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Chapter 1: Introduction: Conjunctures and Crises -- Chapter 2: Hall's Method for Reading Gramsci -- Chapter 3: The Rediscovery of the Conjuncture -- Chapter 4: Politics as Method/Method as Politics Part One: Organic Concepts -- Chapter 5: Politics as Method/Method as Politics Part Two: Organizational Concepts -- Chapter 6: Metaconjuncture Lab.

This book is an intervention into cultural studies' theoretical and methodological foundations. It addresses a crisis in conjunctural analysis: that there is no theorized method for conjunctural analysis as it pertains to recognizing a conjunctural shift or the emergence of an organic crisis. This crisis is connected to the belief that the definition of the conjuncture is ambiguous in Gramsci's work, but using a broader range of primary, secondary, and also untranslated sources on the conjuncture, Carley demonstrates that Gramsci has decisively settled that ambiguity. Through a philological approach to Gramsci's original texts, this book alters the debate around conjunctural analysis and offers means to reinterpret cultural studies and its relationship to its founding thinkers. Robert F. Carley is Associate Professor of International Studies at Texas A & M University, College Station.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Tactics and Practice -- Establishing Methods, Defining Culture, and Practice -- Culture and Method -- Practice -- Demonstrating Tactical Practices -- The Black Bloc Tactic -- The Hippie Love-In and the Greensboro Four -- Overview of the Book -- 1 The Epistemological Status of Tactics -- Unearthing Class -- The Centrality of Tactics -- The Epistemological Status of Tactics in Social Movement Studies and Political Subjectivity -- "Modern Prince," "New Science" -- Analysis and Intervention: Reality, Praxis, Politics, and Tactical Practices -- Levels of Reality -- From Effective to Concrete Reality: Demonstrating Tactics -- Conclusion -- 2 Ideological Contention: Rethinking Race and Mobilization during the Biennio Rosso -- Framing and Ideology in Social Movement Studies -- Social Movement Theories of Ideology -- Ideologically Structured Behavior -- Ideological Salience -- Frederick D. Miller and Marc Raboy -- Ideological Contention and Gramsci's Contribution to Race and Social Movement Mobilization -- Italian Nation-State Consolidation and Early Twentieth-Century Italy -- Specifying the Dominant Racial Ideology through Lombroso, Demography, and Criminal Anthropology -- Expanding Ideology, Challenging Racism: The Southern Question, the Brigata Sassari (1917-1920), and the Sardinian Communists (1919) -- Ideology, Collective Memory, and Strategic Choices -- Gramsci and Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Motivational Frames -- Intellectuals and Frame Alignment -- Conclusion -- 3 Expanding Ideological Contention Theory: Social Movement Organizations and the Political Mobilization of Ideas -- An Organizational-Relational Approach -- Interpretation, Framing, and Ideology: Culture, Cognition, and Intention -- What Frames Do and What They Don't Do-What Ideology Does and What It Doesn't Do.

This book contributes to an ongoing conversation in the field of cultural studies and cultural theory regarding the political role of cultural critique. It addresses theoretical and methodological issues in the fields of cultural studies, radical sociology, critical communication studies, and Chicana/o studies.

In attempting to re-ignite an academic journal that remains particularly important within the conjuncture of today's political and societal upheaval, we present a special issue for the Democratic Communiqué. With more recent social movements around the ongoing issue of state-sanctioned violence and police brutality —not to mention the more recent (and diverse) student-led social movements against gun violence across the United States—have produced a re-centering of the intersection between race and class in mediated discourses. Here, pedagogical interventions into the ever expanding capitalist machine of our current media landscape and the ongoing prevalence of police brutality against black Americans—while in this issue the killings of black American males are centered, they do not supersede killings against brown and black women—in urban localities are further explored.

This issue of Lateral introduces new features and significant original scholarship, including the Feeding the Civic Imagination forum, debut of Aporias, new additions to Years in Cultural Studies and Positions, along with three original articles and several book reviews.

Responding to Palestinian organizers' calls to use our voice, continue to engage in conversations, and to speak out, this statement articulates what we see as the abolitionist and anti-colonial way forward—the only way we can commit to a free Palestine. Imagining and building alternatives is the future, the horizon of possibility, that Lateral, as part of the intellectual and activist project of cultural studies, is imperfectly but consistently striving toward. Here, we highlight work in this issue, including the Towards Third Worlding forum, articles, book reviews, and the second installment of the Positions podcast. We continue to welcome authors to join in this work of pushing the field of cultural studies further, towards its promise of critical inquiry matched by political engagement.