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Appeal for help! – textual errors in Elias

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Stephen Mennell We should appreciate readers’ help in preparing for publication the final group of volumes in the Collected Works of Norbert Elias in English. We shall soon be embarking on editing the revised...

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Chapter on Norbert Elias in The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies. Classical Foundations (ed. Paul S. Adler)

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Ad van Iterson Ad van Iterson (Maastricht University, the Netherlands) has contributed a chapter on Norbert Elias’s impact on organizational sociology to the Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies, edited by Paul S....

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Chapter on Norbert Elias in The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies. Classical Foundations (ed. Paul S. Adler)

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Ad van Iterson Ad van Iterson (Maastricht University, the Netherlands) has contributed a chapter on Norbert Elias’s impact on organizational sociology to the Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies, edited by Paul S....

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New Elias book published in Japan

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Stephen Mennell Akira Ohira (ed.), Norbert Elias and Globalisation: Sport, Culture and Society (Tokyo: DTP Publishing, 2009). 208 pp. ISBN: 978-4-86211-173-9 Norbert Elias and Globalization, edited by Akira Ohira, is a collection of essays...

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Fifteen Elias essays new in English

Posted on April 26, 2009 by Stephen Mennell Norbert Elias, Essays III: On Sociology and the Humanities (Dublin: UCD Press, 2009 [Collected Works, vol. 16]), edited by Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell. 312 pp. ISBN: 978-1-906359-03-4. €48.00. The latest volume...

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Civilization: Critical Concepts in Political Science Edited and with a new introduction by Brett Bowden (Routledge)

Posted on March 24, 2009 by admin Forthcoming from Routledge, June 2009. Order it for your library! Especially since the end of the Cold War, the concept of ‘civilization’ has been frequently deployed by those who seek to describe and...

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Proceedings of a conference about ‘The Germans’ online

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Tristan Coignard Here are the proceedings of a conference about Studien über die Deutschen held at the University of Bordeaux: Tristan Coignard, Hélène Leclerc (ed.), Norbert Elias, un “marginal établi”? Ancrages et réception d’une...

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XVII World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, 11-17 July 2010

Posted on February 18, 2009 by admin The official Call for Papers for the three proposed Figurational Sociology sessions at the 2010 ISA World Congress has now been posted on the Congress website. Please note the deadline for submission of...

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New book: ‘Sozialer Wandel und Macht’

Posted on February 14, 2009 by carsten kaven Kaven, Carsten: Sozialer Wandel und Macht. Die theoretischen Ansaetze von Max Weber, Norbert Elias und Michel Foucault im Vergleich, Muenster (Metropolis), 2006, ISBN: 978-3-89518-557-1 , € 36,80 This book deals with the...

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New book: ‘Die Durchsetzung der Reformpolitik in China’

Posted on February 14, 2009 by carsten kaven Kaven, Carsten: Die Durchsetzung der Reformpolitik in China. Analyse eines Ereignisses, Münster (LIT-Verlag), 2009, ISBN: 978-3-8258-1712-1, € 19,90 This book is inspired by Elias’ thinking although the title does not contain his...

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