Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Between Loyalty and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9781032268163 / Angielski

Karen Lauwers; Sami Suodenjoki; Marnix Beyen

Opis

Approaching subalternity from a broad Gramscian angle, this edited collection contributes to the understanding of popular politics in parliamentary, autocratic, and colonial contexts.

The book explores individual stories and micro-histories of complaints, requests, rumors, and other mediated and unmediated interactions between political institutions and the subjects they claimed to govern or represent. It challenges the approaches of institutionally oriented political historiography and its attention to the top-down construction of political representation, citizenship, and power and powerlessness. The book discusses more subtle forms of agency and the spaces these pertained to, which could indicate contestation or resistance taking place within a framework of loyalty towards the existing political institutions. This research does not only bridge the divide between political and apolitical frames of reference, but it also provides a new perspective on the dichotomy between loyalty and resistance by acknowledging the nuances of these seemingly opposing stances. With case studies from Europe, North Africa, South America, and India, the chapters cover political communication in proto-democratic, democratic, imperial, and authoritarian contexts.

This volume is crucial reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars in history and social sciences who are interested in political culture and the mechanisms of negotiating local, national, or imperial identities.

Spis treści

Introduction: Subaltern Political Subjectivities  Part 1: Subaltern Political Participation in an Autocratic Context  1. Voice of the People: The Politics of Petitioning in Modern Latin American History  2. Letters to the Caudillo: Petitions in Miserable Times, 1936–1945  3. Finding Subjectivities in Fascist Italy: "Mothers of the Fallen" between Symbolic and Experienced Political Participation  Part 2: Subaltern Political Communication in the Context of (proto-)Democratic Representation  4. The Municipal Assembly as a Scene of Local Democracy and Subaltern Political Experiences in Finland, 1865–1917  5. At the Crossroads of Local and National Representation: Peasant Petitions to the Diet of Finland in the 1860s and 1870s  6. Outsiders? "Democratic Patronage" and the Subalterns in France, c.1875–c.1935  7. "Reading the newspaper made me believe that...": Sources and Uses of Political Knowledge in the Liminal Space between Subaltern and Elite Politics. Paris, 1894–1920  8. How to Bridge the Gap? The Issue of Popular Political Engagement in the Netherlands, c.1945–1965  Part 3: Spiritualization of Politics in Embodied Subaltern Narratives  9. From Subaltern Experience to Political Tradition: Telling and Knowing Revolutionary Martyrs in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1848–1860  10. Nonsense and the Senses: French Sources of Knowledge in Colonial Algeria, 1846–1871  11. Subaltern Caste Concepts of the "Political": Bengal, 1900–1930