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"Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins has been called in Contemporary Sociology "one of the defining voices of contemporary feminist and race scholarship." Well known for her contributions to sociology, social theory, and cultural studies, her numerous publications indicate why she has been a tireless voice for social justice causes such as the dynamics of race, social class, gender, and sexual equality, and also black feminist politics. In On Intellectual Activism, Collins asks scholars and public intellectuals to assess the meaning of their work. She challenges readers to rethink the potential of speaking truth to power, and examines both the role of the intellectual in public life and how well questions of contemporary social issues are communicated to the public at large. The contents of this volume -- public lectures, previously published pieces, interviews, and new essays -- illustrate the important conceptual anchors of Collins' work and reflect on the major themes of her illustrious career. These timely and thought-provoking essays include topics ranging from black feminist thought, critical education, public sociology, and resisting racism to new visions for activist intellectuals."--

The Durkheimians have traditionally been understood as positivist, secular thinkers, fully within the Enlightenment project of limitless reason and progress. In a radical revision of this view, this book persuasively argues that the core members of the Durkheimian circle (Durkheim himself, Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert and Robert Hertz) are significantly more complicated than this. Through his extensive analysis of large volumes of correspondence as well as historical and macro-sociological mappings of the intellectual and social worlds in which the Durkheimian project emerged, the author shows the Durkheimian project to have constituted a quasi-religious quest in ways much deeper than most interpreters have thought. Their fascination, both personal and intellectual, with the sacred is the basis on which the author reconstructs some important components of modern French intellectual history, connecting Durkheimian thought to key representatives of French poststructuralism and postmodernism: Bataille, Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, and Deleuze

Introduction -- Note on usage -- Black feminism -- Why Black feminist thought? -- Fighting words-- : or yet another version of the emperor's new clothes -- Black sexual politics 101 -- Resisting racism, writing Black sexual politics -- Still brave? : Black feminism as a social justice project -- Sociology of knowledge -- Learning from the outsider within revisited -- Going public : doing the sociology that had no name -- Changing times : sociological complexities -- The racial threat -- Rethinking knowledge, community and empowerment : an interview -- Critical education -- Critical pedagogy and engaged scholarship : lessons from St. Joseph's community school -- Teaching for a change : critical pedagogy and classroom communities -- Another kind of public education -- Making space for public conversations : an interview -- Racial politics -- Coloring outside the color line -- Are we living in a post-racial world? -- On the brink : violence and U.S. society -- Who's right? : what's left? : family values and U.S. politics -- Intellectual activism revisited -- Toward a new vision : race, class, and gender as categories of analysis and connection -- Where do we go from here? -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I The Malaysian Background: A Personal Account -- II Intellectuals and Their Function -- III Bebalisma -- IV The Fools in Developing Societies -- V The Intellectuals and Developing Societies -- VI The Necessity for Intellectuals -- VII The Emergence of the Intellectuals -- VIII Backwardness and the Intellectuals: The Russian Phenomenon and the Developing Societies -- IX The Backward Elites and Modernisation -- X Science and the Backward Elites -- XI Backward Elites and the Problem of Causation -- Bibliography -- Index

Présentation de l'éditeur : "Intellectual Property and Agriculture addresses the important but largely neglected question of intellectual property's relationship to the production, processing, marketing, and circulation of agricultural inputs, products, and practices. Together with an original introduction this comprehensive two-volume set brings together scholars from law, history, anthropology, science and technology studies, economics, and plant science who write on plants and plant genetic resources, late twentieth century international intellectual property agreements, and geographical indications of origin."

In this important new book, the leading philosopherFrançois Laruelle examines the role of intellectuals in oursocieties today, specifically with regards to criminal justice. Heargues that, rather than concerning themselves with abstractphilosophical notions like justice, truth and violence,intellectuals should focus on the human victims. Drawing on hisinfluential theory of 'non-philosophy', he shows how wecan submit the theorizing of intellectuals to the scrutiny of theeveryday suffering of the victims of crime. In the course of a wide-ranging discussion with Philippe Petit,Laruelle suspends

History of the Intellectual Property Law in China -- The Trademark -- The protection against violations -- The patent -- The copyright -- The industrial secret -- Cases -- The Intellectual Property in the international scenario: the Chinese experience -- Valuation and Fiscal Management of the Intellectual Property -- Final Comment and Thanks.