Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences
In: The American journal of sociology, Volume 129, Issue 5, p. 1563-1565
ISSN: 1537-5390
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In: The American journal of sociology, Volume 129, Issue 5, p. 1563-1565
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Politics & society, Volume 52, Issue 2, p. 241-267
ISSN: 1552-7514
Sociologists have productively theorized power and politics via typologies and genealogies. This article combines these theorizing modalities to analyze the election of Joseph Biden in the 2020 US presidential election. Thinking about presidential genealogy, the semiotics of sequence and succession favored humility over hubris in the victory of Biden after Donald Trump. As well, drawing on Weber's three types of authority (traditional, charismatic, and legal-rational) and Fred Block's elaboration of a flexible but constrained and accountable missing fourth type, this article terms that fourth type anticharisma and reads Joe Biden as an anticharismatic aspirant. Whereas charisma draws its strength from the monopolization of attention by the leader, rupture, and crisis, anticharisma aspires to domestic tranquility, competence, familiarity, and empathy. The elaborated typology of authority presented here provides important angles into both the election of Joe Biden as the anticharismatic candidate and the constraints on democratic leadership in the United States.
This article describes the temporal and spatial configurations and limitations of the rupture phase of historical events. It does so through a consideration of the intertwined forms and flows of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the social uprising against police violence targeting African-Americans in the United States. The article argues that these ruptures open up a "double exposure", one that makes problematic conventional categories associated with events, like those of past and future and inside and outside, thus challenging our ability to situate ourselves in relation to such events.
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In: Distinktion: scandinavian journal of social theory, Volume 19, Issue 1, p. 106-108
ISSN: 2159-9149
In: Cultural sociology, Volume 11, Issue 2, p. 259-261
ISSN: 1749-9763
In: Law, culture & the humanities, Volume 8, Issue 2, p. 190-194
ISSN: 1743-9752
In: The American journal of sociology, Volume 115, Issue 5, p. 1657-1659
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: The American journal of sociology, Volume 115, Issue 5, p. 1351-1386
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: The American journal of sociology, Volume 115, Issue 1, p. 259-261
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Qualitative sociology, Volume 29, Issue 4, p. 535-538
ISSN: 1573-7837
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Volume 48, Issue 4, p. 955-956
ISSN: 1475-2999
In: Contexts / American Sociological Association: understanding people in their social worlds, Volume 5, Issue 1, p. 30-33
ISSN: 1537-6052
There used to be accepted rituals for surrendering, understood by everyone. Today, it is not always clear how and when a conflict ends.
In: The American journal of sociology, Volume 104, Issue 5, p. 1574-1576
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Qualitative sociology, Volume 19, Issue 3, p. 301-321
ISSN: 1573-7837
In: The American journal of sociology, Volume 102, Issue 1, p. 303-304
ISSN: 1537-5390