Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices in the Ninet... - 9781032268255

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Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesBetween Loyalty and Resistance\nAuthor(s): Karen Lauwers, Sami Suodenjoki, Marnix Beyen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032268255, 978-1032268255\nSynopsis\nApproaching subalternity from a broad Gramscian angle, this edited collection contributes to the understanding of popular politics in parliamentary, autocratic, and colonial contexts.\n\nThe 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 .