Wie können Machtverhältnisse in ihrer Komplexität empirisch untersucht werden? Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage lohnt es sich, die Diskussionen um Intersektionalität aufzugreifen und sie mit Judith ...Butlers Ansätzen zur Subjektivierung zu verbinden. Melanie Behrens` sorgfältige Auseinandersetzung mit den Charakteristika und Bedingungen komplexer Machtverhältnisse führt zu einer neuen Perspektive auf lange geführte Debatten: Sie plädiert dafür, Machtverhältnisse als in Subjektivierungen eingelassen zu begreifen. Subjektivierungen lassen sich so als zentrale Prozesse für die Reproduktion von Machtverhältnissen beschreiben.
Increasingly a spectator sport, electoral politics have become bitterly polarized by professional consultants and lobbyists and have been boiled down to the distributive mantra of "who gets what." ...InEveryday Politics, Harry Boyte transcends partisan politics to offer an alternative. He demonstrates how community-rooted activities reconnect citizens to engaged, responsible public life, and not just on election day but throughout the year. Boyte demonstrates that this type of activism has a rich history and strong philosophical foundation. It rests on the stubborn faith that the talents and insights of ordinary citizens-from nursery school to nursing home-are crucial elements in public life. Drawing on concrete examples of successful public work projects accomplished by diverse groups of people across the nation, Boyte demonstrates how citizens can master essential political skills, such as understanding issues in public terms, mapping complex issues of institutional power to create alliances, raising funds, communicating, and negotiating across lines of difference. He describes how these skills can be used to address the larger challenges of our time, thereby advancing a renewed vision of democratic society and freedom in the twenty-first century.
In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended ...through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions.
The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more modern "soft" or populist autocrats, who are in the process of transforming once fully democratic countries into autocratic states, including Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Narendra Modi in India, and Viktor Orbán in Hungary. The authors touch on a wide range of autocratic and dictatorial figures in the past and present, including present-day autocrats, such as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, military leaders, and democratic leaders with authoritarian aspirations. They analyze the transition of selected autocrats from democratic or benign semi-democratic systems to harsher forms of autocracy, with either quite disastrous or more successful outcomes.
The book is an ideal reader for students and scholars, as well as the general public, interested in international affairs, leadership studies, contemporary history and politics, global studies, security studies, economics, psychology, and behavioral studies.
L’autorité, thème majeur de la philosophie politique, apparaît comme un mystère (ou une mystification) dans nos sociétés modernes où l’on déplore (ou célèbre) sa disparition, au moment même où les « ...relations de pouvoir » paraissent s’imposer dans certaines théories comme la clé ouvrant toutes les portes du savoir sociologique, par ses capacités infinies de dévoilement des intérêts cachés au cœur de toute relation sociale. Pourtant, à l’issue d’un examen approfondi, réunissant des lieux aussi divers que la Chine, l’Inde, la Nouvelle-Calédonie, la Nouvelle-Guinée, les Philippines, la Russie, la Tunisie et Wallis, des sociétés aux régimes politiques allant de l’empire à la « société sans État » en passant par la démocratie et des religions allant de l’islam au chamanisme, l’autorité se révèle être une dimension nécessaire et consubstantielle à la vie sociale, articulant et ordonnant les valeurs fondamentales qui régissent la pensée et l’action collectives. En plaçant chaque forme d’autorité observée dans le tout de chaque culture, ce travail dégage non seulement certaines conclusions quant à la nature de l’autorité, mais invite également à des considérations méthodologiques générales en soulignant les impasses des « anthropologies potestatives » pour lesquelles seuls les rapports de pouvoir sont au fondement de l’ordre social.
In Knowledge, Art, and Power John Ryder develops a pragmatic naturalist theory of experience that posits the cognitive (knowledge), the aesthetic (art), and the political (power) as the most general ...and pervasive dimensions of all human experience.
In this volume Chris Callow provides a critical reading of the evidence for changes in Iceland's socio-political structures from its colonisation to the 1260s when leading Icelanders swore oaths of ...loyalty to the Norwegian king.
This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to help drive global influence. Selecting four of the countries most associated with soft power across the continent, ...this book delves into the currencies of soft power across the region: from South Africa’s progressive constitution and expanding multinational corporations, to Nigeria’s Nollywood film industry and Technical Aid Corps (TAC) scheme, Kenya’s sport diplomacy, fashion and tourism industries, and finally Egypt’s Pan-Arabism and its reputation as the cradle of civilisation. The book asks how soft power is wielded by these countries and what constraints and contradictions they encounter. Understandings of soft power have typically been driven by Western scholars, but throughout this book, Oluwaseun Tella aims to Africanise our understanding of soft power, drawing on prominent African philosophies, including Nigeria’s Omolúwàbí, South Africa’s Ubuntu, Kenya’s Harambee, and Egypt’s Pharaonism. This book will be of interest to researchers from across political science, international relations, cultural studies, foreign policy and African Studies.
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