The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender is a reader comprised of many of Himani Bannerji’s English writings over a long period of teaching and research in Canada and India. Bannerji creates an interdisciplinary analytical method and extends the possibilities of historical materialism by predominantly drawing on Marx, Gramsci, and Dorothy Smith. Essays here instantiate Marx’s general proposition that while all ideology is a form of consciousness, all forms of consciousness are not ideological. Applying this insight to issues ranging from patriarchy through race, class, nationalism, liberalism and fascism, Bannerji breaks through East-West binaries, challenging the mystifying approaches to the constitution of the social, and shows that a sustained struggle against ideological thinking is at the heart of a fundamental socialist struggle.
Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2021 Available from Haymarket Books: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/…
Speakers:
Himani Bannerji teaches in the Department of Sociology, York University in Canada. She is also known for her activist work and poetry.
David McNally, Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business, university of Houston, Texas, USA. Author of Blood and Money, among other books.
Kanishka Goonewardena, Professor in Departments of Geography and Architecture, University of Toronto, Canada. Co-editor and contributor of Space, Difference and Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre.
Judith Whitehead, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Lethbridge, Canada. Author of Development and Dispossession in the Narmada Valley.
A selection of essays in the book can be found at the following links:
Building from Marx: Reflections on Class and Race on JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/29768341
Making India Hindu and Male Cultural Nationalism and the Emergence of the Ethnic Citizen in Contemporary India (researchgate.net) https://www.researchgate.net/publicat…
Chapter 22 Demography and Democracy: Reflections on Violence against Women in Genocide or Ethnic Cleansing in: The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender (brill.com) https://brill.com/view/book/978900444…
The tradition of sociology and the sociology of tradition | Request PDF (researchgate.net) https://www.researchgate.net/publicat…
The paradox of diversity: The construction of a multicultural canada and “women of color”1 | Request PDF (researchgate.net) https://www.researchgate.net/publicat…
Chapter 10 Introducing Racism: Notes towards an Anti-racist Feminism in: The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender (brill.com) https://brill.com/view/book/978900444…
Chapter 30 Beyond the Binaries: Notes on Karl Marx’s and Rabindranath Tagore’s Ideas on Human Capacities and Alienation in: The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender (brill.com) https://brill.com/view/book/978900444…
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