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Other People's Country thinks through the entangled objects of law
- legislation, policies, institutions, treaties and so on - that
'govern' waters and that make bodies of water 'lawful' within
settler colonial sites today. Informed by the theoretical
interventions of cosmopolitics and political ecology, each opening
up new approaches to questions of politics and 'the political', the
chapters in this book locate these insights within material settler
colonial 'places' rather than abstract structures of domination. A
claim to water - whether by Indigenous peoples or settlers - is not
simply a claim to a resource. It is a claim to knowledge and to the
constitution of place and therefore, in the terms of Isabelle
Stengers, to the continued constitution of the past, present and
future of real worlds. Including contributions from the fields of
anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, critical legal
studies, and settler colonial studies, this collection not only
engages with issues of law, water and entitlement in different
national contexts - including Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, New
Caledonia and the USA - but also from diverse disciplinary and
institutional contexts. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Settler Colonial Studies.
This book explores the shift in sociology away from the shared
aspiration of the classical transition, of transcending partiality
through the construction of a "science of society", in the face of
challenges to the notion of objectivity. With the increasing
subjugation of sociology to political ideologies and a growing
emphasis on "policy", which casts sociology in the role of a
provider of intellectual content for political programs, this
volume asks whether the situation is the result of an exhaustion of
ideas or might perhaps be rooted in the failure in the very program
of establishing sociology as a science. Taking seriously the
challenges to the classical aspiration of constructing theories
that both explain and are grounded in empirical reality, The Future
of Sociology asks whether the core idea of transcending ideology is
still worth pursuing, and whether there remains scope for making
sociology scientific. As such, it will appeal to scholars and
students of sociology, social theory, and social scientific
methodology.
--A timely analysis of how to make democracies more
administratively effective--and true to the intentions of democracy
--The lead author is a distinguished political philosopher
--Valuable assigned reading for advanced courses on social theory,
political theory, public administration, democracy, political
sociology, and more
The development of an international substantive environmental right
on a global level has long been a contested issue. To a limited
extent environmental rights have developed in a fragmented way
through different legal regimes. This book examines the potential
for the development of a global environmental right that would
create legal duties for all types of decision-makers and provide
the bedrock for a new system of international environmental
governance. Taking a problem solving approach, the book seeks to
demonstrate how straightforward and logical changes to the existing
global legal architecture would address some of the fundamental
root causes of environmental degradation. It puts forward a draft
global environmental right that would integrate duties for both
state and non-state actors within reformed systems of environmental
governance and a rational framework for business and industry to
adhere to in order that those systems could be made operational. It
also examines the failures of the existing international climate
change regime and explains how the draft global environmental right
could remedy existing deficits. This innovative and
interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to policy-makers,
students and researchers in international environmental law,
climate change, environmental politics and global environmental
governance as well as those studying the WTO, international trade
law, human rights law, constitutional law and corporate law.
--A timely analysis of how to make democracies more
administratively effective--and true to the intentions of democracy
--The lead author is a distinguished political philosopher
--Valuable assigned reading for advanced courses on social theory,
political theory, public administration, democracy, political
sociology, and more
This book explores the shift in sociology away from the shared
aspiration of the classical transition, of transcending partiality
through the construction of a "science of society", in the face of
challenges to the notion of objectivity. With the increasing
subjugation of sociology to political ideologies and a growing
emphasis on "policy", which casts sociology in the role of a
provider of intellectual content for political programs, this
volume asks whether the situation is the result of an exhaustion of
ideas or might perhaps be rooted in the failure in the very program
of establishing sociology as a science. Taking seriously the
challenges to the classical aspiration of constructing theories
that both explain and are grounded in empirical reality, The Future
of Sociology asks whether the core idea of transcending ideology is
still worth pursuing, and whether there remains scope for making
sociology scientific. As such, it will appeal to scholars and
students of sociology, social theory, and social scientific
methodology.
Current sociological theories appear to have lost their general
persuasiveness in part because, unlike the theories of the
'classical era', they fail to maintain an integrated stance toward
society, and the practical role that sociology plays in society.
The authors explore various facets of this failure and
possibilities for reconstructing sociological theories as
integrated wholes capable of conveying a moral and political
immediacy. They discuss the evolution of several concepts (for
example, the social, structure, and self) and address the
significant disputes (for example, structuralism versus humanism,
and individual versus society) that have dominated
twentieth-century sociological thought. Their ideas and analyses
are directed towards an audience of students and theorists who are
coming to terms with the project of sociological theory, and its
relationship with moral discourses and political practice. The
authors of these essays are sociological theorists from the United
States, the United Kingdom and Canada. They are all established,
but not 'establishment' authors. The book contains no orthodoxies,
and no answers. However, the essays do contribute to identifying
the range of issues that will constitute the agenda for the next
generation of sociological theorists.
International scholarship over the last twenty years has produced a
new understanding of Emile Durkheim as a thinker. It has
contributed to reassembling what, for Durkheim, was always a whole:
a sociological selection on morals and moral activism. This volume
presents an overview of Durkheim's thought and is representative of
the best of contemporary Durkheim scholarship.
The development of an international substantive environmental right
has long been a contested issue. Concurrently, environmental rights
have developed in a fragmented way and to a limited extent through
different legal regimes. This book examines the potential for the
development of a global environmental right which would create
legal duties for all decision-makers relating to the environment
and provide the bedrock for a new system of international
environmental governance. The book analyses not only traditional
international environmental law and human rights law but also the
development of corporate law, the development of the GATT and the
WTO. It uses this basis to build an understanding of the wider
international legal architecture and why that architecture often
leads to poor outcomes for the environment. The book summarizes the
state of scientific knowledge, as it is this, which drives the
justification for legal reform. It also analyses existing systems
that have developed within the practice of decision-making
processes to demonstrate the role that they can play within new
systems of environmental governance. Taking a problem solving
approach, the book seeks to demonstrate how straightforward and
logical changes to the architecture would solve fundamental
problems and argues for the development of a new environmental
right that creates clear legal responsibilities for
decision-makers, illustrating how governments and institutions
would need to adjust to make the changes operative and successful.
This problem solving approach extends to the provision of a draft
treaty annexed to the book. This innovative and interdisciplinary
book is of great interest to students and researchers in
international environmental law, environmental politics,
environmental economics, and environmental management, as well as
those studying more specifically the WTO, international trade law,
human rights law, constitutional law and company law.
International scholarship over the last 20 years has produced a new
understanding of Emile Durkheim as a thinker. This book presents
the reader with an overview of the best of this scholarship and to
provide a taste of research much of which is not available in
English elsewhere. Although the essays included reflect a wide
range of concerns and styles of thought from the cream of the
Durkheim community, there is a startling coherence in the image
they present. Durkheim was, from his first reviews to his last
written work, a moralist and this collection reconnects the two
parts of the man that other writings have generally separated: the
institutionalizer or sociologist and the moralist. "Emile Durkheim:
Sociologist and Moralist" provides us with a new Durkheim hitherto
known only to specialists, that of a utilizer of the insights of
sociology for the purpose of intervention into moral development.
Over recent years there has been growing interest in the relations
between academic intellectuals and professionals under the Nazi
regime. Several works on Heidegger, Nazi doctors and Paul de Man
have appeared. This book attempts to do for sociology what has been
done for other fields: to demythologize the pre-war role of
sociologists and provide a serious historical basis for reflection
on it. The myth is simple: that the noble and clear-sighted
Frankfurt School was expelled by Hitler and raised the
consciousness of the west. The realities are considerably more
complex. During and after the war, a consensus account of fascism
emerged. But in the inter-war years sociologists misanalyzed,
misunderstood or supported fascism. The book examines the
historical record in Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, the USA and
the UK.
We know a lot about the sociology of fascism, but how have
sociologists responded to fascism when confronted with it in their
own lives? How courageous or compromising have they been? And why
has this history been shrouded in silence for so long? In this
major work of historical scholarship sociologists from around the
world describe and evaluate the reactions of sociologists to the
rise and practice of fascism.
Mad Hazard is a memoir of the career and life of Stephen Turner,
chronicling a life in social theory. Showcasing how Turner's later
work on expertise, tacit knowledge, cognitive science, leadership,
and liberal democracy developed out of his early interests, this
volume describes the institutional and personal constraints and
pressures, as well as the personal relationships, that facilitated
and shaped an academic career. From Turner's childhood in the
racially violent South Side of Chicago, the development of his
interests in social theory, through to his education in the shadow
of the war in Vietnam and a period of social and personal turmoil,
this biographical work shows us not only the development of
academic thinking, but the evolution of an academic career. The
rebellion within sociology against the hegemonic Merton-Parsons
conception of sociology and the methodological orthodoxies of the
time leads through to a discussion of the philosophy of science and
social science, and from there to a reassessment of the inherited
view of the classics, to science studies, and to political and
international relations theory - the comprehensive nature of Mad
Hazard means the reader can truly understand how Turner's academic
journey evolved. Revealing an academic career not dependent on
prestige and academic power, but also not untouched by hierarchy
and academic politics, Mad Hazard is appealing for readers
interested in the field of social theory, and beyond that, those
interested in the evolution of intellectual life in the present
university.
Current sociological theories appear to have lost their general
persuasiveness in part because, unlike the theories of the
'classical era', they fail to maintain an integrated stance toward
society, and the practical role that sociology plays in society.
The authors explore various facets of this failure and
possibilities for reconstructing sociological theories as
integrated wholes capable of conveying a moral and political
immediacy. They discuss the evolution of several concepts (for
example, the social, structure, and self) and address the
significant disputes (for example, structuralism versus humanism,
and individual versus society) that have dominated
twentieth-century sociological thought. Their ideas and analyses
are directed towards an audience of students and theorists who are
coming to terms with the project of sociological theory, and its
relationship with moral discourses and political practice. The
authors of these essays are sociological theorists from the United
States, the United Kingdom and Canada. They are all established,
but not 'establishment' authors. The book contains no orthodoxies,
and no answers. However, the essays do contribute to identifying
the range of issues that will constitute the agenda for the next
generation of sociological theorists.
Other People's Country thinks through the entangled objects of law
- legislation, policies, institutions, treaties and so on - that
'govern' waters and that make bodies of water 'lawful' within
settler colonial sites today. Informed by the theoretical
interventions of cosmopolitics and political ecology, each opening
up new approaches to questions of politics and 'the political', the
chapters in this book locate these insights within material settler
colonial 'places' rather than abstract structures of domination. A
claim to water - whether by Indigenous peoples or settlers - is not
simply a claim to a resource. It is a claim to knowledge and to the
constitution of place and therefore, in the terms of Isabelle
Stengers, to the continued constitution of the past, present and
future of real worlds. Including contributions from the fields of
anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, critical legal
studies, and settler colonial studies, this collection not only
engages with issues of law, water and entitlement in different
national contexts - including Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, New
Caledonia and the USA - but also from diverse disciplinary and
institutional contexts. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Settler Colonial Studies.
Edward Shils was a central figure in twentieth century social
thought. He held appointments both at Chicago and Cambridge and was
a crucial link between British and American intellectual life. This
volume collects essays by distinguished contributors which deal
with the major facets of Shils' thought, including his relations
with Michael Polanyi, his parallels with Michael Oakeshott, his
defense of the traditional university, his fundamental
philosophical anthropology, and his important work on such topics
as tradition, civility, and the nation. As an introduction to this
complex and original thinker, it will be of interest to scholars
and students in a number of fields, including sociology and social
theory, but also to anyone interested in the intellectual life as
it was lived in the mid-twentieth century, in the face of the Cold
War and ideological struggle. -- .
"Brains/Practices/Relativism" presents the first major rethinking
of social theory in light of cognitive science. Stephen P. Turner
focuses especially on connectionism, which views learning as a
process of adaptation to input that, in turn, leads to patterns of
response distinct to each individual. This means that there is no
common "server" from which people download shared frameworks that
enable them to cooperate or communicate. Therefore, argues Turner,
"practices"--in the sense that the term is widely used in the
social sciences and humanities--is a myth, and so are the
"cultures" that are central to anthropological and sociological
thought.
In a series of tightly argued essays, Turner traces out the
implications that discarding the notion of shared frameworks has
for relativism, social constructionism, normativity, and a number
of other concepts. He suggests ways in which these ideas might be
reformulated more productively, in part through extended critiques
of the work of scholars such as Ian Hacking, Andrew Pickering,
Pierre Bourdieu, Quentin Skinner, Robert Brandom, Clifford Geertz,
and Edward Shils.
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