Search Results - "European journal of social theory"

Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative by Oomen, Jeroen, Hoffman, Jesse, Hajer, Maarten A.

“…The concept of the future is re-emerging as an urgent topic on the academic agenda. In this article, we focus on the ‘politics of the future’: the social…”
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Relational agency: Relational sociology, agency and interaction by Burkitt, Ian

“…This article explores how the concept of agency in social theory changes when it is conceptualized as a relational rather than an individual phenomenon. It…”
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Accomplishments and limitations of the ‘new’ mainstream in contemporary populism studies by Stavrakakis, Yannis, Jäger, Anton

“…Two recent books on populism represent more than any other the new mainstream in populism studies. Through a reconstruction of the main arguments advanced by…”
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Conceptualizing connections: Energy demand, infrastructures and social practices by Shove, Elizabeth, Watson, Matt, Spurling, Nicola

“…Problems of climate change present new challenges for social theory. In this article we focus on the task of understanding and analyzing car dependence, using…”
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The COVID pandemic and social theory: Social democracy and public health in the crisis by Walby, Sylvia

“…Social theory is developing in response to the coronavirus (COVID) crisis. Fundamental questions about social justice in the relationship of individuals to…”
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Artifacts have consequences, not agency: Toward a critical theory of global environmental history by Hornborg, Alf

“…This article challenges the urge within Actor-Network Theory, posthumanism, and the ontological turn in sociology and anthropology to dissolve analytical…”
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Politics of prediction: Security and the time/space of governmentality in the age of big data by Aradau, Claudia, Blanke, Tobias

“…From ‘connecting the dots’ and finding ‘the needle in the haystack’ to predictive policing and data mining for counterinsurgency, security professionals have…”
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Risk, innovation, and democracy in the digital economy by Curran, Dean

“…The study of digital economies and the sociology of risk have, with few exceptions, a relationship of benign mutual neglect despite possible important…”
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Democracy or dictatorship? The moral call to defend Ukraine by Kögler, Hans-Herbert

“…This essay is a reflection on the Ukraine war grounded in moral motives to empathetically support an attacked victim (whether at the individual or national…”
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Capitalism and alienation: Towards a Marxist theory of alienation for the 21st century by Øversveen, Emil

“…Alienation is among the most influential terms in Marxist theory, but also one of the most ambiguous and controversial. Unlike previous literature, which has…”
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Migration, vehicles, and politics: Three theses on viapolitics by Walters, William

“…This article argues that vehicles, roads and routes merit a much more central place in theorizations of migration politics. This argument is developed in terms…”
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Rethinking Populism: Peak democracy, liquid identity and the performance of sovereignty by Blühdorn, Ingolfur, Butzlaff, Felix

“…Despite the burgeoning literature on right-wing populism, there is still considerable uncertainty about its causes, its impact on liberal democracies and about…”
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Power in Transition: An Interdisciplinary Framework to Study Power in Relation to Structural Change by Avelino, Flor, Rotmans, Jan

“…This article conceptualizes power in the context of long-term process of structural change. First, it discusses the field of transition studies, which deals…”
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Between social spaces by Liu, Sida

“…Sociologists often imagine society as spaces, yet how social spaces are related remains ambiguous in most theories. In developing his field theory, Bourdieu…”
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Mobile Methods and the Empirical by Büscher, Monika, Urry, John

“…In this article we argue that the mobilities turn and its studies of the performativity of everyday (im)mobilities enable new forms of sociological inquiry,…”
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Are you a neoliberal subject? On the uses and abuses of a concept by Watts, Galen

“…A spate of social scientific literature gives the impression that societies in the twenty-first century are overrun with ‘neoliberal subjects’. But what does…”
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Machine learning and social theory: Collective machine behaviour in algorithmic trading by Borch, Christian

“…This article examines what the rise in machine learning (ML) systems might mean for social theory. Focusing on financial markets, in which algorithmic…”
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Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain by Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben, Robertson, Mary, Saad-Filho, Alfredo

“…Recent declarations of the end of neoliberalism in the United Kingdom, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic, are underpinned by diffuse and unstructured…”
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Introduction to the special issue on the Russo-Ukrainian War: A new European war? Considerations on the Russo-Ukrainian War by Delanty, Gerard

“…The Russo-Ukrainian War marks a significant moment in the post-1945 history of Europe when a new European war has begun that will shape relations with Russia…”
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Postcolonialism as the governmentality of immigration controls by Sharma, Nandita

“…Postcolonialism's insistence on historical connection is an important, source of its influence on contemporary social theory. The connections between…”
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