What does it mean to work with radical concepts in our time of rampant inequality, imperial-capitalist plunder, racial/sexual/class violence and ecocide? When concepts from the past seem inadequate, how do scholars and activists concerned with social change decide what concepts to work with or renew? The contributors to Ethnographies of Power address these questions head on. Gillian Hart is a key thinker in radical political economy, geography, development studies, agrarian studies and Gramscian critique of postcolonial capitalism. In Ethnographies of Power each contributor engages her work and applies it to their own field of study. These applied concepts include: ‘gendered labour’ practices among South African workers, reading ‘racial capitalism’ through agrarian debates, using ‘relational comparison’ in an ethnography of schooling across Durban, reworking ‘multiple socio-spatial trajectories’ in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve, critiquing the notion of South Africa’s ‘second economy’, revisiting ‘development’ processes and ‘Development’ discourses in US military contracting, reconsidering Gramsci’s ‘conjunctures’ geographically, finding divergent ‘articulations’ in Cape Town land occupations, and exploring ‘nationalism’ as central to revaluing recyclables at a Soweto landfill. Ethnographies of Power offers an invaluable toolkit for activists and scholars engaged in sharpening their critical concepts for the social and environmental change necessary for our collective future.
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List of Illustrations Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction: Working Radical Concepts with Gillian Hart – Sharad Chari, Mark Hunter and Melanie Samson Chapter 1 The Politics of ‘Gendered Labour’: Gillian Hart’s Relational ‘Conjunctures’ – Bridget Kenny Chapter 2 Micro-foundations for ‘Racial Capitalism’: ‘Interlocking Transactions’ – Sharad Chari Chapter 3 ‘Relational Comparison’ and Geography’s Question of Method – Mark Hunter Chapter 4 ‘Multiple Trajectories of Globalisation’ – Jennifer Devine Chapter 5 A Conversation with Gillian Hart about Mbeki’s ‘Second Economy’ – Ahmed Veriava Chapter 6 ‘D/developments’ after the War on Terror – Jennifer Greenburg Chapter 7 ‘Articulation’, ‘Translation’, ‘Populism’: Gillian Hart’s Engagements with Gramsci – Michael Ekers, Stefan Kipfer and Alex Loftus Chapter 8 Make ‘Articulation’ Gramscian Again – Zachary Levenson Chapter 9 What is ‘Nationalism’? Thinking Alongside Hart at a South African Landfill – Melanie Samson Contributors Index
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Ahmed Veriava is a researcher and writer who teaches Political Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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