Norbert Elias in Troubled Times : Figurational Approaches to the Problems of the Twenty-First Century

Norbert Elias in Troubled Times Figurational Approaches to the Problems of the Twenty-First Century

"Beautifully written, this book engages thoughtfully with current issues within a solid understanding of their historical background. It covers a hugely impressive range of topics, developing an innovative mobilisation of Elias's sociological perspective that will underpin a wide variety o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Delmotte, Florence, editor (editor), Górnicka, Barbara, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2021.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Springer eBooks.
Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias,
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45578345*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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