Pub Date : 2022-04-11DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2022.2061127
Mona Lilja
ABSTRACT The study of resistance has exploded during recent years and the field has broadened in order to accommodate more issues. The broadened scope of resistance studies is fruitful, yet the embracing of resistance’s complex character has led to a situation where the current research on resistance does not offer the appropriate tools to analyze the multiple and often overlapping forms of resistance. It is in this scholarly context that this paper form a bridge between fields in its endeavor to illuminate the richness of ‘resistance’, while still providing tools – for example, definitions, paths and forms of resistance – for analyzing it.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2022.2061128
Thomas Osborne
ABSTRACT This paper considers the applicability and history of the concept of despotism as a critical model of political power. In spite of its 'Orientalist' pedigree, critical perusal of the work of Montesquieu (and, secondarily, Tocqueville) reveals that the concept has also functioned as a critical ‘pure type’ that is feasibly applicable not just to all societies but perhaps especially to the West. As such, despotism has arguably been more of a satirical – or ‘inverted’ – concept than straightforwardly an empirical one.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-05DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2022.2061126
Frank Lovett, Sean Ingham
ABSTRACT In their paper, ‘Republican Freedom, Domination, and Ignorability,’ Jafarov and Huseynli argue that our analysis of republican freedom in terms of an ignorability test fails to distinguish republicanism from liberalism. In this reply, we defend our view, showing that their argument rests on three common errors about republicanism: first, that republicanism must distinguish itself from liberalism to succeed; second, that republicans cannot admit probabilistic reasoning; and third, that republican liberty and pure negative liberty generate equivalent judgments about freedom.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-04DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2022.2055278
Mona Lilja, Mikael Baaz
ABSTRACT The neoliberal globalization characterizing this century has unleashed new strategies of governing. This paper elaborates on a growing form of governing; that is, governing that extorts subjects’ desires for improvement and creativity to control and profit from these subjects. This, what we would like to call, ‘artepolitics’ could be seen as a particular form of governing. ‘Artepolitics’ is a technology of governing that seeks to regulate individual conduct with reference to self-realization and distribution of ‘freedom’ to control the employees’ labour situation. We suggest that the framing of ‘artepolitics’ brings into light some interesting trends of the current situation.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-27DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2022.2055282
H. Joas
My book ‘The Power of the Sacred’, originally published in German in 2017 and in French translation in 2020, has become the subject matter of controversial discussions in both countries. As the author of it I certainly have no intention to complain about this fact even if I do not experience all contributions as sympathetic or plausible. In Germany, a discussion volume has come out to which internationally renowned philosophers, sociologists and theologians like Charles Taylor, Björn Wittrock and Hermann Deuser have contributed (Schlette et al . 2022). In France, another such volume is currently in preparation, and it remains to be seen how the echo in the English-speaking world will be. The Harvard historian James Kloppenberg has taken this book as the point of departure for a wide-ranging presentation of my whole intellectual biography (Kloppenberg 2022), and the first extensive American review by the sociologist Richard Madsen, a prominent member of the so-called Bellah group, has treated my work thoroughly and fairly (Madsen 2022). I am fortunate that the same can be said about the present contribution. Its author and I have for a long time shared an interest in the historical sociology of war and organised violence, and more recently have been brought together in the debate about religion and (neo-) nationalism in Europe (Höhne and Meireis 2020). I do not see our exchange here as a controversy, but I have accepted the invitation to respond because this allows me to clarify a few points in a review that undoubtedly attempts to do justice both to my critique of Max Weber and to my proposed alternative to his narrative of disenchantment.
我的书《神圣的力量》(The Power of The Sacred)最初于2017年以德语出版,并于2020年翻译成法语,已成为两国争议性讨论的主题。作为作者,我当然无意抱怨这一事实,即使我并不认为所有的贡献都令人同情或可信。在德国,Charles Taylor、Björn Wittrock和Hermann Deuser等国际知名哲学家、社会学家和神学家撰写了一本讨论卷(Schlette et al .)。2022)。在法国,另一本这样的书目前正在准备中,在英语世界的反响如何还有待观察。哈佛大学历史学家詹姆斯·克洛彭伯格(James Kloppenberg)以这本书为出发点,对我的整个知识分子传记进行了广泛的介绍(Kloppenberg 2022),社会学家理查德·马德森(Richard Madsen)是所谓的贝拉集团的杰出成员,他对我的工作进行了全面而公正的评价(Madsen 2022)。我很幸运,目前的贡献也可以这么说。作者和我长期以来都对战争和有组织暴力的历史社会学感兴趣,最近在关于欧洲宗教和(新)民族主义的辩论中(Höhne和Meireis 2020)走到了一起。我不认为我们在这里的交流是一场争论,但我接受了回应的邀请,因为这使我能够澄清一些观点,这些观点无疑试图公正地对待我对马克斯·韦伯的批评,以及我对他的祛魅叙事提出的替代方案。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-23DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2022.2055275
A. Anisin
ABSTRACT This study assesses EU states’ responses to the pandemic through engaging with literatures on surveillance capitalism, authoritarian liberalism, and democratic backsliding. It investigates restrictions that were carried out in EU states and the means that were used to enforce them via surveillance technology. The analysis reveals that private technological corporations’ resources, data, and applicational platforms enabled governmental security and health institutions to monitor, trace, and quarantine entire populaces through side stepping democratic mechanisms. Concurrent to emergency decrees and mass restrictions, governments privileged corporate and industrial interests during lockdowns. These outcomes warrant debate and theorization on what a post-pandemic liberal democratic social order will look like.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-20DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2022.2055281
S. Malešević
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Pub Date : 2022-03-18DOI: 10.1080/2158379x.2022.2055283
S. Schram
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2022.2033102
Mónica Parada
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2022.2033100
David Beetham
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