Pub Date : 2022-11-30DOI: 10.1177/00016993221141587
Daniel Fittante
Scholars have unpacked the rhetorically nuanced ways political actors alter state narratives in resisting pressure to comply with international norms. But many of these rhetorical strategies apply in other contexts, where there exists sufficient norm ambiguity, too. For example, in response to Turkey's long-standing denialism, many governments have been asked to recognise the Armenian Genocide (or 1915 Genocide of Christians in the Ottoman Empire). But, because there exists no clear international norm about recognising genocides perpetuated by other states, even some of the most unlikely government officials adapt their rhetoric to resist recognition and pursue ulterior foreign policy objectives. Building on Dixon's rhetorical adaptation framework, this article argues that, between 1999 and 2021, Swedish political actors often adapted their rhetoric in ways similar to Turkish officials as a result of the normative ambiguity of states recognising the Armenian Genocide. In explaining why Sweden consistently resisted Genocide recognition efforts, this analysis focuses on its larger foreign policy commitments of spreading democracy in Turkey and managing the Syrian refugee crisis.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-25DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136979
Thoroddur Bjarnason, I. Shuttleworth, Clifford Stevenson, E. Finell
The notion that mobility weakens collective norms and increases tolerance has a long pedigree in sociology. In this article, we examine the association of migration with partisan identification as British Unionists or Irish Nationalists in Northern Ireland, a region where the overlap of opposing religious and national identities is reflected in the residential segregation of its population. In representative samples of the population, we find that Irish Nationalist identification among Catholics and British Unionist identification among Protestants was lower among people not born in Northern Ireland and return migrants from beyond the British Isles. Having lived in the Republic was associated with more Nationalist identification among Catholics but less Unionist identification among Protestants and others. Moreover, having lapsed from the family religion is associated with decreased partisan identification. While international migration has in many countries led to increased tensions, conflict and the ascendance of exclusionary national populist movements, our results thus suggest that mobility beyond the British Isles has contributed to less nation–state conflict in Northern Ireland.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-24DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136038
L. Gjerde
The quarantine hotel is one of several political instruments used to control the spread of Covid-19 in diverse countries, from Norway to China. I apply discourse analysis to map the discursive struggle to define the quarantine hotel in Norway. The government and other key political actors channel a biopolitical discourse constituting the quarantine hotel as necessary to protect the Norwegian population from imported contagion. This discourse's meaning is contested by a juridical counter-discourse articulated by lawyers and travellers, which constitutes the quarantine hotel as imprisonment/internment and a breach of rights. Travellers tend to combine this with a biopolitical counter-discourse, dismissing the quarantine hotel's biopolitical properties, strengthening the juridical critique. These discourses are important resources in a transnational, ongoing struggle, where the prize is the legitimacy of the politics of Covid-19, and the very ordering of the post-pandemic world.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136032
Mami Fouad
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Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136033
M. Romero
{"title":"Book Review: The Racialized Social System by Ali Meghji","authors":"M. Romero","doi":"10.1177/00016993221136033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221136033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47591,"journal":{"name":"Acta Sociologica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45013267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136034
A. Linklater
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Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136027
H. Koskinen
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Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136030
J. Arnason
European civilizing process for ongoing research on state formation. Major figures in that field such as Tilly, Mann, Skocpol and Giddens did not engage with Elias’s study of the civilizing process (which was not available in a complete English translation until the early 1980s). A central question is why students of state-building who typically begin with publications by the authors just mentioned should now pay close attention to Elias’s earlier writings. In a short review it is possible to make only one observation about the relationship between this work and influential writings on state-formation that have appeared in the recent period. The volume does not mount a challenge, in line with Elias’s original perspective, to the dominant literature. Studies of state-formation have provided a macrosociological investigation of the transformation of political organisation. As Kaspersen argues on page 51, Elias constructed an intricate discussion of interwoven sociogenetic and psychogenetic processes (on the metamorphosis of state structures and on evolving personality traits centred on the emotions of shame and embarrassment). Kaspersen refers on p. 127 to the manners books that Elias used to discuss what he later called ‘people in the round’, but the relevant chapters do not develop the point in order to underline the originality of Elias’s approach. Nor do they consider one major implication which is that students of state-formation can raise their game by exploring evidence of movements at the level of basic human emotions as well as in the realm of material interests that typically dominates empirical inquiry. Kaspersen’s discussion of webs of prerogatives and obligations is a major contribution to process sociology. But the exclusion of psychogenetic forces from that part of the analysis may lead some readers to conclude that War, Survival and Citizenship could have done more to defend and build on the bold changes of direction which were at the heart of Elias’s exploration of the European civilizing process. War, Survival Units and Citizenship could usefully have pointed the way to a more comprehensive examination of evolving patterns of privilege and responsibility in state-organised survival units. Elias emphasised the role of court ritual and ceremony in the formation of the modern European state. More recent reflections on court figurations have shown how public ritual and ceremony, monumental architecture and elite grand narratives contributed to the psychogenetic dimensions of power structures. Also crucial for Elias were the relations between the ‘established and the outsiders’ – between ruling groups that were convinced of their social superiority, and members of the lower strata who were persuaded to internalise feelings of inferiority with clear implications for the uneven distribution of prerogatives and obligations. Those overlapping research areas have much to contribute to the process-sociological perspective on survival units w
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Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136028
Till Hilmar
not investigated in-depth either, beyond discussions on gentrification. Chapter 4 is also a strong empirical chapter that deals with the Möllevången neighbourhood in Malmö, which was at an earlier stage of gentrification compared to Södermalm in Stockholm and Haga in Göteborg at the time of Creasap’s fieldwork. She suggests that some of the creative activities launched by the autonomous scene might have contributed to the ongoing gentrification process, despite their contrary intentions. However, no overt criticism is articulated by the author. Nonetheless, Creasap highlights that ‘by calling on inhabitants of the neighborhood to act, they issue a call to demand the right to the city. They do not call for gentrification to stop’ (p. 106, 113). Chapter 5 pays further attention to the ‘spatiality’ of social movements by examining the cases of Stockholm and Göteborg. The key content of the analysis is summarised as follows:
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Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1177/00016993221136025
Miguel A. Martínez
This book contributes to the understanding of autonomist and anarchist movements in Sweden ’ s three major cities – Stockholm, Göteborg, and Malmö – around 2010. It focuses on the movements ’ spatial dimensions and, in particular, the effects of gentri fi cation on the development of far-left urban activism. Creasap takes a cultural and geographical approach by centring on ‘ social movement scenes ’ – de fi ned as unstable networks and processes connecting physical spaces and activist groups. The analysis concludes by comparing the scenes in each city – a strong scene in Malmö versus a fragile one in Stockholm and a ‘ fl edgling ’ and more exclusionary one in Göteborg. Creasap ’ s concise and clear writing style helps readers follow the storyline and makes the sociological picture of the activist scenes more palatable for a wider, non-academic audience. The book also enriches the literature by analysing urban activism and radical politics in Sweden at a very speci fi c historical period, including squatting attempts, which is not common in social movements research. Theoretically, the book suggests the notion of ‘ scene ’ to bridge urban sociology and social movement research. Notwithstanding the book ’ s valuable contribution, my review will also raise some critical issues that might help further investigations along this line. First, the author uses the introductory chapter to present
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