Volume 4
Issue 1: Civilising Offensives (January 2015)
Introduction to the Special Issue of Human Figurations on Civilising Offensives, John Flint; Bernard Kruithof; Ryan Powell.
The Dutch bourgeois civilising offensive in the nineteenth century, Bernard Kruithof.
Beschavingsoffensief (civilising offensive): from sociological concept to moral appeal, Ali de Regt.
Home from Home: UK civilising offensives in residential childcare, Stephen Vertigans.
Thatcher’s civilising offensive: The Ridley Plan to decivilise the working class, Matt Clement.
Containing the Urban Poor – Coercion or Consent? Disciplining Missions and Civilising Offensives in the Netherlands, Rob van Ginkel.
‘We are not long-haired hippies …’ Civilising offensives, suffering, doping and professional cycling, John Connolly.
Civilising offensives and decivilising processes: between the emic and the etic, Stephen Mennell.
Issue 2: Reflections on Global Power Relations (March 2015)
Editor’s Introduction: Reflections on Global Power Relations, Katie Liston.
Explaining American Hypocrisy, Stephen Mennell.
Rejected Modernity, Bruce Mazlish.
Incoherent Empire Revisited: Against Interventionism, Michael Mann.
Problems of Orientation and Control: Marx, Elias and the Involvement–Detachment Balance in Figurational Sociology, André Saramago.
Issue 3 (September 2015)
Editor’s Introduction, Katie Liston.
Discussing theories and processes of civilisation and informalisation: criteriology, Cas Wouters, Stephen Mennell.
Twenty-five years on: Norbert Elias’s intellectual legacy 1990–2015, Barbara Górnicka; Katie Liston; Stephen Mennell.
Approaching new migration through Elias’s ‘established’ and ‘outsiders’ lens, Olga Petintseva.
The Medieval Housebook and Elias’s ‘Scenes from the Life of a Knight’: A case study fit for purpose?, Patrick Murphy.
Using Fantasy: Notes on Elias’s Sociology, Paolo Giovannini.