Kanishka Goonewardena
Biographic Data
| ID | 963926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kanishka Goonewardena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kanishka |
| FAMILY NAME | Goonewardena |
| SIGNATURE | GOONEWARDENA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8103-3549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
David Harvey, geography and Marxism
This essay engages with David Harvey: A Critical Introduction to his Thought by Noel Castree, Greig Charnock and Brett Christophers (CCC), the most panoramic, rigorous and insightful study of the leading Marxist geographer of the last half century. After underlining the impressive qualities of this book that make it an immensely rewarding reading for both experts and newcomers in the field of critical geography, the reading of David Harvey offere…
Comrade Santos
Populism, nationalism and Marxism in Sri Lanka: From Anti-Colonial Struggle to Authoritarian Neoliberalism
This is a revised version of a presentation to the Vega Symposium on Resurgent Nationalisms and Populist Politics in the Neoliberal Age, held at the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, in April 2018. It is part of a Special Issue of Geografiska Annaler, Series B, which also includes an Introduction by Gillian Hart, articles by Gillian Hart and Tova Höjdestrand based on their contributions to the Symposium, and an edited transcript of a presen…
Production of Space/Lefebvre
The production of space is a concept produced by the prolific French Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), who proposed a novel conception of totality as a mediated articulation of three levels of social reality: the immediate level of everyday life; the intermediate level of the urban; and the global or the most general level of state and capital. The strategic mediating position occupied by spatial production in this Lefebvrean view o…
Henri Lefebvre e il diritto alla città: Storia, teoria, politica
The article examines the history, theory and politics of Henri Lefebvre’s notion of the to the arguing that this notion is best understood in relation to the author’s studies of the state, capital and everyday life. It begins with the placement of Lefebvre’s writings on urbanization and space within the totality of his critical-theoretical work. The following is a brief account of the circumstances - historical, spatial and political - under whic…
Planetary urbanization and totality
This paper begins with the accusation of "totalization" that has been directed at Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid's concept of "planetary urbanization." In so doing, it first critiques the meanings typically attributed to "totality" and "totalization" by Brenner and Schmid as well as their critics, and then explicates the concepts of totality and totalization developed in the tradition of Hegelian Marxism, especially in the works of Georg Lukác…
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Glen Sean Coulthard. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 256 pp., index, notes. $22.50 paper (ISBN 978-0-8166-7965-2); $67.50 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8166-7964-5).Red Skin, White Masks
Implosions /Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization
In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes. Drawing together classic and contemporary texts on the “urbanization question”, this book explores various theoretical, epistemological, methodological and political implications of Lefebvre’s hypothesis. It assem…
Urban Marxism and the Post-colonial Question: Henri Lefebvre and ‘Colonisation’
The post-colonial has often functioned as a code word for a form of French post-theory. In more recent efforts to reconstruct linkages between metropolitan Marxism and counter-colonialism, the post-colonial refers to an open-ended research field for investigating the present weight of colonial histories. But even in these reformulations, post-colonial research presents formidable challenges to Euro-American urban Marxism. In this context, this pa…
X marks the spot: Marxist intercourse and Kantian anarchism in Kojin Karatani
In this commentary Kanishka Goonewardena and Reecia Orzeck analyze the theoretical, political, and practical implications of Kojin Karatani’s valorization of the mode of exchange relative to the mode of production
Henri Lefebvre, State, Space, World: Selected Essays – Edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden
Henri Lefebvre
This chapter contains sections titled: Who is Lefebvre? Space, Time, Revolution Open Marxism Uses of Alienation Aesthetics and Politics For and Against the PCF Humanism Reading Hegel Praxis Total Man What is Revolution? Moments and Situations Everyday Life The Bureaucratic Society of Controlled Consumption The Urban Revolution Space and Dialectics State and Revolution Totality Whither Lefebvre? Bibliography
Urban studies, critical theory, radical politics: Eight theses for Peter Marcuse
The celebration of Peter Marcuse’s 80th birthday at the Right to the City conference in the fall of 2008 provided a poignant moment to reflect on the circumstances under which urban studies, critical theory and radical politics have come together so instructively in his own life and work. An adequate consideration of these involves not only the personal and political dimensions of his exemplary career, but also the world‐historical forces that tr…
Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre
Stefan Kipfer, Christian Schmid, Kanishka Goonewardena and Richard Milgrom
Guy Debord by Andy Merrifield Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction by Andy Merrifield
Spontaneous Romantics of the World, Just Do It! I've never met Andy Merrifield, and if one day I am lucky enough to meet the man who wrote Metromarxism and The Wisdom of Donkeys, I hope it won't be in some conference room. A pub will be the more appropriate place to greet a writer so intoxicating, especially when discoursing on a couple of iconoclastic French Marxists who loved booze as much as revolution. The older of these two men evidently enj…
Colonization and the New Imperialism: On the Meaning of Urbicide Today
Colonization and the New Imperialism: On the Meaning of Urbicide Today Stefan Kipfer (bio) and Kanishka Goonewardena (bio) The prevalence of liberal cosmopolitan assumptions in current intellectual formations has been subjected to intense scrutiny. Timothy Brennan,1 for example, has analyzed cosmopolitanism as an “intellectual flow” connecting academic debates and media discourses with transnational corporate and public policy circles as well as …
The Urban Sensorium: Space, Ideology and the Aestheticization of Politics
This essay outlines a theoretical framework for investigating the links between the production of urban space (Lefebvre) and the production of ideology (Althusser) and hegemony (Gramsci) by proposing the concept of “ the urban sensorium ”. With a view to the aesthetics of urban experience and everyday life, this concept aligns Fredric Jameson's “postmodern” adaptation of city planner Kevin Lynch's research on “cognitive mapping” with Walter Benja…
Spaces of Difference: Reflections from Toronto on Multiculturalism, Bourgeois Urbanism and the Possibility of Radical Urban Politics
What explains the lack of what Mike Davis famously called 'magical urbanism'- referring to the increasingly influential and potentially radical role played by Latino immigrants in US politics - in such diverse Canadian cities as Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver? This article points out how the Canadian legacy of multiculturalism constitutes one key cause of the failure of left urban politics in Canada to produce yet anything approaching the promis…
Urban Space and Political Consciousness: A Report on Theory
How is space political? This article first highlights Marx and Engels’s contributions to this question, then examines how a later generation of Marxists exemplified by Manuel Castells and his theory of “ collective consumption” returned to it with decidedly structuralist and reductive readings of Marxism. In conclusion, the article outlines how Fredric Jameson’s work on postmodernism and “cognitive mapping” provides a more holistic Marxist approa…
The Desire Called Civil Society: A Contribution to the Critique of a Bourgeois Category
How does ‘civil society’ serve the Washington Consensus while also attracting the aspirations of left political activists and progressive planners? We address this troubling question by interrogating the concept of civil society, with due respect to the actual role played by civil society in the development of capitalism. Based on close readings of Hegel, Marx and planning theory dealing with it, we also argue that the discourse of civil society …
The Future of Planning at the ‘ End of History ’
The hegemony of neoliberalism now poses a fundamental challenge to planners worldwide. Most influential in this regard has been Francis Fukuyama’s End of History ideology and its progenies – or mutations – such as the Third Way. A close reading of their proponents (especially Anthony Giddens) and critics (Perry Anderson, Pierre Bourdieu, Alex Callinicos, John Gray and others) with reference to the contrasting political-economic theories of Friedr…
Aborted Identity: The Commission and Omission of a Monument to the Nation, Sri Lanka, circa 1989
Radical History Review - 2002, Issue 82
Planetary urbanization and totality
This paper begins with the accusation of "totalization" that has been directed at Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid's concept of "planetary urbanization." In so doing, it first critiques the meanings typically attributed to "totality" and "totalization" by Brenner and Schmid as well as their critics, and then explicates the concepts of totality and totalization developed in the tradition of Hegelian Marxism, especially in the works of Georg Lukác…
The Urban Sensorium: Space, Ideology and the Aestheticization of Politics
This essay outlines a theoretical framework for investigating the links between the production of urban space (Lefebvre) and the production of ideology (Althusser) and hegemony (Gramsci) by proposing the concept of “ the urban sensorium ”. With a view to the aesthetics of urban experience and everyday life, this concept aligns Fredric Jameson's “postmodern” adaptation of city planner Kevin Lynch's research on “cognitive mapping” with Walter Benja…
Spaces of Difference: Reflections from Toronto on Multiculturalism, Bourgeois Urbanism and the Possibility of Radical Urban Politics
What explains the lack of what Mike Davis famously called 'magical urbanism'- referring to the increasingly influential and potentially radical role played by Latino immigrants in US politics - in such diverse Canadian cities as Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver? This article points out how the Canadian legacy of multiculturalism constitutes one key cause of the failure of left urban politics in Canada to produce yet anything approaching the promis…
Urban Marxism and the Post-colonial Question: Henri Lefebvre and ‘Colonisation’
The post-colonial has often functioned as a code word for a form of French post-theory. In more recent efforts to reconstruct linkages between metropolitan Marxism and counter-colonialism, the post-colonial refers to an open-ended research field for investigating the present weight of colonial histories. But even in these reformulations, post-colonial research presents formidable challenges to Euro-American urban Marxism. In this context, this pa…
The Desire Called Civil Society: A Contribution to the Critique of a Bourgeois Category
How does ‘civil society’ serve the Washington Consensus while also attracting the aspirations of left political activists and progressive planners? We address this troubling question by interrogating the concept of civil society, with due respect to the actual role played by civil society in the development of capitalism. Based on close readings of Hegel, Marx and planning theory dealing with it, we also argue that the discourse of civil society …
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Glen Sean Coulthard. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 256 pp., index, notes. $22.50 paper (ISBN 978-0-8166-7965-2); $67.50 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8166-7964-5).Red Skin, White Masks
The Future of Planning at the ‘ End of History ’
The hegemony of neoliberalism now poses a fundamental challenge to planners worldwide. Most influential in this regard has been Francis Fukuyama’s End of History ideology and its progenies – or mutations – such as the Third Way. A close reading of their proponents (especially Anthony Giddens) and critics (Perry Anderson, Pierre Bourdieu, Alex Callinicos, John Gray and others) with reference to the contrasting political-economic theories of Friedr…
Populism, nationalism and Marxism in Sri Lanka: From Anti-Colonial Struggle to Authoritarian Neoliberalism
This is a revised version of a presentation to the Vega Symposium on Resurgent Nationalisms and Populist Politics in the Neoliberal Age, held at the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, in April 2018. It is part of a Special Issue of Geografiska Annaler, Series B, which also includes an Introduction by Gillian Hart, articles by Gillian Hart and Tova Höjdestrand based on their contributions to the Symposium, and an edited transcript of a presen…
Aborted Identity: The Commission and Omission of a Monument to the Nation, Sri Lanka, circa 1989
Radical History Review - 2002, Issue 82
Urban studies, critical theory, radical politics: Eight theses for Peter Marcuse
The celebration of Peter Marcuse’s 80th birthday at the Right to the City conference in the fall of 2008 provided a poignant moment to reflect on the circumstances under which urban studies, critical theory and radical politics have come together so instructively in his own life and work. An adequate consideration of these involves not only the personal and political dimensions of his exemplary career, but also the world‐historical forces that tr…
Aborted Identity: The Commission and Omission of a Monument to the Nation, Sri Lanka, circa 1989
Radical History Review - 2002, Issue 82
The Future of Planning at the ‘ End of History ’
The hegemony of neoliberalism now poses a fundamental challenge to planners worldwide. Most influential in this regard has been Francis Fukuyama’s End of History ideology and its progenies – or mutations – such as the Third Way. A close reading of their proponents (especially Anthony Giddens) and critics (Perry Anderson, Pierre Bourdieu, Alex Callinicos, John Gray and others) with reference to the contrasting political-economic theories of Friedr…
Urban Space and Political Consciousness: A Report on Theory
How is space political? This article first highlights Marx and Engels’s contributions to this question, then examines how a later generation of Marxists exemplified by Manuel Castells and his theory of “ collective consumption” returned to it with decidedly structuralist and reductive readings of Marxism. In conclusion, the article outlines how Fredric Jameson’s work on postmodernism and “cognitive mapping” provides a more holistic Marxist approa…
The Desire Called Civil Society: A Contribution to the Critique of a Bourgeois Category
How does ‘civil society’ serve the Washington Consensus while also attracting the aspirations of left political activists and progressive planners? We address this troubling question by interrogating the concept of civil society, with due respect to the actual role played by civil society in the development of capitalism. Based on close readings of Hegel, Marx and planning theory dealing with it, we also argue that the discourse of civil society …
The Urban Sensorium: Space, Ideology and the Aestheticization of Politics
This essay outlines a theoretical framework for investigating the links between the production of urban space (Lefebvre) and the production of ideology (Althusser) and hegemony (Gramsci) by proposing the concept of “ the urban sensorium ”. With a view to the aesthetics of urban experience and everyday life, this concept aligns Fredric Jameson's “postmodern” adaptation of city planner Kevin Lynch's research on “cognitive mapping” with Walter Benja…
Spaces of Difference: Reflections from Toronto on Multiculturalism, Bourgeois Urbanism and the Possibility of Radical Urban Politics
What explains the lack of what Mike Davis famously called 'magical urbanism'- referring to the increasingly influential and potentially radical role played by Latino immigrants in US politics - in such diverse Canadian cities as Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver? This article points out how the Canadian legacy of multiculturalism constitutes one key cause of the failure of left urban politics in Canada to produce yet anything approaching the promis…
Colonization and the New Imperialism: On the Meaning of Urbicide Today
Colonization and the New Imperialism: On the Meaning of Urbicide Today Stefan Kipfer (bio) and Kanishka Goonewardena (bio) The prevalence of liberal cosmopolitan assumptions in current intellectual formations has been subjected to intense scrutiny. Timothy Brennan,1 for example, has analyzed cosmopolitanism as an “intellectual flow” connecting academic debates and media discourses with transnational corporate and public policy circles as well as …
Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre
Stefan Kipfer, Christian Schmid, Kanishka Goonewardena and Richard Milgrom
Guy Debord by Andy Merrifield Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction by Andy Merrifield
Spontaneous Romantics of the World, Just Do It! I've never met Andy Merrifield, and if one day I am lucky enough to meet the man who wrote Metromarxism and The Wisdom of Donkeys, I hope it won't be in some conference room. A pub will be the more appropriate place to greet a writer so intoxicating, especially when discoursing on a couple of iconoclastic French Marxists who loved booze as much as revolution. The older of these two men evidently enj…
Urban studies, critical theory, radical politics: Eight theses for Peter Marcuse
The celebration of Peter Marcuse’s 80th birthday at the Right to the City conference in the fall of 2008 provided a poignant moment to reflect on the circumstances under which urban studies, critical theory and radical politics have come together so instructively in his own life and work. An adequate consideration of these involves not only the personal and political dimensions of his exemplary career, but also the world‐historical forces that tr…
Henri Lefebvre
This chapter contains sections titled: Who is Lefebvre? Space, Time, Revolution Open Marxism Uses of Alienation Aesthetics and Politics For and Against the PCF Humanism Reading Hegel Praxis Total Man What is Revolution? Moments and Situations Everyday Life The Bureaucratic Society of Controlled Consumption The Urban Revolution Space and Dialectics State and Revolution Totality Whither Lefebvre? Bibliography
X marks the spot: Marxist intercourse and Kantian anarchism in Kojin Karatani
In this commentary Kanishka Goonewardena and Reecia Orzeck analyze the theoretical, political, and practical implications of Kojin Karatani’s valorization of the mode of exchange relative to the mode of production
Henri Lefebvre, State, Space, World: Selected Essays – Edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden
Urban Marxism and the Post-colonial Question: Henri Lefebvre and ‘Colonisation’
The post-colonial has often functioned as a code word for a form of French post-theory. In more recent efforts to reconstruct linkages between metropolitan Marxism and counter-colonialism, the post-colonial refers to an open-ended research field for investigating the present weight of colonial histories. But even in these reformulations, post-colonial research presents formidable challenges to Euro-American urban Marxism. In this context, this pa…
Implosions /Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization
In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes. Drawing together classic and contemporary texts on the “urbanization question”, this book explores various theoretical, epistemological, methodological and political implications of Lefebvre’s hypothesis. It assem…
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Glen Sean Coulthard. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 256 pp., index, notes. $22.50 paper (ISBN 978-0-8166-7965-2); $67.50 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8166-7964-5).Red Skin, White Masks
Planetary urbanization and totality
This paper begins with the accusation of "totalization" that has been directed at Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid's concept of "planetary urbanization." In so doing, it first critiques the meanings typically attributed to "totality" and "totalization" by Brenner and Schmid as well as their critics, and then explicates the concepts of totality and totalization developed in the tradition of Hegelian Marxism, especially in the works of Georg Lukác…
Production of Space/Lefebvre
The production of space is a concept produced by the prolific French Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), who proposed a novel conception of totality as a mediated articulation of three levels of social reality: the immediate level of everyday life; the intermediate level of the urban; and the global or the most general level of state and capital. The strategic mediating position occupied by spatial production in this Lefebvrean view o…
Henri Lefebvre e il diritto alla città: Storia, teoria, politica
The article examines the history, theory and politics of Henri Lefebvre’s notion of the to the arguing that this notion is best understood in relation to the author’s studies of the state, capital and everyday life. It begins with the placement of Lefebvre’s writings on urbanization and space within the totality of his critical-theoretical work. The following is a brief account of the circumstances - historical, spatial and political - under whic…
Populism, nationalism and Marxism in Sri Lanka: From Anti-Colonial Struggle to Authoritarian Neoliberalism
This is a revised version of a presentation to the Vega Symposium on Resurgent Nationalisms and Populist Politics in the Neoliberal Age, held at the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, in April 2018. It is part of a Special Issue of Geografiska Annaler, Series B, which also includes an Introduction by Gillian Hart, articles by Gillian Hart and Tova Höjdestrand based on their contributions to the Symposium, and an edited transcript of a presen…
Comrade Santos
David Harvey, geography and Marxism
This essay engages with David Harvey: A Critical Introduction to his Thought by Noel Castree, Greig Charnock and Brett Christophers (CCC), the most panoramic, rigorous and insightful study of the leading Marxist geographer of the last half century. After underlining the impressive qualities of this book that make it an immensely rewarding reading for both experts and newcomers in the field of critical geography, the reading of David Harvey offere…
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