Suchergebnisse

Analyse des Prozesses, in dessen Verlauf sich die öffentliche Meinung in Jordanien von einer gewissen Offenheit gegenüber Israel zur Ablehnung der Normalisierung entwickelt hat. Obgleich sich die Hoffnungen auf eine Friedensdividende nicht erfüllten, blieben die Jordanier Israel zunächst relativ freundlich gesonnen. Eine Reihe von Ereignissen - beginnend mit der israelischen Operation "Früchte des Zorns" im Libanon 1996 bis zum missglückten Mordanschlag auf den Hamas-Führer Khaled Meshal im September 1997 - führten bei der Mehrheit der Bevölkerung zu einem Meinungsumschwung. Die "Anti-Normalisierungsbewegung" unter Führung der Berufsverbände und der Islamischen Aktionsfront scheint den Kampf um die öffentliche Meinung gewonnen zu haben. (DÜI-Hns)

This article illustrates ways in which the concepts of the norm and normativity are implicated in relations of power. Specifically, I argue that these concepts have come to function in a normalizing manner. I outline Michel Foucault's thinking on the norm and normalization and then provide an overview of Jürgen Habermas's thinking on the norm and normativity in order to show that Habermas's conceptualizations of the norm and normativity are not, as he posits, necessary foundations for ethics and politics, but in fact simply one philosophical approach among many. Uncritically accepting a Habermasian framework therefore produces normalizing effects and inhibits alternative and potentially emancipatory thinking about ethics and politics. Having problematized the requirement of normative foundations as it is currently articulated, I conclude by examining the emancipatory potential of a particular aspect of Foucault's work for the practice of philosophy.

The imposition of normalcy on fragile states and crises and its implications for world politics.

As we face new challenges from climate change and the rise of populism in Western politics and beyond, there is little doubt that we are entering a new configuration of world politics. Driven by nostalgia for past certainties or fear of what is coming next, references to normalcy have been creeping into political discourse, with people either vying for a return to a past normalcy or coping with the new normal. This book traces main discourses and practices associated with normalcy in world politics. Visoka and Lemay-Hébert mostly focus on how dominant states and international organizations try to manage global affairs through imposing normalcy over fragile states, restoring normalcy over disaster-affected states, and accepting normalcy over suppressive states. They show how discourses and practices come together in constituting normalization interventions and how in turn they play in shaping the dynamics of continuity and change in world politics.