George Ciccariello‐maher
Biographic Data
| ID | 4158995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Ciccariello‐maher |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Ciccariello‐maher |
| SIGNATURE | MAHER G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drexel University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Cutting the Populist Knot
This essay reviews the following works:La marchita, el escudo y el bombo: Una historia cultural de los emblemas del peronismo, de Perón a Cristina Kirchner. By Ezequiel Adamovsky and Esteban Buch. Buenos Aires: Planeta, 2016. Pp. 367. ARS27.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781108728829
The Commune Is the Plan
Recent years have witnessed a renaissance of radical planning in both theory and practice, but often with a persistent disconnect between the two. This article sets out from Harney and Moten's concept of fugitive planning, adjusting it to speak to the still-colonial reality of the global South, before turning to overlooked experiments taking place in Venezuela's communes. I argue that while grassroots planning in Venezuela mirrors all of the inhe…
Decolonizing Dialectics
Black Liberation: A Hemispheric Task
Between Black America and Latin America, political differences and distances are often overstated, fragmenting the unity of political struggles in the process. Too often, the legacies of chattel sl
Dispossession without Labour: Bridging Abolition and Decolonisation
Glen Coulthard’s Red Skin, White Masks makes two decisive interventions. First, it shifts our lens from the capital relation to the colonial relation, disarticulating the process of primitive accumulation to emphasise its component parts: dispossession and proletarianisation. To do so is to both liberate the concept from its European origins by centring those contexts in which dispossession is not followed by proletarianisation, and to pose the p…
Decolonizing Theory from Within or Without? A Reply to Baum: Decolonizing Theory: A Reply to Baum: George Ciccariello-Maher
We Are the State! Barrio Activism in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
The dialectics of urban space in Caracas
Construir La Comuna
e ha debatido mucho el carácter de la participación popular en el proceso bolivariano en Vene- zuela. Pero así como la mayoría de la literatura existente suele minimizar la importancia de la participación de movimientos sociales en el proceso desde abajo, igualmente la participación -sea en consejos comunales o las comunas de hoy-, con frecuencia, se reduce a una expansión del poder del Estado venezolano. En este trabajo sostengo que las comunas …
The Most Damage I Can Do: Joel Olson in Political Theory, Political Critique, and Political Activism
Decolonial realism: Ethics, politics and dialectics in Fanon and Dussel
So Much the Worse for the Whites: Dialectics of the Haitian Revolution
This article sets out from an analysis of the pioneering work of Susan Buck-Morss to rethink, not only Hegel and Haiti, but broader questions surrounding dialectics and the universal brought to light by the Haitian Revolution. Reading through the lens of C.L.R. James’ The Black Jacobins, I seek to correct a series of ironic silences in her account, re-centering the importance of Toussaint’s successor, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and underlining the …
Building the Commune: Insurgent Government, Communal State
When Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez died in March 2013, he left behind an unfulfilled dream that was never his alone: that of the "communal state." Amid the complicated maneuvering of the post-Chávez era, this aspiration-which would see the expansion and unification of nascent communal councils, alongside a proliferation of other directly democratic political and productive organs-has pressed forward. This article situates this communal state a…
We Created Chavez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution
Frantz Fanon, Fifty Years On: A Memorial Roundtable
Constituent Moments, Constitutional Processes: Social Movements and the New Latin American Left
The "good-left-versus-bad-left" framework disseminated by Jorge Castañeda, among others, obscures the underlying similarities that cut across all leftist regimes in Latin America while drastically oversimplifying the relationship between the so-called bad left and its "good" counterpart. A shift of focus from heads of state to social movements reveals both that the question of social movements and the state transcends such binaries and that it is…
The Bolivarian Process in Venezuela: A Left Forum
The ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez has reignited debate in Latin America and internationally on the questions of socialism and revolution. This forum brings together six leading intellectuals from different revolutionary traditions and introduces their reflections on class-struggle, the state, imperialism, counter-power, revolutionary parties, community and communes, workplaces, economy, politics, society, culture, race, g…
Jumpstarting the Decolonial Engine: Symbolic Violence from Fanon to Chávez
This paper finds the unifying thread of Frantz Fanon's revolutionary decolonial philosophy in what I call "symbolic decolonial violence," the violent self-assertion and public appearance of colonized and racialized non-beings which creates the necessary groundwork for their entry into being. By applying this concept to contemporary political discourse and identity dynamics in Venezuela, while maintaining an insistently "parallax view," we are abl…
A Critique of Du Boisian Reason: Kanye West and the Fruitfulness of Double-Consciousness
This article seeks to disentangle a number of outstanding controversies regarding the radical potential of W.E.B. Du Bois's seminal notion of double-consciousness. The author concludes that the early Du Bois—of the 1897 “Strivings”—idealistically conflates double-consciousness with the racist veil, thereby erroneously negating the materiality of the latter. This error persists only briefly, and Du Bois's transformation is already palpable by the …
Race after Sartre: Antiracism, Africana Existentialism, Postcolonialism
Toward a Racial Geography of Caracas: Neoliberal Urbanism and the Fear of Penetration
Research Article| December 01 2007 Toward a Racial Geography of Caracas: Neoliberal Urbanism and the Fear of Penetration George Ciccariello-Maher George Ciccariello-Maher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 39–71. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.16.2.39 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tool…
Dual Power in the Venezuelan Revolution
Too often, the Bolivarian Revolution currently underway in Venezuela is dismissed by its critics—on the right and left—as a fundamentally statist enterprise. We are told it is, at best, a continuation of the corrupt, bureaucratic status quo or, at worst, a personalistic consolidation of state power in the hands of a single individual at the expense of those "checks and balances" traditionally associated with western liberal democracies. These per…
The Internal Limits of the European Gaze: Intellectuals and the Colonial Difference
This paper approaches the importance of the colonial difference through a discussion of the debate between Sartre and Foucault on the proper role of the intellectual. The existentialist emphasis on the situation-and the concomitant imperative for intellectual totalization-would lead Sartre to a more sophisticated and radical understanding of his own situation as a European intellectual. This development was largely driven by Fanon, who would push…
Constituent Moments, Constitutional Processes: Social Movements and the New Latin American Left
The "good-left-versus-bad-left" framework disseminated by Jorge Castañeda, among others, obscures the underlying similarities that cut across all leftist regimes in Latin America while drastically oversimplifying the relationship between the so-called bad left and its "good" counterpart. A shift of focus from heads of state to social movements reveals both that the question of social movements and the state transcends such binaries and that it is…
The Bolivarian Process in Venezuela: A Left Forum
The ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez has reignited debate in Latin America and internationally on the questions of socialism and revolution. This forum brings together six leading intellectuals from different revolutionary traditions and introduces their reflections on class-struggle, the state, imperialism, counter-power, revolutionary parties, community and communes, workplaces, economy, politics, society, culture, race, g…
Dual Power in the Venezuelan Revolution
Too often, the Bolivarian Revolution currently underway in Venezuela is dismissed by its critics—on the right and left—as a fundamentally statist enterprise. We are told it is, at best, a continuation of the corrupt, bureaucratic status quo or, at worst, a personalistic consolidation of state power in the hands of a single individual at the expense of those "checks and balances" traditionally associated with western liberal democracies. These per…
Decolonial realism: Ethics, politics and dialectics in Fanon and Dussel
Building the Commune: Insurgent Government, Communal State
When Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez died in March 2013, he left behind an unfulfilled dream that was never his alone: that of the "communal state." Amid the complicated maneuvering of the post-Chávez era, this aspiration-which would see the expansion and unification of nascent communal councils, alongside a proliferation of other directly democratic political and productive organs-has pressed forward. This article situates this communal state a…
Jumpstarting the Decolonial Engine: Symbolic Violence from Fanon to Chávez
This paper finds the unifying thread of Frantz Fanon's revolutionary decolonial philosophy in what I call "symbolic decolonial violence," the violent self-assertion and public appearance of colonized and racialized non-beings which creates the necessary groundwork for their entry into being. By applying this concept to contemporary political discourse and identity dynamics in Venezuela, while maintaining an insistently "parallax view," we are abl…
So Much the Worse for the Whites: Dialectics of the Haitian Revolution
This article sets out from an analysis of the pioneering work of Susan Buck-Morss to rethink, not only Hegel and Haiti, but broader questions surrounding dialectics and the universal brought to light by the Haitian Revolution. Reading through the lens of C.L.R. James’ The Black Jacobins, I seek to correct a series of ironic silences in her account, re-centering the importance of Toussaint’s successor, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and underlining the …
The dialectics of urban space in Caracas
Construir La Comuna
e ha debatido mucho el carácter de la participación popular en el proceso bolivariano en Vene- zuela. Pero así como la mayoría de la literatura existente suele minimizar la importancia de la participación de movimientos sociales en el proceso desde abajo, igualmente la participación -sea en consejos comunales o las comunas de hoy-, con frecuencia, se reduce a una expansión del poder del Estado venezolano. En este trabajo sostengo que las comunas …
The Commune Is the Plan
Recent years have witnessed a renaissance of radical planning in both theory and practice, but often with a persistent disconnect between the two. This article sets out from Harney and Moten's concept of fugitive planning, adjusting it to speak to the still-colonial reality of the global South, before turning to overlooked experiments taking place in Venezuela's communes. I argue that while grassroots planning in Venezuela mirrors all of the inhe…
Dispossession without Labour: Bridging Abolition and Decolonisation
Glen Coulthard’s Red Skin, White Masks makes two decisive interventions. First, it shifts our lens from the capital relation to the colonial relation, disarticulating the process of primitive accumulation to emphasise its component parts: dispossession and proletarianisation. To do so is to both liberate the concept from its European origins by centring those contexts in which dispossession is not followed by proletarianisation, and to pose the p…
The Most Damage I Can Do: Joel Olson in Political Theory, Political Critique, and Political Activism
Frantz Fanon, Fifty Years On: A Memorial Roundtable
The Internal Limits of the European Gaze: Intellectuals and the Colonial Difference
This paper approaches the importance of the colonial difference through a discussion of the debate between Sartre and Foucault on the proper role of the intellectual. The existentialist emphasis on the situation-and the concomitant imperative for intellectual totalization-would lead Sartre to a more sophisticated and radical understanding of his own situation as a European intellectual. This development was largely driven by Fanon, who would push…
The Internal Limits of the European Gaze: Intellectuals and the Colonial Difference
This paper approaches the importance of the colonial difference through a discussion of the debate between Sartre and Foucault on the proper role of the intellectual. The existentialist emphasis on the situation-and the concomitant imperative for intellectual totalization-would lead Sartre to a more sophisticated and radical understanding of his own situation as a European intellectual. This development was largely driven by Fanon, who would push…
Toward a Racial Geography of Caracas: Neoliberal Urbanism and the Fear of Penetration
Research Article| December 01 2007 Toward a Racial Geography of Caracas: Neoliberal Urbanism and the Fear of Penetration George Ciccariello-Maher George Ciccariello-Maher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2007) 16 (2): 39–71. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.16.2.39 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tool…
Dual Power in the Venezuelan Revolution
Too often, the Bolivarian Revolution currently underway in Venezuela is dismissed by its critics—on the right and left—as a fundamentally statist enterprise. We are told it is, at best, a continuation of the corrupt, bureaucratic status quo or, at worst, a personalistic consolidation of state power in the hands of a single individual at the expense of those "checks and balances" traditionally associated with western liberal democracies. These per…
Race after Sartre: Antiracism, Africana Existentialism, Postcolonialism
A Critique of Du Boisian Reason: Kanye West and the Fruitfulness of Double-Consciousness
This article seeks to disentangle a number of outstanding controversies regarding the radical potential of W.E.B. Du Bois's seminal notion of double-consciousness. The author concludes that the early Du Bois—of the 1897 “Strivings”—idealistically conflates double-consciousness with the racist veil, thereby erroneously negating the materiality of the latter. This error persists only briefly, and Du Bois's transformation is already palpable by the …
Jumpstarting the Decolonial Engine: Symbolic Violence from Fanon to Chávez
This paper finds the unifying thread of Frantz Fanon's revolutionary decolonial philosophy in what I call "symbolic decolonial violence," the violent self-assertion and public appearance of colonized and racialized non-beings which creates the necessary groundwork for their entry into being. By applying this concept to contemporary political discourse and identity dynamics in Venezuela, while maintaining an insistently "parallax view," we are abl…
The Bolivarian Process in Venezuela: A Left Forum
The ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez has reignited debate in Latin America and internationally on the questions of socialism and revolution. This forum brings together six leading intellectuals from different revolutionary traditions and introduces their reflections on class-struggle, the state, imperialism, counter-power, revolutionary parties, community and communes, workplaces, economy, politics, society, culture, race, g…
We Created Chavez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution
Frantz Fanon, Fifty Years On: A Memorial Roundtable
Constituent Moments, Constitutional Processes: Social Movements and the New Latin American Left
The "good-left-versus-bad-left" framework disseminated by Jorge Castañeda, among others, obscures the underlying similarities that cut across all leftist regimes in Latin America while drastically oversimplifying the relationship between the so-called bad left and its "good" counterpart. A shift of focus from heads of state to social movements reveals both that the question of social movements and the state transcends such binaries and that it is…
The Most Damage I Can Do: Joel Olson in Political Theory, Political Critique, and Political Activism
Decolonial realism: Ethics, politics and dialectics in Fanon and Dussel
So Much the Worse for the Whites: Dialectics of the Haitian Revolution
This article sets out from an analysis of the pioneering work of Susan Buck-Morss to rethink, not only Hegel and Haiti, but broader questions surrounding dialectics and the universal brought to light by the Haitian Revolution. Reading through the lens of C.L.R. James’ The Black Jacobins, I seek to correct a series of ironic silences in her account, re-centering the importance of Toussaint’s successor, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and underlining the …
Building the Commune: Insurgent Government, Communal State
When Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez died in March 2013, he left behind an unfulfilled dream that was never his alone: that of the "communal state." Amid the complicated maneuvering of the post-Chávez era, this aspiration-which would see the expansion and unification of nascent communal councils, alongside a proliferation of other directly democratic political and productive organs-has pressed forward. This article situates this communal state a…
Dispossession without Labour: Bridging Abolition and Decolonisation
Glen Coulthard’s Red Skin, White Masks makes two decisive interventions. First, it shifts our lens from the capital relation to the colonial relation, disarticulating the process of primitive accumulation to emphasise its component parts: dispossession and proletarianisation. To do so is to both liberate the concept from its European origins by centring those contexts in which dispossession is not followed by proletarianisation, and to pose the p…
Decolonizing Theory from Within or Without? A Reply to Baum: Decolonizing Theory: A Reply to Baum: George Ciccariello-Maher
We Are the State! Barrio Activism in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
The dialectics of urban space in Caracas
Construir La Comuna
e ha debatido mucho el carácter de la participación popular en el proceso bolivariano en Vene- zuela. Pero así como la mayoría de la literatura existente suele minimizar la importancia de la participación de movimientos sociales en el proceso desde abajo, igualmente la participación -sea en consejos comunales o las comunas de hoy-, con frecuencia, se reduce a una expansión del poder del Estado venezolano. En este trabajo sostengo que las comunas …
Decolonizing Dialectics
Black Liberation: A Hemispheric Task
Between Black America and Latin America, political differences and distances are often overstated, fragmenting the unity of political struggles in the process. Too often, the legacies of chattel sl
Cutting the Populist Knot
This essay reviews the following works:La marchita, el escudo y el bombo: Una historia cultural de los emblemas del peronismo, de Perón a Cristina Kirchner. By Ezequiel Adamovsky and Esteban Buch. Buenos Aires: Planeta, 2016. Pp. 367. ARS27.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781108728829
The Commune Is the Plan
Recent years have witnessed a renaissance of radical planning in both theory and practice, but often with a persistent disconnect between the two. This article sets out from Harney and Moten's concept of fugitive planning, adjusting it to speak to the still-colonial reality of the global South, before turning to overlooked experiments taking place in Venezuela's communes. I argue that while grassroots planning in Venezuela mirrors all of the inhe…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (7 works)