Interrogating the Future

Essays in Honour of David Fasenfest

Buch | Hardcover

316 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-54178-8 (ISBN)

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This volume is dedicated to honouring David Fasenfest, who has not only conducted political economy research spanning contexts from Detroit to Shanghai, but is also an editor of a social science journal and its related book series.

Honouring David Fasenfest, who has not only conducted research spanning contexts from Detroit to Shanghai but is also a long-standing editor both of a social science journal and of its related book series, this festschrift addresses issues central to political economy. These range from globalization, employment, migration, social justice, inequality, race/class, and urban poverty to Marxist theory, democracy, capitalism, neoliberalism, and socialism. In keeping with the editorial policy and ideas pursued by the honorand, the contributions emphasize the continuing need on the part of sociology to adopt a radically critical investigative approach to all these issues.

Contributors are: Hideo Aoki, Tom Brass, Michael Burawoy, Rodney D. Coates, Kevin R. Cox, Raju J. Das, Ricardo A. Dello Buono, Mahito Hayashi, Lauren Langman, Robert Latham, Ngai Pun and Alfredo Saad-Filho.

Tom Brass, D.Phil (1982), formerly lectured in the SPS Faculty at Cambridge University, has carried out fieldwork research in Latin America and India, and is the second-longest serving editor of The Journal of Peasant Studies. He has published numerous articles and books on agrarian development, including Transitions (Brill, 2023). Raju J. Das is Professor at York University, Toronto. He is on the Graduate Programmes in Social and Political Thought, Geography, Environmental Studies, and Development Studies. His teaching and research interests are in political economy, class relations, the state, uneven development, poverty, and politics of the Right and the Left. His most recent book is The Challenges of the New Social Democracy (Brill, 2023).

Acknowledgements

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Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction Interrogating the Future

Tom Brass and Raju J. Das

Part 1

2 Interview with David Fasenfest

Raju J. Das and Robert Latham

3 Thank You David A Tribute to a Mensch

Lauren Langman

4 Critical Evaluation of a Critical Scholar David Fasenfest

Rodney D. Coates

5 Marxist Sociology in Asia David Fasenfest’s Engagement with the Global South and China

Ngai Pun

6 The Politics of Coercion, the Coercion of Politics Thought Conversion in Pre-war Japan

Hideo Aoki

7 Profile of an Insurgent Sociologist

Ricardo A. Dello Buono

Part 2

8 Decolonizing Canons A Conversation with Chinese Sociologists

Michael Burawoy

9 What Does Capitalism ‘Know’? The Limits and Possibilities for Advancing Socialism in the 21st Century

Robert Latham

10 The Centrality of Marx to the Global Periphery

Raju J. Das

11 Crises in Neoliberalism Towards a Democratic Alternative

Alfredo Saad-Filho

12 A Vanishing Army? Redefining the Industrial Reserve

Tom Brass

13 Difference without End

Kevin R. Cox

14 Capitalist Housing Regimes and Homeless People A Relative Surplus Population of the City

Mahito Hayashi

Part 3

15 Postscript On the Continuing Necessity of (Marxist) Critique

Tom Brass

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Subject Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 287
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	650 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-54178-0 / 9004541780
ISBN-13	978-90-04-54178-8 / 9789004541788
Zustand	Neuware