On language, culture, and social action

History and Theory

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 82-100

  Cabrera, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

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EID: 34248727724     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0018-2656.00183     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. History and Theory 39 (2000), 289-363
2. The Forum consists of the following articles: Richard Biernacki, "Language and the Shift from Signs to Practices in Cultural Inquiry" (289-310)
3. Anne Kane, "Reconstructing Culture in Historical Explanation: Narratives as Cultural Structure and Practice" (311-330)
4. John R. Hall, "Cultural Meanings and Cultural Structures in Historical Explanation" (331-347)
5. and Chris Lorenz, "Some Afterthoughts on Culture and Explanation in Historical Inquiry" (348-363).
6. This is the theoretical shift that Lynn Hunt describes in "Introduction: History, Culture and Text," in The New Cultural History, ed. Lynn Hunt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989)
7. and that Lawrence Stone had charted some years earlier in "The Revival of Narrative: Reflections on a New Old History." Past and Present 85 (1979), 3-24
8. Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth about History (New York: Norton, 1994), 218 and 220.
9. Roger Chartier, Cultural History: Between Practices and Representations (Cambridge, Eng. : Polity Press, 1988), 47
10. Roger Chartier, "The World as Representation," in Histories: French Constructions of the Past, ed. Jacques Revel and Lynn Hunt (New York: New Press, 1995), 551-552
11. See Miguel A. Cabrera, "Linguistic Approach or Return to Subjectivism? In Search of an Alternative to Social History," Social History 24 (1999), 74-89. Patrick Joyce has coined the expressive term "Post-Social History," but this is probably more suitable as an adjective than as a name
12. Joan W. Scott, "Reply to Criticism," International Labor and Working-Class History 32 (1987), 40
13. and "On Language, Gender and Working-Class History," Ibid. 31 (1987), 1
14. Lorenz, "Some Afterthoughts on Culture and Explanation in Historical Inquiry," 360.
15. And the same could be said, for example, of the mere descriptive report that is the history of the concept of labor contained in Part Two of Rickard Biernacki's book The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995)
16. William H. Sewell, Jr., "Geertz, Cultural Systems, and History: From Synchrony to Transformation," Representations 59 (1997), 46
17. See, for example, Giacomo Marramao, Potere e secolarizzazione (Rome: Editori Riuniti, 1983)
18. and Cielo e terra: Genealogia delia secolarizzazione (Rome: Laterza, 1994).
19. Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (London: Verso, 1985), 110 and 146, note 20
20. Joan W. Scott. "The Evidence of Experience," Critical Inquiry 17 (1991), 773-797
21. Patrick Joyce, Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century England (Cambridge, Eng. : Cambridge University Press, 1994), 12
22. Zachary Lockman, "'Worker' and 'Working Class' in Pre-1914 Egypt: A Rereading," in Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, Historiographies, ed. Zachary Lockman (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), 102-103
23. Keith M. Baker, Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture In the Eighteenth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 5
24. Margaret R. Somers, "Narrativity, Narrative Identity and Social Action: Rethinking English Working-Class Formation," Social Science History 16 (1992), 606
25. Scott, "The Evidence of Experience," 791-792.
26. Baker, Inventing the French Revolution, 6.
27. Joan W. Scott, Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminism and the Rights of Man (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996)
28. William H. Sewell, Jr., Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980), 194-199
29. "La confraternité des prolétaires: conscience de class sous la Monarchie de Juillet," Annates E.S.C. 4 (1981), 651-654
30. "Artisans, Factory Workers and the Formation of the French Working Class, 1789-1848,"
31. in Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States, ed. Ira Katznelson and Aristide Zolberg (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), 60-61
32. Zachary Lockman, "Imagining the Working Class: Culture, Nationalism and Class Formation in Egypt, 1899-1914. " Poetics Today 15 (1994), 157-190
33. Geoff Eley, "Is All the World a Text? From Social History to the History of Society Two Decades Later," in The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences, ed. Terrence McDonald (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), 213
34. Mariana Valverde, "The Rhetoric of Reform: Tropes and the Moral Subject," International Journal of the Sociology of Law 18 (1990), 61.
35. Somers, "Narrativity, Narrative Identity and Social Action," esp. 612-613
36. William H. Sewell, Jr., "The Sans-Culottes Rhetoric of Subsistence," in The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture, vol. 4; The Terror, ed. Keith M. Baker (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1994), 249-269
37. An example of shared discourse is the British constitutionalist discourse. As James Vernon has shown, this operates as a very "master narrative" within which are constituted not only the competing political groups, but also the conflicts between them (Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, c. 1815-1867 [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993], chapter 8)
38. Biernacki, The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914, Part One.
39. See also his "Work and Culture in the Reception of Class Ideologies," in Reworking Class, ed. John R. Hall (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997), 169-192
40. Richard Biernacki, "Method and Metaphor after the New Cultural History," in Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture, ed. Victoria Bonnell and Lynn Hunt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 75
41. Joan W. Scott, "Deconstructing Equality-versus-Difference: Or the Uses of Poststmcturalist Theory for Feminism," Feminist Studies 14 (1988), 34-35