Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social TheoryNicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, Sherry B. Ortner 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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... Resistance : Subversion as a Social Fact Nicholas B. Dirks 483 CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Circulation of Social Energy Stephen Greenblatt 504 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Cultural Studies : Two Paradigms Stuart Hall CHAPTER vi • CONTENTS .
... Resistance : Subversion as a Social Fact . " Reprinted , with changes , from Douglas Haynes and Gyan Prakash , eds . , Contesting Power : Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia ( New York : Oxford Uni- versity Press ...
... resistance , and the politics of cultural production and manipulation . ( See Johnson 1987 ; Brantlinger 1990 ; Grossberg , Nelson , and Treichler 1992. ) Which brings us to the second term for discussion : Power . Just as the concept ...
... resistance " as well ( see Scott 1985 , 1990 ; Ludtke 1993 ) . But this , in turn , opens the question of the relationship between popular culture in which people strive to define their identities , their boundaries , their self ...
... resistance is normally seen as opposed to power , power here depends upon the possibility of resistance , and power is a field of relations from which even the purest of revolutionary struggles cannot be exempt . However , as Foucault's ...
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