Sociology 3
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
Rhodes University
Sociology III
Contemporary Social Theory
WEEK 5 Jacques Rancière: Richard Pithouse
Jacques Rancière starts, as Peter Hallward notes in the essay that we will read for the first lecture, from the assumption that everybody thinks and everybody speaks but that not everyone is authorised to think and to speak. Rancière’s work is in fundamental and sustained rebellion against the attempt to place limits on the right to think and to speak. While his work certainly has its limits and has been subject to some cogent criticisms it remains a profound challenge to the elitism that characterises many approaches to social theory and, also, to achieving emancipatory social change.
Readings for each lecture:
Lecture one: Jacques Ranciere and the Subversion of Mastery, Interview with Peter Hallward, 2005 http://thinkingafricarhodesuniversity.blogspot.com/2011/07/jacques-ranciere-and-subversion-of.html
Lecture two: Who is the Subject of the Rights of Man?, Jacques Ranciere, 2004 http://thinkingafricarhodesuniversity.blogspot.com/2012/10/who-is-subject-of-rights-of-man_8.html
Lecture three: Communists Without Communism, Jacques Ranciere, 2010 http://thinkingafricarhodesuniversity.blogspot.com/2012/10/communists-without-communism.html
Lecture four: Abahlali’s Vocal Politics of Proximity: Speaking, Suffering and Political Subjectivization, Anna Selmeczi, 2012 http://jas.sagepub.com/content/47/5/498.abstract
Other useful readings & resources:
Websites
The Jacques Rancière blog: http://ranciere.blogspot.com/
Jacques Rancière on the Frantz Fanon blog: http://thinkingafricarhodesuniversity.blogspot.com/search/label/Jacques%20Ranci%C3%A8re
Essays, Interviews etc
Anthony Iles and Tom Roberts, ‘From the Cult of the People to the Cult of Rancière’, Mute Magazine 2012 http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/cult-people-to-cult-ranci%C3%A8re
Jacques Rancière, Democracy, Republic, Representation, 2006
Rhodes University
Sociology III
Contemporary Social Theory
WEEK 5 Jacques Rancière: Richard Pithouse
Jacques Rancière starts, as Peter Hallward notes in the essay that we will read for the first lecture, from the assumption that everybody thinks and everybody speaks but that not everyone is authorised to think and to speak. Rancière’s work is in fundamental and sustained rebellion against the attempt to place limits on the right to think and to speak. While his work certainly has its limits and has been subject to some cogent criticisms it remains a profound challenge to the elitism that characterises many approaches to social theory and, also, to achieving emancipatory social change.
Readings for each lecture:
Lecture one: Jacques Ranciere and the Subversion of Mastery, Interview with Peter Hallward, 2005 http://thinkingafricarhodesuniversity.blogspot.com/2011/07/jacques-ranciere-and-subversion-of.html
Lecture two: Who is the Subject of the Rights of Man?, Jacques Ranciere, 2004 http://thinkingafricarhodesuniversity.blogspot.com/2012/10/who-is-subject-of-rights-of-man_8.html
Lecture three: Communists Without Communism, Jacques Ranciere, 2010 http://thinkingafricarhodesuniversity.blogspot.com/2012/10/communists-without-communism.html
Lecture four: Abahlali’s Vocal Politics of Proximity: Speaking, Suffering and Political Subjectivization, Anna Selmeczi, 2012 http://jas.sagepub.com/content/47/5/498.abstract
Other useful readings & resources:
Websites
The Jacques Rancière blog: http://ranciere.blogspot.com/
Jacques Rancière on the Frantz Fanon blog: http://thinkingafricarhodesuniversity.blogspot.com/search/label/Jacques%20Ranci%C3%A8re
Essays, Interviews etc
Anthony Iles and Tom Roberts, ‘From the Cult of the People to the Cult of Rancière’, Mute Magazine 2012 http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/cult-people-to-cult-ranci%C3%A8re
Jacques Rancière, Democracy, Republic, Representation, 2006