The Parallax View

Žižek, Slavoj

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“…According to critical realism, "retroduction" constitutes the main method of inference, which means that events are explained by postulating (and identifying) the mechanisms that are capable of producing them. The retroduction employed in critical realism is closely associated with Hegel's dialectics of necessity and contingency that, as observed by Zižek (2008), considers universal necessity as always retroactive and emerging out of the radical contingency of the process. Realist scholars are therefore expected to examine beyond the standard linear historical time and deal with the paradox of "a contingent actual emergency which retroactively creates its own possibility, in other words, only when the thing takes place can we 'see' how it was possible" (Žižek 2008:180).…”

Section: Research Background and Methodsologymentioning

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Applying the Strategic‐Relational Approach to Urban Political Ecology: The Water Management Problems of the Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ioris

2011

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The complexity of water management requires an explanatory framework that is able to capture the multidimensionality of the relations between nature and society increasingly mediated by the state. The evolution of water problems in the Baixada Fluminense, a wetland area situated to the north of Rio de Janeiro, provides a paradigmatic example of how water management becomes incorporated into the fluid politics between state, nature and society. The local experience is examined by making use of the strategicrelational approach (after Bob Jessop) expanded to urban political ecology. The concept of "trialectics" is proposed as an ontological representation of the interconnections between the state apparatus, class-based relations and the socionatural elements of the water cycle. The empirical results show that, in a situation of precarious water supply, regular flooding and severe river degradation, state interventions have tended to favour certain groups and areas, which only intensifies the politicisation of water management.

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Applying the Strategic‐Relational Approach to Urban Political Ecology: The Water Management Problems of the Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ioris

2011

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“…A wide variety of acts may be considered resistive, including the drawing of political cartoons (Sharp et al 2000), public protest, or infrastructural sabotage (Rose 2002). Some Marxist scholars criticize popular methods of resistance that seek greater inclusion in, or make demands on, the current political-economic system; they argue that such efforts amount to playing by the existing rules and surrendering to the logic of those who already use power in oppressive ways (Žižek 2004;Virno and Ricciardi 2005;Harvey 2008;Swyngedouw 2010aSwyngedouw , 2011. This dissatisfaction leads Swyngedouw (2011) to call for a stronger, more powerful, and more radical resistance to capitalism that may be able to redefine what is possible in transformative politics.…”

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“…Scholarship on alternative economies, including cooperatives, informal community economies, local currencies, collective property structures, and alternative media outlets, among other initiatives, has proliferated in recent years (DeFilippis 2003;Gibson-Graham 2003;Pickerill and Chatterton 2006;Healy and Graham 2008;Shantz 2009Shantz , 2013Wright 2010;White and Williams 2012). While alternative economies are often hailed for their ability to construct new, liberatory relationships that displace those that produce injustice, critics have noted how these new institutions sometimes operate in oppressive ways that actually reproduce historical inequalities (Žižek 2004;Curry 2005;Kelly 2005;Samers 2005). This important point has led some scholars to call for a more critical examination of alternative economies and more careful delineation between the types of alternative economies that exist.…”

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Against Power? Distinguishing Between Acquisitive Resistance and Subversion

Pierce

Williams

2016

Geografiska Annaler Series B

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Critiques of contemporary political‐economic formations, while grounded in an array of theoretical traditions, have often centered on strategies for relocating power (as embodied in accumulated wealth, control of labor and corporate entities, or the state) in institutions that are nominally more egalitarian or democratic. Such alternative institutions are intended to better represent those who have been historically harmed by the use of power. This article argues for an analytical distinction between such strategies of capturing power on behalf of those without it, and strategies for reducing power differentials directly or annihilating the capacity to accumulate power. We adopt the analytical term subversion to describe these latter efforts to reduce the intensity of, and undermine the capacity to reproduce or deepen, power relationships. Rather than focusing on redistribution or inversion of asymmetrical power relations to benefit the disempowered, subversive strategies work toward decreasing the possibility of accumulating power or, in the extreme case, completely evacuating existing unequal power relations. Thinking about political engagement in terms of limiting the possibility of asymmetrical power relationships (regardless of who holds that power) helps to illuminate a distinction between reactive politics against injustice and proactive politics that pursue alternative, increasingly just conceptual norms. We draw on threads in critical, political, and urban geographies to articulate a particularly geographic concept of “fleeing‐in‐place” as subversive resistance to hegemony, the undermining of the possibility of asymmetrical socio‐spatial power relations within existing contemporary political economies. We propose strategies for research that better highlight the differences between resistance and subversion.

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“…Whilst for some authors much the same thing is meant by self and subjectivity a key shift in contemporary social theory has been towards seeing the individual caught up in more or less committed participation in a multitude of discursive activity (Butler 2005;Žižek 2006). That is, individuals partake in social languages that more or less fit what they are trying to say but the individual is obliged to use these languages if they are to be included in social exchanges.…”

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Signifying “students”, “teachers” and “mathematics”: a reading of a special issue

Brown

2008

Educ Stud Math

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This paper examines a Special Issue of Educational Studies in Mathematics comprising research reports centred on Peircian semiotics in mathematics education, written by some of the major authors in the area. The paper is targeted at inspecting how subjectivity is understood, or implied, in those reports. It seeks to delineate how the conceptions of subjectivity suggested are defined as a result of their being a function of the domain within which the authors reflexively situate themselves. The paper first considers how such understandings shape concepts of mathematics, students and teachers. It then explores how the research domain is understood by the authors as suggested through their implied positioning in relation to teachers, teacher educators, researchers and other potential readers.

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The Parallax View

Cited by 969 publications

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Applying the Strategic‐Relational Approach to Urban Political Ecology: The Water Management Problems of the Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Applying the Strategic‐Relational Approach to Urban Political Ecology: The Water Management Problems of the Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Against Power? Distinguishing Between Acquisitive Resistance and Subversion

Signifying “students”, “teachers” and “mathematics”: a reading of a special issue

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