This article will explore the prospects of and obstacles to the development of a transnational workers' solidarity movement in the Baltic Sea region in order to meet the challenges posed by transnational capital. The question is examined through a situational analysis of events taking place during a few hours at the Hotel Hafen in Hamburg on 10 November 2010. The subject of the analysis, which is based on personal observation and sound recordings, is the tripartite Steering Committee meeting of the Baltic Sea Labour Network (BSLN). The meeting's primary task was to formulate a statement about transnational strategies and tactics on which the parties—politicians, representatives of the employers and workers' delegations—could agree. The analysis explores the different parties' power resources in the negotiation process, and especially the workers' delegates' ability to pursue a course based on class solidarity. At each stage, we can observe how statements are formulated in an area of tension characterized by unequal power relationships and conflicting discourses in the form of neocolonial, national, transnational (class/region), and the EU's neoliberal and consensus-governed partnership discourses.
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Mats Lindqvist
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 May 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 273–274 (1 total)
American dreams and Brazilian racial democracy
The making of race and class in Brazil and the United States
Sean T. Mitchell
The extensive literature critiquing the weakness of cross-class Afro-Brazilian solidarity is perhaps equaled in size by the structurally similar literature on the weakness of cross-race working-class solidarity in the United States. For many critics, marginalized or exploited people in Brazil and the United States do not have the political consciousness they ought to have, given apparently objective conditions. What if we started, instead, from E. P. Thompson's insight that class is a “cultural as much as an economic formation,” that it is “a relationship and not a thing,” acknowledging that political consciousness is the partially contingent result of culturally specific struggles and utopias, as much as of determinate historical conditions? Drawing on ethnographic research on conflicts between Afro-Brazilian villagers and Brazil's spaceport, supplemented by comparative data on the mobilization around inequalities in Brazil and in the United States, this article sketches a comparative anthropology of political consciousness that attempts to avoid the objectivizing pitfalls of the genre.
Militant collectivity
Building solidarities in the Maoist movement in Nepal
Dan V. Hirslund
A stubborn, anticapitalist movement, Maoism has persisted in the global periphery for the many past decades despite its tainted image as a progressive alterpolitical platform. This article seeks to ponder why this is the case by looking at a recent and popular example of leftist radical politics in the MLM tradition. I argue that contemporary Nepali Maoism is offering a militant, collectivist, antiliberal model for confronting capitalist and state hegemony in an effort to forge new class solidarities. Responding to a changed political environment for continuing its program of socialist revolution, I trace how the Maoist party's efforts at building a mass movement become centered on the question of organization, and in particular the requirements of what I term an ethical organization. Through an analysis of how caste and gender equalities are institutionalized within the movement, and the various ways in which collectivity becomes linked to concrete practices, the article offers an ethnographic analysis of contested egalitarian agency within a movement undergoing rapid change.
Anti-social security
The changing contours of the hegemonic field in the twenty-first-century United States
Jeff Maskovsky
at best as a troublesome diversion from, and at worst a threat to, a new working-class politics ( Willis 2014 ). But the liberal leftist desire for class solidarity ignores, of course, the concrete realities of race, gender, sexual, class, and
Comment: Socialism's Mal(e)contents
Masculinity as Performance Art in Postwar and Late Socialism
Marko Dumančić
utilized terms that sounded prerevolutionary “but also demanding working-class solidarity, gender egalitarianism, or love itself, as moral goods.” 3 The normative and proscriptive standards about gender expectations in the post-Stalinist period remained
Peter Levine
to show up, now that we are here. Class solidarity and social critique are also involved, since the year-round residents of the island are more likely to be low-income working people than the visitors who have second homes here (notwithstanding
In Democratic Theory
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Article Commentary
- Pages:
- 134–142 (9 total)
Katie Higgins and Sarah Kunz
and institutions of global capitalism, such as Wall Street. Both books also demonstrate the ongoing importance and contemporary mechanisms of elite closure and the forging of class solidarity, whether it operates through a national upper class
Blaming in the Boom and Bust
Greed Accusations in an Australian Coal Mining Town
Kari Dahlgren
built on a slightly elevated section of the town, colloquially referred to as ‘Snob Hill’. While housing was a material marker of class division, it also became a focal point for various instances of class solidarity and labour organizing throughout the
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 90–109 (20 total)
Leif Lewin
measurement problems. The act of voting not only expresses “preferences” but also concerns class solidarity, party identification, and voters’ evaluation of candidates’ traits. How a person votes does not always tell us about that person’s views on a
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 49–65 (17 total)