Norbert Elias in Troubled Times

Figurational Approaches to the Problems of the Twenty-First Century
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-74992-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 357 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 613 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Górnicka, Barbara

Delmotte, Florence

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Troubled Times: Editors’ IntroductionPart I: Renewing Classical Themes2. The Question of Inequality: Trends of Functional Democratisation and De-democratisation 3. Vox Populi Then and Now4. Figurational Sociology of the Rule of Law: A Case of Central and Eastern Europe5. Transformations of Human Rights within Ruptures and Continuity: A Historico-Sociological Approach6. Civilising Digitalisation: In Search of a New balance with Today’s Technological Innovations7. Confronting Uncertainties: Process Sociology Converges with the Ecological Risk Society of the BecksPart II: Violence and Faces of the War8. The Civilising Process, Decline of Homicide and Mass Murder Societies: Norbert Elias and the History of Violence9. A Throwback to Violence? Outline for a Process-Sociological Approach to ‘Terror’ and ‘Terrorism’10.  Violence and Power: The Kaiowá and Guarani Indigenous Peoples11. Analysing European Defence with Elias’s Historical Sociology (1990–2020)
Part III: Established–Outsiders Relations and Habitus Issues12. Weaving Elias’s Thought with Indigenous Perspectives and Lives: Proposal for a Research Agenda13. A Question of Function: Unequal Power Ratios and Asylum Seekers in Ireland14. Thoughts on Describing Established and Outsider Figurations in Inner Mongolia15. Generational Figuration and We-Group Formation in the Palestinian West Bank since the 1970s16. The Israeli National Habitus and Historiography: The Importance of Generations and State Building17. The Established and The Outsiders: An Incomplete Study?Part IV: Conclusive Reflections18. Some Political Implications of Sociology from an Eliasian Point of View

Über Autor(innen)

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 Research Fellow in Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland, 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).