Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.1177/08969205231171321
Jason C. Mueller
One cannot wade through an academic journal in the social sciences or humanities, read an Op-Ed essay, or listen to a political podcast without coming across a discussion on the relationship of identity and politics. Whether it is a discussion on the concept and merits of ‘identity politics’, the relationship between particular experiences and universalist aspirations for emancipation, or paths toward reform or revolution, these issues elicit strong responses. Two recent books broach these topics in a clarifying manner and deserve to be compared, contrasted, and analyzed. These books are Alain Badiou’s (2022a) A New Dawn for Politics and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s (2022a) Elite Capture: How The Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else). Thinking through the key themes in these works can help academics and activists alike elaborate a systematic vision and idea on how identity relates to radical, anti-systemic politics. To begin, this essay focuses on the politics of identity. I explore the intellectual traditions from which Táíwò gathers his critique and defense of particular politics of identity. I then juxtapose Táíwò’s thoughts on identity to Badiou’s position, highlighting their tensions and possible compatibly. Next, I clarify both Táíwò and Badiou’s attempts to identify and define an act of authentic, radical politics. It attempts to discern how both scholars conceptualize a form of emancipatory, anti-systemic politics that are capable of allowing one’s identity to be a part of the struggle for equality, rather than discarded as a reactionary husk. Finally, I show how both scholars’ ideas speak to other domains of critical scholarship and our current moment of political uprising and upheaval.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-16DOI: 10.1177/08969205231164964
Federica Stagni
On 8 August 2019, Israa Ghrayeb, a 21-year-old Palestinian living in Beit Sahour, was brutally beaten by members of her family. Since that moment, protests have erupted throughout historical Palestine and beyond, also reaching Palestinian women of the diaspora. Not only did this eventful protest mark the resurgence of a wave of women’s protests in Palestine, but it also brought about the start of a new feminist and anticolonial movement: Tal’at. Using frame analysis to examine the movement’s declarations, Facebook posts, and the archival material available at the Basso Foundation Archive, together with firsthand data collected through interviews conducted during my fieldwork in Historical Palestine, I will try to answer the following questions: How does this new feminist protest-movement differ from the previous ones? What are the elements of continuity with previous Palestinian women’s movements? How did this movement manage to frame an aggregating message in such a fragmented territory?
2019年8月8日，居住在贝特萨乌尔的21岁巴勒斯坦人Israa Ghrayeb遭到家人的残酷殴打。从那一刻起，抗议活动在历史上的巴勒斯坦和其他地方爆发，也波及到散居海外的巴勒斯坦妇女。这次重大的抗议活动不仅标志着巴勒斯坦妇女抗议浪潮的复苏，而且还带来了一场新的女权主义和反殖民运动的开始:Tal 'at。我将运用框架分析法，检视这场运动的宣言、脸书贴文、巴索基金会档案(Basso Foundation Archive)的档案资料，以及我在历史上的巴勒斯坦进行田野调查时所搜集到的第一手资料，试图回答以下问题:这场新的女权抗议运动与先前的运动有何不同?哪些因素与以前的巴勒斯坦妇女运动的连续性?这场运动是如何在这样一个碎片化的领域中构建一个聚合信息的?
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Pub Date : 2023-04-14DOI: 10.1177/08969205231164725
Peter Ikeler
Recent post-capitalist theorizing, particularly Winant, revives the question of service sector growth. At stake is whether an economic system built on the extraction of surplus value can continue to function when ever-larger shares of workers do not produce this; also, whether their growing predominance prefigures post-capitalist relations of production. Most contributions offer imprecise concepts of service work and capitalist productivity, however. This article sharpens these with Marxian theoretical tools and assesses them using 2016–2020 US Census data, finding that less than one-fifth of service employees produce surplus value, while nearly half of non-service employees do. The majority of service and all formal US employees create important use values outside of direct capitalist exploitation. They thus pose a potentially post-capitalist constituency that is heavily—and non-randomly—female and Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). The implications of this for the transition away from capitalism, as well as for the transition debate itself, are then considered.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.1177/08969205231153456
Salvador L. Rangel
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Pub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.1177/08969205231153456b
J. Williams
{"title":"Book Review: Liberal White Supremacy: How Progressive Silence Racial and Class Oppression","authors":"J. Williams","doi":"10.1177/08969205231153456b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205231153456b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47686,"journal":{"name":"Critical Sociology","volume":"393 3","pages":"579 - 582"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72448193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.1177/08969205231153456a
Kyle Bailey
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/08969205231164726
Peter Ikeler
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1177/08969205231163896
David Chen, Jason A. Miller, Mark Shakespear
When the concept of ‘internal colonialism’ has been applied to China, it has often been focused on the plight of ethnic minorities. The political and cultural subordination of non-Mandarin Han groups, however, has drawn little attention. We argue that critical Han studies, by posing a challenge to the state ideology of Han ethnic unitarism, provides a theoretical arsenal capable of broadening the application of the internal colonialism framework to the study of non-Mandarin Han groups and regions in China. To provide empirical support for our argument, we examine ethno-geographic representation among Chinese political elites. We find an internal heterogeneity and ethnic hierarchy between different Han groups who have integrated into the political ruling class of China, which is dominated by the Mandarins, to various extents: the Wu people of Shanghai and Zhejiang represent the top layer of the hierarchy; the Xiang of Hunan, the Hokkien of Fujian, and the Gan of Jiangxi constitute the intermediate layer; and the Cantonese and the Teochew of Guangdong belong to the bottom layer. These findings provide the basis for our discussion of internal colonization in China with a specific focus on Guangdong and Hong Kong.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1177/08969205231164153
J. Braun
Jan-Werner Müller is a political philosopher born and trained in Germany, as well as in England and at Princeton where he now teaches as Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University and is also a fellow at the Berlin Institute of Advanced Study. The emphasis of this latest book by him is that democracy depends not only on maintaining liberty and equality but also on dealing with uncertainty. His previous book was What Is Populism? (2016) where he does not really emphasize, though he seems to recognize, that populism can be the expression of rational grievances of an aroused population, reacting against the rise of elites increasingly unaccountable in practice if not necessarily in theory. Peter Mair (2013), the late great Irish political scientist in Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy, became known for his comments on this very subject, of politicians who think more like civil servants concerned with keeping their jobs long enough to retire with nice pensions than in being leaders of social movements. Müller emphasizes more the unreasonableness of populist movements, their tendency to think of themselves as ‘the real people’, and therefore their tendency to scapegoat those they consider to be social outsiders, particularly immigrants and ethnic minorities, and therefore their tendency to ignore other sources of social problems requiring other solutions. As for such solutions, keeping out or even expelling these ‘outsiders’ is according to many economists a short-sighted solution to short-term economic problems that can be dealt with by economic growth, perhaps by using these same immigrants as cheap labor or by exporting certain
Jan-Werner m ller是一位政治哲学家，在德国、英国和普林斯顿出生并接受教育，他现在在普林斯顿大学担任罗杰·威廉姆斯·施特劳斯社会科学教授，同时也是柏林高等研究院的研究员。他的新作强调，民主主义不仅要维持自由和平等，还要应对不确定性。他的前一本书是《什么是民粹主义?》(2016)，虽然他似乎认识到，但他并没有真正强调民粹主义可以是被唤醒的人群的理性不满的表达，对精英的崛起做出反应，即使在理论上不一定是在实践中也越来越不负责任。已故伟大的爱尔兰政治学家彼得·梅尔(Peter maair, 2013)在《统治虚空:西方民主的空心化》(Ruling the Void: the hollow of Western Democracy)一书中，以他对这一主题的评论而闻名，他认为政治家更像是公务员，他们关心的是保住自己的工作，直到退休时拿着丰厚的养老金，而不是成为社会运动的领导者。m勒更强调民粹主义运动的不合理性，他们倾向于认为自己是“真正的人民”，因此他们倾向于把那些他们认为是社会局外人的人当作替罪羊，特别是移民和少数民族，因此他们倾向于忽视需要其他解决方案的社会问题的其他根源。至于这些解决方案，根据许多经济学家的说法，拒绝甚至驱逐这些“外来者”是解决短期经济问题的一种短视的解决方案，可以通过经济增长来解决，也许可以通过将这些移民作为廉价劳动力或出口某些产品来解决
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