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Reimagining Class in Australia: Marxism, Populism and Social Science

Autor Henry Paternoster
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 oct 2017
This book re-evaluates New Left and Marxist texts from the 1980s, in order to explore problems facing the study of ‘class’ which have emerged within Australian and international theories. The author contrasts the popular ideas of Connell, Bourdieu and the ‘Death of Class’ thesis, with those of lesser known texts, concluding that no single definition can account for the various historical meanings of class. Instead, loosely following Castoriadis, the concept of class can best be understood as creatively imagined and institutionalised. Paternoster proposes that class is best studied through historical phenomenology, which can be used to link political economy, cultural sociology and anthropological ethnographies. This approach allows the contributions of Marxist and New Left authors to be reintegrated with contemporary theories. Doing so highlights the significance of labour populism, while cautioning against the ahistorical applications of texts such as Bourdieu’s Distinction.

Reimagining Class in Australia will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, history, political economy and anthropology.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319554495
ISBN-10: 3319554492
Pagini: 234
Ilustrații: XI, 279 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Introduction.- Chapter 1:Imagining class in Australian history.- Chapter 2: The New Left and Marxism.- Chapter 3: Connell and Irving’s Class Structure in Australian History.- Chapter 4: Andrew Wells’ Constructing Capitalism and political economy.- Chapter 5: Andrew Metcalfe and working class consciousness.- Chapter 6:The Death of Class and its afterlife.- Conclusion: Reimagining Class.


Notă biografică

Henry Paternoster is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

This book re-evaluates New Left and Marxist texts from the 1980s, in order to explore problems facing the study of ‘class’ which have emerged within Australian and international theories. The author contrasts the popular ideas of Connell, Bourdieu and the ‘Death of Class’ thesis, with those of lesser known texts, concluding that no single definition can account for the various historical meanings of class. Instead, loosely following Castoriadis, the concept of class can best be understood as creatively imagined and institutionalised. Paternoster proposes that class is best studied through historical phenomenology, which can be used to link political economy, cultural sociology and anthropological ethnographies. This approach allows the contributions of Marxist and New Left authors to be reintegrated with contemporary theories. Doing so highlights the significance of labour populism, while cautioning against the ahistorical applications of texts such as Boudieu’s Distinction.

Reimagining Class in Australia will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, history, political economy and anthropology.



Caracteristici

Offers a new critique and appraisal of the successes and failures of Marxist class analysis of Australia during the 1980s
Considers how contemporary Australian society can be understood from a historical perspective as shaped by class analysis
Engages with works by Raewyn Connell and Terence Irving, Andrew Wells, and Andrew Metcalfe
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras