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Heralding a push for higher education to adopt a more global
perspective, the term "globalizing knowledge" is today a popular
catchphrase among academics and their circles. The complications
and consequences of this desire for greater worldliness, however,
are rarely considered critically. In this groundbreaking
cultural-political sociology of knowledge and change, Michael D.
Kennedy rearticulates questions, approaches, and case studies to
clarify intellectuals' and institutions' responsibilities in a
world defined by transformation and crisis.
Heralding a push for higher education to adopt a more global
perspective, the term "globalizing knowledge" is today a popular
catchphrase among academics and their circles. The complications
and consequences of this desire for greater worldliness, however,
are rarely considered critically. In this groundbreaking
cultural-political sociology of knowledge and change, Michael D.
Kennedy rearticulates questions, approaches, and case studies to
clarify intellectuals' and institutions' responsibilities in a
world defined by transformation and crisis.
Michael Kennedy develops a theoretical conception of Soviet-type societies by analyzing Solidarity's significance on three levels. First, he explains the background to and nature of the conflict between Solidarity and the authorities by examining the relation between the distribution of power and movement strategies. Second, he considers the implications of Solidarity's struggle for the theory of the Soviet-type system's reproduction and transformation by offering a critique and synthesis of relevant theories of class and civil society. Third, he examines the internal constitution of Solidarity in terms of gender and, in particular, cross-class alliances. He argues that because engineers and physicians were dependent on the self-organized working class in this conflict between civil society and state, professional projects had to be recast in visions suitable to the alliance. In a concluding chapter, he explores the implications of his analysis both for understanding perestroika in the Soviet Union and more generally for reformulating a critical sociology of Soviet-type societies.
The Solidarity movement of the early 1980s not only triggered a transformation in Polish society, it forced a fundamental reconsideration of the nature of socialism throughout the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Seen as one of the most important social movements of the twentieth century, Michael Kennedy develops a theoretical conception of Soviet-type societies by analysing Solidarity's significance. He explains the background to the nature of the conflict between Solidarity and the authorities and considers the implications of Solidarity's struggle for the theory of the Soviet-type system's reproduction and transformation. Then, the internal constitution of Solidarity in terms of gender and, in particular, cross-class alliances is examined, which is followed by the implications of his analysis both for understanding perestroika in the Soviet Union and more generally for reformulating a critical sociology of Soviet-type societies.
What kinds of intellectual practices are influential in the making
and remaking of nations? How do literary texts shape nation-making?
When are intellectuals most and least relevant to developing the
nation? How do liberal, socialist, and nationalist intellectuals
shape national ideologies?
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