Posted on July 15, 2015 by Stephen Mennell Call for papers Norbert Elias and Violence Edited by: Tatiana Savoia Landini (Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Francois Dépelteau (Laurentian University, Canada) To be published by Palgrave Macmillan In 2013...
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Read morePosted on March 12, 2015 by Stephen Mennell Book project: Norbert Elias and Violence Edited by: Tatiana S. Landini (Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil) and François Dépelteau (Laurentian University, Canada) To be published by Palgrave Macmillan In 2013 and 2014,...
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Read morePosted on December 10, 2013 by Jason Hughes This is to announce the publication of a much anticipated volume by Helmut Kuzmics and Sabine Haring: Emotion, Habitus und Erster Weltkrieg. Soziologische Studien zum militärischen Untergang der Habsburger Monarchie. (Emotion, Habitus and...
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Read morePosted on September 12, 2012 by Stephen Mennell Pieter Spierenburg’s new book, Violence and Punishment, has been published by Polity Press. Pieter has written a short article, “Are we living in a punitive age?”, on the Polity blog. See: http://www.politybooks.com/blog/post.aspx?id=140
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Read morePosted on July 2, 2011 by Chris Powell Just published: Christopher Powell, Barbaric Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Genocide. (Montréal, Ithaca, and London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011) 368 pp. ISBN: 9780773538566. Why have the largest mass murders in human history...
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Read morePosted on January 9, 2011 by Stephen Mennell Norbert Elias, Au-delà de Freud: sociologie, psychologie, psychanalyse (Paris: La Découverte, 2010). Edited by Marc Joly; translated from English and German by Nicolas Guilhot, Marc Joly and Valentine Meunier; with an afterword...
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Read morePosted 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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Read morePosted 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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Read morePosted 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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Read morePosted on October 5, 2008 by Stephen Mennell Olle Edström, Professor of Musicology at Göteborg University, has written a history of Western music from an Eliasian perspective. Details are: A Different Story: Aesthetics and the History of Western Music (Hillsdale,...
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Read morePosted on November 9, 2007 by admin This highly original book explains the sweeping changes to twentieth-century regimes of manners and the self. It provides a wealth of empirical evidence to demonstrate how changes in the code of manners and...
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Read morePosted on August 13, 2007 by admin Nature and Sociology. London: Routledge. August 2007: 212pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-366847 (hardback, £65); ISBN: 978-0-415-36683-0 (paperback, £22.99) Nature has become increasingly central to social thinking. From the social implications of environmental degradation to the...
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Read morePosted on August 13, 2007 by admin Nature and Sociology. London: Routledge. August 2007: 212pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-366847 (hardback, £65); ISBN: 978-0-415-36683-0 (paperback, £22.99) Nature has become increasingly central to social thinking. From the social implications of environmental degradation to the...
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Read morePosted on June 11, 2007 by admin A book recently published by two criminologists, Ian Loader and Neil Walker, titled Civilizing Security (CUP, 2007), aims to provide some useful reflections on the way that the state manages security in the world...
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Read morePosted on April 10, 2006 by Barbara Wiemann Dear all, Do you know somebody, who is or has been working on the theory on gender/masculinities, which R.W. Connell developed in his books Gender and Power (1987), Masculinities (1995) and Gender...
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Read morePosted on April 3, 2007 by Andrew Hammel Since no objections were raised and I received three expressions of interest, I’ve scanned and attached the splendid Merkur article by Michael Schröter, in a searchable German-language .pdf. All in the spirit...
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