Overview
- Applies Eliasian approaches in a new way, addressing primarily contemporary problems in society
- Focuses on social and political issues, including violence, war, terrorism, exclusion, the environment, migration, and beyond, to extend the typical applications of Eliasian theory and methods
- Compares the pragmatic and sociological relevance of Elias’s approach to that of other established social scientists working in the area of contemporary social and political problems
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias (PSNE)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Renewing Classical Themes
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Violence and Faces of the War
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Established–Outsiders Relations and Habitus Issues
Reviews
--Robert van Krieken, Emeritus Professor, The University of Sydney, Australia
“Over thirty years ago Norbert Elias emphasised that rising levels of human interconnectedness had increased the subjection of individuals to global processes over which they had little or no control. Citing his comment, the editors of this excellent volume stress the continuing validity of that observation in the present era. They have brought together a stellar cast of international scholars to reconsider and extend Elias's analysis of the social and political integration of human societies.
Readers will encounter in this volume an unusually wide-ranging collection of innovative papers that revisit core Eliasian ideas, provide new insights into violence and war, and explore through diverse empirical cases the classical analysis of relations between established groups and outsiders. The result is an inventive study which is essential reading for students of the endlessly surprising consequences and challenges of the global integration of modern societies.”
--Andrew Linklater, Emeritus Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, UK
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Norbert Elias in Troubled Times
Book Subtitle: Figurational Approaches to the Problems of the Twenty-First Century
Editors: Florence Delmotte, Barbara Górnicka
Series Title: Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74993-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74992-7Published: 03 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74995-8Published: 04 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74993-4Published: 02 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-3102
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3110
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 357
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociological Theory, Political Sociology, Violence and Crime, Sociology of Citizenship