Parallaxes: Revolutions and "Revolution" in a Globalized Imaginary
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Parallaxes : Revolutions and "Revolution" in a Globalized Imaginary. / Parker, Maxwell Noel Lewis.
The Future of Revolutions: rethinking political and social change in the age of globalization. ed. / John Foran. London : Zed Books, 2003. p. 42-56.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Parallaxes
T2 - Revolutions and "Revolution" in a Globalized Imaginary
AU - Parker, Maxwell Noel Lewis
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - I suggest that three elements in the earlier revolutionary narrative can be expected to survive the new globalization: the prospect/threat of change; the belief that a challenge can be mounted against some arbiter of power or other, and a corresponding expectation of capacity on the part of some human group or other to reconstruct society for the better. It is the last two that require close attention. The target for challenge, and the corresponding agent to make any challenge, are now problematic. The first has long been the easier of these two to identify. Indeed, it is not too much to say that the second has often been a derivative of the first: i.e. the people of the nation could be identified as the agents of a challenge because they had first been the subject of the unifying power of a given state's institutions. The internationalist idea that it was the given class that was the agent of challenge and change was always far less firmly grounded in socio-political organization than the idea that the nation governed by the given state was that agent -- though the two ideas have been successfully combined. The key issue here is the formation of contending groups. We need to look afresh at the processes that identify the group and speculate about how that identification may happen under conditions of globalization.
AB - I suggest that three elements in the earlier revolutionary narrative can be expected to survive the new globalization: the prospect/threat of change; the belief that a challenge can be mounted against some arbiter of power or other, and a corresponding expectation of capacity on the part of some human group or other to reconstruct society for the better. It is the last two that require close attention. The target for challenge, and the corresponding agent to make any challenge, are now problematic. The first has long been the easier of these two to identify. Indeed, it is not too much to say that the second has often been a derivative of the first: i.e. the people of the nation could be identified as the agents of a challenge because they had first been the subject of the unifying power of a given state's institutions. The internationalist idea that it was the given class that was the agent of challenge and change was always far less firmly grounded in socio-political organization than the idea that the nation governed by the given state was that agent -- though the two ideas have been successfully combined. The key issue here is the formation of contending groups. We need to look afresh at the processes that identify the group and speculate about how that identification may happen under conditions of globalization.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - revolution
KW - popular movements
KW - political change
KW - globalization
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 1842770322
SP - 42
EP - 56
BT - The Future of Revolutions
A2 - Foran, John
PB - Zed Books
CY - London
ER -
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