Gramsci's Common Sense

Crehan, Kate

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“…Second, it implies thinking more contingently about how knowledge and power are articulated -and their relationship to fields of political contestation and activation. How might the "good sense" (rather than the "common sense") of people be animated and activated (Crehan 2016)? Third, it implies thinking about conjunctures as heterogeneous -made up of contradictory, antagonistic and divergent forces and tendencies.…”

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The instabilities of expertise: remaking knowledge, power and politics in unsettled times

Newman

Clarke

2017

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The instabilities of expertise: remaking knowledge, power and politics in unsettled times

Newman

Clarke

2017

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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“…In this, there are echoes of Gramsci's view that “common sense” is a “collective noun”—and is composed of a variety of “traces’” (Gramsci, , p.325; see also Billig, , pp. 324–325; see also Crehan, ). Brexit marked a “return of the repressed” as Vote Leave found ways to talk about the problems and dangers of difference, otherness, and foreignness.…”

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What's the subject? Brexit and politics as articulation

Clarke

Newman

2019

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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This paper focuses on the moment of Brexit and its political aftermath in order to challenge dominant academic and popular conceptions of the political subject as singular and coherent. Instead, we suggest that there is an urgent political and analytical need for a view of the subject as multiple, contradictory, and dialogic. As interdisciplinary scholars working on the borders of policy studies and cultural studies, we think this is a critical site for transdisciplinary conversations about such conceptions of the subject. In the political field, such subjects are selectively and unevenly addressed and mobilized by political projects-such as Vote Leave-that invite them to recognize themselves as part of an imagined collective identity. In the twin disturbances of the European Union referendum and the 2017 general election, we suggest that it is possible to see that other voicings, other identifications, and other projects remain possible. Specific political mobilizations are neither singular nor stable.

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“…However, the authors' engagement with common sense, our central analytical interest, has remained somewhat peripheral. Therefore, our narrative analysis, albeit methodologically close to Laclau and Mouffe's oeuvre, is conceptually based on Kate Crehan's (2011Crehan's ( , 2016 and Itay Snir's (2016) work on Gramscian commonsense and its application as a conceptual tool for understanding continuity and change in modern societies.…”

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Slowing the treadmill for a good life for All? German trade union narratives and social-ecological transformation

Keil

Kreinin

2022

Journal of Industrial Relations

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The “treadmill of production” economic system increasingly threatens to undermine the foundations of future human welfare. While urgent action is needed, conceptualisations of “the good life” (TGL) as the “imperial mode of living” (IML) of overconsumption are justifications upholding the system and driving forces behind the crises. German trade unions, which, as part of the historic bloc of the growth coalition, have tried to delay climate action in the name of jobs through “praising work”, have supported the hegemonic common sense of IML-TGL. This is an obstacle to environmental union organisation and progressive coalitions for social-ecological transformation. To investigate whether and to what extent divergent good sense counter-hegemonic narratives are present within German trade union discourses, we analyse the narratives of TGL and good work within the three biggest German unions – ver.di, IG Metall, and IG BCE – using Gramsci’s theory of common sense. We find that counter-narratives of TGL are present to different degrees within the unions and amongst interviewees. These can provide entry points for counter-hegemonic narratives of TGL and alliances with societal actors fighting for “solidary modes of living”, or a Good Life for All within planetary boundaries.

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Gramsci's Common Sense

Cited by 82 publications

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The instabilities of expertise: remaking knowledge, power and politics in unsettled times

The instabilities of expertise: remaking knowledge, power and politics in unsettled times

What's the subject? Brexit and politics as articulation

Slowing the treadmill for a good life for All? German trade union narratives and social-ecological transformation

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