Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Introduction: Intellectuals, Historical Realism and Counter-politics 1
5. PART I Intellectual Infrastructure
6. Chapter 1 – Capital: Structural, Phenomenological, Financial 27
7. PART II Scales of History and Politics
8. Chapter 2 – The Scales of Ethnography: Periodizing Spatial Coherence in Early-Twentieth-Century Spain 67
9. Chapter 3 – Popular Struggle, Intellectuals and Perspectives in Realist History: A Case from Late-Twentieth-Century Peru 86
10. Chapter 4 – History’s Absent Presence in the Everyday Politics of Contemporary Rural Spain 124
11. Chapter 5 – History as Possibilities: On the Threshold between Everyday Practice and Historical Praxis 150
12. PART III Politics’ Edge
13. Chapter 6 – Conditions of Possibility: Dominant Blocs and Changing Contours of the Hegemonic Field 177
14. Conclusion: Between Reflexivity and Engagement 214
15. References 225
16. Index 237