents

Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Capital: Structural, Phenomenological, Financial; Chapter 2 - The Scales of Ethnography; Chapter 3 - Perspectives in Realist History; Chapter 4 - History's Absent Presence; Chapter 5 - History as Possibilities; Chapter 6 - Conditions of Possibility; Conclusion; References; Index

ISBN

• 1-78533-347-X
• 1-78238-301-8

Doi

• 10.1515/9781782383017

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