Tilburg University A politics of (in)security Besters
... this often polarized debate and thus affirming the terms in which it takes place, my aim is rather to open up the debate on collective security by reassessing its terms. In fact, one of the aims of this thesis is reconsidering the military, war-like understanding of collective security, taking it be ...
... this often polarized debate and thus affirming the terms in which it takes place, my aim is rather to open up the debate on collective security by reassessing its terms. In fact, one of the aims of this thesis is reconsidering the military, war-like understanding of collective security, taking it be ...
social formation mode of production structural Marxism
... formations and the extent to which production is a thoroughly social activity that requires social and cultural conditions of possibility that cannot be instituted by decree. Despite appearances, for example, the drastic economic changes introduced in Russia after 1917 and in Eastern Europe after Wo ...
... formations and the extent to which production is a thoroughly social activity that requires social and cultural conditions of possibility that cannot be instituted by decree. Despite appearances, for example, the drastic economic changes introduced in Russia after 1917 and in Eastern Europe after Wo ...
Thesis Eleven - capacité d`affect
... the body and the ambiguous multiplicities formed by assembled bodies. It is a complicated, non-linear path, which bears resemblances with the experience of ‘necessity’ in a writer like Kafka, or with ‘the Fact’ in a painter like Bacon. As far as the second point is concerned, in the attempt to expla ...
... the body and the ambiguous multiplicities formed by assembled bodies. It is a complicated, non-linear path, which bears resemblances with the experience of ‘necessity’ in a writer like Kafka, or with ‘the Fact’ in a painter like Bacon. As far as the second point is concerned, in the attempt to expla ...
Word - Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal
... autism defined in a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders and tracked statistically by our Centers for Disease Control. We might begin to see the manifold phenomena of autism as a plurality of different modes of mental processing, of interpreting and living in the world, that are no ...
... autism defined in a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders and tracked statistically by our Centers for Disease Control. We might begin to see the manifold phenomena of autism as a plurality of different modes of mental processing, of interpreting and living in the world, that are no ...
Subject and Subject position in Laclau`s discourse theory Allan
... actor is equipped with a trans-historical 'human' essence, structuralism claims that we are, in Marx famous words 'bearers of historical structures'. My intentions and preferences might well be in accordance whit those claimed by rational choice, but even if it is the case, it is not due to some tra ...
... actor is equipped with a trans-historical 'human' essence, structuralism claims that we are, in Marx famous words 'bearers of historical structures'. My intentions and preferences might well be in accordance whit those claimed by rational choice, but even if it is the case, it is not due to some tra ...
Analysing Discourse. An Approach From the Sociology
... circulation and transformation, or in more general terms: they are related to questions of symbolic structuring of meaning and the generation of symbolic orders including their material groundings and effects. The main difference between the two strands seems to be that the latter approach gives gre ...
... circulation and transformation, or in more general terms: they are related to questions of symbolic structuring of meaning and the generation of symbolic orders including their material groundings and effects. The main difference between the two strands seems to be that the latter approach gives gre ...
Print this article - Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational
... section, we want to argue that discipline is both an expression of and a tool for the exercise of power. It manifests in historical, racial and socioeconomic inequalities. We premise our argument on the assumption that an ideology always exists and is inherent in the form of an apparatus (discipline ...
... section, we want to argue that discipline is both an expression of and a tool for the exercise of power. It manifests in historical, racial and socioeconomic inequalities. We premise our argument on the assumption that an ideology always exists and is inherent in the form of an apparatus (discipline ...
THE FOUCAULT EFFECT
... within a range of social and economic institutions such as the school, the factory and the prison. These ideas encountered considerable interest and extensive criticism. Foucault's responses to some of these criticisms can be read as giving some of the key directions to his subsequent work. One obje ...
... within a range of social and economic institutions such as the school, the factory and the prison. These ideas encountered considerable interest and extensive criticism. Foucault's responses to some of these criticisms can be read as giving some of the key directions to his subsequent work. One obje ...
Biopolitics An Advanced Introduction
... established canon. Furthermore, biopolitics constitutes a theoretical and empirical field that crosses conventional disciplinary boundaries and undermines the traditional academic and intellectual division of labor. This introduction therefore has two objectives. On the one hand, it seeks to provide ...
... established canon. Furthermore, biopolitics constitutes a theoretical and empirical field that crosses conventional disciplinary boundaries and undermines the traditional academic and intellectual division of labor. This introduction therefore has two objectives. On the one hand, it seeks to provide ...
giving an account of oneself - Journal for Cultural and Religious
... and importance that has not been rightly adjudicated by those who too quickly equate poststructuralism with moral nihilism” (21). If Butler is right, then the basis for morality is not self-identity, but the exposure to others; not self-recursion, but constitutive incompleteness; not a final subject ...
... and importance that has not been rightly adjudicated by those who too quickly equate poststructuralism with moral nihilism” (21). If Butler is right, then the basis for morality is not self-identity, but the exposure to others; not self-recursion, but constitutive incompleteness; not a final subject ...
Rethinking Power Relations in Critical/Cultural Studies: A Dialectical
... In this section I will briefly retrace the so-called “discursive turn” in communication scholarship as intrinsically related to a mostly uninterrogated rejection of “received” Marxist accounts of power relations, which are incessantly reduced in this literature to economicist, exclusively class-orie ...
... In this section I will briefly retrace the so-called “discursive turn” in communication scholarship as intrinsically related to a mostly uninterrogated rejection of “received” Marxist accounts of power relations, which are incessantly reduced in this literature to economicist, exclusively class-orie ...
Title Ocularcentrism and its Others: A Framework for Metatheoretical
... ocularcentrism have taken. The first consists of writers who have critiqued the vision metaphor by taking it to its extreme, but who also, somewhat paradoxically, retain the metaphor’s central position in their own texts. This trajectory is referred to as ocularcentrism extended. The second trajecto ...
... ocularcentrism have taken. The first consists of writers who have critiqued the vision metaphor by taking it to its extreme, but who also, somewhat paradoxically, retain the metaphor’s central position in their own texts. This trajectory is referred to as ocularcentrism extended. The second trajecto ...
Can the Subaltern Speak?
... nence for history and which had not been recognized as having any moral, aesthetic or historical value.’ It is the slippage from rendering visible the mechanism to rendering the individual, both avoiding ‘any kind of analysis of [the subject] whether psychological, psychoanalytical or linguistic,’ t ...
... nence for history and which had not been recognized as having any moral, aesthetic or historical value.’ It is the slippage from rendering visible the mechanism to rendering the individual, both avoiding ‘any kind of analysis of [the subject] whether psychological, psychoanalytical or linguistic,’ t ...
The consolations of`neoliberalism`
... supposed to do the rather more ordinary ideological work of legitimizing the political subordination of whole populations. The notion that “neoliberalism” amounts to a clearly defined, purposive project pursued by specifiable interest groups, which aims to subordinate public values to those of the m ...
... supposed to do the rather more ordinary ideological work of legitimizing the political subordination of whole populations. The notion that “neoliberalism” amounts to a clearly defined, purposive project pursued by specifiable interest groups, which aims to subordinate public values to those of the m ...
An Exploration of Knowledge and Power in Narrative, Collaborative
... scientists turned very early on to the positivist physical sciences for examples upon which to base their own work in the interpretation of the social systems. This, they believed, would provide necessary legitimacy for their own work as a science. This positivist commitment leads counselors into th ...
... scientists turned very early on to the positivist physical sciences for examples upon which to base their own work in the interpretation of the social systems. This, they believed, would provide necessary legitimacy for their own work as a science. This positivist commitment leads counselors into th ...
`Factivism`: A New Configuration of Humanitarian Reason
... Topologies of Power A topological analysis is one “that examines how existing techniques and technologies of power are re-deployed and recombined in diverse assemblies of biopolitical government.”24 As Collier notes, this approach relies on a reading of Foucault’s later work that emphasises the hete ...
... Topologies of Power A topological analysis is one “that examines how existing techniques and technologies of power are re-deployed and recombined in diverse assemblies of biopolitical government.”24 As Collier notes, this approach relies on a reading of Foucault’s later work that emphasises the hete ...
Cover Sheet - Ciem-UCR
... understanding of Pluralism and its role within the social sciences. Moreover, in Gramscian terms, within western epistemology, the geopolitical localization of knowledge production has also developed a subaltern knowledge where hegemony is achieved through a mass concert about what the ‘truth’ is (M ...
... understanding of Pluralism and its role within the social sciences. Moreover, in Gramscian terms, within western epistemology, the geopolitical localization of knowledge production has also developed a subaltern knowledge where hegemony is achieved through a mass concert about what the ‘truth’ is (M ...
deleuze desire n pleasure notes on foucault
... Thus a rupture with an alternative that everybody had more or less accepted. Instead of repression or ideology, SP formed a concept of normalisation, and of disciplines. B This thesis on the systems of power seemed to me to have two directions, not at all contradictory, but distinct. In any case, th ...
... Thus a rupture with an alternative that everybody had more or less accepted. Instead of repression or ideology, SP formed a concept of normalisation, and of disciplines. B This thesis on the systems of power seemed to me to have two directions, not at all contradictory, but distinct. In any case, th ...
International Sociological Association Mid
... The problem has a marginal position in the theory of Kohlberg & Ryncarz (1990a), because they think that the development of the individuals’ morality follows the same general regularities irrespective of the cultural environment. In terms of her/his moral views, the human being develops in all soci ...
... The problem has a marginal position in the theory of Kohlberg & Ryncarz (1990a), because they think that the development of the individuals’ morality follows the same general regularities irrespective of the cultural environment. In terms of her/his moral views, the human being develops in all soci ...
Foucault`s new functionalism
... Although Foucault never defined this term explicitly, a function can be understood in the context of his theory of power as any discourse, practice, or effect of the latter that produces a designated or latent consequence in a given social context. From the point of view of social theory, Foucault's ...
... Although Foucault never defined this term explicitly, a function can be understood in the context of his theory of power as any discourse, practice, or effect of the latter that produces a designated or latent consequence in a given social context. From the point of view of social theory, Foucault's ...
Post-DeveloPment theory anD the Discourse-agency
... reproduce through their agency. A discourse refers not only to statements (oral and written) and communicative meaning embodied in non-verbal infrastructure, technology, and practice, but also to aggregates of social practices. Foucault argues that discourse is often perceived as insignificant by it ...
... reproduce through their agency. A discourse refers not only to statements (oral and written) and communicative meaning embodied in non-verbal infrastructure, technology, and practice, but also to aggregates of social practices. Foucault argues that discourse is often perceived as insignificant by it ...
SP405_Contemporary Social Thought 2015-16
... 2 ) Functionalism and Power – Parsons. In the previous lectures it was assumed that power equates with domination. However, is power not also the capacity for action? Is power power to, not simply power over? What is the objective of political organizations? Surely it is not simply to dominate peop ...
... 2 ) Functionalism and Power – Parsons. In the previous lectures it was assumed that power equates with domination. However, is power not also the capacity for action? Is power power to, not simply power over? What is the objective of political organizations? Surely it is not simply to dominate peop ...
Mobility and territoriality in the making of societies
... the combination of three instances, combined by municipalities: First political organisations, associating people, along with the nation-state involved. Second the territory thereby defined, assigning to the organisation a certain form of physical and social responsibility for all citizens living w ...
... the combination of three instances, combined by municipalities: First political organisations, associating people, along with the nation-state involved. Second the territory thereby defined, assigning to the organisation a certain form of physical and social responsibility for all citizens living w ...
InterCultural Futures
... long run processes that are hinted at, made explicit by the idea of the TIR? Young People, the GFC and the Great Recession In this, the second decade of the 21st century, many young people in the OECD/EU economies appear to be carrying a particularly heavy burden for many of the downstream effects o ...
... long run processes that are hinted at, made explicit by the idea of the TIR? Young People, the GFC and the Great Recession In this, the second decade of the 21st century, many young people in the OECD/EU economies appear to be carrying a particularly heavy burden for many of the downstream effects o ...