Michael Blim
Biographic Data
| ID | 149738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Blim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Blim |
| SIGNATURE | BLIM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Inequality
Inequality in all its forms is common to human societies, and thus its understanding is part of the central mission of anthropology. Social structural elements such as race, class, gender, status, and caste have a decisive influence on human well-being and have been a persistent focus of inquiry over the course of more than a century of anthropological investigations. It is also fair to say that anthropologists over time have adopted as core valu…
Recovering the sense of sight
Comment on Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA: Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia, Palermo, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2018, pp. 289
Defining a field, describing a world
Jane and Peter Schneider's career-long study of Sicily has created a lasting contribution to the understanding of both Sicilian and Italian social life. Their research into Sicily's historic economic under-development and its highly particular and interesting demographic transition, along with their chronicles of the rise of the Mafia and an opposing antimafia movement, provide a model for intelligent social science method as well as a humane and…
Society for the Anthropology of Work
Producing Culture and Capital
Italian women after development
The highly successful economic development over the past 30 years of central and northeastern Italy, commonly referred to as the Third Italy, has created significant economic and social gains for the regions' women. The high historical prevalence of extended and multiple households among agricultural sharecroppers provided the social materials necessary for constructing a rapid and efficient engine of accumulation in the area's dynamic, small-fir…
What is still left for the Left in Italy? Piecing together a post-communist position on labor and employment
The persistence of high unemployment poses a serious and divisive policy challenge for Italian Left political parties. Their participation in governing coalitions with Centrist parties has deepened conflicts between the Rifondazione comunista, neo-communists who remain steadfast in demanding direct state action to create jobs, and those among the post-communist majority of the Democratici di Sinistra who prefer a neo-liberal road to more employme…
Capitalisms in Late Modernity
This article reviews neo-Weberian, neo-institutionalist economic, and neo-Marxian approaches to the analysis of capitalism in late modern societies. It argues that all make important contributions to the understanding of the increasing economic variability reported in capitalist societies. The approaches also may be profitably combined to assess the degree to which specific cases identified deviate in significant ways from current hegemonic patte…
Some Requirements for a Progressive 21st-Century Anthropology
A partir d'un commentaire des contributions sur la flexibilite du travail, l'A. evoque trois conditions pour une anthropologie progressive au 21 eme siecle. 1)La necessite d'un plus grand realisme dans l'evaluation des themes anthropologiques. Si la recherche anthropologique veut contribuer a un changement social progressif, il faut selectionner les lieux de recherche avec une plus grande rigueur. 2) La necesite d'une clarification et specificati…
The Rationality of Rural Life
The Rationality of Rural Life: Economic and Agricultural Change in Tuscany. Jeff Pratt. Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994. 219 pp
Can NOT-Capitalism Lie at the End of History, or Is Capitalism's History Drawing to an End
■ This article argues that capitalism's victory over 'actually existing social ism' implies no telos or ultimate end in human history. Rather, capitalism is being assimilated, principally in China, in ways which may yet alter or transform its structures and which are inconsistent with Francis Fukuyama's vision. New forms of collective and communal property in industrializing China are discussed and contrasted with privatization schemes in Eastern…
Bringing class back into a changing capitalist world economy
Cultures and the Problems of Capitalisms
Analyse des rapports entre economie, capitalisme et culture. L'A. discute des variations sur les theories des economies socioculturelles populaires montrant en quoi leur nature pluraliste donne une base insuffisante pour une combinaison fertile des cultures et des economies. Il discute aussi de la diversite empirique dans l'economie capitaliste mondiale moderne. Il revoit de maniere critique les declarations systematiques d'I. Wallerstein dans l'…
The Third Italian Economies at Middle Age
Made in Italy
Economic Development and Decline in the Emerging Global Factory
Abdul Hamid El-zein 1934-1979
Capitalisms in Late Modernity
This article reviews neo-Weberian, neo-institutionalist economic, and neo-Marxian approaches to the analysis of capitalism in late modern societies. It argues that all make important contributions to the understanding of the increasing economic variability reported in capitalist societies. The approaches also may be profitably combined to assess the degree to which specific cases identified deviate in significant ways from current hegemonic patte…
Producing Culture and Capital
Cultures and the Problems of Capitalisms
Analyse des rapports entre economie, capitalisme et culture. L'A. discute des variations sur les theories des economies socioculturelles populaires montrant en quoi leur nature pluraliste donne une base insuffisante pour une combinaison fertile des cultures et des economies. Il discute aussi de la diversite empirique dans l'economie capitaliste mondiale moderne. Il revoit de maniere critique les declarations systematiques d'I. Wallerstein dans l'…
Can NOT-Capitalism Lie at the End of History, or Is Capitalism's History Drawing to an End
■ This article argues that capitalism's victory over 'actually existing social ism' implies no telos or ultimate end in human history. Rather, capitalism is being assimilated, principally in China, in ways which may yet alter or transform its structures and which are inconsistent with Francis Fukuyama's vision. New forms of collective and communal property in industrializing China are discussed and contrasted with privatization schemes in Eastern…
Economic Development and Decline in the Emerging Global Factory
Italian women after development
The highly successful economic development over the past 30 years of central and northeastern Italy, commonly referred to as the Third Italy, has created significant economic and social gains for the regions' women. The high historical prevalence of extended and multiple households among agricultural sharecroppers provided the social materials necessary for constructing a rapid and efficient engine of accumulation in the area's dynamic, small-fir…
The Third Italian Economies at Middle Age
Abdul Hamid El-zein 1934-1979
What is still left for the Left in Italy? Piecing together a post-communist position on labor and employment
The persistence of high unemployment poses a serious and divisive policy challenge for Italian Left political parties. Their participation in governing coalitions with Centrist parties has deepened conflicts between the Rifondazione comunista, neo-communists who remain steadfast in demanding direct state action to create jobs, and those among the post-communist majority of the Democratici di Sinistra who prefer a neo-liberal road to more employme…
The Rationality of Rural Life
The Rationality of Rural Life: Economic and Agricultural Change in Tuscany. Jeff Pratt. Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994. 219 pp
Abdul Hamid El-zein 1934-1979
Economic Development and Decline in the Emerging Global Factory
Made in Italy
The Third Italian Economies at Middle Age
Cultures and the Problems of Capitalisms
Analyse des rapports entre economie, capitalisme et culture. L'A. discute des variations sur les theories des economies socioculturelles populaires montrant en quoi leur nature pluraliste donne une base insuffisante pour une combinaison fertile des cultures et des economies. Il discute aussi de la diversite empirique dans l'economie capitaliste mondiale moderne. Il revoit de maniere critique les declarations systematiques d'I. Wallerstein dans l'…
The Rationality of Rural Life
The Rationality of Rural Life: Economic and Agricultural Change in Tuscany. Jeff Pratt. Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994. 219 pp
Can NOT-Capitalism Lie at the End of History, or Is Capitalism's History Drawing to an End
■ This article argues that capitalism's victory over 'actually existing social ism' implies no telos or ultimate end in human history. Rather, capitalism is being assimilated, principally in China, in ways which may yet alter or transform its structures and which are inconsistent with Francis Fukuyama's vision. New forms of collective and communal property in industrializing China are discussed and contrasted with privatization schemes in Eastern…
Bringing class back into a changing capitalist world economy
Some Requirements for a Progressive 21st-Century Anthropology
A partir d'un commentaire des contributions sur la flexibilite du travail, l'A. evoque trois conditions pour une anthropologie progressive au 21 eme siecle. 1)La necessite d'un plus grand realisme dans l'evaluation des themes anthropologiques. Si la recherche anthropologique veut contribuer a un changement social progressif, il faut selectionner les lieux de recherche avec une plus grande rigueur. 2) La necesite d'une clarification et specificati…
What is still left for the Left in Italy? Piecing together a post-communist position on labor and employment
The persistence of high unemployment poses a serious and divisive policy challenge for Italian Left political parties. Their participation in governing coalitions with Centrist parties has deepened conflicts between the Rifondazione comunista, neo-communists who remain steadfast in demanding direct state action to create jobs, and those among the post-communist majority of the Democratici di Sinistra who prefer a neo-liberal road to more employme…
Capitalisms in Late Modernity
This article reviews neo-Weberian, neo-institutionalist economic, and neo-Marxian approaches to the analysis of capitalism in late modern societies. It argues that all make important contributions to the understanding of the increasing economic variability reported in capitalist societies. The approaches also may be profitably combined to assess the degree to which specific cases identified deviate in significant ways from current hegemonic patte…
Italian women after development
The highly successful economic development over the past 30 years of central and northeastern Italy, commonly referred to as the Third Italy, has created significant economic and social gains for the regions' women. The high historical prevalence of extended and multiple households among agricultural sharecroppers provided the social materials necessary for constructing a rapid and efficient engine of accumulation in the area's dynamic, small-fir…
Society for the Anthropology of Work
Producing Culture and Capital
Defining a field, describing a world
Jane and Peter Schneider's career-long study of Sicily has created a lasting contribution to the understanding of both Sicilian and Italian social life. Their research into Sicily's historic economic under-development and its highly particular and interesting demographic transition, along with their chronicles of the rise of the Mafia and an opposing antimafia movement, provide a model for intelligent social science method as well as a humane and…
Recovering the sense of sight
Comment on Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA: Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia, Palermo, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2018, pp. 289
Inequality
Inequality in all its forms is common to human societies, and thus its understanding is part of the central mission of anthropology. Social structural elements such as race, class, gender, status, and caste have a decisive influence on human well-being and have been a persistent focus of inquiry over the course of more than a century of anthropological investigations. It is also fair to say that anthropologists over time have adopted as core valu…
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