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It is an exciting time to consider changes in the field of comparative-historical sociology, as the discipline seeks to accommodate both old and new trends as well as the transforming spatial scales in which political power and social theory are increasingly embedded. Volume 20 of "Political Power and Social Theory" starts the ball rolling by showcasing articles that pursue similar themes. The question of what is old and what is new hovers over most of the contributions, particularly the peer-reviewed chapters in parts I and II, which consider such long-standing socio-historical concerns as power structure theory, class-based collective action, and empire - but examine them through new conceptual, methodological, and historical lenses. This year's volume also offers a critical treatment of the spatial or territorial dynamics of state hegemony, class power, ideologies of governance, and citizenship - with the latter theme most well developed in debate over the new geographies of citizenship in the Scholarly Controversy Section as well as in part-II's guest-edited section on Empire and Colonialism.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Part I: Conceptualizing Power -- Chapter 1 Introducing Key Issues -- Introduction -- Physical versus social power -- Power 'to' versus power 'over' -- Asymmetrical versus balanced power -- Power as structures versus agents -- Actual versus potential power -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Meet the Family - Domination, Authority and Legitimacy -- Introduction -- The 'dominant' academic discourse on power -- Bringing authority and legitimacy back in -- Max Weber's complicated legacy -- Recapitulation -- Power, modernity and ambivalence -- Part II: Theorizing Power -- Chapter 3 European Sources -- Introduction -- Early modern harbingers: Machiavelli and Hobbes -- Theorists of modernity: Marx, Durkheim and Weber -- Return to Italy: classical elitism and Gramsci -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 American Debates -- Introduction -- Power: community structures and national elites -- The power of positive function -- Power hides its face -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Epistemological Approaches -- Introduction -- Barnes: self-fulfilling prophecies -- Foucault: power/knowledge -- Actor-networks, 'realrationalität' and the ghost of Machiavelli -- Bourdieu: the practice of power -- On language and culture -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Evolutionary Approaches -- Introduction -- Energy, technology and evolution -- Two philosophic histories -- Modes, forms and sources of power -- Conclusion -- Part III: Investigating Power -- Chapter 7 Domination, Authority and Legitimacy in Liberal Society -- Introduction -- State, economy, and the 'memorable alliance' -- Civil society -- Public and private -- Competition as legitimation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Religion and Morality -- Introduction -- Human limits and explanations of religion -- Religion as reflecting the social constitution of power relations.

"Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, 'living legacy'- that is, it explores power relations in the context of time as a means to considering and challenging social injustice. Legacies of social injustice are very frequently erased, denied or declared redundant. Framed by the concept of 'legacy', this book does not conceive legacy as simply referring to relics of the past, or to cultural heritage practices and artifacts. Instead, the book focuses upon 'living legacies', understood as ongoing, actively engaged in the re-constitution of power relations, and influential in the development of alternative political imaginaries. Through a variety of studies from many different contexts-including Indigenous trauma in Australia, displacement in Beirut, women travellers in Scotland, and heteronormativity in Hollywood-the book draws not only upon historiographic, sociological, legal, political, cultural and other disciplinary approaches, but also specifically makes use of feminist and postcolonial perspectives. Foregrounding the legacies of inequality and marginalisation, it contributes to a re-thinking of power and social change in ways that together suggest potential means for unsettling and reimagining such legacies. This book will appeal to an interdisciplinary range of readers with interests and concerns in the broad area of social justice, but especially to those working in sociolegal studies, sociology, gender studies, indigenous studies and politics"--

In this article, we articulate an innovative framework, <i>manywheres</i>, and argue that it can advance the work of fostering youth-led change and progressive world-making. We first root psychological and development science in an applied framework of developing more just, harmonious, and tolerant social worlds. Then, we introduce <i>manywheres</i>, a guiding framework of propositions of attending to the complexity and nuance of meaning-making across individuals without becoming lost in nihilism, relativism, or ethnocentric views of social justice. This leads to the construction of a more holistic developmental lens considering the age-related, contextual, and internal factors that shape meaning-making individual trajectories and societal outcomes. <i>Manywheres</i> can thus structure thinking and research with an end goal of understanding the diversity of young people's engagement, activism, and disconnection. We end with mapping a research agenda applying these ideals, incorporating the methodological approaches that can be taken, concrete examples, and implications that can be applied to salient social issues.

Body tech / edited by Jennifer L. Croissant -- Information technologies / edited by Ron Eglash -- Environments / edited by Giovanna di Chiro -- Invention / edited by Rayvon Fouché

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: CULTURE / POWER / HISTORY -- CHAPTER ONE Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936 -- CHAPTER TWO Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory -- CHAPTER THREE The Exhibitionary Complex -- CHAPTER FOUR Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power -- CHAPTER FIVE Two Lectures -- CHAPTER SIX After the Masses -- CHAPTER SEVEN Family, Education, Photography -- PART TWO: CULTURE / POWER / HISTORY -- CHAPTER EIGHT Authority, (White) Power and the (Black) Critic; It's All Greek to Me -- CHAPTER NINE Women, Class and Sexual Differences in the 1830s and 1840s: Some Reflections on the Writing of a Feminist History -- CHAPTER TEN Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures: Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The Prose of Counter-Insurgency -- CHAPTER TWELVE Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Cosmologies of Capitalism: The Trans-Pacific Sector of "The World System" -- PART THREE: CULTURE / POWER / HISTORY -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Living to Tell: Madonna's Resurrection of the Fleshly -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Circulation of Social Energy -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Born-Again Telescandals -- CHAPTER NINETEEN Secrets of Success in Postmodern Society -- CHAPTER TWENTY Selections from Marxism and Literature -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Power is a relational dynamic which produces a disparity of effects that cannot be reduced to an exclusive morality, good or bad, or a particular consciousness. It is not something that works according to a single causality, positive or negative. This is not generally acknowledged. Rather in both academic and popular discourse power is primarily thought to be an exclusive possession of a particular subject or social agent with a specific intent. In these discourses, power is dominated by a metaphoric sense of property--something which belongs to the state, government, capital, or technology. Power is thus conceptualised in terms of a possession/dispossession opposition. Discourse about power is preoccupied with identifying its locus and with indicating a particular type of relation which is repressive. This obscures the fact that power is in fact a feature or ontological property of all people in relation to one another, and is active within all interaction and discourse. This thesis refines and develops Foucault's more neglected insights into the peculiar ontology of power, emphasising the central point that power is not the referent for a single relation but is a dynamic active within all relations, both social, interpersonal and even intrapersonal. It can be repressive, enabling, and considered differentially to be negative and/or positive at the same time. One cannot control its effects as it can be inadvertent or unconscious, self-defeating, self-producing, perverse and/or ambiguous. It is therefore composed of an indeterminate efficacy, rather than an intentional will or direction. The common attempt to disassociate oneself from power, to identify it as the property of another, and as producing a single effect of good or evil, I argue, is in itself one of the empirical facts of power at work relationally. The case studies examined in this thesis illustrate the fact that power is the moving substrate of all interests: that of "the revolutionary", "the theorist", "the apathetic" and also "the model citizen". Therefore because all discourses of power produce multiple and indeterminate effects, and because this fact is not recognised, their ontology demands further attention.

This volume employs new empirical data to examine the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH). While the globalization dynamics that have transformed the shape of the world over the last decades has been the subject of a growing number of scientific studies, very few such studies have set out to analyze the globalization of social and human sciences themselves. Arguing against the complacent assumption that Science is 'international by nature', this work demonstrates that the growing circulation of scholars and scientific ideas is a complex, contradictory and contested process. Arranged thematically, the chapters in this volume present a coherent exploration of patterns of transnationalization, South-North and East-West exchanges, and transnational regionalization. Further, they offer fresh insight into specific topics including the influence of the Anglo-American research infrastructure and the development of social and human sciences in postcolonial contexts. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this work will advance the research agenda and will have interdisciplinary appeal for scholars from across the social sciences.

This is the first part of a three-volume work on the nature of power in human societies. In it, Michael Mann identifies the four principal 'sources' of power as being control over economic, ideological, military, and political resources. He examines the interrelations between these in a narrative history of power from Neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilisations, the classical Mediterranean age, and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England. Rejecting the conventional monolithic concept of a 'society', Dr. Mann's model is instead one of a series of overlapping, intersecting power networks. He makes this model operational by focusing on the logistics of power - how the flow of information, manpower, and goods is controlled over social and geographical space-thereby clarifying many of the 'great debates' in sociological theory. The present volume offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification

Distinguishing four sources of power – ideological, economic, military and political – this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This fourth volume covers the period from 1945 to the present, focusing on the three major pillars of post-war global order: capitalism, the nation-state system and the sole remaining empire of the world, the United States. In the course of this period, capitalism, nation-states and empires interacted with one another and were transformed. Mann's key argument is that globalization is not just a single process, because there are globalizations of all four sources of social power, each of which has a different rhythm of development. Topics include the rise and beginnings of decline of the American Empire, the fall or transformation of communism (respectively, the Soviet Union and China), the shift from neo-Keynesianism to neoliberalism, and the three great crises emerging in this period – nuclear weapons, the great recession and climate change