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... consent. The Prison Notebooks , published in 1948, influenced the thinking of Italian and postwar European intellectuals and filmmakers on the left, and they continue to be a reservoir for an examination of the character and relevance of passive revolution, forms of coercion and consent, relations between...

... coercion. . . . Coercion is a dirty word to most liberals now, but it need not forever be so. As with the four-letter words, its dirtiness can be cleansed away by exposure to light, by saying it over and over without apology or embarrassment. To many, the word coercion implies arbitrary decisions...

... © 2013 by Duke University Press 156 boundary 2 / Spring 2013 enforced coercion that they are. War is its most extreme signature, and, like all signatures, patriarchal. Our lesson is to act in the frac- tures of identities in struggle. —Gayatri Spivak, “Acting Bits...

... that demands more resources than the recognition of, and compliance with, legitimate commands, or even the use of coercion and physical force as punishment for specific acts of disobedience. There are other, more subtle forms of coercion in which obedience is ensured by the detailed shaping of the very...

...: if violence is the definitive violation, then the standard that it violates—call it civilization or civility—will judge to be acceptable and even unworthy of comment those forms of coercion and injustice that are not violent, especially those associated with the capitalist market. Nonviolent coercion...

...) DOI 10.1215/01903659-2006-002 © 2006 by Duke University Press 52 boundary 2 / Summer 2006 a politics of consensus.1 In so doing, the state (force/power/coercion) is abstracted from society and thereby made invisible.2 Such a view of the rela- tion between civil society and the state...

... was commemorated. Using 9/11 as an especially vivid example, Behdad demonstrates how the state’s management of its territorial borders played a foundational role in how the nation imagines itself and in how the state legitimates the techniques of coercion and disci- pline that engender...

..., and Kylie Smith, eds. Hegemony: Studies in Consensus and Coercion. Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought. New York: Routledge, 2008. Books Received  213 Hughes, Linda K., Mary Lago, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, eds. The BBC...

... = political society + civil society, in other words hege- mony protected by the armor of coercion 7 Far from being an instance of Gramsci contradicting himself, this is one of many passages in the Prison Notebooks that invalidates the unfounded, though widespread, notion that Gramsci conceived of civil...

... by the armor of coercion.”21 Hegemony theory is thus never only about that which gives it its name, but also about that which appears as the opposite. At the pole of leadership, which is set against the pole of command and coercion, the question is again posed doubly: from aspirants to hege- mony...

... and coercion were employed to secure a new freedom of enterprise and private ownership, even as it has insisted on maintaining the older illusion. This is the regime of “procedural democracy.” Throughout current discussions of the contemporary situation shaped by the American invasion...

...- paper into an occasion for a life-and-death battle for Islam to the equally overblown and missing-the-point response to Joseph Ratzinger’s amusing portrayal of Christianity as a religion of reason in whose propagation vio- lence and coercion have played no role. This Muslim identity rests...

... diminishment or injurious exclusion (in the case of oppression and coercion). The normative claims of the recognition paradigm, however, gain an entirely different meaning in view of the ascendancy of the practical dis- course of human capital in contemporary global capitalism. Not all propo...

...- arrangement of desires in the student. An extreme violation of this responsibility is seen in groups such as Hamas or Islamic Jihad, which coercively rearrange desires until coercion seems identical with the will of the coerced. I, like many others, think that the conduct...

...- lenge embedded in Arendt’s attempt to pin down the nature of authority is to find some account of authority’s ‘‘binding force’’ that does not rely on coercion, on the one hand, or persuasion, on the other. Arendt maintained that authority must be ‘‘more than advice and less than a command, an advice...

...- trines of just war when possible and holy war when necessary, virtuous war is more than a felicitous oxymoron. After September 11, as the United States chose coercion over diplomacy in its foreign policy, and deployed a rhetoric...

... groups in China has now been redefined as “contradictions among the people,” which means that persuasion and mediation rather than coercion and conflict must be employed to resolve them. Official policy holds that there is no “fundamental” divergence of interest between...

... delicate organisms. The resurrection of a taxation system directed at artists and owners of small businesses would not be enough. With artists, there was still ideological coercion, censorship...

... bureaucracy and obligated to obedience. Citizens act as a public when they deal with matters of general interest without being sub- ject to coercion; thus with the guarantee that they may assemble and unite freely, and express and publicize their opinions freely...

.../story/08-06-2004/0002226945&EDATE=. 46 boundary 2 / Fall 2006 tion of the globe in 1909—as a monopoly of the means of coercion. The strong tendency of this theory of power is to construe criticism of power as not only hateful and so ideology, but as inevitably doomed. The power of freedom...