Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social TheoryNicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, Sherry B. Ortner Princeton University Press, 1994 - 621 pages The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of thought, from literary criticism through anthropology to the philosophy of science. Michel Foucault in particular made us aware that whatever our functionally defined "roles" in society, we are constantly negotiating questions of authority and the control of the definitions of reality. Such insights have led theorists to challenge concepts that have long formed the very underpinnings of their disciplines. By exploring some of the most debated of these concepts--"culture," "power," and "history"--this reader offers an enriching perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. |
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... movements , " in which people question and challenge the status quo . Instead , while organized social movements remain enormously important in understanding large - scale transformations , much can be learned by attending to " everyday ...
... movement " to preserve hereditary stock , to assure racial purity , to prevent race suicide . " Although Haraway's emphasis on the relations between power and knowl- edge , and her reading of the displacements and dispersals of the ...
... movement , and helped its parts to see themselves in a com- mon project which the class - political form of address itself thereby con- structed , rather than secondarily reflecting a unity of interest that was already given in the ...
... movement in some unmediated and straightforward way , the labor movement was actually shaped from the field of contradictions gen- erated between the emergent conditions and their increasingly intense discur- sive rendition . But the ...
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