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Newsletter of the Norbert Elias Foundation

PEOPLE CONTENTS We are very sad to have to report the death of Eric Dunning, who was one People 1 of the first, most prominent and most popular advocates of the of Norbert Elias. See below for a short appreciation of Eric by Ivan Waddington From the Norbert Elias Foundation 2 and Stephen Mennell. We also have to report the terribly early death of Francois Dépelteau. Norbert Elias: The Swedish Translations 2 Jennifer Smith Maguire, formerly of the , has been appointed Professor of Cultural Production and Consumption, Sheffield New Collaborative Research Centre Business School, Sheffield Hallam University. She has also been elected on Re-figuration of Spaces 3 the Chair of the Consumers and Consumption Section of the American Sociological Association (https://asaconsumers.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/ Letters to the editor 3 consume-this-consumption-vulgarity-and-vulgar-times/ ).

In the media 3 Eric Royal Lybeck has moved from the University of Exeter to the University of Manchester, where he is now teaching in the Faculty of Education. ‘The case of Mesut Özil as part of an Established-Outsiders Figuration’ Congratulations to Jason Hughes and his co-authors – his sister Kahryn, and by Adrian Jitschin 4 Ruth Simpson, Alex Simpson and Natasha Slutskaya – on winning the 2018 Work, Economy and Society prize for their article: ‘Beyond the symbolic: New book series: Palgrave Studies a relational approach to dirty work through a study of refuse collectors and on Norbert Elias street cleaners’, published in WES, February 2017. The photo shows Dr Ian Roper presenting the prize to Jason. Special Issue: Process-oriented analysis 5

Figurational Journals online 6

Recent books and articles 6

Bibliographical retrospect 17

Recent conferences 17

Forthcoming conferences 21

Obituaries: Eric Dunning 23 François Depelteau 25

Issue No.50 March 2019 Figurations 1 FROM THE NORBERT NORBERT ELIAS: THE The first, 1999 edition was translated ELIAS FOUNDATION SWEDISH TRANSLATIONS from the 1994 edition, published by Sage, London. New email address for Five books by Norbert Elias have been Original title: The Established and Figurations published in Swedish. In this short the Outsiders. (Sage). ISBN 91-7924- note they are listed according to year 126-3 (the 1999 edition). The second, Please note that Figurations now has of publication and with the titles in enlarged and revised edition was a new email address: figurations@ Swedish. published in 2010 by Arkiv, Lund. norbert-elias.com. (ISBN 978-91-7924-230-5). Original 1. Elias, Norbert and Dunning, Eric, title: The established and the outsiders New NEF website Från riddarspel till fotbollscup: sport published by University College Dublin i sociologisk belysning (Stockholm: Press, 2008 as vol. 4 in The collected The old website of the Nobert Atlantis, 1986). This book is translated works of Norbert Elias. Elias Foundation (www. by Lars Hansson. ISBN 91-7486- norberteliasfoundation.nl) is now 435-1. (165 pages). Original title Sport This work, in both editions, has an defunct, but its contents are being im Zivilisationsprozess.: Studien zur Introduction by Gunnar Olofsson. Both transferred to the new one, http:// Figurationssoziologie. (ed. Wilhelm these editions had a second printing norbert-elias.com/en/, which is still Hopf). and have been widely used in Swedish under construction. The new website universities. will be in several other languages The Swedish translation of Elias’s besides English. It will also contain most famous work, Über den Prozess All of Elias books in Swedish many new materials, and already it is der Zivilisation, was published in two translations also exist as (non- linked to a YouTube channel on which separate volumes, in 1989 and 1991: commercial) audio books, available for you can find videos of Norbert Elias 2. Elias, Norbert, Civilisationsteori. the visually impaired in Swedish public and of interviews with some leading D. 1, Sedernas historia. (Stockholm, libraries. figurationists. Atlantis, 1989). Translated by Berit Skogsberg. Swedish introduction Gunnar Olofsson Please note that, although there is by Nils Runeby. ISBN 91-7486- already a blog on the new website, it is 472-6. Original title: Wandlungen The term ‘anthroposphere’ not yet linked to an email notification des Verhaltens in den weltlichen system, so you will no longer receive Oberschichten des Abendlandes Eric Jones, the economic historian emails giving you the latest news. But who co-authored the book The Course the news itself will still be there: you 3. Elias, Norbert, Civilisationsteori. D. of Human History (1996) with Joop can find it athttp://norbert-elias.com/ 2, Från svärdet till plikten: samhällets Goudsblom and me, emailed to say blog/. förvandlingar (Stockholm: Atlantis, ‘I am reviewing a book on economic 1991). Translated by Dag Malm. development and environmental change Assistant Editors of ISBN 91-7486-960-4. Original title: which wants to deal with the period of Figurations Wandlungen der Gesellschaft. the ‘anthropocene’, a term and concept it attributes to a Dutch scientist called We hope to renew our team of Assistant 4. Elias, Norbert, Mozart: sociologiska P J Crutzen writing in 2001. I have Editors of Figurations – that is, our betraktelser över ett geni (Malmö: it in my mind that Joop came up with correspondents who take responsibility Aldebaran, 1992). Translated by Tora “anthroposphere” before that but can for supplying the newsletter with all Palm. ISBN 91-87472-16-3. Original only find it suddenly popping into the latest news about publications, title: Mozart: zur Sociologie eines his book Mappae Mundi of 2002. … conferences and other events in their Genies. Can you locate an earlier reference, country or linguistic region. The please?’ No, we couldn’t trace an earlier posts are honorary – that is, unpaid! 5. Elias, Norbert, Tyskarna och usage, though we did toy with the Existing Assistant Editors (listed on civilisationens bräcklighet (Stockholm: idea of starting a new journal entitled the back page) are of course welcome Atlantis, 1996). Translated by Dag Anthroposphere a few years before we to volunteer to continue, but we should Malm, who also wrote a short started Human Figurations. also like to hear from new volunteers in introduction. ISBN 91-7486-345-2. order to spread our net more widely. If Original title: Studien über die In the course of this discussion, though, you are willing to take on (or continue) Deutschen: Machtkämpfe und Steve Quilley quoted a remark by the task, please contact the editor at the Habitusentwicklung im 19. und 20. EW Berry, who recalled that facetious new email address mentioned above: Jahrhundert undergraduates have often suggested [email protected]. that the sequence of geological eras: 6. Elias, Norbert and Scotson John. L. Eocene, Miocene, Oligocene, Pliocene (1999/2010). Etablerade och outsiders etc …should be followed by ‘Obscene’ (Lund: Arkiv, 1999/2010) Translated by for the present era. Anita Sandberg and Gunnar Sandin. SJM

2 Figurations Issue No.50 March 2019 New Collaborative innovative methodologies in the Nina Baur Research Centre on study of space, and joint research will Board Member of the CRC ‘Re-Figuration of Spaces’ hopefully help to flesh out the profile of ‘Re-Figuration of Spaces’, Berlin in Berlin, Germany future transdisciplinary spatial research. By including architecture and planning The German Science Foundation (DFG) issues into the analysis, the CRC hopes LETTERS TO THE EDITOR has just funded a new Collaborative to be able to advance alternative models Research Centre on the ‘Re-Figuration for the development of public spaces. Dear colleague, of Spaces’ (CRC 1265) for a first funding period of four years (2018– The CRC’s Methods Lab aims at Thanks for Figurations 49. I was very 2021). The CRC aims at investigating advancing spatial methods. The Lab interested in Adrian Jitschin’s paper the comprehensive processes of spatial currently focusses on mapping and on Elias’s stay in , but on page 3 reorganisation caused by digitalization, visual methods; de-colonizing social I’m afraid there’s a mistake with the the intensifying transnationalisation science methodology; and methodology postcard illustrating the place where he of the economy, radical changes in of comparative historical research. stayed: it shows corner of boulevard the global political geography, and the Pasteur and rue de Vaugirard, whereas increasing global circulation of people Amongst other activities, the CRC his hotel was on the corner of boulevard and goods since the late 1960s. The organizes an annual International Pasteur and boulevard de Vaugirard. CRC’s basic assumption is that as a Conference each February. The CRC’s So the second photo, showing the latter result of the social transformations First International Conference will today, is OK, but the first one is wrong usually referred to as globalization, the address the topic “Re-Figuration of (and indeed the present state of this relationship between people and spaces Spaces: Mediatization, Mobility, corner is quite similar to what is shown is being renegotiated, rearranged and Globalization and Social Dislocation” on the old photo). transformed in complex ways. We start (February 20th – 22nd, 2019). For further from the programmatic assumption that details, please contact CRC’s Academic One more fine detail: the rue de complementary to the chronological Coordinator and Managing Director, Vaugirard is the longest street in Paris. acceleration of communicative Dr. Nina Elsemann (nina.elsemann@ That means that whereas its east end is action also spatial processes of tu-berlin.de). inside the Quartier Latin, Elias’s hotel mediatisation, polycontexturalisation was some 30 minutes’ walking distance and translocalisation play a central role There is also a fellowship programme from the Sorbonne – not such a short in these processes. for international guest researchers walk. It was much nearer Montparnasse which funds travelling and – a trendy bohemian place at the time. Concerning social theory, the CRC accommodation costs. Due to the nature ‘Re-Figuration of Spaces’ combines of the research topic, we particularly Best regards, Norbert Elias’s figurational sociology invite researchers from Non-European Nathalie Heinich with Martina Löw’s spatial theory countries to consider to apply for a and Hubert Knoblauch’s theory on the fellowship. During their stay, fellows communicative construction of reality are expected to work with at least one IN THE MEDIA and is thus intrinsically historical and of the CRC members and to give a comparative. The overall architecture workshop or lecture on a topic relevant A figurational philosopher? and research design aims at empirically to the CRC. Before application, analysing these spatial transformation aspiring fellows should contact the The philosopher Julian Baggini took processes in order to contribute to a CRC’s Academic Coordinator and part in a discussion on BBC Radio better understanding of current social Managing Director, Dr. Nina Elsemann 4’s Start the Week programme on conflicts and uncertainties that threaten (Tel: +49 30 314 73787, nina. 26 November 2018 (https://www. to destabilise societies. Research is [email protected]) for details on bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00019m1) organised into three major project the application process. focusing on his new book How the areas: ‘Knowledge of Space’, ‘Spaces World Thinks: A Global History of of Communication’ and ‘Circulation It is also recommended to contact (London: Granta, 2018). and Order’, each of which addresses an suitable member of the CRC (see Though of course he did not refer different angles and aspects of the key http://www.sfb1265.de/en/ for an to Elias, it was refreshing to hear a question how the current re-figurations overview) in order to discuss a possible philosopher stressing that what Elias unfold. collaboration and working plan for called homo clausus thinking was not a the stay. In addition, please consider human universal. Baggini emphasised In order to achieve this goal, multiple to apply for a longer research stay at that Chinese and other eastern specialized fields such as sociology, the CRC via other funding agencies are less individualistic, geography, architecture, media and (see https://www.daad.de/deutschland/ and more concerned with ‘the way’ communication studies, the arts, and stipendium/datenbank/en/21148- rather than ‘the truth’. One of the most planning cooperate which also opens scholarship-database/ for an overview). important ideas to arise from Elias’s up excellent opportunities to develop work is that homo clausus is a mode

Issue No.50 March 2019 Figurations 3 of self-experience that developed as processes at work. But is that really so German’ should be is not explained. a key part of the European civilising difficult to grasp? It is quite disturbing In France, no real German played and process, and Baggini’s book may that age-old misunderstandings of Elias still the team became world champion. prove a useful and accessible resource now carry forward a generation into And in 2014, the same Özil became in making that point more widely misunderstandings of Keith Thomas! Germany’s world champion. He was understood. See especially Part Three, cheered. In essence, it’s not about ‘Who in the world are we?’, comprising SJM whether a young man is a ‘real German’. three chapters 16–18: ‘No self’, ‘The It’s about whether he brings success. If relational self’ and ‘The atomised self’. The case of Mesut Özil as he brings it, he is German. If he does part of an Established- not bring it, then he is attacked. One SJM Outsiders Figuration person should not feel connected to another country. ‘Germany, Germany Misunderstanding Elias – Fed with the same food, hurt with above everything, About Everything as well as Keith Thomas the same weapons, subject to the in the World’ – with this slogan, the same diseases, healed by the same German army marched into two world Arnold Hunt, a young historian from means, warmed and cooled by wars. A man who likes another nation Cambridge, reviewed Keith Thomas’s the same winter and summer as a is considered unpatriotic. That the new book In Pursuit of Civility (see Christian is? If you prick us, do we internationals Podolski and Klose brief note in Figurations 49) in the not bleed? If you tickle us, do we attended special events at the European Times Literary Supplement 21–28 not laugh? If you poison us, do we Championships in their native country, December 2018. His review provoked not die? And if you wrong us, shall , was tolerated. That Özil took the following response from a Dutch we not revenge? a photo opportunity with the president colleague, in the TLS 18 January 2019: of the home country of his parents is Shakespeare, The Merchant of considered a sacrilege. To reiterate: Özil Trickle down: Sir – Arnold Hurst Venice, Act 3, Scene 1, Page 3 by no means expressed his support for .. claims that [Keith Thomas sees Erdogan’s policy – he met him only for Nobert Elias as having explained] the Germany’s withdrawal at the World a photo. development of civility … as due to ‘a Cup followed a debate over the ‘guilt’. trickle-down effect, as elite standards Which of the players and coaches was But he exceeded the limits of what he of behaviour spread outwards from the responsible for the fact that the team as ‘German-Turk’ is allowed. Someone court to the wider society’. Thomas, he had not done better. First of all: Anyone who, like Özil, grew up on the football continues, ‘by contrast, attributes it to who uses such a term as Mannschaft fields of the Ruhr area knows that he the “growth of human interdependence” as long as he is successful, but then did not start on equal terms with his in a market economy’. Anyone who beginning to distance himself from classmates who had German names. No has even casually looked at the famous each other in a setback, is not authentic. individual grows up without an identity study by Elias will have noticed that He exposes himself as superficial. being anchored to his group. For Özil, he saw the growing interdependency who neither in the education system of people in different social context, What is particularly notable in this case nor in the labour market had the same including that of the market economy, is the fact that the debate is focused on opportunities as them, football was as the motor of the civilising process. one player. Mesut Özil was blamed. a way out. Here he was able to show It is difficult to imagine such a rigorous Anyone who saw the games will have what he could do, where he could scholar as Keith Thomas really believes noticed that other players like Thomas develop his individual qualities, where that Elias regarded a trickle-down Müller and Joshua Kimmich also it did not matter whether he was named effect as the explanation of the growth showed poor performances. But these Özil, Maier or Burdenski. It all seemed of civility, and so fundamentally players were not attacked, just as these too good to be true – becoming a misunderstood him. I fear, therefore, players fell silent when their teammate professional football player in the age that Arnold Hunt misrepresents the Özil was attacked. To justify the attacks of 18, an international when being 19. ideas of Keith Thomas as well as on Özil a photo was used, which shows For a moment, it seemed as if he had those of Norbert Elias.’ – Boudewijn him together with the Turkish President. escaped the prejudice of his childhood. Walraven, University of Leiden. This photo was taken before he was As long as Germany was successful at named as one of the German squad international tournaments, the players Well said! Keith Thomas, having as for the tournament. Officials of the were untouchable. When the right-wing Patron of the Elias Collected Works association stated that this image was no politician Gauland started an attack on read the page proofs of all 18 volumes reason not to nominate Özil. Yet after the the dark-skinned footballer Boateng in of the Collected Works, would not tournament, the same officials attacked 2016 he had no success. Here again: make such a mistake. Certainly ‘trickle him. An unbearable witch hunt began. a player in the German national team, down’ can be observed (though Elias born in Berlin, son of a German mother. does not use the term), but so can Özil, who was born in Gelsenkirchen, But with dark skin. And Gauland said ‘trickle up’ – and both are merely was in their eyes ‘not a real German‘. he did not want to live next to the man. symptoms of much deeper and complex What the sporting value of a ‘real He should have refrained from doing

4 Figurations Issue No.50 March 2019 so. Boateng played a strong season, was with collective national pride that Marta Bucholc (University of Bonn elected the best German footballer in excludes certain people. and University of Warsaw); Florence the end. But what if Boateng had scored Delmotte (Belgian Foundation for a decisive own goal? Would we already Adrian Jitschin Scientific Research and Research have had this debate in 2016? Center of Political Science at Université Saint-Louis, Belgium); The mechanisms of discrimination have NEW BOOK SERIES: Marcia Grisotti (Universidade Federal been described by Norbert Elias. In PALGRAVE STUDIES de Santa Catarina, Brazil); Fernando 1965 he published first his studies on ON NORBERT ELIAS Ampudia de Haro (CIES-University established and outsiders. An individual Institute of Lisbon and Universidade is picked out, together they take action Palgrave Macmillan have agreed to Europeia, Portugal); Bernard Lahire against him. ‘Common to all these publish a new book series entitled (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, cases is that the more powerful group Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias. France); Stephen Mennell (University sees themselves as the “better” people,’ College Dublin, Ireland); John Pratt Elias wrote. Attention is drawn to the This book series aims at publishing (Victoria University of Wellington, secondary aspects of figuration and books that discuss Elias´s theoretical New Zealand); Philip Walsh (York subtracting it from the main aspects. approach – known as Figurational or University, Canada); Cas Wouters The decisive factor is that power is Processual Sociology – and/or results of (Utrecht University and passed on to the discriminating group. empirical researches conducted having Institute for Research, Elias as its main theoretical approach. the ); Norman Gabriel If the German Foreign Minister (University of Plymouth, UK); Jurandir declares that ‘the case of a millionaire Besides being considered an important Malerba (Universidade Federal do living in London’ would not be ‘the author in contemporary sociology, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); Jason fate of millions of Germans of Turkish taught and read in undergrad and Hugues (University of Leicester, UK); origin‘, it is precisely this kind of group graduate sociology courses, the Gina Zabludovsky (FCPyS-UNAM, dynamic. Özil is debarred, isolated, use of Elias´s sociology is growing Mexico); Enio Passiani (Universidade seemingly factually done. The signal to and expanding outside of sociology Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). millions of Germans whose ancestors departments, reaching academic fields came from Turkey is: No matter how such as sports, and social Please contact me at tatiana.landini@ much you reach, we Majority Germans psychology, education, criminology, gmail.com if you have any queries will pull you down. We work in the international relations, culture (arts, about this series. We are looking group to put you in your place. If you music, etc.), political science, health, forward to welcoming your proposal! are a multimillionaire, you have to be etc. Nevertheless, there are just a few thankful. Nothing you have achieved regular specialized publications on Tatiana Savoia Landini goes back to your personal qualities. Elias´s sociology, Figurations and Series Editor Human Figurations being the most Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil People who did their utmost to important. The proposed Palgrave advance to the standards of decency Series on Norbert Elias aims at creating and respectability have the experience another space for figurationists to SPECIAL ISSUE: that if they do not reach the needs publish their academic books. PROCESS-ORIENTED of everyone else by reaching these ANALYSIS, CANADIAN standards, they will be singled out The series is open to receive REVIEW OF and attacked. From the side of the contributions in the three formats SOCIOLOGY attackers, even people who are accepted by Palgrave: monographies, generally considered to be sociable and edited books and Palgrave Pivot. We Academic Editor: Tracey L. Adams diplomatic in their role as individuals are open to proposals coming from all (Western University) are unfriendly, hateful and inexorable. disciplines where Elias is discussed and Editors of Special Issue: Isabell Stamm, used. By the same token, we are also Nina Baur, Susan Halford, Maria Such an exchange always has two open to receive contributions from as Norkus & Andreas sides: a page that talks badly about many research topics as possible, such Schmitz people and other people being talked as sports, habits and manners, violence, about. People can mute the people group relations, music and musicians, Social Theory is often interested they talk about by giving them a international relations, theory and in describing and explaining social polluting group name. ‘German-Turk’ methods, civilizing and decivilizing change. For such explanations, an is such a word. Whoever is so labelled processes, involvement and detachment understanding of how micro-, meso- cannot fight back. Slander involving in social sciences, formation of the and macro phenomena interact and such an inferiority symbol mobilises modern state, power relations, etc. causally influence each other over time an apparatus of the ruling, socially is essential. We refer to the empirical dominant group. What emerges as I also take this opportunity to present analysis of dynamic linkages on criticism of a thing soaks the debate you to the editorial board of the series: multiple levels as process-oriented

Issue No.50 March 2019 Figurations 5 analysis. The works of Norbert Elias FIGURATIONAL Organizzazione produttiva e politiche (e.g. with Scotson 2008 ) or Pierre JOURNALS ONLINE per la conciliazione in un’azienda del Bourdieu (e.g. 1984) provide ample Mezzogiorno d’Italia (135–51), Enrico illustrations of this approach, moreover Cambio. Rivista sulle Sacco current field theory (e.g. Fligstein & Trasformazioni Sociali, Academic nomads: the changing McAdam, 2012; Hilgers & Mangez, Vol 8, No 15 (2018): conception of academic work under 2015) or relational theory (e.g. Powell Another World is Possible: precarious conditions (153–65), Asli & Dépelteau, 2013; Crossley, 2015; Collaborate to Transform Vatansever Abbott, 2016), to name but a few Vivere il presente, progettare il future: examples, offer productive grounds for http://www.fupress.net/index.php/ L’esperienza sociale della transizione process-oriented analysis. cambio/issue/view/1526 professionale (167–78), Leonardo Piromalli This special issue aims at initiating Monographic section: a debate about the methodological RECENT BOOKS AND underpinnings of process- Un altro mondo è possibile: collaborare ARTICLES oriented analysis. Based on above per trasformare (5–13), Francesca considerations, we ask: How can we Bianchi, Alessandro Lutri Amanda Rohloff, edited by Andre conduct process oriented micro–meso– Un altro (pezzo di) mondo è possibile. Saramago, Climate Change, macro analysis? By doing so, we aim Secessione e concentrazione (15–25), Moral Panics and Civilization at provoking reflections in three ways Mirko Alagna (London: Routledge, 2018). 200 methodological issues connected to Re-Locating to Intermediate Housing pp. ISBN: 978-0415627221 (hb); process-oriented analyses, the empirical + Old Age Care Structures in Italy 978-0415627221 (ebook). realization of process-oriented (27–38), Giuliana Costa analyses, and finally blind spots in Negoziare qui-ed-ora: co-produrre current methodological debates. While conoscenza in aree fragili (39–47), this thematic issue does not aim at Giulia Li Destri Nicosia narrowing the debate to any particular Scrivere cambiando, cambiare theoretical colour, we appreciate scrivendo: Il rapporto ricercatore/attore contributions and arguments that are nello sufficiently theoretically anchored. studio dei movimenti sociali (49–60), We are particularly interested in Niccolò Bertuzzi contributions by scholars who have Outil Présantés: verso un nuovo engaged themselves in empirical equilibrio tra osservazione e intervento process-oriented analyses. We diretto (61–72), Matteo Fano, welcome submissions that identify Carlotta Magnani a particular methodological issue of From Possibility to Action: An process-oriented analyses and discuss Interdisciplinary Action-Learning adequate solutions to address this School issue. Ideally, contributions will contain dealing with Waste (73–87), Katherine three elements a) a reflection of the Lambert-Pennington, Laura Saija, Alice selected methodological issue and Franchina how it relates to the overall research Comprendere il gesto violento: process b) a description of the empirical l’approccio narratologico (89–98), design as it contributes to solving the Silvio Ciappi, Giulia Schioppetto This book’s author, Mandy Rohloff, methodological issue and c) a discussion L’informalità del cambiamento urbano: will have been known to many in of how the solution may offer insights to Pratiche e progettualità dell’abitare the figurational community. Mandy thus far overlooked concerns in current nel quartiere San Berillo di Catania died in December 2012, only a short methodological debates. Contributions (99–112), Vincenzo Luca Lo Re while after being awarded her PhD at that consider only one of these elements Collaboration in anthropology: the Brunel University (see the obituary are also strongly encouraged to submit (field)work of grounded practice in Figurations 38). At the time of her to this special issue. (113–26), Amanda Hilton tragic and untimely death, this book was already then in development, with Papers should be sent through the Eliasian themes a proposal accepted by Taylor and Canadian Review of Sociology website Francis for its publication. The story https://www.csascs.ca/canadian-review/ L’espace privé: ‘spazio privato’ o of its subsequent development and . Deadline: June 30, 2019. ‘stanza privata’? (127-133) realisation is told in full in its Preface, For more information, please contact Norbert Elias but suffice it to say that this publication Isabell Stamm (isabell.stamm@ is the culmination of a great deal of tu-berlin.de). Open essays and researches effort, patience and persistence on the part of Mandy’s parents Judy and

6 Figurations Issue No.50 March 2019 Maurie Rohloff, and the outstanding Popular discourse about the rich and range of disciplines (anthropology, sociological and editorial work of André wealthy, however, oscillates between sociology, , literature, Saramago, who has doggedly seen this fascination for money and resentment political science, philosophy) and project through to its fruition. towards the privileged few. Economic focuses on developments during the studies of the ‘one percent’ have past three to four decades, although The book explores the sociogenesis significantly improved our knowledge some chapters consider a longer of climate change as a social of inequality, but are restricted to historical period. concern through tracing the growth income and wealth. This book by a of ‘ecological civilising processes’. European network of researchers takes Arguing against the complacent Through detailed theoretico-empirical a different approach. assumption that science is ‘international analysis, Rohloff painstakingly by nature’, the book demonstrates that documents the emergence of an Rather than portraying extraordinary the increasing cross-border circulation ascendant ‘carbon temperance’ individuals or identifying a ‘one of scholars and ideas is a complex, movement: a ‘greening’ of behavioural percent,’ the inquiries focus on the contradictory and contested process. standards which increasingly find processes through which people Arranged thematically, the chapters expression through a series of gain access to the ‘field of power’ present an in-depth exploration of environmental ‘moral panics’. The very (Bourdieu). After demonstrating that patterns of transnationalization, South- idea of thinking of climate change as a a global business elite is a fiction, North and East-West exchanges, ‘moral panic’ is immediately polemical. subsequent chapters examine the and processes of transnational But this is intentionally so: the book process of accessing positions of regionalization in and Latin is anything but the work of a climate power across various national contexts America. Based on empirical material change denier. Rather, this is a skilful (Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, ranging from ethnographic observations and sociologically rich analysis which the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and historical documents to quantitative invites us to rethink conventional ways Denmark). Attention is paid not only to indicators of citation patterns and of framing the topic and, moreover, economic resources, but also to the role translation flows, the book offers fresh serves to problematise the more general of cultural and social capital. insights into topics like the hegemony sets of sociological theories and of American social science, the concepts that can be employed to make The analysis thus uncovers the social trajectories of the social sciences in sense of anthropogenic climate change composition of the ‘power elite’ various regions, and the conditions of as a social problem. (Mills), reformulates issues of class, research in postcolonial contexts. and unravels mechanisms of closure. In sum, this is an innovative and It simultaneously highlights often The book is the first volume in a new insightful extension of Eliasian neglected questions of socialization series ‘Socio-Historical Studies of the sociology to a highly topical field. The and educational background, assesses Social and Human Sciences’. Edited book makes major contributions to the gender dimension, and explores by Christian Fleck, Johan Heilbron, debates within environmental sociology, questions of legitimacy. A particular Marco Santoro and Gisèle Sapiro, it is moral panic and media regulation, feature of the book is that it addresses presented in the following way: ‘This environmental communication, and empirical questions that are widely book series is the first to focus on the political science. It also offers a great discussed in the media and among historical development and current deal to discussions within figurational scholars, in conjunction with theoretical practices of the social and human sociology, particularly those relating to and methodological issues about how sciences. Rather than simply privileging the concept of ‘decivilising processes’. elites should be studied. the internal analysis of ideas or external It is essential reading for all who have accounts of institutional structures, an interest in these fields. Johan Heilbron, Gustavo Sorá, it publishes high quality studies that Thibaud Boncourt (eds), The Social use the tools of the social sciences Jason Hughes and Human Sciences in Global themselves to analyse the production, Power Relations (London, Palgrave circulation and uses of knowledge in Olav Korsnes, Johan Heilbron, Josh. Macmillan, 2018), 371 pp. these disciplines. In doing so, it aims Hjellbrekke, Felix Bühlmann, Mike https://www.palgrave.com/gp/ to establish Socio-Historical Studies Savage (eds), New Directions in Elite book/9783319732985 of the Social and Human Sciences as a Studies (London: Routledge, 2018). 321 scholarly field in its own right, and to pp. Processes of ‘globalization’ have been contribute to a more reflexive practice www.routledge.com/New-Directions- the subject of innumerable studies, but of these disciplines’. See https://www. in-Elite-Studies/Korsnes-Heilbron- very few of these have inquired into palgrave.com/gp/series/15409 Hjellbrekke-Buhlmann-Savage/p/ the globalization of social sciences book/9781138059191 themselves. This collective volume Jack Burgers and Johan Heilbron, provides a comprehensive analysis De zaak Organon. Geneesmiddelen One of the most salient consequences of the development of transnational in de greep van bedrijvenpoker [The of the financial crisis and its aftermath connections and international exchange Business of Organon: How a Drug is the renewed attention for ‘elites’. on the global level. It covers a broad Company got entangled in a financial

Issue No.50 March 2019 Figurations 7 poker game with firms], Amsterdam: $189m merely by selling his company) develops activities and ethos. Professor Prometheus, 2018, 270 pp. and detrimental effects for employees Campos also points out that the book and investments. High-quality approaches the ‘sociology of leisure’ to Inquiring into the development of the research disappeared, employment and understand the practice of football and Dutch pharmaceutical firm Organon, economic activity were lost. other mimetic activities prevalent in the this book is a sociological case-study hinterland. of the transformations that firms Immediately after publication of the have undergone in ‘financialised’ book a public confrontation in one Norbert Elias, ‘L’espace privé: “spazio market economies. Having become of the national Dutch newspapers private” o “stanza private”?, Cambio: increasingly dependent on financial (De Volkskrant) opposed the CEO Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, vol. markets, the book spells out the of AkzoNobel, Hans Wijers, to his 8, no. 15 (2018), pp. 127–33. economic and social consequences of predecessor, Kees van Lede. The latter This is an Italian translation by Angela firms who have aligned themselves with criticized the sale and vividly opposed Perulli of Elias’s lecture in Berlin in investors and their allies at the expense the rampant ‘financialisation’ of the 1983 in which he entered into polite of virtually all other stakeholders. The business world. debate with Philippe Ariès. The German central claim of the study is that the original can be found in the Gesammelte predominance of short-term financial In addition to contributing to the debate Schriften, vol. 15, pp. 345–59, and the interests is detrimental to the long-term about the poorly regulated takeover English translation in the Collected interests of firms and their employees. market and the role of government Works, vol. 15, pp. 41–51. policy in times of globalization, the Organon developed from a small insulin book is highly critical of the work of Aleksejs Šņitņikovs, ‘Norms and Power manufacturer into an international social scientists. Whereas economists in Figurational Sociology’, Humanities pharmaceutical company known for favour abstract models, justifying and Social Sciences Latvia, 26: 1 (2018). the most widely used contraceptive pill market outcomes without actually pp. 68–86. doi.org/10.22364/hssl.26.1.4 in the world. Located in Oss, a small studying business cases, sociologists, https://www.lu.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/ city in the southern part of Netherlands, on the other hand, all too often shy lu_portal/apgads/PDF/HSSLatvia/ good connections to universities and a away from studying firms and markets. HSS_26-1/04-Humanities_2018-26_1__ relatively strong position of researchers Snitnikovs.pdf vis-à-vis marketers and managers are Produced without any research funding, shown to have been critical for the but in collaboration with a group of Abstract: The purpose of this article innovative capacity and the commercial master students at Erasmus University is to highlight the strengths of success of the firm. After a period of Rotterdam, the study is presented by conceptualisation of norms and power growth that lasted for almost a century, the authors as a contribution to ‘public in figurational sociology and to identify Organon was unexpectedly sold by social science’. some of its limitations. The founder of the holding company AkzoNobel in figurational sociology Norbert Elias, 2007. The sale took place two weeks Gláucio Campos Gomes de Matos, along with his theory of the civilizing before Organon would get an official Ethos e Figuraçôes na Hinterlandia process, created a number of middle- listing on the stock exchange, officially Amazônica [Ethos and figurations range concepts, which can be both because the CEO of AkzoNobel had of the Amazon hinterland] (Manaus: theoretically interpreted and used in received a bid he couldn’t refuse. Valer, 2015). 430 pp. ISBN: empirical research. His central concept Within two years the new owner, the 978-85-7512-796-4. was figuration, the bounded network of American pharmaceutical company interdependent actors with the shifting Schering-Plow, sold itself to an Abstract (adapted from press release power balance. Elias understood even larger company Merck, which on internet): The book shows how norms or rules as conventions, or subsequently closed the research the way of life of the riverside prescriptions, which serve the purpose facilities of Organon. population focuses on socio-cultural of coordination of interdependencies practices. It addresses the process but at the same time closely tied to The authors demonstrate that the of social differentiation, population the distribution of power among the ‘knock-out’ bid of Scheringh Plough increase, influence of sports practice actors. Concepts such as formalisation was not motivated by an interest in the among other aspects that contribute and informalisation, duality of norms, products or the research of Organon, to environmental and social debates established and outsiders make possible but by a business strategy known to within communities. In the perspective empirically grounded analysis of insiders as ‘dressing up the bride.’ of figurational–processual sociology, transformation of norms and their This consists of buying smaller firms the author observes the Amazonas social functions. Research conducted in and raising the expectations about province through three localities on the figurational perspective has contributed promising new drugs in the pipeline, banks of the Amazon River, located to the advance of sociological in order to sell the own firm as soon in the municipality of Boa Vista do understanding of norms and power. At as possible. This is what happened to Ramos, 270 km away from Manaus. ‘In the same time in figurational sociology Organon with exuberant profits for the this universe of hot and humid climate, there is lack of recognition of autonomy ceo of Schering Plough (who made the Amazon lives its way of life and and impact of ideological power, for

8 Figurations Issue No.50 March 2019 instance, that religious or metaphysical Abstract: Civilized Rebels compares in Sport, Leisure and Health, Philippa doctrines can bring about changes in in depth four very well-known literary Velija and Dominic Malcolm the norms of collectivities and habitus and political figures, who all opposed of the individuals. arrogant regimes and became prisoners. Part I: Key Concepts Through comparative biographies Miklós Hadas, ‘Violence control and of Oscar Wilde, Jean Améry, Nelson 2 The Development of Modern Sport: the civilization of intimacy: remarks on Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi, it Sportization and Civilizing Processes, Norbert Elias’s sociology’. Historická explores the long-term process of the Dominic Malcolm and Jan Haut Sociologie 1 (2017), pp. 39–53. retreat of the West from global power since the late nineteenth century, 3 Game Models as a framework for Abstract: This study is a modest relating this to the decline and fall understanding power in the Male contribution to the reception of of the British Empire and the trauma Football Figuration, Graeme Law and Norbert Elias, one of the giants of surrounding Brexit. Drawing on Daniel Bloyce twentieth-century sociology. The rich empirical materials to examine paper’s overriding question concerns themes of forced displacement, war, 4 ‘Football Fitness’: A quest for the relevance of the Eliasian big-picture poverty, imprisonment and the threat excitement or a leisure routinization?, narrative: whether the theory of of humiliation, the book reveals how Lone Friis Thing and Laila Susanne civilization is sufficient to explain these highly civilized rebels penetrated Ottesen this process or is it possible to include their opponents’ mind-sets, while also complementary factors? It will be argued providing a sophisticated analysis of 5 The Theory of Established–Outsider that while Norbert Elias convincingly how their struggles fitted into the larger Relations: Understanding Gender explores several key elements of the world picture. Methodologically and Relations in the Cricket Figuration, Western civilizing process, he does theoretically innovative, and written in Philippa Velija not ascribe due importance to the a lively and accessible style, Civilized long-term transformation of the intimate Rebels will appeal to scholars across a 6 The Development of Mixed Martial sphere. The paper claims that, from range of disciplines, with interests in Arts: Using the Quest for Excitement the seventeenth century onwards, the globalization, historical international and Informalization to Understand centre of family life has shifted from relations, postcolonial and subaltern Sportization, Raúl Sánchez García paternal authority to maternal care and studies, comparative biographical psychological harmonization. Hence, studies, European studies, the sociology Part II: The Research Process it is justifiable to regard the shift of of and . the power balance within the family as [Dennis Smith, an old Elias hand, 7 Doing Developmental Research as a key explanatory factor of the civilizing does not directly invoke Elias here, a Figurational Sociologist: A Case process. though one senses his presence in the Study on the Long-term Sportization of background – eds.] Swimming, Steven Cock Dennis Smith, Civilized Rebels: An Inside Story of the West’s Retreat from Dominic Malcolm and Philippa 8 On (Not) Becoming: Involved– Global Power. London: Routledge, Velija (eds), Figurational Research in Detachment and Sports ‘Violence’, 2018. 216 pp. ISBN: 9781351189309 Sport, Leisure and Health (London: Christopher R. Matthews (ebook). Routledge, 2018). 196 pp. ISBN: 9781138708259 (hb); 9781315201214 (ebook). This book brings together an international team of scholars working within the figurational tradition to explain the significance of figurational sociology in the development of the sociology of sport and to provide empirical case studies of figurational sociology in action. Covering core concepts such as the civilizing process, and key methods such as interviewing and ethnography, the book presents contemporary research in areas as diverse as sport-related health, mixed martial arts, sports policy, gender relations and cycling.

Contents 1 Introduction to Figurational Research

Issue No.50 March 2019 Figurations 9 9 Doing (Figurational) Research: Using national identities in sport within the Part 3: Sporting Nationalisms and Semi-Structured Interviews in the Field context of globalising forces. Including Interstate Power Relations of Public Health, Miranda Thurston case studies from around the world, it considers the significance of sport 9. Beaten at Their Own Game? A Study Part III: Synthesis and Development in divided societies, former global of British Football Power, Paul Tchir empires and aspirational nations within 10. Association Football, the Armed 10 Figurational Research and Doping in federal states. Each chapter looks at Forces and Invisible Nationalism in Professional Cycling, John Connolly sport not only as a reflection of national Britain, Roger Penn rivalries but also as a changing cultural 11. Sporting Spectacle, 9/11 and the 11 A figurational understanding of sport tradition that facilitates the reimagining Reconstitution of the American Nation, organizations: the case of the Gaelic of borders, boundaries and identities. Michael Silk Athletic Association in Ireland, Paddy The book questions how these national, 12. Shaolin Kung Fu, Chan Buddhism Dolan and John Connolly state and global identifications are and National Identity, Lu Zhouxiang invoked through sporting structures 13. Sport and the Politics of National 12 Sport Policy, Sports Development and practices, both in the past and Identity in the Two Chinas, Alan and Figurational Sociology, Andy the present. Truly international in Bairner Smith, Daniel Bloyce and David perspective, it features case studies Haycock from across Europe, the UK, the USA John Connolly, ‘Generational and China and touches on the topics of conflict and the sociology of 13 Figurational Sociological race, religion, terrorism, separatism, generations: Mannheim and Elias Approaches to Sport, Exercise and nationalism and militarism. reconsidered’, Theory, Culture & Health, Dominic Malcolm and Kass Society 36: 1 (2019), pp. 223–47. doi. Gibson Table of Contents org/10.1177/0263276419827085 1. Contested and Contingent National Dolan, Paddy and Connolly, Identifications in Sport, Paddy Dolan Abstract: Since its publication in John (eds), Sport and National and John Connolly the 1920s, Mannheim’s essay, ‘The Identities: Globalisation and Conflict problem of generations’ (1952[1928]), (London: Routledge, 2019). 2354 pp. Part 1: Sporting Politics, Contested has attained seminal status in marked ISBN: 9780367247638 (pb). Identities and Organisational contrast to Norbert Elias’s theoretical Governance formulations on generations. Despite Elias’s close relationship over many years 2. Sports Policy Between State with Mannheim, the symmetries in their Intervention and Sports Autonomy: sociological programmes, and, crucially, Consents and Conflicts of the Spanish that Elias’s work specifically addresses Sports Policy, Ninja Putzmann generational conflict, he remains invisible 3. Sport as a Pillar of Representation within the sociology of generations of the Current Basque Identity, Ekain literature. Yet Elias’s contributions on Rojo-Labaien this subject are quite extensive, traversing 4. Politics and Identity in European many of his major works. This article Football: Cyprus in Comparative begins by reviewing Mannheim’s and Context, Christos Kassimeris and Elias’s formulations on generations and Charis Xinari goes on to consider the relevance of 5. Partition in Irish Sport During the Elias’s theoretical ideas in relation to 1950s, Cormac Moore contemporary work on generations. The paper contends that Elias’s approach is a Part 2: Media Representations, Sport more empirically employable theoretical and National Identities frame and also a stronger one for explaining intergenerational conflict. 6. Constructing the Nation Through Sports News on Catalan Television, Dominique Memmi, Gilles Raveneau [The hardback and eBook editions were Albert Juncà Pujol and Eduard Inglés and Emmanuel Taïeb (eds), Le social published in September 2011, but seem Yuba à l’épreuve du dégoût (Rennes: Presses not to have been listed in Figurations. 7. No Boarders: Post-National Identity Universitauires de Rennes, 2016). 218 The paperback edition is published in and the Surfing Subculture in Ireland, pp. ISBN : 978-2-7535-5089-6 March 2019.] Stephen Boyd As a sequel to the ‘Anatomy of While globalisation has undoubtedly 8. Confronting America: Black disgust’ (L’Anatomie du dégoût) occurred in many social fields, in Commercial Aesthetics, Athlete they published in 2011 in Ethnologie sport the importance of ‘the nation’ Activism and the Nation Reconsidered, française (the journal of French has remained. This book examines the Ronald L. Mower, Jacob J. Bustad and ethnology), Dominique Memmi, Gilles continuing but contested relevance of David L. Andrews Raveneau and Emmanuel Taïeb have

10 Figurations Issue No.50 March 2019 edited a second opus centred on the to ‘events’, the focus on stability as the on the beliefs, values and ideologies topic of disgust and inspired in part central explanandum of sociological identified in its agenda. It discusses by the work of Norbert Elias. If this theory, the implicit separation of the representations of children, adult new opus stresses how significant individual and social processes, the offenders and online environment that Anglo-Saxon and European social proposition that the social world changes stand as the foundations of the process science has found the wider topic of faster than the individual, the idea that of criminalizing online luring, and are emotions for the past twenty years, ‘excess’ rather than ‘scarcity’ is the also found in the reports of the studied the editors of this book nevertheless central problematic of human affairs, cases and decisions in connection with advocate a stronger foundation of the the strong emphasis on the inherent the crime. sociology of emotions, to be achieved normativity of sociological concepts, by basing it on a substantial effort in the focus on values as the core of Farhad Dalal, CBT – The Cogntive setting up definitions and outlining the human social life, the neglect of human Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, problems at stake. Hence their choice interdependence, power, coercion, and Politics and the Corruptions of of centring their study on one single violence, and the distinction between Science (London: Routledge, 2019). affect (namely disgust), one single ‘moral facts’ and ‘empirical facts’. 198 pp. ISBN: 9781138313064 space (the workspace of health care and Detailed criticisms of the arguments (hb); 9781782206644 (pb); funerary professionals) and one single in various chapters are given, and 9780429457814 (ebook) moment in time (the twentieth century, alternative viewpoints are proposed. The to avoid any anachronistic bias). conclusion is that Processual Sociology Firmly inspired by Elias, they also set fails to provide a fruitful approach for out their intention to connect the dots understanding and explaining social between the expressions of this affect, processes, and that it even represents, in their historical occurrence and the several respects, theoretical regression social figurations in which they arise. rather than progress. (Translated by Sabine Delzescaux.) Tatiana Savoia Landini, Nico Wilterdink, ‘Driving in a ‘Vulnerabilidade e perigo potencial – o dead-end street: critical remarks on processo de criminalização do assédio Andrew Abbott’s Processual sexual online no Canadá e casos Sociology’, Theory and Society 47 julgados em Ontário (2002–2014) (2018), pp. 539–57 [Vulnerability and its potential perils – https://doi.org/10.1007/ on the criminalization of online luring s11186-018-9323-9 in Canada and court cases tried in Ontario (2002–2014)], Contemporânea, [Note: Because of the obvious 8: 2 (2018) pp. 515–42. similarities in the terms ‘process sociology’ used by Elias and his Abstract: The mass diffusion of followers and ‘processual sociology’ the Internet since the 1990s and used by the distinguished American the development and expansion Farhad Dalal is a leading British Group sociologist Andrew Abbott, we had of easy access to information and Analyst who has always stressed his hoped that we would have the chance communication technologies placed debt to Norbert Elias, who was one of to discuss similarities and differences online sexual violence as a focus of the founders of Group Analysis. In his with Professor Abbot at the conference attention for those concerned with latest book he delivers a devastating in Brussels in December 2018 (see child and adolescent protection. In critique of a form of therapy that is below). In the event, he was unable to the wake of the usual discussions poles apart from that tradition: join us, but Nico Wilterdink had in the on child pornography, an increasing meantime drafted this critique.] concern has emerged about situations Is CBT all it claims to be? The of online grooming or luring. This Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Abstract: In his book Processual article reflects on Canada’s movement Managerialism, Politics, and the Sociology (2016), Andrew Abbott to criminalize online luring/grooming, Corruptions of Science provides proposes a radically new theoretical and makes some remarks based on a powerful critique of CBT’s perspective for sociology. This review Court Reports from the province of understanding of human suffering, essay discusses the strengths and Ontario in the years 2002 to 2014. as well as the apparent scientific weaknesses of his ‘processual’ approach, From 2002 on, Section 172.1 of the basis underlying it. The book argues in comparison with other dynamic Criminal Code of Canada prohibits that CBT psychology has fetishized perspectives in sociology such as, in communications between adults measurement to such a degree that particular, Norbert Elias’s ‘process and children via information and it has come to believe that only the sociology’. It critically questions central communication technologies that could countable counts. It suggests that the ideas and arguments advanced in this result in a sexual offence. The study so-called science of CBT is not just book: the reduction of social processes is not focused on luring in itself, but ‘bad science’ but ‘corrupt science’.

Issue No.50 March 2019 Figurations 11 The rise of CBT has been fostered by explained the long term variations and the Construction of They-Images’, neoliberalism and the phenomenon of in violence in this country. His International Relations and Diplomacy, 6: New Public Management. The book not interrelated concepts of sociogenesis 10 (2018), pp. 527–36. only critiques the science, psychology and psychogenesis, particularly state doi: 10.17265/2328-2134/2018.10.001 and philosophy of CBT, but also formation and monopolisation of challenges the managerialist mentality force, interdependencies, sensitisation Abstract: Unequal power balances (or and its hyper-rational understanding to violence, as well as dis-civilisation power ratios) between human beings, of ‘efficiency’, both of which are periods, accounted for the successive including unequal power ratios between commonplace in organizational life ebbs and flows in the level of nations, distort mutual perceptions in today. The book suggests that these homicides in Cambodia. systematic, recognizable ways. And are perverse forms of thought, which changes in power ratios over time are have been institutionalised by NICE Henk Akkermans, ‘The emergence associated with shifts in perception. The and IAPT and used by them to generate of trust: social figuration in supply power position of the USA in global narratives of CBT’s prowess. It claims networks’, Comparative Sociology, 17: affairs affects Americans’ we-images that CBT is an exercise in symptom 3–4 (2018), pp. 406–25. of their own country and their (often reduction which vastly exaggerates the inaccurate) they-image of the outside degree to which symptoms are reduced, Abstract: Trust is an essential world. It also affects the outside world’s the durability of the improvement, as governance mechanism in present-day they-images of the USA. Norbert Elias’s well as the numbers of people it helps. supply networks, where many theory of established–outsider relations independent parties have to coordinate is drawn upon to suggest how these may Arguing that CBT is neither the cure their activities. It is often assumed all be affected by the relative decline of nor the scientific treatment it claims to that trustful behaviour at least partly American power. be, the book also serves as a broader depends on the inner dispositions of cultural critique of the times we live in; actors. Other theories suggest that this John Connolly and Paddy Dolan, a critique which draws on philosophy behaviour is an emergent property ‘Habitus, social elevation, and the and politics, on economics and of the supply network, generated by channel of shame-fear: The decision to psychology, on sociology and history, the interactions between the actors in expand Guinness advertising’, Journal of and ultimately, on the idea of science the network. Half a century ago, the Historical Sociology, 2018, pp. 1–12. itself. It will be of immense interest social figuration theory of Norbert to psychotherapists, policymakers and Elias was the first formulation of Abstract: This article explains the those concerned about the excesses of such a theory. This research tests relationship between social habitus, managerialism. this emergent property theory in a social mobility and shame feelings using series of simulation-based thought Elias’s theoretical frame of figurational Roderic G. Broadhurst, Brigitte experiments. A generic agent-based sociology. Much work to date has centred Bouhours and Thierry Bouhours, model of buyer-supplier interactions in on Bourdieu’s theoretical formulations ‘Violence and Elias’s historical a build-to-forecast supply chain is used and while there are clear parallels with sociology: the case of Cambodia’, as a dynamic hypothesis to test this Elias, significant differences exist. Elias British Journal of Criminology, 58: 6 theory. The inner dispositions of the identified how shame functions as a key (2018), pp. 1420–39. actors towards trust and opportunistic channel for the transmission of social behaviour can be changed here. tensions generated by the structure of This article draws upon the same Current trust levels are influenced by social relations into the social habitus of authors’ book Violence and the these inner dispositions, but are also individuals. We explain how apparently Civilising Process in Cambodia (2015) changed by the perceived behaviour rational decision-making in organisations – see Figurations 47. of the other party. Trust levels of the obscures the emotional dynamics of shame actors also determine their behaviour. and fear connected with processes of social Abstract: Elias’s historical sociology In the simulation this creates vicious elevation, habitus change and shifting method and his civilising process or virtuous cycles of mutual trust and power relations between social classes. Our theory have rarely been applied to performance, so called relationship empirical case concerns the brewer Arthur study long term trends in violence spirals. Model analysis shows that Guinness & Sons Ltd and the decision in non-western societies. Drawing beyond a certain level of external in 1927 to sanction a direct advertising from colonial archives, historical and volatility, the development of trust on campaign in Britain for the first time. contemporary secondary sources, both sides no longer bears any direct official police data, crime victim relation to the inner dispositions of Felix M Bathon, ‘Holding doors for surveys, and newspaper records we the network parties. This confirms others: A history of the emergence of a estimated the trends in homicide the dynamic hypothesis. It also again polite behavior’, InterDisciplines: Journal victims in Cambodia between 1900 establishes the strength of Elias’s of History and Sociology, 9: 2 (2018), pp. and 2012, and, from a study of original social figuration theory. 57–87. Doi: 10.4119/indi-1074 historical developments during the same period, examined whether Stephen Mennell, ‘Trump’s Abstract: This article discusses the Elias’s civilising process theory America: International Relations relationship between materiality and

12 Figurations Issue No.50 March 2019 sociality, and more precisely that of of difference. Visual and oral ‘national’ look at the interplay of agency and the an item of clothing – the hoop skirt – symbols such as flag, and especially opportunity structure, or the interplay and a polite gesture, holding doors for anthem, delineated such difference, between the governance triad and the others, applying a historical procedural being symbolic walls of the mind. ‘Our governance opportunity structure. In perspective. After some introductory wee country’ was thus a polarised and more plain words, one should study remarks on holding doors for others polarising fantasy shield. The article the tensions between actors within as a polite behaviour, the history of concludes by reconsidering the role the context of the historically grown the hoop skirt is reconstructed as a of sport as a lens through which to structure. This structure restricts sequence on the basis of a methodology examine identity and its’ place as part action and the degrees of freedom to of processual explanation and is of the ‘problem’ and ‘solution’. human action but it is also an enabler. described as a process using Georg It enables actors to realize their Simmel’s fashion theory. Subsequently, Katie Liston, ‘Norbert Elias, objectives within the limits of political a history of politeness is reconstructed figurational sociology and feminisms,’ feasibility and these limits are in fact as a sequence and explained as a in Louise Mansfield et al. (eds),The a balancing act. Governance develops process using Norbert Elias’s theory Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and from the tensions between actors and of civilization. The hypothesis that the Sport, Leisure and Physical Education the interplay of these tensions with gesture emerged due to the exorbitant (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), the dimensions of the opportunity size of the hoop skirt, which made it pp. 357–73. structure and governance in its turn is necessary to hold doors for women correlated with a decline of violence. wearing them, will then be made This chapter explores the main To understand the mechanism at work plausible by a complex reconstruction contributions of the figurational better we should look more closely that parallelizes both sequences in sociological tradition to the study into the dimensions of this opportunity a temporal and social dimension. In of sport and gender. It charts the structure and study how the monopoly addition to the temporal presumption development of figurational work on of violence and taxation, the rule of that the gesture appeared in conduct sport and gender since the publication law and the moral order contributes books after the emergence of the hoop of the pioneering text Quest for to safety and security. The chapter skirt, both fashion and politeness Excitement. Elias’s own elaborations concludes that although in general present similar reference problems on relations between the sexes are also governance is on the rise, and violence in terms of differentiation in society, reviewed. Building on this groundwork, is declining, serious challenges will inclusion and authenticity. Furthermore, the chapter offers an overview of some have to be dealt with. this argument serves as a possible of the exchanges between feminists and example of a symmetry between “figurati”. Central in this connection , Interpretive materiality and sociality. are varied interpretations of the concept Social Research: An Introduction of involvement/detachment, critiques (Göttingen: Universitätsverlag, 2018). Katie Liston and Matthew Deighan. of the notion of scientific objectivity 246 pp. ISBN: 978-3-86395-374-4 ‘Whose “Wee Country”: Identity and varying approaches to the role (pb). Also available as a free download: politics and sport in Northern Ireland’, of values in research. The chapter https://www.univerlag.uni-goettingen. Identities: Global Studies in Culture concludes with an Eliasian focus on de/handle/3/isbn-978-3-86395-374-4. and Power, 25, (2018), pp. 1–19. more egalitarian forms of sex relations DOI: 10.17875/gup2018-1103 DOI 10.1080/1070289X.2017.1392103 and the implications of this for future work on sport and gender. This is the English translation of a Abstract: This article responds to calls textbook of sympathetic character in this journal for increased attention René Moelker, ‘Governance and the for figurational sociologists. It is to identity, culture, power and sport. decline of violence’, in NL ARMS a clear introduction to methods of It explores, for the first time, the lived Netherlands Annual Review of Military data collection and analysis in the realities of identity politics in a divided Studies (Den Haag: T.M.C. Asser Press, social sciences, with a special focus society, through interviews with 12 2016), pp. 227–47. on interpretive methods based on a self-declared Irish nationalists and DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6265-135-7_12 logic of discovering hypotheses and republicans that represented Northern Abstract: Historians and political grounded theories. The chief methods Ireland. Important insights are revealed scientists alike have confirmed a presented are participant observation, into national eligibility decisions for decline in inter and intra state violence. open interviews and biographical case either Irish team, motivated mainly There is broad consensus regarding reconstruction. The special advantages by ‘shop window’ visibility and being this decline. The world never will be of interpretive methods, as against other seen as the best of a peer group. perfectly safe, but many correlates qualitative methods, are revealed by Political and sporting nationalisms of violence are known and therefore comparing them to content analysis. were not necessarily analogous. A it is possible to manage safety and Empirical examples show how the significant original finding is that security. War, is neither a fate of nature methods presented can be implemented the lived experiences of being closer nor a whim of Gods. In this chapter in practice, and concrete problems to ‘the other’ resulted in an overall the relation of governance and safety connected with conducting empirical reinforcement rather than dissolution and security is studied. Therefore, we research are discussed. By presenting

Issue No.50 March 2019 Figurations 13 individual case studies, the author https://zeithistorische-forschungen. This article discusses the civilising role shows how to apply the principle of de/2-2018/id%3D5601 of human rights through a dialogue openness when collecting empirical between the theoretical approaches of data, whether through interviews or The title is self-explanatory: the author, Norberto Bobbio and Norbert Elias. observations, and she offers rules for and historian, makes an excellent case analysis based on the principles of for re-reading Über den Prozess der Radoslaw Kossakowski, ‘From reconstruction and sequentiality. Zivilisation. communist fan clubs to professional hooligans: a history of Polish fandom Jeremy Smith, Debating Civilisations: Joannes [Jan] van Gestel, Norbert as a social process’, Sociology of Sport Interrogating Civilisational Analysis in Elias and the Analysis of History and Journal, 34 (2017), 281–92. a Global Age (Manchester: Manchester Sport: Systematizing Figurational doi 10.1123/ssj.2017-0019 University Press, 2017). 216 pp. ISBN: Sociology (London: Routledge, 2018). 978-1-5261-0528-8 (hb). 170 pp. ISBN: 9780815380665 (hb); Abstract: The main aim of this article eBook: 9781351212670. is to present the history of Polish Debating Civilisations evaluates the football fandom as a social process multidisciplinary field of civilizational In times when the social sciences have which has coincided with the processes analysis, its main currents and its become increasingly fragmented and of transformation of Polish society principal competitors. As well as tracing more focused on ‘the pieces of the over the last few decades. The fan the field’s lineage to Emile Durkheim, puzzle’, the puzzle, as a topic in its movement in Poland dates back to Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee and own right, has slowly been moved the early 1970s when the communist contemporary historians towards the background. Nonetheless, authorities attempted to channel the and political scientists are included. as humanity becomes ever more activity of supporters. The 1980s, Examining the work of S. N. Eisenstadt, globalized, there is a greater need however, brought the development of Norbert Elias, Peter Katzenstein and for in-depth discussion on the theory a spontaneous movement with strong Johann P. Arnason as leading scholars behind the direction of humanity in accents of hooliganism. The post-1989 of civilisations, the book also evaluates history and the interrelationships transformation led to an economic and the contemporary revival of the field between the different areas in which social crisis, with the rule of anarchy against competing paradigms, especially humans associate, including that of in football stadiums. Along with the Marxism, globalisation theory and leisure and sport. formation of the democratic order, the postcolonial sociology. On the basis of fan movement evolved into different this evaluation, the author argues for At its heart, Norbert Elias and the sections focused on particular aspects an alternative approach that lays stress Analysis of History and Sport explains of activity. The paper is also devoted on the dense engagement of societies, both the course of history and how the to the ideological dimension of fan cultures, empires and civilisations in roles that leisure and sport have occupied culture, related to the conflict with the human history. Illustrating this argument in it should be investigated. Exploring government at the turn of the 2010s. through case studies of modern Japan this from Norbert Elias’s figurational and post-Conquest Latin America, the (or process sociological) standpoint, André Oliveira Costa, ‘State, subject book explores discourses of civilization the book offers a unique perspective as and the traumatic effects of the outside the West in contexts of growing Van Gestel approaches the theoretical civilization’, Język - Szkoła – Religia, Western imperial power. Drawing also on concepts and ideas by systematizing the 12: 4 (2017), pp. 73–9. the unique theory of social imaginaries views of the iconic scholar and offers developed by Cornelius Castoriadis, new insights into his central theory. Abstract: This article aims to provide Debating Civilisations argues that Furthermore, drawing upon theoretical a discussion between the Sigmund civilisations are better understood as principles that are universal to humans Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and creations made from routine contacts and rather than relative to a case study, Van Norbert Elias’s sociological work on connections carried out by anonymous Gestel offers an applicable guideline the subject of violence as a paradoxical actors over the course of long periods which explains phenomena beyond element of the constitution and the of time. The book contributes a unique specific cultures or circumstances that disruption of the relationship between perspective on this corner of comparative have so far been a customary practice by individual and society. According and historical sociology. process sociologists. to Freud, civilization discontents determine that the cultural bases are Teresa Koloma Beck, ‘Mehr als der Marcelo Weishaupt Proni and held in an individual’s conflict with the Mythos vom Zivilisationsprozess: Thaíssa Tamarindo da Rocha body, the external world and the others. Warum es sich lohnt, Norbert Elias’ Weishaupt Proni, ‘O papel The subject of violence is also found in bekanntestes Werk neu zu lesen’ [More civilizatório dos direitos humanos: Norbert Elias’s work. Violence emerges than the myth of the civilising process: diálogo com Bobbio e Elias’ [The from the pact rupture between state and why it pays to reread norbert elias’s civilizing role of human rights: a individual and destroys the ability of most famous work], Zeithistorische dialogue with Bobbio and Elias]. the citizen to become a person. What Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary Direito, Estado e Sociedade, 51 (2017), are the implications for the psychic History 2 (2018), pp. 383–90. Online: pp. 161–94. economy and social structures in the

14 Figurations Issue No.50 March 2019 face of an emergency situation of (Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, in Western history and to suggest some violence in the public sphere? The the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, fresh ways to think about the topic.’ paradoxical relationship between Denmark). Attention is paid not only to violence and civilization, articulated economic resources, but also to the role SJM by Norbert Elias to the civilizing of cultural and social capital. process, provides us with elements to RECENT CONFERENCES answer Freud, when the psychoanalyst The analysis thus uncovers the social questions the implications caused by composition of the ‘power elite’ Global Interdependencies: institutions that should give protection (Mills), reformulates issues of class, What’s new in the human to individuals. and unravels mechanisms of closure. society of individuals? It simultaneously highlights often Université Saint-Louis. Marta Bucholc and Daniel neglected questions of socialization 4-8 December 2018. Witte, ‘Sammelbesprechung – and educational background, assesses Brussels, Belgium. Transformationen eines Klassikers: the gender dimension, and explores Norbert Elias zwischen Kanonpflege questions of legitimacy. A particular During the first week of December, und Kanonverschiebung’ feature of the book is that it addresses the process community gathered for an [Transformations of a classic: Norbert empirical questions that are widely international symposium in Brussels. Elias between care for and shift in the discussed in the media and among This was organised by the Research canon], Soziologische Revue, 41: 3 scholars, in conjunction with theoretical Centre of Political Science (CReSPo) (2018): 384–99. and methodological issues about how and the Institute for European Studies elites should be studied. (IEE) of Université Saint-Louis – This long and thoughtful review Bruxelles (USL-B). It combined a range essay discusses eight books BIBLIOGRAPHICAL panels found in larger conferences published between 2013 and 2017, RETROSPECT along with the inclusiveness of smaller by Eric Dunning, Jason Hughes, John workshops. Goodwin, Stefanie Ernst, Hermann Barbara H. Rosenwein, ‘Worrying Korte, Christoph Weischer, Behrouz about emotions in history’, American The conference itself was preceded by Alikhani, Erik Jentges and Gabriele Historical Review, 107: 3 (2001), pp. a PhD workshop. Robert Van Krieken Rosenthal. 821–45. and Stephen Mennell coordinated an enlightening and engaging workshop. Olav Korsnes, Johan Heilbron, Josh The work of the medievalist and Participants were able to connect the Hjellbrekke, Felix Bühlmann and historian of emotions Barbara building blocks of processual research, Mike Savage (eds), New Directions in Rosenwein has been mentioned in and reflect on the development of their Elite Studies, London: Routledge, 2018, several earlier issues of Figurations, own research projects. 321 p. but not this survey article from almost two decades ago, which covers the At conference, there were over 100 One of the most salient consequences work of historians from Febvre and presentations on a diverse range of of the financial crisis and its aftermath Huizinga through Elias to Peter Stearns. panels from recurring investigations is the renewed attention for ‘elites’. It came to my attention by chance just on violence, informalisation, sport Popular discourse about the rich and after Steve Loyal had asked me about and family, to more contemporary wealthy, however, oscillates between medievalists’ critiques of Elias. explorations of societal power relations fascination for money and resentment including gender relations, human towards the privileged few. Economic Rosenwein begins this article as migrations, and the development of studies of the ‘one percent’ have follows: populism. There were also panels that significantly improved our knowledge sought to broaden processual research of inequality, but are restricted to ‘As a medievalist, I have cause to be to understand societal relations in income and wealth. This book by a worried about emotions in history. Asia and South America, grasp the European network of researchers takes I do not worry about the emotions interdependencies that shaped Elias’s a different approach. themselves: people in the past, as now, own intellectual development, and expressed joy, sorrow, anger, fear, and open dialogues with other areas in the Rather than portraying extraordinary many other feelings; these emotions sciences and humanities. The panels individuals or identifying a ‘one had multiple meanings then (as they and presentations showed the depth percent’, the inquiries focus on the do today); they had their effects on and breadth of processual research processes through which people others and were manipulated in turn (as in ways that transcended geographic, gain access to the ‘field of power’ ours do and are). What medievalists - disciplinary and linguistic boundaries. (Bourdieu). After demonstrating that indeed, all historians who want to get a global business elite is a fiction, their history right - must worry about is The plenary sessions brought subsequent chapters examine the how historians have treated emotions in participants together and sparked points process of accessing positions of history. The purpose of this article is to of discussion that continued throughout power across various national contexts survey the historiography of emotions the week. These were presented by

Issue No.50 March 2019 Figurations 15 Abram de Swaan, Reinhard Blomert, The discussions from Brussels will and educative processes. The event was Ademir Gebara, Robert van Krieken, continue towards and beyond the next organised by Tony Honorato (UEL), Marta Bucholc, Helmut Kuzmics and symposium. Célio Juvenal Costa (UEM) and Magda Andrew Linklater. There were also Sarat (UFGD) and their team, whose opportunities for transgenerational Alexander Mack warmth, enthusiasm and dedication has discussions, during coffee breaks, Aberystwyth University contributed significantly to the success of lunch and over dinner, which equalised this symposium. ordinary academic hierarchies and 17th Simpósio displayed in practice the forms of open Internacional Processos The big range of topics has included people dialogue that is a consistent Civilizadores (SIPC), 16-19 sessions covering presentations on ethos of processual research. October 2018, University education, childhood, sport, the political of Londrina, Brazil. issues of South and Latin America, Many thanks to the organising team but also cultural, environmental and lead by Florence Delmotte and The 17th biannual International bodily figurations. Some of the main Anne-Alexandra Fournier, with the help Symposium on Civilising Processes contributors to the symposium (just of Stephen Mennell, Jason Hughes and that I was lucky enough to be invited to name the few) included Ademir Barbara Górnicka, for an intensive and to in October, is most likely one of the Gebara, Gina Zabludovsky, Vera Weiler, stimulating conference. There were biggest (and still growing!) figurational Lucas Krotsch, Carina Kaplan, Heloisa also over 30 panel chairs, working academic events in the world. The Helena Bady Baldy dos Reis, but also alongside volunteers from Université symposium brought together over invited guests from Europe, such as Saint-Louis. The sight of students in 200 academics from South and Cas Wouters, Adrian Jitschin, Behrouz the hallways was a good reminder of Latin America, whose contributions Alikhani and Barbara Górnicka. The the same interdependences binding the focused on the main broad theme of symposium was packed with many conference with the host university. figurational, historical, political, social inspiring and wonderful moments and

16 Figurations Issue No.50 March 2019 memories, but one that deserve a the study presents a mode of analysis Europe, further antagonising relations special mention is the book launch in that combines the methodological between the United Kingdom and the the form of samba dance off in one of vocabulary of process sociology European Union that culminated in the the local clubs. developed by Norbert Elias, and risk referendum of June 2016. sociology articulated by Ulrich Beck. The 18th SIPC will be held in Bogota It builds on recent efforts to integrate Re-figuration of spaces in 2020, organised by Diego Mauricio these perspectives into the discipline and cross-cultural Barragán Diaz at Universidad of International Relations to further comparison – Firstt Externado de Colombia. understandings of world politics. Conference and Opening The study demonstrates that over the Event of the Collaborative Barbara Górnicka course of the past 17 years, depictions Research Center 1265 University College Dublin of migration formed part of a broader ‘Re-Figuration of Spaces’, sociological power struggle between 25th IPSA World Congress Britain and the European Union. 14–15 June 2018, Technical University of Political Science, Consciously or unconsciously, the of Berlin. Brisbane, Australia. 21–25 language of British Prime Ministers July 2018. encouraged the embrace of a more On 1 January 2018, the German nationalist anti-cosmopolitan normative Research Foundation (DFG) set up Alex Mack writes that political science code. Adherence to this code helped the Collaborative Research Centre conferences are forums he normally position British identifications in ‘Re-figuration of Spaces’ (CRC 1265) avoids: too sociologically reductive, too opposition against the European Union, at the Technical University of Berlin methodologically nationalist. However, despite projections of observance [see Nina Baur’s article about this this one was only 30 minutes away to a more cosmopolitan humanist- above]. More than 50 scientists from from where he lives, so the opportunity egalitarian normative code. British various disciplines such as sociology, to cause some mischief was too Prime Ministers equated the idea architecture, urban and regional interesting to ignore. He contributed a of open borders with wider social planning, art, geography as well as paper to Session – GS03 International insecurities. Depictions of people media and communication sciences Relations. Panel – Brexit: Causes movement from Europe were infused are working together in 15 sub-projects and Consequences, entitled ‘Burning with broader social fears such as fears at the TU Berlin, the FU Berlin, the Bridges: The Brexit Process and the of welfare dependency creating an HU Berlin, the Westfälische Wilhelms- Migration Language of British Prime expanding vortex shaping the means Universität Münster and the Leibniz Ministers’. of orientation in British society. These Institute for Research on Society and fears were intermixed with a belief in Space (IRS). On the 14–15 June 2018 Abstract: This inquiry argues that the the superiority of nationalised ‘British’ the CRC 1265 was officially inaugutaed ongoing Brexit process is moving laws, opening the space for more with the opening conference under Britain towards becoming a more insecure fantasy-laden representations. the title ‘The Re-figuration of Spaces closed society. With the development Overtime, these distortions decreased and the Cross-Cultural Comparison’. of more narrow modes of socio- an awareness of the interweaving webs Lecturers from seven different emotive identification stimulated by the of interdependence binding Britain disciplines were invited to speak on migration language of British Prime with Europe. Collective identifications practices of comparison. Ministers. The paper asks how and against Europe fed into shared anxieties The Collaborative Research Centre why successive British Prime Ministers about Europeanised movement. British understands re-figuration to be the have constructed and justified their Prime Ministers inspired vulnerable processual and often conflict-related representations of the transnational sections of British society to become transformation of spatial arrangements movement of people? In response, more fearful of people movement from and interdependencies. Over the last

Issue No.50 March 2019 Figurations 17 50 years, the processes and dynamics methodological nationalism and turn social research. The understanding of mediatization, translocation and towards an understanding of entangled of space, he criticizes, continues polycontexturality have intensified. history instead. The emphasis on to be a central problem in classical As Hubert Knoblauch (Berlin), translocal interdependencies and comparative national research. Social- the spokesman for the CRC, put it, relationships changed practices of scientific methodology today should the term re-figuration is confusing comparison dramatically. begin where the big-data analysis ends. yet thought-provoking. The term is to be empirically explored and The second day of the conference began The conference ended with a round- qualitatively determined through with the lecture by Lech Suwala (Berlin) table discussion in which the diversity the CRC’s sub-projects as they act on ‘Spatial concepts, re-figuration of of disciplinary approaches to the as empirical diagnoses of our times, spaces and comparative research from topic of comparison and the practices which are of central importance in the perspective of economic geography of comparison in the disciplines developing a social theory. During and regional economics’. Although were recognized as stimulating. The the formal opening, Martina Löw geography has undergone various turns, question of whether the multiplicity (Berlin), the spokeswoman of the economic geography and regional of perspectives stands as thought- CRC, spurred thinking about complex economics still stick to the idea of provoking quality, or whether a spatial constructions. Society, she absolute or relative space. He expanded common language should be found says, must also be understood through on possible approaches to a relational will certainly only be answered in the space. The aim of the CRC is thus to and topical space. course of the next years. develop a spatial theory that is capable analysing the changed conditions of Jan Polívka (Aachen) introduced Variables themselves used in the constitution of the social in space, further perspectives of planning comparison – such as time, space, in and through which power relations sciences. Three levels of a hierarchical territory – should be made the unit of are expressed. Its the overlaps with structure – places and cultures, rules investigation. These variables may be changes of socio-spatial knowledge and norms, as well as practices – that closely interwoven as illustrated by the and arrangements are subject to the shaped planning action each possess juxtaposition of planned space and built empirical research agenda of the their own rates of contingency. These space, the first one representing future sub-projects. levels are subject to examination of space and the ladder something that This year’s first annual conference’s their different dynamics among them, carries past projections of the future. topic of a total of four sessions between them and different cultures. addressed the practices of comparisons. Herein culture proves to be less flexible Together with other critical reflections Here, perspectives of different than situations and rational logics. For on the relationship between disciplines on the theoretical, example the deployment of the land-use re-figuration of spaces and cultural conceptual and methodological plan, which has found worldwide comparison, the results of this approaches are discussed. application, but in practice is applied conference will be published in a differently depending local planning Thematic Issue on ‘The Re-Figuration From a critical architectural-theoretical cultures, sometimes far from the of Spaces and Cross-Cultural perspective, first speaker, Nina Gribat original intention of its use. Comparison’ by Nina Baur (Berlin), (Darmstadt) understands ‘re-figuration’ Stephen Mennell (Dublin) and Angela as a contested field within which a Johannes Becker (Göttingen) Million (Berlin) and is expected to be triad of space, conflict and society introduced the perspective of biography published in the peer-reviewed open unfolds. Architecture represents and research using the example of ‘Life and access journal Forum: Qualitative structures social relations within family histories in the context of escape Social Research (FQS) in 2020. this relational field, as a result, both and narrowing borders in the Middle constantly undergoing changes. Karina East’. The re-figuration of spaces is Martin Schinagl Pallagst (Kaiserslautern) compares tangible in the everyday dimension and Leibniz Institute for Research on planning cultures across the northern is reflected in biographical situatedness Society and Space (Erkner) hemisphere. Her research suggests and family relationships. Also, formal that understandings of territoriality, legal and state constriction and the Social Reflexivity and spatiality and linearity of planning effectiveness of state boundaries may Informalization stages do differ, which leads to a be reflected in mentality change and need of rethinking planning’s core diffusion of families. 17 May 2018, Paris, France. categories. Wolfgang Aschauer (Salzburg) On 17 May 2018, the Laboratoire Closing the first day of the conference, completed the second day with the interdisciplinaire d’études sur la historian Angelika Epple (Bielefeld) perspective of quantitative comparative réflexivité (LIER), our research group highlighted in her talk the impact social research. In order to obtain at the École des hautes études en that the spatial turn had on the differentiated insights, he pleaded for a sciences sociales (EHESS), organized a historical disciplines. Increasingly mix of methods and an interdisciplinary conference entitled ‘Social Reflexivity efforts were being made to overcome and theory-orientated cross-cultural and Informatisation’.

18 Figurations Issue No.50 March 2019 In the Reid Hall in Paris we welcomed of the nation. the extension of flexibility? Morgane Baladron raised several researchers from Amsterdam to “home” and the paradox of tolerant the question: what is the link between open a dialogue between research on nationalism’ addressed how the process informalization and (neo-)liberalism? informalization, a framework developed of informalization requires of people Cyril Lemieux hypothesized that, with by the Dutch sociologist Cas Wouters that they get rid of their feelings of informalization, we do not observe in the footsteps of Norbert Elias, and superiority: it has become much less the disappearance but rather the the ongoing work in the LIER on the acceptable to say ‘I am inherently better pluralization of forms of hierarchy. social production of reflexivity. On a than you, because you are a woman, of methodological level, the goal is to person of colour, of a different sexual The general discussion with Cas open a discussion between the type of orientation’. Yet, in the Netherlands, Wouters, concluding the day, raised a ‘pragmatic sociology’ (or ‘sociology right-wing parties mobilize exactly concern about the distinction between of tests’) developed within the LIER some of the values central to informalization as a sociohistorical and the approach of researchers informalization – tolerance, openness to process and informalization as a associated to the ‘Amsterdam school’ in sexual diversity, self-relativization – to political weapon / an ideological figurational sociology, which was born construct a form of nationalism that tool used against people. Is it good during the years in which Norbert Elias excludes newcomers that purportedly that there is more informalization? worked at the University of Amsterdam. have not acquired these capacities. As And what should be the response Four researchers from Amsterdam, Danny Trom put it, the rise of ‘tolerant from sociology when political parties Cas Wouters, Rineke van Daalen, Jan nationalism’ might fill a need for start accusing people of having Willem Duyvendak and Don Weenink, exclusion when collective identities are insufficiently informalized, using presented their work, which was increasingly instable and fluid.Noemi this as an argument to exclude these discussed by several members of the Casati pointed at the importance of trust people from social benefits or full LIER – Morgane Baladron, Noemi in informalization and suggested that citizenship? Plans were made for a Casati, Mischa Dekker, Cyril Lemieux, this theory helps to understand the link return match in 2019 in University of Théo Leschevin, Dominique Linhardt, between the retreat of the welfare state Amsterdam [see below]. Gautier Mariage, Cédric Moreau de and the rise in nationalism: as people Bellaing, and Danny Trom. increasingly face insecurity about their Mischa Dekker and Gautier Mariage jobs and income, they may lose their In the regular reading sessions organized trust in newcomers as well. Civilisation and in the LIER, we felt that this theory Informalisation: mini- provided particularly promising avenues Don Weenink’s presentation, ‘Violent symposium in honour of for future research. More specifically, crime and informalization’ addressed Cas Wouters, 23 February the theory of informalization speaks to whether there are types of violence 2019, Amsterdam. the focus of research within the LIER on that are specific to an informalizing how actors develop forms of reflexivity society. With the decreasing power Over 70 people, friends, family and concerning their actions. This was differentiation between social groups colleagues from several countries, one of the points addressed during the (male/female, for example), violence gathered in Amsterdam on 23 conference. The thesis of the LIER is may become a tool to maintain February to honour Cas Wouters that reflexivity increases with modernity: differentiation and an outlet for for his outstanding contribution with the increasing division of labour frustrations. Cédric Moreau de Bellaing to sociology. Not just figurational there is increasing interdependence, a suggested that this would mean that sociology, the pleonasm which Elias social process through which individuals emancipation and increasing reflexivity was none too fond of, but sociology are shaped into more reflexive beings. In do not always decrease violence. The in general. Starting with his work on the theory of informalization a special high levels of domestic violence in sexology, his translation (with Bram kind of reflexivity seems to appear at a Northern Europe were mobilized as a van Stolk) of Elias and Scotson’s specific moment in history: in the late case in point. Théo Leschevin raised the The Established and the Outsiders, nineteenth century and especially in question whether the informalization and his classic contribution to the the 1960s and 1970’s when people start process leads people to define violence discussion about the direction of ‘the’ developing a more reflexive third nature. differently. civilising process (at the time it was The argument is that increasing equality still possibly to use the singular), up and the emancipation of previously A final main point of discussion was to his investigations on the changing excluded groups – women, cultural the relation between informalization relations between men and women, minorities – produces more reflexivity. and inequality, which was raised by parents and children, elders and We discussed whether the type of Rineke van Daalen in her presentation youngsters, Wouters has made an reflexivity produced by informalization ‘Informalization in times of growing impressive career on the basis of ‘the substantially different from that which inequality. interactions at the service emancipation of emotions’. existed before. desk, in the class room, on the street’. Does the disappearance of clear rules A variety of speakers contributed In this light, Jan Willem Duyvendak’s favour those who are able to cope to the mini-symposium, facilitated presentation on ‘the informalization with the increasing requirements of by the Norbert Elias Foundation.

Issue No.50 March 2019 Figurations 19 Professor Paul Schnabel started off by book consisting of six chapters by Cas not been the focus of sociological assessing informalisation as a major Wouters, and at the same time a reader, research in the recent past, but has been social trend and one of ‘the five i’s’ he consisting of another six essays on the conducted primarily in other research discerns (together with individualisation, field of informalisation by Jonathan fields of the discipline. This has informatisation, internationalisation and Fletcher, Michael Dunning, Raúl contributed to the fact that the focus of intensivisation). Professor Fernando Sánchez, Arjan Post, Wilbert van Vree inequality analyzes has been directed at Rodrigues shocked his audience with and Richard Kilminster. certain aspects and that most economies the case of Brazilian beheadings and have been taken into account only in a other forms of cruelty. Professor The afternoon was appropriately fragmented way. The main topics are as Stefanie Ernst addressed the growing concluded by Cas himself, paying following: ‘discrimination awareness’ with regard a tribute to his preceptor Joop to women, migrants and the LBGT Goudsblom in absentia. After all, it 1. Transformation of economic into community. Michael Schröter gave was Goudsblom who won Cas over to social inequality: money and a lecture on the sociogenesis of the study sociology and from whom he has consumption psychoanalytic practice and Freud’s learned the most. 2. Creating social inequality through breakthroughs. Raúl Sánchez deployed entrepreneurship and business the informalisation of sports, the huge Arjan Post 3. Observation and analysis of influence of the late Eric Dunning inequality to the field of investigation and the 4. Economy, social inequality and way the informalisation thesis is of FORTHCOMING social change help in understanding all too often CONFERENCES 5. Economy, social inequality and misinterpreted developments of space ‘coarsening’ in for example martial arts The Civilizing Process in and free fighting. Rineke van Daalen Colombia The conference will welcome presented the case of informal traffic Latin America Centre, contributions that address one of the manners and the rise of ‘surveillance University of Oxford, 3–4 above-mentioned open questions or light’, seeking a balance between control May 2019 handle other innovative topics relevant and ‘letting go’. Finally Mischa Dekker to this topic. Theoretical and empirical shed light on civilising campaigns Eduardo Posado-Carbo is organising contributions are equally welcome. against ‘street harassment’ in Paris and a two-day seminar which will Amsterdam in times of informalisation. examine how the theory of civilising If you would like to make a processes applies to his home country, contribution, please send a one to All tacitly or explicitly touched Colombia, historically and to the two-page exposé to the organizers by 1st upon balances of formalisation and present day. Speakers will include March 2019 to Nina Baur (nina.baur@ informalisation, thus illustrating Andrew Linklater. Anyone interested in tu-berlin.de) and Jürgen Beyer (juergen. not only the versatility of the thesis taking part should contact Eduardo at: beyer@uni-hamburg. de), which should of informalisation, but also the [email protected]. contain the entry title, name, institution applicability and the synthetic power of and email address, as well as the it to grasp complex social and psychic Economy and social abstract. The selection of contributions developments. Or, as the abstract of inequality, Spring for the conference is based on the an article for the interdisciplinary Conference of the exposés. journal Emotions: History, Culture, DGS Section Economic Society (http://www.historyofemotions. Sociology, 16-17 May You will receive feedback by 15 March org.au/society-for-the-history-of- 2019, TU Berlin. 2019, if you have been selected for a emotions/emotions-journal/) reads: ‘One lecture. of the most striking cultural trends in Organization: Nina Baur and Jürgen A publication of selected articles at the history of the past century […] has Beyer Springer VS is planned. The deadline been the rise of greater informality in for the first edition of the contributions interpersonal relations. […] But the Call for papers: is 31 August 2019 – the selected authors phenomenon is dramatically under- will be informed in May 2019 about studied, taken for granted rather Researching the interrelationship further details on the schedule. than assessed or analysed.’ With the between economics and social mini-symposium in Amsterdam at least inequality is one of the oldest questions that notion was partially compensated for. sociology has dealt with. In the face of The event coincided with the growing inequality in many societies publication of Civilisation and and the increasing problematisation of Informalisation: Connecting this tendency in public space, this issue Long-Term Social and Psychic is now increasingly coming into focus. Processes (Palgrave), edited by Cas However, the relationship between and Michael Dunning. Actually, it is a economics and social inequality has

20 Figurations Issue No.50 March 2019 Civility and Incivility in Polemic and invective • Censorship and ([email protected]). For RC20, Early Modern Britain, free speech • Crime and punishment consult its Treasurer, Stephen Vertigans 1500–1700 ([email protected]). Keynote addresses will be given by Dr Oriel College, Oxford, 28 June 2019 Teresa Bejan (University of Oxford) Doing Things Differently: and one other (yet to be announced). Workshop in Honour of Eric Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2019 Dunning Please send a one-page CV, a title, Recent years have seen an increased and an abstract of c.350 words to 1–3 July 2019, University of Leicester scholarly interest in early modern [email protected] by Monday ideas about civility. Although often 1 April 2019. Please also indicate if An interdisciplinary workshop in honour associated with urbanity, gentility, or you would like to be considered for a of the life and work of the late Professor refinement, this conference will explore graduate travel bursary. The conference Eric Dunning has been organised by Jan ideas of civility more broadly, asking is sponsored by the Oxford Centre for Davies, Laurie Parsons and Will Davies, how the limits of acceptable behaviour Early Modern Studies. all of the University of Leicester. The and discourse were defined, enforced, workshop will run from the 1–3 July and negotiated in early modern Britain. More details can be found on the 2019 and is supported by the University conference website: https://www. of Leicester and the Norbert Elias The meaning of civility in incivility2019.com Foundation. post-Reformation Britain was both contested and complex. Religious IV ISA Forum of Sociology, The workshop is open to students who change, developments in print, and Porto Alegre, Brazil, 14–18 wish to do things differently in their social and political upheaval all served July 2020 research, and who want to deepen at various points to intensify ideological their knowledge of Norbert Elias’s division and public disagreement. But The theme of the ISA Forum in Porto sociological practice. The workshop contemporaries also worried about the Alegre in July 2020 will be ‘Challenges aims to explore the use of different effects of heated, vitriolic debate, and of the Twenty-First Century: research methods such as visual, auto/ about how to ensure that difference did Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, biographical, historical/comparative not tear apart the vinculum societatis Intersectionality’, Further details can be methods and time-series analysis using (‘bond of society’). Notions of civility found on the ISA website: documents of life, amongst others. As could be both a source of, and a well as lectures and workshops from solution to, these conflicts – a form of https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/ leadings researchers on these methods tolerance or a tool of exclusion. They conferences/forum/porto-alegre-2020 and on Elias’s work itself, there will be could place people, groups, and ideas small group discussions and seminars, beyond the bounds of acceptability, The call for session proposals is now a Q&A panel with researchers, poster but also provide a principle for open and ends on 15 March this year, presentations, and a field work visit to counteracting fissure in society and 2019. South Wigston – a tour of the ‘Winston ensuring peaceful co-existence. Parva’ of The Established and the After the list of sessions has been Outsiders (costs for which are covered). Participants are encouraged to finalised, the submission of paper interrogate the different ways that abstracts will open on 25 April and close Other than costs of travel and historians might think about the on 30 September 2019, 24:00 GMT. accommodation, this is a free workshop dynamic relationship between Participants and organizers of invited which targets students of all levels of civility and incivility between 1500 sessions must submit abstracts on-line study and early career researchers. and 1700. Submissions are invited via the Confex platform. Abstracts on all aspects of political, social, must be submitted in English, French You can visit the website for religious, or intellectual history, and or Spanish. Only abstracts submitted further information and to view interdisciplinary contributions are on-line will be considered in the the programme. There are 25 likewise encouraged. selection process. places available on a first-come- Proposals for twenty-minute papers are first-served basis, so be sure to encouraged from graduate students, Many figurationists are members book on via the Eventbrite page: early career researchers, and established of RC56 Historical Sociology and/ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ scholars. Papers might address but are or RC20 Comparative Sociology. If doing-things-differently-workshop- not limited to: you wish to discuss possible RC56 tickets-55040880756 sessions, you could contact its • Inclusion and exclusion • Tolerance President, Manuela Boatcă (manuela. 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Issue No.50 March 2019 Figurations 21 OBITUARY The book was not published in English regarded as ‘ancient’. Eric’s first translation until many years later. published journal article, written Eric Dunning, with Earl Hopper, was a critique of b. 27 December 1936; Seeking an area for postgraduate Goldthorpe’s acclaimed contribution d. 10 February 2019 research, Eric asked Elias whether to the then vigorous debate about the

Professor Eric Dunning of the football was a respectable field for ‘convergence thesis’.1 A decade later, University of Leicester, distinguished research. At that time it was not: he pursued his intellectual differences sociologist, prominent advocate of the among British sociologists there with Goldthorpe by writing a critique process-sociological perspective, and was often, as Eric remembered, ‘a of Popper.2 Throughout his career, in founding father of the sociology of contemptuous dismissal of sport as an the Department and beyond, he was sport, has died after a long illness. area of sociological enquiry’. He later one of the most prominent champions recalled that his initial bibliographical of Elias’s ‘process sociology in all its Eric was born in Hayes, Middlesex, search revealed almost no research on aspects, culminating in his 2013 book the second son of Sidney Dunning, sport that was sociological in the sense with Jason Hughes.3 a London bus driver, and his wife of being oriented around sociological Florence Daisy, a school dinner lady. concepts and theories. Dunning and The ideas associated with process After Acton County Grammar School, Elias set out to change that, and in sociology were applied from the in 1956 he entered what was then effect founded the sociology of sport, beginning to the sociology of sport. University College Leicester. As a which is today a very thriving field. Eric’s postgraduate work focused on first-year undergraduate he attended the development of football from a Norbert Elias’s introductory lectures But Eric always considered himself rough and wild folk game, closer to in sociology. He was so entranced that a sociologist tout court, not just a ‘real’ fighting than to modern sports, he switched from his intended subject sociologist of sport, and from the start into the modern game, characterised of economics to become a sociologist, he took part in the academic debates by formal organization and elaborate graduating with an external London of the 1960s, which were especially written rules, one object of which was University BSc (Econ) in 1959. At lively in what was then the very to regulate, and steadily to reduce, the Acton County, he had learned German, large Department of Sociology at socially permitted level of violence which proved to be of great significance: Leicester. One of the lines of tension within the game – a manifestation of a he was one of very few students who was between the mainstream, more civilising process. were able to read Elias’s magnum opus, positivist, Popperian and functionalist Über den Prozess der Zivilisation, in tendency of which After completing his research, Dunning the original 1939 edition (a copy of was an outstanding leader, and the went to the United States for a year, which he borrowed from the Head of developmental tendency led by Elias where he worked under Alvin Gouldner Department, Professor Ilya Neustadt). and Neustadt, which the ‘moderns’ at Washington University in St Louis,

22 Figurations Issue No.50 March 2019 MO, and where he met and married in this area, the starting point for all of Popper’s Poverty of Historicism his first wife, Ellen. He returned subsequent research.7 During those with special reference to the theory to Leicester in 1962 to take up an years, Eric appeared frequently on of Auguste Comte’, Amsterdams appointment as an assistant lecturer but television and radio as the pre-eminent Sociologisch Tijdschrift, 4: 3 (1977), Ellen was unable to settle in England, expert on sports-related spectator pp. 327–49. the marriage broke up and she returned violence. 3. Eric Dunning and Jason Hughes, to the USA. Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Eric’s outstanding contribution to the Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, The two papers which Dunning sociology of sport was recognised when Process (London: Bloomsbury, 2013). published on football in 1963 and his book Sport Matters was awarded 4. Eric Dunning, ‘Football in its early 1964 were among the earliest, and in the NASSS prize as the best book stages’, History Today, December Britain were probably the very first, published in the field in 1999.8 In 2008, 1963; ‘The evolution of football’, New published pieces of research to examine he was presented with a Festschrift; Society, No. 83, April 1964. sport from a properly sociological the cover photo of the University of 5. Eric Dunning (ed.), The Sociology perspective.4 There were no organized Leicester football team around 1960 of Sport: A Selection of Readings academic groups concerned specifically shows Eric hidden in the back row (London: Frank Cass, 1971). (Published with the study of sport and no specialist because, typically, he was the only in North America by the University of journals in the field. When the North member who had forgotten to bring Toronto Press in 1972 under the title: American Society for the Sociology his shorts!9 A conference in his honour Sport: Readings from a Sociological of Sport (NASSS) was founded in was held in Leicester in March 2017, Perspective.) 1978 with just 21 founding members, marking (a couple of months late) 6. Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning, it referred to the sociology of sport as his 80th birthday; tributes were paid Quest for Excitement: Sport and ‘this newly emerging field’; by this time by many of his former students, who Leisure in the Civilising Process Dunning had already been working in include (among many others): Jason (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986; revised and this ‘newly emerging field’ for almost Hughes, Ken Sheard, Katie Liston, enlarged edition, Dublin: UCD Press, two decades and his first book in the Patrick Murphy, Dominic Malcolm, 2008 [Collected Works, vol. 7]). area, The Sociology of Sport, had Joe Maguire, Ken Green, Andy Smith, 7. Eric Dunning, John Williams and already been published seven years Chris Rojek, Grant Jarvie, Daniel Patrick Murphy, Hooligans Abroad: before NASSS was founded.5 Bloyce, Martin Roderick, Dan Burdsey the Behaviour and Control of English and Raul Sanchez Garcia. Fans in Continental Europe (London: Dunning authored or edited 14 books Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984); and wrote almost a hundred scholarly Eric was an inspirational lecturer Eric Dunning, Patrick Murphy and papers on sport. Quest for Excitement, and a natural teacher who conveyed John Williams, The Roots of Football co-authored with Elias, has been complex ideas with great clarity. To Hooliganism: an Historical and hugely influential in generating a colleagues and students he always Sociological Study (London: Routledge more theoretically informed sociology gave unstintingly of his time and his & Kegan Paul, 1988); Eric Dunning, of sport and has been translated help and advice. To his friends he will Patrick Murphy, Ivan Waddington and into six languages.6 Their essays, be remembered as a bon viveur who A. Astrinakis, Fighting Fans: Football separately and together, covered the loved wine and jazz, a teller of jokes Hooliganism as a World Phenomenon development of sports and leisure from and shaggy dog stories but, above all, (Dublin: University College Dublin the ancient Greek Olympics to the as an extraordinarily kind and generous Press, 2002). present day. Among many other things, person. We will remember Eric as a 8. Eric Dunning and Kenneth Sheard, they stressed how sports gradually larger than life character and a good Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players: a developed rules to maintain the ‘tension companion. Sociological Study of the Development balance’ or level of excitement for of Rugby Football (Oxford: Martin both players and spectators; the offside He is survived by his second wife, Robertson, 1979); Eric Dunning, Sport rule in soccer or the lbw rule in cricket Judith, from whom he was divorced, Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, are examples of this. The theme is their two children Michael and Rachel, Violence and Civilization (London: developed in Barbarians, Gentlemen grandchildren Florence and Isabelle, Routledge, 1999). and Players, his study with Ken Sheard and his brother Roy. 9. Dominic Malcolm and Ivan of the development of Rugby football, Waddington (eds), Matters of Sport: which is arguably the best sociological Ivan Waddington and Stephen Mennell Essays in Honour of Eric Dunning study of the development of any sport. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008). Notes From 1984 onwards, Dunning and his 1. Eric Dunning and Earl Hopper, Leicester colleagues produced several ‘Industrialisation and the problem of books on football hooliganism, and the convergence’, Sociological Review, NS work of what became known as the 14: 2 (1966), pp. 163–86. ‘Leicester School’ is without doubt the 2. Eric Dunning, ‘In defence of most substantial and influential work developmental sociology: a critique

Issue No.50 March 2019 Figurations 23 François Dépelteau three other major specialists – Pierpaolo (1963–2018) Donati, Nick Crossley and Jan Fuhse CONTRIBUTIONS TO – thus confirming his own status in the FIGURATIONS On 3 August 2018, Francois Dépelteau emerging field. died at the age of 55 in Campinas, The next issue of Figurations will Brazil. Although he had recently After creating a research cluster be mailed in July 2019. News and learned that he had a cancer, the tumors on relational sociology within the notes should be sent by 1 June were controlled and had decreased Canadian Sociological Association, 2019 to the Editors at figurations@ size. It was an unpredicted and François was approached by Palgrave norbert-elias.com. unrelated sudden medical condition that Macmillan to create a new book series finally took his life. He died of sepsis dedicated to relational sociology. Editor: Dr Barbara Górnicka following emergency surgery. He left Thanks to his stewardship, the series (University College Dublin) his wife, Tatiana Savoia Landini, their 7 was launched successfully and includes year-old son, Daniel, and two children four published titles so far with more to Associate Editors: Dr Katie Liston, from his previous marriage, Marianne come. Around the same time, François School of Sports Studies, University and Alexane. became editor of the Canadian Review of Ulster, Newtownabbey, County of Sociology, a position he filled for Antrim, Northern Ireland BT37 Born in Montreal, he completed a PhD about two years. Last but not least, 0QB; Professor Stephen Mennell, in political science at Laval University François managed to edit before his School of Sociology, University (Québec City) under the supervision death the massive Palgrave Handbook College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin of Carol Levasseur. Later on, he of Relational Sociology: 33 chapters, D04 F6X4, Ireland. was appointed to a position in the for a total of 686 pages, covering department of sociology at Laurentian a wide range of topics from Georg Editorial Address: School of University (Sudbury, ON) where he Simmel to Bruno Latour, from riots to Sociology, University College taught sociological theory and research music sociology, from post-colonialism Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. methods. François went on to attain to systems theory. Email: figurations@norbert-elias. the rank of full professor. Since last com March, he had been visiting lecturer François still had many other projects at the Graduate Program in Political on the go. He particularly enjoyed Honorary Assistant Editors: Sociology (PPGSP) of the Universidade collaborating with others, while holding Florence Delmotte, Brussels Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in strong opinions for himself nonetheless. (French); Heike Hammer, Stuttgart, Brazil. He was unpretentious in his demeanour, and Tabea Dörfelt-Mathey, Jena easy to make friends with, no less than (German); Tatiana Savoia Landini, François became increasingly a committed intellectual. He has left São Paulo (Spanish and Portuguese, interested in relational sociology after the scene far too soon, but still he had Latin America). reading Norbert Elias’s book What is enough time to demonstrate to the rest Sociology? and Mustafa Emirbayer’s of us that one can do a lot of things if Contributions should preferably be article ‘Manifesto for a relational only one is willing to try. Let us follow e-mailed to the Editor in the form sociology’ in the American Journal in his footsteps. of MS Word (.doc or .docx), Rich of Sociology, 1997. Emirbayer drew Text (.rtf), plain text (.txt) or Open upon the pragmatic philosophy of Jean-Sébastien Guy Office Text (.odt) files. Do not use John Dewey and John Bentley, which Halifax, Canada embedded footnotes. Hard copy is turned out to be very influential on accepted reluctantly. Photographs François’s own thinking). In 2008, should be submitted in JPEG format. François published an article in Sociological Theory where he framed © 2019, Norbert Elias Stichting, relational sociology in contrast with J.J. Viottastraat 13, 1071 JM co-deterministic approaches revolving Amsterdam, Netherlands. around the dichotomy between . In 2013, he co-edited with Graphic Design and Desktop Christopher Powell two volumes on Publishing: Annette van de Sluis. conceptualizing and applying relational Amsterdam, Netherlands. sociology. He followed up immediately by co-editing, this time with his wife Figurations is distributed free of Tatiana Landini, three more volumes on charge on request to researchers, Norbert Elias (released in 2013, 2014 institutes or libraries. To be added and 2017 – see Figurations 48). In to the mailing list, please write to 2015, François contributed to a special [email protected]. issue of the International Review of Sociology on relational sociology with

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