Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics
In: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Ser.
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction: Steps Forward or Backwards? -- Reified Notions, Fantasmic Representations? -- Transition, Critique, Silence -- Marxist Methodology? -- A Lesser Status and a Distant Place? -- A Distant Place as a Greater Status -- Themes -- Part 1 Travelling On -- Chapter 1 Racisms (Home and Away) -- Introduction: A Place in the World -- Blood of the Founders -- The Good Things of This World -- Music, Speech, Passion -- A Faint Uneasy Movement -- They Are Our Brothers -- One's Own Free Will -- To See with Distorted Vision -- Avoiding the Question -- Samuel Smiles Revisited -- A Dearth of Workers -- Steady Work, Job Security -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Anti-capitalisms (Lessons Unlearned by Postmodernists) -- Introduction: The Anti-capitalism of Pro-slavery Discourse -- For the Mutual Benefit of Both -- Pro-slavery and/as (Conservative) Anti-capitalism -- Forging New Chains for Themselves -- All Capital Is Created by Labour -- (Pro-slavery) Contradictions, (Postmodern) Similarities -- Pro-slavery, Postmodernism, and Identity Politics -- Empowering Populism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Transitions (Real and Imagined) -- Introduction: Simple Transitions? -- The Parting to Come? -- Trading Places -- Feudalism, but Not Yet … -- Free but Tied? -- Workers, or Tenants? -- Modes and Beams -- How Do We Know? -- Since the Beginning of the World -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Trajectories (To and from Unfreedom) -- Introduction: Quo Vadis, Domine? -- 1950 to 1980 -- 1980 to 2000 -- 2000 to the Present -- Theory, Methods, Problems -- India: 18th Century Onwards -- India: 1960s Onwards -- UK: 2015 Onwards -- Conclusion -- Part 2 On Travel -- Chapter 5 Travellers, or Tourists? (Journeys Outside Europe).