Luis Moreno-Caballud
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781781381939
- eISBN:
- 9781781382295
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381939.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This book studies the emergence of collaborative and non-hierarchical cultures in the context of the Spanish economic crisis of 2008. It explains how peer-to-peer social networks that have arisen ...
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This book studies the emergence of collaborative and non-hierarchical cultures in the context of the Spanish economic crisis of 2008. It explains how peer-to-peer social networks that have arisen online and through social movements such as the Indignados have challenged a longstanding cultural tradition of intellectual elitism and capitalist technocracy in Spain. From the establishment of a technocratic and consumerist culture during the second part of the Franco dictatorship to the transition to neoliberalism that accompanied the ‘transition to democracy’, intellectuals and ‘experts’ have legitimized contemporary Spanish history as a series of unavoidable steps in a process of ‘modernization’. But when unemployment skyrocketed and a growing number of people began to feel that the consequences of this Spanish ‘modernization’ had increasingly led to precariousness, this paradigm collapsed. In the wake of Spain's financial meltdown of 2008, new ‘cultures of anyone’ have emerged around the idea that the people affected by or involved in a situation should be the ones to participate in changing it. Growing through grassroots social movements, digital networks, and spaces traditionally reserved for ‘high culture’ and institutional politics, these cultures promote processes of empowerment and collaborative learning that allow the development of the abilities and knowledge base of ‘anyone’, regardless of their economic status or institutional affiliations.Less
This book studies the emergence of collaborative and non-hierarchical cultures in the context of the Spanish economic crisis of 2008. It explains how peer-to-peer social networks that have arisen online and through social movements such as the Indignados have challenged a longstanding cultural tradition of intellectual elitism and capitalist technocracy in Spain. From the establishment of a technocratic and consumerist culture during the second part of the Franco dictatorship to the transition to neoliberalism that accompanied the ‘transition to democracy’, intellectuals and ‘experts’ have legitimized contemporary Spanish history as a series of unavoidable steps in a process of ‘modernization’. But when unemployment skyrocketed and a growing number of people began to feel that the consequences of this Spanish ‘modernization’ had increasingly led to precariousness, this paradigm collapsed. In the wake of Spain's financial meltdown of 2008, new ‘cultures of anyone’ have emerged around the idea that the people affected by or involved in a situation should be the ones to participate in changing it. Growing through grassroots social movements, digital networks, and spaces traditionally reserved for ‘high culture’ and institutional politics, these cultures promote processes of empowerment and collaborative learning that allow the development of the abilities and knowledge base of ‘anyone’, regardless of their economic status or institutional affiliations.
Yuri Pines
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691134956
- eISBN:
- 9781400842278
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691134956.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter explores the reasons for the recurrence of large-scale popular uprisings throughout imperial history. It considers how the idea of rebellion correlates with fundamental principles of ...
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This chapter explores the reasons for the recurrence of large-scale popular uprisings throughout imperial history. It considers how the idea of rebellion correlates with fundamental principles of Chinese political culture, such as monarchism and intellectual elitism. Moreover, the chapter looks at why the rebellions serve to support rather than disrupt the empire's longevity. These issues are then related to the broader issue of the political role of the “people,” here referring primarily, although not exclusively, to the lower strata, in the Chinese imperial enterprise. In answering these questions, this chapter focuses on ideological and social factors that both legitimated rebellions and also enabled their accommodation within the imperial enterprise.Less
This chapter explores the reasons for the recurrence of large-scale popular uprisings throughout imperial history. It considers how the idea of rebellion correlates with fundamental principles of Chinese political culture, such as monarchism and intellectual elitism. Moreover, the chapter looks at why the rebellions serve to support rather than disrupt the empire's longevity. These issues are then related to the broader issue of the political role of the “people,” here referring primarily, although not exclusively, to the lower strata, in the Chinese imperial enterprise. In answering these questions, this chapter focuses on ideological and social factors that both legitimated rebellions and also enabled their accommodation within the imperial enterprise.
Menachem Kellner
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781904113294
- eISBN:
- 9781800340381
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781904113294.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter explores the difference between Jews and non-Jews. One of the first Jewish thinkers to emphasize that the distinction resides in a property shared by Jews and lacking in non-Jews is ...
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This chapter explores the difference between Jews and non-Jews. One of the first Jewish thinkers to emphasize that the distinction resides in a property shared by Jews and lacking in non-Jews is Judah Halevi; he called this property the amr al-ilahi. Halevi was also the first to teach the doctrine that Jews by birth are innately superior to non-Jews. Maimonides rejected Halevi's position. In his eyes, human beings are human beings; there are not different species of human beings. He is, perhaps, the most consistent universalist in medieval Judaism. This universalism is, from a contemporary perspective, bought at a high price: profound intellectual elitism. In order to understand Maimonides' position on these matters, one must glance at his theory of the soul. According to Maimonides, human beings are born with differing capacities to learn and to know; to the extent that human beings actualize that capacity by learning abstract truths, they have actual intellects — they have thus actually acquired an intellect. The chapter then considers the question of who an Israelite is.Less
This chapter explores the difference between Jews and non-Jews. One of the first Jewish thinkers to emphasize that the distinction resides in a property shared by Jews and lacking in non-Jews is Judah Halevi; he called this property the amr al-ilahi. Halevi was also the first to teach the doctrine that Jews by birth are innately superior to non-Jews. Maimonides rejected Halevi's position. In his eyes, human beings are human beings; there are not different species of human beings. He is, perhaps, the most consistent universalist in medieval Judaism. This universalism is, from a contemporary perspective, bought at a high price: profound intellectual elitism. In order to understand Maimonides' position on these matters, one must glance at his theory of the soul. According to Maimonides, human beings are born with differing capacities to learn and to know; to the extent that human beings actualize that capacity by learning abstract truths, they have actual intellects — they have thus actually acquired an intellect. The chapter then considers the question of who an Israelite is.
Kevin Meehan
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604732818
- eISBN:
- 9781604732825
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604732818.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter explores the tradition of dialogue and collaboration between African American and Caribbean people for the purposes of liberation. Since 1942, African American and Caribbean solidarity ...
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This chapter explores the tradition of dialogue and collaboration between African American and Caribbean people for the purposes of liberation. Since 1942, African American and Caribbean solidarity has been a highly developed force in creating decolonizing social change. But the solidarity between these two racial groups was not free of hardships and misunderstandings, as both races also struggled with the issues of intellectual elitism, sexism, national chauvinism, and disdain.Less
This chapter explores the tradition of dialogue and collaboration between African American and Caribbean people for the purposes of liberation. Since 1942, African American and Caribbean solidarity has been a highly developed force in creating decolonizing social change. But the solidarity between these two racial groups was not free of hardships and misunderstandings, as both races also struggled with the issues of intellectual elitism, sexism, national chauvinism, and disdain.
