... This case study, the first of three such chapters, considers Adam Smith, a leading intellectual of the Scottish Enlightenment, as an example of a bourgeois organic intellectual, part of the strata of intellectuals whom Gramsci sees as providing an emergent dominant class with “homogeneity...

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... This chapter explores Gramsci’s understanding of the nature and role of intellectuals. It explains his distinction between organic and traditional intellectuals, noting that Gramsci’s primary concern is not the individual thinker, but the social processes by which knowledge is produced...

... of the nature and role of intellectuals. It explains his distinction between organic and traditional intellectuals, noting that Gramsci’s primary concern is not the individual thinker, but the social processes by which knowledge is produced and distributed. Intellectuals in the notebooks are defined...

... Third World women (organic) intellectuals led the search for a new language to express and a theory to explain their everyday experiences as women of color, queers, poor, and migrants. The complexity of intersecting oppressions, they believed, better explained their condition than race alone...

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... of that class’s common sense. Organic intellectuals, defined not by their individual class origins, but by the degree to which, as intellectuals, they are part of the process by which the hegemony of a given class is achieved. Their role is to translate the inchoate, but powerfully felt, conceptions of the world...

...Case Studies This case study, the first of three such chapters, considers Adam Smith, a leading intellectual of the Scottish Enlightenment, as an example of a bourgeois organic intellectual, part of the strata of intellectuals whom Gramsci sees as providing an emergent dominant class...

... This chapter illustrates how a politics around access to essential medicines in India has come to be judicialized, as Indian courts have played a central role in defining the interpretation of India’s post-2005, World Trade Organization (WTO)–compliant intellectual property regime. It elaborates...

... Borrowing loosely from the Gramscian notion of “organic intellectual,” chapter 5 focuses on the interplay between peasant activism, political knowledge, and circuits of oral and written communication that flourished in the 1940s. Tracking several peasant organizers, this chapter shows how...

... Milton Brenes—who is a Costa Rican farmer, an organic intellectual, and a bricoleur—is re-creating a forest in collaboration with a multitude of plants, animals, and students on eleven hectares of derelict pasture near the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. Rather than focusing his efforts...

... to be developed and made coherent by the organic intellectuals a subaltern group brings into being as it emerges from subalternity. The notebooks’ rejection of any romanticism of common sense, and their author’s insistence on the need for a critical evaluation of common sense is stressed. Gramsci’s attitude...

... of Okinawa’s economy following the post-World War I recession and the establishment of Marxist organizations in the 1920s, which undermined the type of Okinawan solidarity that prominent local intellectuals like Ōta Chōfu and Oyadomari Kōei thought necessary for the attainment of economic recovery...

... for an internationalist politics and thought, inherently global from its outset, to overcome its seemingly fixed intellectual origins? What effects were exerted on this question when Marxist thought was undertaken elsewhere, in a situation with distinct divergences in political organization, the development of capitalism...

... the characterization of varied kinds of sociopolitical relations as kinship depoliticizes them: they appear as expansively extended “personal” relations rather than modes of “political” organization. Queer intellectual and activist citations of kinship, pro- or anti-, tend to repeat this logic. Indigenous...

... This conversation is organized by two questions: How do we make sense of the fact that racist and colonial structures of human fatality have persisted, and at times seem to have grown in reach and sophistication, in the aftermath of the past half century’s major movements for progressive social...