Feminist standpoint epistemology (FSE) is an important form of writing from below; that is, writing from embodied experience. FSE and other forms of writing from below involve practices of representation that are mediated by ideology. In this article, I tease out some of the complexities and limitations of feminist efforts to use FSE to situate and embody thought. Some feminist standpoint theorists understand Cartesian dualism as a dualism or a division that can be collapsed or reversed, but I show that what is called “Cartesian dualism” is in fact a paradox and therefore cannot be overcome but must be grappled with on an ongoing basis in our efforts to write from below. The article begins with an exploration of the basic tenets and presumptions of two schools of FSE. While neither school can evade the politics of representation, I show that one is able to withstand an intersectional critique whilst the other is not. Having unpacked these schools of FSE, I reflect on Himani Bannerji’s ideology critique of intersectionality to lay bare the limitations of this concept that some writers from below deploy and to advance a reflexive materialist epistemology.
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The ‘intellectual’ justification of economic inequality as framed through the work of Harry G. Frankfurt is the basis of the following review essay. The target adopts a belief in the practice where the more one repeats a simplistic argument so, too, will such ideas hold the potential weight to be uncritically received. In a demeanour that only one from the insulated armchair of affluence and security provided by the academy can, Frankfurt, less than subtlety, reiterates a claim that an authentic morality would suggest inequality is the most proficient stasis for a given sociality. Challenging such a position, the trajectory of this assessment invokes both Marx’s early conceptualization of estrangement and a Gramscian critique toward the dumbing-down of critical thought alongside academia’s subservient role to political-economic power. Misinformed of the causality of socioeconomic disparity (and impediments to human potential), a review of Marxian thought can shed light on how economic inequality is not centred on a deficiency in subjective perception but rather a structural equation of material relations that have long enabled such a reality to withstand. It is through an insolent exposure of elitist proposition and ill-informed misdirection that those who would distort philosophical thought can be shown for what they are; (unconscious or not) ‘traditional intellectuals’ validating the endurance of capitalist enclosure.
通过Harry G. Frankfurt的工作框架，经济不平等的“智力”辩护是以下评论文章的基础。目标在实践中采取了一种信念，在这种实践中，一个人重复的简单化的论点越多，这样的想法也就越有可能被不加批判地接受。法兰克福以一种只有坐在由学院提供的富裕和安全的隔离扶手椅上的人才能做到的举止，不那么微妙地重申了一种主张，即真正的道德将表明，不平等是特定社会最熟练的停滞状态。这一评估的轨迹挑战了这样的立场，既引用了马克思早期对异化的概念化，也引用了葛兰西对批判思想的贬低以及学术界对政治经济权力的屈从角色的批评。对社会经济差距(以及对人类潜能的阻碍)的因果关系的误导，对马克思思想的回顾可以揭示经济不平等如何不是集中在主观感知的缺陷上，而是长期以来使这种现实得以承受的物质关系的结构方程。正是通过傲慢地揭露精英主义命题和不明智的误导，才能揭露那些歪曲哲学思想的人的真面目;(无意识或无意识)“传统知识分子”证实了资本主义圈地的持久性。
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My main contention is that racism should be read beyond the registers of discrimination, human rights, or harassment – rather, I approach racism as a workload issue that labour organizations and employers need to address at the level of collective bargaining. To illustrate this argument, I focus on racism and workload as it relates to Black faculty, faculty of colour, and Indigenous faculty in universities and colleges in Canada, although the argument can be applied to other job types and other places. While many unions have policies and statements in support of local, national and international anti-racist struggles, the idea of racism as a workload issue has not been seriously taken up by unions/associations, or for that matter by anti-racist activists on university/college campuses. I offer reasons why racism is a workload issue, and consider the potential role of unions in addressing racism.
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E. Kirk, S. Rein, Cynthia Wright, Karen Dubinsky, Zaira Zarza
Canada and Cuba have a long historical relationship, in governmental and non-governmental realms alike. While hundreds of Canadian students take part in educational exchanges from a variety of Canadian universities, Canadian/Cuban scholarly ties are not as strong as they are in the US or even the UK. There are a handful of internationally recognized Cuba scholars who have been working in Canada for some decades, among them John M. Kirk, Hal Klepak and Keith Ellis. Cuban scholarship in Canada is still notably scant and it cannot really be classified in generational terms. However it is clear that the work of these senior scholars is bearing fruit, as other scholars located in Canada are increasingly working in Cuban Studies, in both teaching and research. A few of these scholars came together recently to discuss their experiences. This isn’t an exhaustive or representative group. The participants in this roundtable conversation include those trained as Cubanists, trained in other fields but with more recent research and/or teaching ties to Cuba, and a Cuban educated in Canada. We came together to discuss what we see as the state of the field in Cuban/Canadian studies today and in the future.
加拿大和古巴在政府和非政府领域都有着悠久的历史关系。虽然数百名加拿大学生参加了来自加拿大各大学的教育交流，但加拿大与古巴的学术关系并不像在美国甚至英国那样牢固。有几位国际公认的古巴学者在加拿大工作了几十年，其中包括约翰·m·柯克(John M. Kirk)、哈尔·克莱帕克(Hal Klepak)和基思·埃利斯(Keith Ellis)。加拿大对古巴的研究仍然非常少，而且不能真正按代际来分类。然而，这些资深学者的工作显然正在取得成果，因为在加拿大的其他学者越来越多地从事古巴研究的教学和研究工作。其中一些学者最近聚在一起讨论了他们的经历。这不是一个详尽的或具有代表性的群体。参加这次圆桌会议的人包括受过古巴人培训的人、受过其他领域培训但与古巴有最近的研究和/或教学联系的人，以及在加拿大接受教育的古巴人。我们聚在一起讨论我们所看到的古巴/加拿大研究领域的现状和未来。
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Socialist Studies is moving to a rolling publication model.
《社会主义研究》正在转向滚动出版模式。
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{"title":"Special Issue on William Morris","authors":"S. Rein","doi":"10.18740/SS27254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18740/SS27254","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29667,"journal":{"name":"Socialist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88690254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Some have held that William Morris’s idea of socialist freedom is a Trojan Horse for repressive tolerance, others that a celebration of physical violence is hidden within it. Contrary to these Cold-War-style narratives, this article vindicates Morris’s vision of a communal system of fellowship and reciprocity as the conditions of any true freedom; we cannot be free all alone, but only together. The very bounds of reciprocity and fellowship make work, development, and freedom possible. Only in such a communal system could work become the true source of satisfaction, contentment and fulfilment, rather than of pain and compulsion, and afford every individual the possibility of developing his or her capacities to the highest point.
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