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A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now
neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is
vanishing in our time. "What the skeleton is to anatomy, the
peasant is to history, its essential hidden support." For over the
past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy
years, the world has become increasingly urban, and the peasant way
of life--the dominant way of life for humanity since agriculture
began well over 6,000 years ago--is disappearing. In this new
history of peasantry, social historian Patrick Joyce aims to tell
the story of this lost world and its people, and how we can
commemorate their way of life. In one sense, this is a global
history, ambitious in scope, taking us from the urbanization of the
early 19th century to the present day. But more specifically,
Joyce's focus is the demise of the European peasantry and of their
rites, traditions, and beliefs. Alongside this he brings in stories
of individuals as well as places, including his own family, and
looks at how peasants and their ways of life have been memorialized
in photographs, literature, and in museums. Joyce explores a people
whose voice is vastly underrepresented in human history and is
usually mediated through others. And now peasants are vanishing in
one of the greatest historical transformations of our time. Written
with the skill and authority of a great historian, Remembering
Peasants is a landmark work, a richly complex and passionate
history written with exquisite care. It is also deeply resonant, as
Joyce shines a light on people whose knowledge of the land is being
irretrievably lost during our critical time of climate crisis and
the rise of industrial agriculture. Enlightening, timely, and
vitally important, this book commemorates an extraordinary culture
whose impact on history--and the future--remains profoundly
relevant.
This edited collection is a major contribution to the current
development of a 'material turn' in the social sciences and
humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power
is made up and exercised by examining the role of material
infrastructures in the organization of state power and the role of
material cultural practices in the organization of colonial forms
of governance. A diverse range of historical examples is drawn on
in illustrating these concerns - from the role of territorial
engineering projects in seventeenth-century France through the
development of the postal system in nineteenth-century Britain to
the relations between the state and road-building in contemporary
Peru, for example. The colonial contexts examined are similarly
varied, ranging from the role of photographic practices in the
constitution of colonial power in India and the measurement of the
bodies of the colonized in French colonial practices to the part
played by the relations between museums and expeditions in the
organization of Australian forms of colonial rule. These specific
concerns are connected to major critical re-examination of the
limits of the earlier formulations of cultural materialism and the
logic of the 'cultural turn'. The collection brings together a
group of key international scholars whose work has played a leading
role in debates in and across the fields of history, visual culture
studies, anthropology, geography, cultural studies, museum studies,
and literary studies.
This edited collection is a major contribution to the current
development of a 'material turn' in the social sciences and
humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power
is made up and exercised by examining the role of material
infrastructures in the organization of state power and the role of
material cultural practices in the organization of colonial forms
of governance.
A diverse range of historical examples is drawn on in
illustrating these concerns - from the role of territorial
engineering projects in seventeenth-century France through the
development of the postal system in nineteenth-century Britain to
the relations between the state and road-building in contemporary
Peru, for example. The colonial contexts examined are similarly
varied, ranging from the role of photographic practices in the
constitution of colonial power in India and the measurement of the
bodies of the colonized in French colonial practices to the part
played by the relations between museums and expeditions in the
organization of Australian forms of colonial rule. These specific
concerns are connected to major critical re-examination of the
limits of the earlier formulations of cultural materialism and the
logic of the 'cultural turn'.
The collection brings together a group of key international
scholars whose work has played a leading role in debates in and
across the fields of history, visual culture studies, anthropology,
geography, cultural studies, museum studies, and literary
studies.
With postmodernism has come the questioning of the very idea of 'the social'. Thinkers form across the social sciences and humanities now agree that this one foundational concept can no longer be taken for granted as an objective or real characteristic of the world. However, their uncertainty has taken on many guises and the social in Question represents an attempt to pull these diverse forms of questioning together.Drawn form sociology, cultural studies, history and theology, an international and eminent cast of contributors look at how the idea of 'the social' developed from its mediaeval foundations to its consolidation in the early twentieth century. The book then charts how the concept has been brought into the question by critiques from science studies, cultural studies and postcolonial studies before going on to look at how new framework are being proposed for the exploration of issues formerly seen as 'the social'. This book makes a fascinating contribution to the rethinking of contemporary academic activity.
With postmodernism has come the questioning of the very idea of
'the social'. Thinkers form across the social sciences and
humanities now agree that this one foundational concept can no
longer be taken for granted as an objective or real characteristic
of the world. However, their uncertainty has taken on many guises
and the social in Question represents an attempt to pull these
diverse forms of questioning together.Drawn form sociology,
cultural studies, history and theology, an international and
eminent cast of contributors look at how the idea of 'the social'
developed from its mediaeval foundations to its consolidation in
the early twentieth century. The book then charts how the concept
has been brought into the question by critiques from science
studies, cultural studies and postcolonial studies before going on
to look at how new framework are being proposed for the exploration
of issues formerly seen as 'the social'. This book makes a
fascinating contribution to the rethinking of contemporary academic
activity.
A historian's personal journey into the complex questions of
immigration, home and nation From Ireland to London in the 1950s,
Derry in the Troubles to contemporary, de-industrialised
Manchester, Joyce finds the ties of place, family and the past are
difficult to break. Why do certain places continue to haunt us?
What does it mean to be British after the suffering of Empire and
of war? How do we make our home in a hypermobile world without
remembering our pasts? Patrick Joyce's parents moved from Ireland
in the 1930s and made their home in west London. But they never
really left the homeland. And so as he grew up among the streets of
Paddington and Notting Hill and when he visited his family in
Ireland he felt a tension between the notions of home, nation and
belonging. Going to My Father's House charts the historian's
attempt to make sense of these ties and to see how they manifest in
a globalised world. He explores the places - the house, the street,
the walls and the graves - that formed his own identity. He ask
what place the ideas of history, heritage and nostalgia have in
creating a sense of our selves. He concludes with a plea for a
history that holds the past to account but also allows for dynamic,
inclusive change.
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What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new
take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state
did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the
ordinary things of the British state from dusty government files
and post offices to well-thumbed primers in ancient Greek and Latin
and the classrooms and dormitories of public schools and Oxbridge
colleges. This is also a history of the 'who' and the 'where' of
the state, of the people who ran the state, the government offices
they sat in and the college halls they dined in. Patrick Joyce
argues that only by considering these things, people and places can
we really understand the nature of the modern state. This is both a
pioneering new approach to political history in which social and
material factors are centre stage, and a highly original history of
modern Britain.
In this wide-ranging volume, leading scholars across several
disciplines--history, literature, sociology, and cultural
studies--investigate the nature of liberalism and modernity in
imperial Britain since the eighteenth century. They show how
Britain's liberal version of modernity (of capitalism, democracy,
and imperialism) was the product of a peculiar set of historical
circumstances that continues to haunt our neoliberal present.
The liberal governance of the nineteenth-century state and city
depended on the rule of freedom. As a form of rule it relied on the
production of certain kinds of citizens and patterns of social
life, which in turn depended on transforming both the material form
of the city (its layout, architecture, infrastructure) and the ways
it was inhabited and imagined by its leaders, citizens and
custodians. Focusing mainly on London and Manchester, but with
reference also to Glasgow, Dublin, Paris, Vienna, colonial India,
and even contemporary Los Angeles, Patrick Joyce creatively and
originally develops Foucauldian approaches to historiography to
reflect on the nature of modern liberal society. His consideration
of such artifacts as maps and censuses, sewers and markets, public
libraries and parks, and of civic governments and city planning,
are intertwined with theoretical interpretations to examine both
the impersonal, often invisible forms of social direction and
control built into the infrastructure of modern life and the ways
in which these mechanisms both shape culture and social life and
engender popular resistance.
With a new Preface by the author. The acclaimed major
interpretation of 19th century society and politics concerning the
human impact of the industrial revolution. Offers a subtle and
responsive understanding of the formation of class consciousness,
and a recognition that deference and stability as well as
independence in class relations grew out of working-class culture
and community , and thus out of the centre of people's lives.
What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new
take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state
did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the
ordinary things of the British state from dusty government files
and post offices to well-thumbed primers in ancient Greek and Latin
and the classrooms and dormitories of public schools and Oxbridge
colleges. This is also a history of the 'who' and the 'where' of
the state, of the people who ran the state, the government offices
they sat in and the college halls they dined in. Patrick Joyce
argues that only by considering these things, people and places can
we really understand the nature of the modern state. This is both a
pioneering new approach to political history in which social and
material factors are centre stage, and a highly original history of
modern Britain.
In Postsocial History: An Introduction, historian Miguel A. Cabrera
points to the crisis of modernity as a locus for the collapse of
social historical models. Previously established theories of social
change and social relations are proving insufficient, calling for
the emergence of a new social historical theory. Cabrera finds the
answer in language, which, more than being a mere communicative
tool, he believes to be capable of playing an active role in the
forces of social change. Postsocial History is a lucid and
unprecedented account of the need for a new, modern theoretical
model. By arguing convincingly for the inclusion of language in
that model, Cabrera awakens a revolutionary new approach to
historiography. This book will prove indispensable to historians,
and to social scientists in general, who are dissatisfied with the
old paradigms and seek new ways of addressing the challenges of
social research.
In Postsocial History: An Introduction, historian Miguel A. Cabrera
points to the crisis of modernity as a locus for the collapse of
social historical models. Previously established theories of social
change and social relations are proving insufficient, calling for
the emergence of a new social historical theory. Cabrera finds the
answer in language, which, more than being a mere communicative
tool, he believes to be capable of playing an active role in the
forces of social change. Postsocial History is a lucid and
unprecedented account of the need for a new, modern theoretical
model. By arguing convincingly for the inclusion of language in
that model, Cabrera awakens a revolutionary new approach to
historiography. This book will prove indispensable to historians,
and to social scientists in general, who are dissatisfied with the
old paradigms and seek new ways of addressing the challenges of
social research.
The 12 essays in this volume propose new directions in the analysis
of class. John R. Hall argues that recent historical and
intellectual developments require reworking basic assumptions about
classes and their dynamics. The contributors effectively abandon
the notion of a transcendent class struggle. They seek instead to
understand the historically contingent ways in which economic
interests are pursued under institutionally, socially and
culturally structured circumstances. In his introduction, Hall
proposes a neo-Weberian venue intended to bring the most promising
contemporary approaches to class analysis into productive exchange
with one another. Some of the chapters that follow rework how
classes are conceptualized. Others offer historical and
sociological reflections on questions of class identity. A third
cluster focuses on the politics of class mobilizations and social
movements in contexts of national and global economic change.
This pioneering and original study explores critically the nature
of class identity by looking at the formation and influence of two
men (Edwin Waugh and John Bright) who might be taken as
representative of what 'working class' and 'middle class' meant in
England in the nineteenth century. The two studies of individuals
are complemented by a further study on narrative in pointing to the
great importance of the collective subjects upon which democracy
rested. The book indicates the way forward to a new history of
democracy as an imagined entity. It represents a deepening of
Patrick Joyce's engagement with 'post-modernist' theory, seeking
the relevance of this theory for the writing of history, and in the
process offering a critique of the conservatism of much academic
history, particularly in Britain.
This is a study of how the labouring poor of nineteenth-century
industrial England saw the social order of which they were a part.
It attacks orthodoxies and sets up new questions by attending to a
wide range of contemporary experience, from politics and work to
language and art.
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In recent years, the concept of class has come under increasing scrutiny, as a means of explaining both the present and the past. The post-industrial class has superceded the manual working class, and new forms of industrial management have broken up more traditional hierarchies and outlooks. Furthermore, feminism has now brought into question the whole concept of a class identity. Can class viably explain the present? Did it ever provide an adequate explanation of the past? How did concepts of class develop? What is the language of class? A variety of writings are drawn upon here to provide a balanced survey of thought on class, from Marx and Weber to the present day, and to look beyond this towards the very future of class.
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