Showing papers in "Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory in 2021"
TL;DR: Populism of the twenty-first century emerges from the aloofness of liberal democracy's sober regimes of rationality as mentioned in this paper, which results in political movements that are explicitly affec...
Abstract: Populism of the twenty-first century, the paper argues, emerges from the aloofness of liberal democracy’s sober regimes of rationality. This results in political movements that are explicitly affec...
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TL;DR: This article argued that faith is a crucial concept for understanding the relationship between reason and affect, and that allowing people to learn from religious faith for secular ends, it can help gene gene expression.
Abstract: This article argues that faith is a crucial concept for understanding the relationship between reason and affect. By allowing people to learn from religious faith for secular ends, it can help gene...
13 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a typology of five transition pathways through which prefigurative strategies may result in a range of social change outcomes from reformative to revolutionary transformation is presented.
Abstract: Recent years have seen a surge of interest in prefigurative politics, which refers to the political strategies that model a future society on a micro level and aim to instantiate radical social change in and through practice. While most previous studies have focused on defining the concept and categorizing various types of prefiguration, this paper contributes by investigating under what circumstances prefiguration leads to revolutionary social change. The paper takes an original approach to these issues by turning to transition studies and the socio-technical change literature. This field focuses on the technical equivalence of prefiguration: namely, the relationship between small-scale niche innovations and large-scale technological transitions. Through theoretical discussions and empirical illustrations, this paper presents a typology of five transition pathways through which prefigurative strategies may result in a range of social change outcomes from reformative to revolutionary transformation. (Less)
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore one of the most under-researched aspects surrounding populism, namely the political logics followed by governing populisms, and more specifically, the transitions of populisms.
Abstract: The article explores one of the most under-researched aspects surrounding populism, namely the political logics followed by governing populisms, and more specifically, the transitions of populisms ...
12 citations
TL;DR: Dumpster diving for food implies using discarded edibles found in waste containers behind supermarkets, and people who voluntarily engage in this activity suggest that it is a form of hand-crafting as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Dumpster diving for food implies using discarded edibles found in waste containers behind supermarkets, for example. People who voluntarily engage in this activity suggest that it is a form of hand...
9 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a Lacanian-inflected perspective may offer a possible way out of the present intellectual impotence of much of critical theory, and the political impotency of critical theories.
Abstract: This paper engages centrally with the political impotence of much of critical theory today and suggests how a Lacanian-inflected perspective may offer a possible way out of the present intellectual...
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TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that this theoretical account offers a novel approach to examining the significance of memory in news journalism as well as the inconsistencies which underscore journalism's memory-work, and that broader reflections on time, temporality and our relations to the past can be made.
Abstract: This article affords particular attention to the relationship between memory, the narrativization of news and its linear construction, conceived as journalism’s ‘memory- work’. In elaborating upon this ‘work’, it is proposed that the Hegelian notion of retroactive causation (as used by Slavoj Žižek) can examine how analyses of news journalists ‘retroactively’ employ the past in the temporal construction of news. In fact, such retroactive (re)ordering directs attention to the ways in which journalists contingently select ‘a past’ to confer meaning on the present. With regard to current literature, it is noted that a retroactive analysis can highlight two important dialectics within the practice of news journalism: 1) the relation between contingency and necessity; and, 2) the relation between content and form. Indeed, it is argued that this theoretical account offers a novel approach to examining the significance of memory in news journalism as well as the inconsistencies which underscore journalism’s memory-work. It is in accordance with such inconsistency that broader reflections on time, temporality and our relations to the past can be made.
8 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the failure of states to take the necessary actions to prevent global temperatures from soaring may be interpreted as more than an act of environmental negligence, in terms of a knowing imposition.
Abstract: The failure of states to take the necessary actions to prevent global temperatures from soaring may be interpreted as more than an act of environmental negligence. In terms of a knowing imposition ...
8 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterized different analyses of why some people become radical Islamists, such as social, economic and political marginalization, and found that marginalization is one of the main reasons for radicalization.
Abstract: Research on Islamist radicalization has been characterized by different analyses of why some people become radical Islamists. Structures such as social, economic and political marginalization are o...
7 citations
TL;DR: The rise of authoritarian populism has forced many democracies to consider how best to defend democracy against its inner enemies as discussed by the authors, and in the literature on democratic self-defense, one often distinguis...
Abstract: The rise of authoritarian populism has forced many democracies to consider how best to defend democracy against its inner enemies. In the literature on democratic self-defense, one often distinguis...
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TL;DR: Barad's concept of diffraction in agential realism has been discussed in this article, but not in the context of the broad reception of Barad's framework of Agential Realism, so it comes as a surprise that there has been little discussion so far of its core concept.
Abstract: Against the backdrop of the broad reception of Karen Barad's framework of agential realism, it comes as a surprise that there has been little discussion so far of her core concept of diffraction in...
Abstract: This article studies affect and reason in practices of persuasion through a rhetorical-performative framework. Focusing on the Swedish economic crisis 1988–1993, this piece argues that the successf...
TL;DR: Through a close analysis of Spinoza's views on prophecy and the Hebrew Republic, this paper contributed insights into how certain modes of governing succeed in aligning and entangling affects the Hebrew republic.
Abstract: Through a close analysis of Spinoza's views on prophecy and the Hebrew Republic, this article contributes insights into how certain modes of governing succeed in aligning and entangling affects wit...
TL;DR: This article present the different ways in which sociologists use the term "method" and suggest a tentative explanation why these have been invested with their current mean-informative meaning.
Abstract: This article has two major goals: to present the different ways in which sociologists use the term ‘method’; and to suggest a tentative explanation why these been invested with their current meanin...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply the ethnic boundary making theory developed by Andreas Wimmer to understand the maintenance of Jewish ethnic identification in Sweden, as expressed in thirteen interviews with thirteen interviewees.
Abstract: This paper applies the ethnic boundary making theory developed by Andreas Wimmer to understand the maintenance of Jewish ethnic identification in Sweden, as expressed in thirteen interviews with Sw ...
TL;DR: In this article, asset ownership is becoming more important than employment as a determinant of class position, and the authors consider this claim with respect to Piketty's contribution, a...
Abstract: This paper argues that asset ownership is becoming more important than employment as a determinant of class position. The introduction considers this claim with respect to Piketty’s contribution, a...
TL;DR: This paper address the role of thinking in politics by engaging with two radically different literatures: theorizing on affect and sociological research into reflexivity through internal convergences, and propose an approach to think in politics.
Abstract: This article addresses the role of thinking in politics by engaging with two radically different literatures: theorizing on affect and sociological research into reflexivity through internal conver...
TL;DR: The authors examines the meaning and immanence of spatial frontiers, considering them as a laboratory of historical and geographical agency, paying particular attention to the economic and territorial incorporation of the Amazon region and the prospects of political resistance.
Abstract: Frontier-making has always been fundamental for the circulation and accumulation of capital. The perennity of frontier-making is not only due to the demand for minerals, land or other resources, or because frontiers represent fresh market opportunities, but crucially because it operates as compensation for the saturation of the existing capitalist relations in core areas. At the frontier, the conventional sequence of time and space is suspended and reconfigured, allowing room for the decompression of tensions and contradictions. Consequently, spatial frontiers function as a mirror, where the most explicit features of capitalism are vividly exposed. This article examines the meaning and immanence of spatial frontiers, considering them as a laboratory of historical and geographical agency. It entails a reflection upon the necessity, the configuration and the contestation of spatial frontiers, paying particular attention to the economic and territorial incorporation of the Amazon region and the prospects of political resistance.
TL;DR: The main aim of as discussed by the authors is to illustrate the distinctive features of the Finnish school of critical theory, focusing especially on its reception of Axel Honneth's theory of recognition and his i...
Abstract: The main aim of this paper is to illustrate the distinctive features of the Finnish school of critical theory, focusing especially on its reception of Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition and his i...
TL;DR: The notion of ‘atmoculture’ is introduced as a conceptual tool to analyse the new forms of mobility supported and enacted by digital algorithms.
Abstract: In this piece, we introduce the notion of ‘atmoculture’ as a conceptual tool to analyse the new forms of mobility supported and enacted by digital algorithms. In historical perspective, we analyse ...
TL;DR: Work conditions in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in the US have become increasingly precarious and abusive as discussed by the authors, and many workers and users (no longer easily categorical or categorical) are becoming increasingly insecure and insecure.
Abstract: Labour conditions in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in the US have become increasingly precarious and abusive. At the same time, many workers and users (no longer easily categori...
TL;DR: In this article, it is common to understand mass demonstrations, like those belonging to the new cycle of contentious politics, as disruptive political events, but there is no consensus on how to define what p...
Abstract: It is common to understand mass demonstrations, like those belonging to the new cycle of contentious politics, as disruptive political events. However, there is no consensus on how to define what p...
TL;DR: The study of nationalism is usually split into its macro-sociological dimension and the political and coercive aspects on the one hand, and into micro-Sociological, psychological and symbolic aspec....
Abstract: The study of nationalism is usually split into its macro-sociological dimension and the political and coercive aspects on the one hand, and into micro-sociological, psychological and symbolic aspec...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that every critique of reason has to put forward certain universal generalizations, and that reason cannot be rejected or criticized by employing its tools by employing their tools.
Abstract: Jurgen Habermas famously argues that reason cannot be rejected or criticized by employing its tools. In other words, every critique of reason has to put forward certain universal generalizations ab...