Norbert Elias in Troubled Times

Figurational Approaches to the Problems of the Twenty-First Century

Florence Delmotte, Barbara Górnicka (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XXVII, 357 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-74992-7 (ISBN)

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This edited collection brings together texts that discuss current major issues in our troubled times through the lens of Norbert Elias's sociology. It sheds light on both the contemporary world and some of Elias's most controversial concepts. Through examination of the 'current affairs', political and social contemporary changes, the authors in this collection present new and challenging ways of understanding these social processes and figurations. Ultimately, the objective of the book is to embrace and utilise some of the more polemical aspects of Elias's legacy, such as the exploration of decivilizing processes, decivilizing spurts, and dys-civilization. It investigates to what extent Elias's sociological analyses are still applicable in our studies of the developments that mark our troubled times. It does so through both global and local lenses, theoretically and empirically, and above all, by connecting past, present, and possible futures of all human societies.

Florence Delmotte is Research Associate at the Belgian Foundation for Scientific Research (FNRS) and Professor of Political Science at Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles, Belgium. Her research focuses on the relevance of Norbert Elias and processual sociology for thinking through such political issues as citizenship, legitimacy, belonging and national habitus in today's Europe. She is the author of a number of articles in English and French on these topics.

Barbara Górnicka is Lecturer in Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is a graduate of UCD's School of Sociology, where she completed her doctoral degree in 2016. She is a Fellow of the Norbert Elias Foundation and a Co-Editor of the Human Figurations Journal. She is the author of Nakedness, Shame and Embarrassment: A Long-term Sociological Perspective (Springer, 2016).

1. Troubled Times: Editors' Introduction.- Part I: Renewing Classical Themes.- 2. The Question of Inequality: Trends of Functional Democratisation and De-democratisation.- 3. Vox Populi Then and Now.- 4. Figurational Sociology of the Rule of Law: A Case of Central and Eastern Europe.- 5. Transformations of Human Rights within Ruptures and Continuity: A Historico-Sociological Approach.- 6. Civilising Digitalisation: In Search of a New balance with Today's Technological Innovations.- 7. Confronting Uncertainties: Process Sociology Converges with the Ecological Risk Society of the Becks.- Part II: Violence and Faces of the War.- 8. The Civilising Process, Decline of Homicide and Mass Murder Societies: Norbert Elias and the History of Violence.- 9. A Throwback to Violence? Outline for a Process-Sociological Approach to 'Terror' and 'Terrorism'.- 10. Violence and Power: The Kaiowá and Guarani Indigenous Peoples.- 11. Analysing European Defence with Elias's Historical Sociology (1990-2020).- Part III: Established-Outsiders Relations and Habitus Issues.- 12. Weaving Elias's Thought with Indigenous Perspectives and Lives: Proposal for a Research Agenda.- 13. A Question of Function: Unequal Power Ratios and Asylum Seekers in Ireland.- 14. Thoughts on Describing Established and Outsider Figurations in Inner Mongolia- 15. Generational Figuration and We-Group Formation in the Palestinian West Bank since the 1970s.- 16. The Israeli National Habitus and Historiography: The Importance of Generations and State Building.- 17. The Established and The Outsiders: An Incomplete Study?.- Part IV: Conclusive Reflections.- 18. Some Political Implications of Sociology from an Eliasian Point of View.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
Zusatzinfo	XXVII, 357 p. 6 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	598 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte	Civilizing offensives • civilizing processes • Democracy • Established Outsiders theory • Human Rights • Multiculturalism • National habitus • Populism • Sociology of Citizenship • terrorism • Violence and Crime • violent conflicts
ISBN-10	3-030-74992-4 / 3030749924
ISBN-13	978-3-030-74992-7 / 9783030749927
Zustand	Neuware