Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Tom Brass
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
ISBN:  

9798888900109

Pages:   293
Publication Date:   26 August 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you.

Table of Contents

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

Reviews

Author Information

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.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions