Gramsci's Political Thought

Coutinho, Carlos Nelson

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“…A noted scholar who has written on the topic of scientific progress, Kuhn (1996) characterizes this redistribution of old and new ideas as moving away from operating in a “normal science” mode of inquiry toward one that represents a “paradigm shift.” Other scholars would describe the statement by Keynes in terms of intellectual humility – that is, avoiding the fundamentalist tendency of believing a single perspective or approach (i.e., the one you, as an individual scientist holds) is the only one that is “right” (Rauch, 1993). Still others would relate to Keynes' statement on sociopolitical or cultural fronts, whereby clinging to “old” ideas represents a culturally hegemonic practice to maintain status, power, or control by marginalizing or minimizing the potential of new ideas (Coutinho, 2013; Lears, 1985). In practical and scientific proposal-writing terms, this means remaining open to the possibility that the community perspectives and needs, and the theories and methods embraced by each of the academic team members have the potential to advance the understanding of the phenomenon of interest in new and progressive ways.…”

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Nurse scientists overcoming challenges to lead transdisciplinary research teams

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Increasingly, scientific funding agencies are requiring that researchers move toward an integrated, transdisciplinary team science paradigm. While the barriers to and rewards of conducting this type of research have been discussed in the literature, examples of how nurse investigators have led these teams to reconcile the differences in theoretical, methodological, and/or analytic perspectives that inevitably exist are lacking. In this article, we describe these developmental trajectory challenges through a case study of one transdisciplinary team, focusing on team member characteristics and the leadership tasks associated with successful transdisciplinary science teams in the literature. Specifically, we describe how overcoming these challenges has been essential to examining the complex, and potentially cumulative effects that key intersections between legal, social welfare, and labor market systems may have on the health of disadvantaged women. Finally, we discuss this difficult, but rewarding work within the context of lessons learned and transdisciplinary team research in relation to the future of nursing science.

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“…Coutinho () claims that the key features of passive revolution are, therefore (a) the strengthening of the state in relation to civil society and (b) the process of co‐optation of elements from below through the practice of transformism . Thus, even if leadership is enacted more through state forms, when understood through the delicate balance between consent and coercion, consensual forms of leadership are never absent within passive revolution.…”

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“…Having established that Gramsci invites an extension of the concept of passive revolution through his own method, Coutinho () goes on to develop a relational understanding of the state form within Brazil. Coutinho's approach here accords with other efforts to extend passive revolution not through the amassing of various ‘case studies’ but through a careful method of relational comparison as in the work of Hart ().…”

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“…This response consisted of a detailed reconnaissance of the specific conditions through which a revolutionary social transformation might be possible within the ‘West’. Indeed the ‘guiding thread that organizes all of Gramsci's carceral research’ (Thomas , 136) can be understood in terms of this need for translatability in the context of the specific conditions generated by passive revolution: it ‘can be succinctly characterized as the search for an adequate theory of proletarian hegemony in the epoch of the “organic crisis” or the “passive revolution” of the bourgeois “integral State” ’ (, 136, emphasis in original; Coutinho (, 50) makes a very similar point). Translation becomes crucial to this search for an adequate theory.…”

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Africa's passive revolution: crisis in Malawi

Brooks

Loftus

2016

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Recent protest movements in sub-Saharan Africa have generally failed to effect progressive transformations. Efforts to achieve social change have been frustrated by governing elites that continue to utilise their vacillating and unequal relationships with the external environment to sustain power. Although the leading figures may change, the dominant African class can re-establish leadership through new alliances with domestic and international networks of capital. To understand such 'change-without-change', this paper contributes to the growing body of literature on Antonio Gramsci's development of 'passive revolution'. The comparative character of Gramscian analysis enables his philosophy of praxis to be translated into very different historical and geographical settings. With this in mind we draw together recent engagements with passive revolution from Geography, Politics and African Studies. In particular we develop Jean-Franc ßois Bayart's notion of extraversion, while considering it in relation to more recent philological engagements with Gramsci. Our empirical focus is the politics of transition in Malawi. In his second term in office, the autocratic and unpopular president, Bingu wa Mutharika, implemented economic policies that ran against neoliberal orthodoxy and suppressed protest during a period of crisis. Mutharika was replaced, following his death in 2012, by Joyce Banda, a previously marginalised vice-president, who nurtured a re-engagement with transnational capital. Working through the state, Banda led a transformation from on high and moved to impose new economically liberal policies, including a major currency devaluation, which reduced living standards for many. We draw our empirical material from Chancellor College, a major site of protest against Mutharika in 2011. Evidence from interviews with staff and students demonstrates how two episodes of revolution/restoration in Malawi, a country distant from the western historical experience, can be interpreted through Gramsci's socially differentiated understanding of politics.

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“…Gramsci’s work subsequently became a touchstone for challenging Soviet orthodoxy, and instead providing a specifically national (as well as regional) analysis of political realities (e.g. Agosti ; Árico ; Coutinho ; Murmis and Portantiero ; Portantiero ; Zavaleta ). Gramsci has also been a highly influential figure in the realm of cultural studies in Latin America, most notably in analysing subaltern and hegemonic cultural forms, and understanding the role of social movements in relation to these questions (Canclini ; Dagnino ; Hesketh ; Rodríguez ).…”

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A Gramscian Conjuncture in Latin America? Reflections on Violence, Hegemony, and Geographical Difference

Hesketh

2019

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This article addresses whether the concepts of Antonio Gramsci still "travel" to Latin America. During the 20 th century, Gramsci was one of the most important social theorists invoked to understand forms of social order in Latin America, as well as providing resources to reflect upon subaltern culture, resistance and the construction of alternatives. However, over the past two decades there have been several theoretical and practical challenges to the hegemony of Gramsci. These challenges are multifarious, but can be reduced to several important contentions that are explored in this article. These include the enduring role of violence, the alleged decline of ideology and finally the challenge of state-centrism in the face of geographical difference. In the current regional conjuncture, marked by the return to power of right-wing social forces, I therefore examine whether Gramscian concepts are still apposite for understanding the political economy of Latin America in the 21 st century.Resumen: Este art ıculo aborda si los conceptos de Antonio Gramsci todav ıa "viajan" a Am erica Latina. Durante el siglo veinte, Gramsci fue uno de los te oricos sociales m as importantes que se ha invocado para entender las formas de orden social en Am erica Latina, as ı como un proveedor de recursos que reflexiona sobre la cultura subalterna, la resistencia y la construci on de alternativas. Sin embargo, durante las ultimas dos d ecadas, han habido algunos desaf ıos te oricos y pr acticos del concepto de hegemon ıa de Gramsci. Esos desaf ıos son m ultiples, pero pueden ser reducidos a varias discusiones importantes que son investigadas en este art ıculo. Estas incluyen el papel duradero de la violencia, la supuesta decadencia de la ideolog ıa y finalmente el reto del estado-centrismo frente a las diferencias geograficas. Por lo tanto, en la actual coyuntura regional, marcada por el regreso al poder de las fuerzas sociales de la derecha, yo analizo si los conceptos de Gramsci todav ıa son apropiados para entender la econom ıa pol ıtica de Am erica Latin en el siglo veintiuno.

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Gramsci's Political Thought

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Nurse scientists overcoming challenges to lead transdisciplinary research teams

Nurse scientists overcoming challenges to lead transdisciplinary research teams

Africa's passive revolution: crisis in Malawi

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