L Steur
Biographic Data
| ID | 6661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Steur |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Steur |
| SIGNATURE | STEUR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central European University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3896-9488 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Wolf's Marxian Marxism and the contradictory unity of theory and practice
This article explores Wolf's insistence in EPHW that he was practicing "Marxian" rather than Marxist anthropology. It presents the reasons for Wolf's distancing from "Marxism" and discusses to what extent these remain relevant today. It then moves to offer suggestions on working more explicitly toward the "contradictory unity of theory and practice" that characterizes any good scholarship drawing on Marx-including Wolf's. Finally, I discuss insta…
Kapitalisme en racisme
Kolonialisme en Racisme is een boek dat uit de pas loopt met hedendaagse debatten over deze onderwerpen binnen de antropologie/sociologie en in activistische kringen. Dat is soms ongemakkelijk maar vaak inspirerend, vooral wanneer Jan Breman het belang benadrukt van het analyseren van racisme op het niveau van het mondiale kapitalisme. Het boek toont racisme in dienst van de wereldwijde uitbuiting van arbeid, die in gebieden buiten het directe ge…
Indigenist Mobilization
Tania Li, Land's End
Theorizing Thervoy
This chapter develops a critique of Chatterjee’s argument that Marxian perspectives of agrarian transition have been rendered irrelevant by the introduction of social policy regimes that ameliorate the ramifications of contemporary forms of primitive accumulation. Drawing on the work of Eric Wolf, it argues that Chatterjee’s contention that social policy has to be understood as a purely political phenomenon, detached from the economic dynamics of…
An 'Expanded' Class Perspective
Following the police raid on the 'Muthanga' land occupation by Adivasi ('indigenous') activists in Kerala, India, in February 2003, intense public debate erupted about the fate of Adivasis in this 'model' development state. Most commentators saw the land occupation either as the fight-back of Adivasis against their age-old colonization or the work of 'external' agitators. Capitalist restructuring and 'globalization' was generally seen as simply t…
Adivasis, Communists, and the rise of indigenism in Kerala
Adivasi Mobilisation
In August 2001 there was widespread protest in Kerala, a state otherwise known for its remarkable achievements in ‘human’ development, at the starvation deaths that had occurred in a number of adivasi colonies. This prompted a continuing debate on the meaning of the Kerala ‘model’ of development for adivasis, in which a consensus seems to have risen that adivasis are the victims of Kerala's development experience and in which their current mobili…
What's left
With the victory of capitalism and the end of the Cold War, almost all countries in the global south, including those still calling themselves "communist," have become "transition" countries, competing to attract foreign direct investment and reform according to the strictures of global capitalism. Particularly interesting cases of "transition" are those states that explicitly legitimize their rule in terms of communist ideals, the general allian…
On the correct handling of contradictions
Ronald Niezen, The origins of indigenism: human rights and the politics of identity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, 272 pp., ISBN 0520-23554-1 (hb), 0520-23556-8 (pb
Adivasi Mobilisation
In August 2001 there was widespread protest in Kerala, a state otherwise known for its remarkable achievements in ‘human’ development, at the starvation deaths that had occurred in a number of adivasi colonies. This prompted a continuing debate on the meaning of the Kerala ‘model’ of development for adivasis, in which a consensus seems to have risen that adivasis are the victims of Kerala's development experience and in which their current mobili…
An 'Expanded' Class Perspective
Following the police raid on the 'Muthanga' land occupation by Adivasi ('indigenous') activists in Kerala, India, in February 2003, intense public debate erupted about the fate of Adivasis in this 'model' development state. Most commentators saw the land occupation either as the fight-back of Adivasis against their age-old colonization or the work of 'external' agitators. Capitalist restructuring and 'globalization' was generally seen as simply t…
On the correct handling of contradictions
Ronald Niezen, The origins of indigenism: human rights and the politics of identity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, 272 pp., ISBN 0520-23554-1 (hb), 0520-23556-8 (pb
Indigenist Mobilization
What's left
With the victory of capitalism and the end of the Cold War, almost all countries in the global south, including those still calling themselves "communist," have become "transition" countries, competing to attract foreign direct investment and reform according to the strictures of global capitalism. Particularly interesting cases of "transition" are those states that explicitly legitimize their rule in terms of communist ideals, the general allian…
Wolf's Marxian Marxism and the contradictory unity of theory and practice
This article explores Wolf's insistence in EPHW that he was practicing "Marxian" rather than Marxist anthropology. It presents the reasons for Wolf's distancing from "Marxism" and discusses to what extent these remain relevant today. It then moves to offer suggestions on working more explicitly toward the "contradictory unity of theory and practice" that characterizes any good scholarship drawing on Marx-including Wolf's. Finally, I discuss insta…
On the correct handling of contradictions
Ronald Niezen, The origins of indigenism: human rights and the politics of identity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, 272 pp., ISBN 0520-23554-1 (hb), 0520-23556-8 (pb
Adivasi Mobilisation
In August 2001 there was widespread protest in Kerala, a state otherwise known for its remarkable achievements in ‘human’ development, at the starvation deaths that had occurred in a number of adivasi colonies. This prompted a continuing debate on the meaning of the Kerala ‘model’ of development for adivasis, in which a consensus seems to have risen that adivasis are the victims of Kerala's development experience and in which their current mobili…
What's left
With the victory of capitalism and the end of the Cold War, almost all countries in the global south, including those still calling themselves "communist," have become "transition" countries, competing to attract foreign direct investment and reform according to the strictures of global capitalism. Particularly interesting cases of "transition" are those states that explicitly legitimize their rule in terms of communist ideals, the general allian…
Adivasis, Communists, and the rise of indigenism in Kerala
An 'Expanded' Class Perspective
Following the police raid on the 'Muthanga' land occupation by Adivasi ('indigenous') activists in Kerala, India, in February 2003, intense public debate erupted about the fate of Adivasis in this 'model' development state. Most commentators saw the land occupation either as the fight-back of Adivasis against their age-old colonization or the work of 'external' agitators. Capitalist restructuring and 'globalization' was generally seen as simply t…
Theorizing Thervoy
This chapter develops a critique of Chatterjee’s argument that Marxian perspectives of agrarian transition have been rendered irrelevant by the introduction of social policy regimes that ameliorate the ramifications of contemporary forms of primitive accumulation. Drawing on the work of Eric Wolf, it argues that Chatterjee’s contention that social policy has to be understood as a purely political phenomenon, detached from the economic dynamics of…
Tania Li, Land's End
Indigenist Mobilization
Kapitalisme en racisme
Kolonialisme en Racisme is een boek dat uit de pas loopt met hedendaagse debatten over deze onderwerpen binnen de antropologie/sociologie en in activistische kringen. Dat is soms ongemakkelijk maar vaak inspirerend, vooral wanneer Jan Breman het belang benadrukt van het analyseren van racisme op het niveau van het mondiale kapitalisme. Het boek toont racisme in dienst van de wereldwijde uitbuiting van arbeid, die in gebieden buiten het directe ge…
Wolf's Marxian Marxism and the contradictory unity of theory and practice
This article explores Wolf's insistence in EPHW that he was practicing "Marxian" rather than Marxist anthropology. It presents the reasons for Wolf's distancing from "Marxism" and discusses to what extent these remain relevant today. It then moves to offer suggestions on working more explicitly toward the "contradictory unity of theory and practice" that characterizes any good scholarship drawing on Marx-including Wolf's. Finally, I discuss insta…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works)