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Interrogating the Future
Essays in Honour of David Fasenfest
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 287
Honouring David Fasenfest, who has not only conducted research spanning contexts from Detroit to Shanghai but is also a long-standing editor both of a social science journal and of its related book series, this festschrift addresses issues central to political economy. These range from globalization, employment, migration, social justice, inequality, race/class, and urban poverty to Marxist theory, democracy, capitalism, neoliberalism, and socialism. In keeping with the editorial policy and ideas pursued by the honorand, the contributions emphasize the continuing need on the part of sociology to adopt a radically critical investigative approach to all these issues.
Contributors are: Hideo Aoki, Tom Brass, Michael Burawoy, Rodney D. Coates, Kevin R. Cox, Raju J. Das, Ricardo A. Dello Buono, Mahito Hayashi, Lauren Langman, Robert Latham, Ngai Pun and Alfredo Saad-Filho.
Contributors are: Hideo Aoki, Tom Brass, Michael Burawoy, Rodney D. Coates, Kevin R. Cox, Raju J. Das, Ricardo A. Dello Buono, Mahito Hayashi, Lauren Langman, Robert Latham, Ngai Pun and Alfredo Saad-Filho.
Tom Brass, D.Phil (1982), formerly lectured in the SPS Faculty at Cambridge University, has carried out fieldwork research in Latin America and India, and is the second-longest serving editor of The Journal of Peasant Studies. He has published numerous articles and books on agrarian development, including Transitions (Brill, 2023).
Raju J. Das is Professor at York University, Toronto. He is on the Graduate Programmes in Social and Political Thought, Geography, Environmental Studies, and Development Studies. His teaching and research interests are in political economy, class relations, the state, uneven development, poverty, and politics of the Right and the Left. His most recent book is The Challenges of the New Social Democracy (Brill, 2023).
Raju J. Das is Professor at York University, Toronto. He is on the Graduate Programmes in Social and Political Thought, Geography, Environmental Studies, and Development Studies. His teaching and research interests are in political economy, class relations, the state, uneven development, poverty, and politics of the Right and the Left. His most recent book is The Challenges of the New Social Democracy (Brill, 2023).
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction Interrogating the Future
Tom Brass and Raju J. Das
Part 1
2 Interview with David Fasenfest
Raju J. Das and Robert Latham
3 Thank You David A Tribute to a Mensch
Lauren Langman
4 Critical Evaluation of a Critical Scholar David Fasenfest
Rodney D. Coates
5 Marxist Sociology in Asia David Fasenfest’s Engagement with the Global South and China
Ngai Pun
6 The Politics of Coercion, the Coercion of Politics Thought Conversion in Pre-war Japan
Hideo Aoki
7 Profile of an Insurgent Sociologist
Ricardo A. Dello Buono
Part 2
8 Decolonizing Canons A Conversation with Chinese Sociologists
Michael Burawoy
9 What Does Capitalism ‘Know’? The Limits and Possibilities for Advancing Socialism in the 21st Century
Robert Latham
10 The Centrality of Marx to the Global Periphery
Raju J. Das
11 Crises in Neoliberalism Towards a Democratic Alternative
Alfredo Saad-Filho
12 A Vanishing Army? Redefining the Industrial Reserve
Tom Brass
13 Difference without End
Kevin R. Cox
14 Capitalist Housing Regimes and Homeless People A Relative Surplus Population of the City
Mahito Hayashi
Part 3
15 Postscript On the Continuing Necessity of (Marxist) Critique
Tom Brass
Author Index
Subject Index
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction Interrogating the Future
Tom Brass and Raju J. Das
Part 1
2 Interview with David Fasenfest
Raju J. Das and Robert Latham
3 Thank You David A Tribute to a Mensch
Lauren Langman
4 Critical Evaluation of a Critical Scholar David Fasenfest
Rodney D. Coates
5 Marxist Sociology in Asia David Fasenfest’s Engagement with the Global South and China
Ngai Pun
6 The Politics of Coercion, the Coercion of Politics Thought Conversion in Pre-war Japan
Hideo Aoki
7 Profile of an Insurgent Sociologist
Ricardo A. Dello Buono
Part 2
8 Decolonizing Canons A Conversation with Chinese Sociologists
Michael Burawoy
9 What Does Capitalism ‘Know’? The Limits and Possibilities for Advancing Socialism in the 21st Century
Robert Latham
10 The Centrality of Marx to the Global Periphery
Raju J. Das
11 Crises in Neoliberalism Towards a Democratic Alternative
Alfredo Saad-Filho
12 A Vanishing Army? Redefining the Industrial Reserve
Tom Brass
13 Difference without End
Kevin R. Cox
14 Capitalist Housing Regimes and Homeless People A Relative Surplus Population of the City
Mahito Hayashi
Part 3
15 Postscript On the Continuing Necessity of (Marxist) Critique
Tom Brass
Author Index
Subject Index
This volume will appeal to all those with an interest in the theory, methodology, and practice of a radically critical approach to the social sciences in general, and sociology in particular.