This qualitative thesis analyses the development of Marxian thought on riots and revolution in the works of Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou. Due to the structural limitations of this essay, the research has been limited to a comparison between Karl Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and a selection of Žižek and Badiou’s works. Furthermore, the scope of the essay focuses on two material events; the coup d’état of Louis Bonaparte and the England riots of 2011. The comparison was concretised through the usage of Ludvig Beckman’s model for idea analysis and the method of ideal types. This study demonstrated how the modern theorists remain loyal to Marx’s basic analysis of society and concepts such as alienation and exploitation. However, the deterministic and eschatological aspects of Marx’s philosophy have been abandoned for a less ineluctable history, and resonate more towards the Hegelian notion of an open history. This study has also elucidated and cemented the vital importance of the material circumstances in a historical materialist study; moreover, it has revealed the necessity for the modern theorists to reinvent and radicalise a number of Marx’s original concepts for the modern world. Žižek and Badiou also contest Marx’s insistence on the requisite nature of violent revolution, and promote the politics of subtraction as an alternative.

Demystifying the Commodification of Social Relations in the Ontario Child Protection System: A Marxist Approach to Textual Analysis Susan Elizabeth Preston Doctor of Philosophy Faculty of Social Work University of Toronto 2013 In the space of quiet and disquiet, another read is possible. Abstract Capitalism invades all aspects of society, including the welfare state. Capitalist notions of the market appear to be encroaching into social services, wherein we see the “businessology” of social work; however, little empirical attention has been given to how capitalism appears to be replicated within social services. This research aims to make the invisible visible in order to agitate for radical change in the organization and practice of social service provision. In this inquiry, focusing on the child protection system in Ontario I examine some of the documentary actualities of the ruling apparatus of regulated parenthood and childhood by exploring the textualities of the state. Specifically, through the critical lens of Marxism and feminism, and drawing on my own experience of a classed and gendered world, I critically deconstruct the regulatory texts closest to the state, the legislation of the Child and Family Services and the regulations that expand the legislative intent. I also explore the procedural document of the Ontario Risk Assessment Model as an enacted text that operationalizes the legislation and regulation. By reading and re-reading these texts, at the surface but also above and below the surface, positioning the documents in context and recalling my social work practice, I seek answers to questions of how texts replicate capital, and commodify social relations through the ruling apparatus of the state. This work queries how the text itself in its active use of language has implications for social work, in practice, in research and in education.

Demystifying the Commodification of Social Relations in the Ontario Child Protection System: A Marxist Approach to Textual Analysis Susan Elizabeth Preston Doctor of Philosophy Faculty of Social Work University of Toronto 2013 In the space of quiet and disquiet, another read is possible. Abstract Capitalism invades all aspects of society, including the welfare state. Capitalist notions of the market appear to be encroaching into social services, wherein we see the “businessology” of social work; however, little empirical attention has been given to how capitalism appears to be replicated within social services. This research aims to make the invisible visible in order to agitate for radical change in the organization and practice of social service provision. In this inquiry, focusing on the child protection system in Ontario I examine some of the documentary actualities of the ruling apparatus of regulated parenthood and childhood by exploring the textualities of the state. Specifically, through the critical lens of Marxism and feminism, and drawing on my own experience of a classed and gendered world, I critically deconstruct the regulatory texts closest to the state, the legislation of the Child and Family Services and the regulations that expand the legislative intent. I also explore the procedural document of the Ontario Risk Assessment Model as an enacted text that operationalizes the legislation and regulation. By reading and re-reading these texts, at the surface but also above and below the surface, positioning the documents in context and recalling my social work practice, I seek answers to questions of how texts replicate capital, and commodify social relations through the ruling apparatus of the state. This work queries how the text itself in its active use of language has implications for social work, in practice, in research and in education.

This thesis is concerned with the relationship between the street theatre practices in Delhi and the spaces of their performance. Writings on theatre practices within the boundaries of Delhi have overlooked the role cultural capital affords practitioners owing to their geographical, ideological and social affiliations understood as spatial networks. This research project undertakes to identify spatial structures that frame the reading of street theatre in Delhi to open up questions of privilege and access through an analysis of its performance sites. I focus on five case studies across three categories of performance – feminist performers Maya Rao and Mallika Taneja, street theatre company Jana Natya Manch (Janam) and the Ramlila as performed in New Delhi and Old Delhi. In order to do this, the research has drawn extensively on Henri Lefebvre’s two sets of trialectics as outlined in The Production of Space (1991), which are adapted in order to provide an approach to identifying the spatial frameworks within which performances are situated. My three categories, 'geographical', 'affective' and 'discursive' space are applied to each of the three sets of case studies, and my conclusion assesses the usefulness of such a methodology for prompting consideration of previously-ignored contexts for Indian performance. I propose that my thesis provides a prompt to engage with the spatiality of Indian theatrical performance, while also demonstrating the extent to which an understanding of the politics of performance relies on the understanding of spatial practice, both contemporary and historical.

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Magister Psychologiae - MPsych / 30% of the country's population are currently unemployed and this statistic is increasing steadily. Further deterioration of the South African economy and increased unemployment, is likely to increase social instability and continue to marginalise a major proportion of society. Global economic downturn as well as the crash of the Asian economies in the mid-1990's resulted in job losses for both the working class and middle class sectors of society. The literature however suggests that the effects of unemployment are likely to be experienced differently by working and middle class individuals. This reiterates the argument that the unemployed should not be perceived as a homogenous group. The study utilises a broad epistemological framework of social constructionism and employs the theoretical assumptions of Marxism as the theoretical basis for the research.

Uneducated working-class individuals in the United States are dying from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholic-related liver disease at unprecedented rates; a phenomenon economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton describe as deaths of despair. This paper focuses on deaths of despair in the Appalachian region, where mortality rates from these types of deaths are disproportionately higher than the rest of the country. Marxism and intersectionality are two philosophical frameworks that I will apply to Appalachian despair to test the adequacy of their explanatory power. By placing Marxism and intersectionality in the context of the data surrounding deaths of despair, I can test their capability to accurately diagnose and understand this health issue.

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