Proletarian Politics Today
On the Perils and Possibilities of Historical Analogy
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2109124 |
|---|---|
| Autores | James Ferguson (0000-0002-3736-0603, Stanford University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2019 |
| Volumen | 61 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 4-22 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417518000476 |
| OpenAlex | W2907074739 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 21 |
| Referencias citadas | 27 |
When contemporary dispossessed urban classes are figured as a 'proletariat,' a potent historical analogy is activated in which the well-documented experience of the burgeoning industrial working classes of nineteenth-century Europe provides an implicit template for interpreting events and processes far removed in time and space. Yet Karl Marx's own deployment of the figure of the proletariat, which often provides the inspiration and model for such analogic moves, was itself in its own time already a complex historical analogy, invoking the social hierarchies of ancient Rome. Rethinking this doubly analogical intellectual history provides an occasion both for considering the uses and abuses of historical analogy, and for using a reflection on the original (Roman) proletarians as a conceptual lever for prying apart some outdated assumptions about the contemporary politics of certain propertyless urban populations, in southern Africa and beyond
Analogy · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Proletariat · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Politics and Society in Latin America
Wage Employment in Africa
High-Yielding Variety Policies in Africa
The Trade Imperative
Technical Change and Agricultural Productivity
Uneven, Contradictory, and Brutal Economic Development in Africa
Varieties of Common Sense
Unbalanced Development
Investment, Wage Goods, and Industrial Policy
Working Out the Solution to Rural Poverty
Colonial Revolution and Liberatory War
Xenofobia? Economia moral, direitos éticos-morais e dilemas da cidadania na África do Sul
"Where is population in "surplus population
Jiehebu or suburb? Towards a translational turn in urban studies
Living for the City
African Economic Development
Is a new structurally dispossessed class developing in the United States
Give James Ferguson a Fish
The Subject of the Underground
The Ethiopian developmental state and struggles over the reproduction of young migrant women's labor at the Hawassa Industrial Park
Making UBI radical
Patch-work
Primitive Rebels, Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Cultural Complexity
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Poverty in the Roman World
Marx and Heterogeneity
Marx and Heterogeneity
Class in the 21st Century
The Village Labourer, 1760-1832
As the Romans Did
Invisible Romans
The Politics of the Governed
Social Change in Modern Africa
Feudalism in Africa
The Preindustrial City, Past and Present
Less Than Nothing
Through the Eye of a Needle
The End of Capitalism (as we knew it)
Expectations of Modernity
Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities
Ordinary Ethics and the Emergence of Plebeian Democracy across the Global South
Are African Cultivators to Be Called 'Peasants
An urban proletariat with peasant characteristics
| Obras citantes distintas | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 3,5 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 21 |