Nicholas Matheou (Oxford): From Methodological Nationalism to an Anarchist Heuristic - Hegemony and Counterpower before Capital
Abstract
Despite prominent critiques of nationalism and nationhood over the last forty years, history continues to be written as the story of reified peoples/countries – as ‘nations’. Clearly, therefore, these critiques have been insufficient, and ultimately this is down to one basic problem: the state. Behind the ideological façade of ‘national histories’ lies the assumption that history is the story of states, mystified as ‘peoples’ in the supposedly pre-state ‘premodern’ (=pre-capitalist) world. In this lecture, therefore, methodological nationalism will be situated as a particular instance of the general problem of methodological statism. The solution, then, becomes obvious: to develop of a methodologically anti-state, that is, an anarchist heuristic. Drawing on examples from the pre-capitalist eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, this lecture will demonstrate what an anarchist heuristic looks like in practice.
Time and Place
Dienstag, 15. Mai 2018, 18.30-20.00 Uhr
LMU Hauptgebäude, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 , B 011
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