Fated to Live in Interesting Times: Canada's Changing Citizenship Regimes

1997 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Jenson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
The State ◽  
Proper Form ◽  
History Of ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Triangular Relationship ◽  
Citizenship Regimes ◽  
Citizenship Regime

AbstractThis article presents a way of thinking about citizenship which incorporates theoretical elements of historical institutionalism and political economy. These provide the tools for identifying patterns of change in visions of the proper form of the triangular relationship among the state, the market and communities. These discourses, as well as the practices which result from it, are labelled the citizenship regime. The history of this concept is analyzed to account for some of the difficulties of contemporary Canada. There is now a double challenge. Increasingly, Quebec and the rest of Canada promote a different balance of responsibility among the state, market and communities. As well, neo-liberal efforts to reduce deficits and redesign government are challenging received ideas of solidarity. The result is that the pan-Canadian and Quebec's citizenship regimes are diverging.

A Pluralism of Legal Pluralisms

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Melissaris ◽  
Mariano Croce
Keyword(s):  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
The State ◽  
Central Moments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Varied History

Legal pluralism, as a way of thinking about law, is the seemingly straightforward idea that there is a range of normative orders, which are independent from the state and can be properly described as legal without committing any conceptual mistake. Without giving a full survey of the long and varied history of legal pluralism theory, this article will discuss some central moments in that history. It will focus specifically on the question whether it is possible and useful to capture law as conceptually separate from other normative phenomena so as to speak of specifically legal pluralism or whether it is best to take a panlegalist approach and not draw any clear distinctions between law and other instances of social normativity.

scholarly journals Kongen hersker, men regerer ikke - Guvernementalitet, statificering og statspraksis hos Michel Foucault

2018 ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Nicolai Von Eggers ◽  
Mathias Hein Jessen
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
The West ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Michel Foucault developed his now (in)famous neologism governmentality in the first of the two lectures he devoted to ’a history of governmentality, Security, Territory, Population (1977-78) and The Birth of Biopolitics (1978-79). Foucault developed this notion in order to do a historical investigation of ‘the state’ or ‘the political’ which did not assume the entity of the state but treated it as a way of governing, a way of thinking about governing. Recently, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has taken up Foucault’s notion of governmentality in his writing of a history of power in the West, most notably in The Kingdom and the Glory. It is with inspiration from Agamben’s recent use of Foucault that Foucault’s approach to writing the history of the state (as a history of governmental practices and the reflection hereof) is revisited. Foucault (and Agamben) thus offer another way of writing the history of the state and of the political, which focuses on different texts and on reading more familiar texts in a new light, thereby offering a new and notably different view on the emergence of the modern state and politics.

scholarly journals Farewell to the “Party Period”: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard R. John
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
History Of ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
American Political Economy

Historians of the United States have long contended that the study of governmental institutions, including the history of public policy, is no longer central to the teaching and writing of American history. Some lament this development; others hail it as a sign that other worthy topics are finally getting the attention they deserve. Yet is it true? The recent outpouring of scholarship on the relationship between the state and the market, or what an earlier generation would have called political economy, raises questions about this venerable conceit. Indeed, if one were to pick a single word to characterize the state of the field in the history of American political economy, it might well be “robust.”

The End of Neoliberalism?

2011 ◽  
Vol 637 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Comaroff
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The State ◽  
Common Noun ◽  
First Century ◽  
Finance Capital ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Relationship

In the wake of the economic “meltdown” of 2008, there arose considerable public debate across the planet over the fates and futures of neoliberalism. Had it reached its “natural” end? What, historically, was likely to become of “it”? How might the crisis in the Euro-American economies of the period transform the relationship between economy and the state? This article addresses these questions. It argues against treating neoliberalism as a common noun, a fully formed, self-sustaining ideological project and makes the case that its adjectival and adverbial capillaries alive, well, and, if in complicated ways, central to the unfolding history of contemporary capitalism. Finally, the article offers a reflection on the ways in which twenty-first-century states have become integral to the workings of finance capital, with important consequences for the conception of political economy.

The pariah: queer outcasts and the politics of wounded attachment

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-105
Author(s):  
Stephen Greer
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
Lgbt Activism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Starting with Neil Bartlett’s AIDS-era work A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep, this chapter explores performances of singular individuality in which the state of being neither wholly included nor fully excluded invites us to reconsider liberal narratives of historical progress. While mainstream LGBT activism emphasises the possibilities of assimilation as a means of recovery from exclusion in the past, the singular figure of the pariah offers a new way of thinking marginal and politicized identity’s investment in its own history of hurt. Featured practitioners: Neil Bartlett, Marc Rees, Seiriol Davies, Jon Brittain and Matt Tedford, David Hoyle.

What Should International Legal History Become?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martti Koskenniemi
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal History ◽  
International Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Private Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of International Law ◽  
International Power ◽  
Professional Fields

This chapter argues that the scope of history of international law ought to be expanded beyond its received sense. If the interest lies in ‘power’, then it is not a surprise why international lawyers might worry about the state of their field. For history to grasp this worry, it should illuminate the process through which some things come to be understood as belonging to ‘international law’ while others are relegated to ‘domestic’ or ‘private’ law, to ‘political economy’ or indeed to ‘international politics’. A study of international law’s relations to international power would need to include an examination of the way such categories, professional fields, and intellectual distinctions are made and remade so as to determine what may seem possible to achieve and what is beyond professional argument and contestation.

scholarly journals Thomas Ellweins »Der Staat als Zufall und als Notwendigkeit«

Administory ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 222-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rüdiger von Krosigk
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
The State ◽  
Top Down ◽  
History Of ◽  
Administrative History ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century

Abstract Rüdiger von Krosigk’s re-reading (Relektüre) of Thomas Ellwein’s The State as Coincidence and Necessity (Der Staat als Zufall und als Notwendigkeit, 1993/1997) explores the concept of »living administration« in the Prussian region of East-Westfalia-Lippe in the 19th and 20th century. Ellwein’s approach seeks to overcome those top-down perspectives on public administration that mainly focus on formal hierarchical structures and nurture the idea of »rationality« in the activities, functions and development of public administration. By contrast, his history of public administration draws inspiration from empirical administrative sciences, organisation sociology and historical institutionalism. Even 20 years after publication it is still an invaluable source in the field of administrative history.

scholarly journals Footnote in a global history: On histories of feminisms

Sociologija ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-89
Author(s):  
Adriana Zaharijevic
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Local History ◽  
The State ◽  
Global History ◽  
Socialist State ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Nancy Fraser ◽  
Alternative Reading ◽  
Citizenship Regime

The paper attempts to offer an alternative reading of the history of Yugoslav feminism. It focuses on birth and development of feminism during socialism, and its aftermath in times of war and disintegration of the common state. What were the trajectories of feminism that emerged in a socialist state? What were its chosen paths when both socialism and the state ceased to exist? The conceptual framework the paper uses draws upon the notion of citizenship regime, which offers a more intricate picture then those customarily used in elaborations of (post-)Yugoslav feminism - either those that compare feminism and nationalism, or those that rely on the wider comparison of feminism and capitalism. In the light of the latter remark, Nancy Fraser?s article ?Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History? proved to be valuable for the argument on the complexities of (post-) Yugoslav feminism. Thus, the paper calls for a meticulous reading of the paradoxes of the local history of feminism.

Du «spectateur impartial» au «travailleur impartial», un commentaire sur la relation entre philosophie morale et économie politique chez Adam Smith selon Jean Mathiot

Dialogue ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilles Campagnolo
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
The State ◽  
Moral Sentiments ◽  
Impartial Spectator ◽  
History Of ◽  
Économie Politique ◽  
Wealth Of Nations ◽  
The Church

ABSTRACT: As Smith freed moral philosophy from former control bodies (the Church, the state), the Scottish philosopher opened the field for a scientific political economy. In hisAdam Smith. Philosophie et économie(Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1990, p. 45), Jean Mathiot asked :«Should then one wonder that his [Smith’s] audacious stand became the historical grounding stone for political economy, then bringing recognition as an objectively-grounded field of knowledge?»Mathiot’s text and thought have been little debated to this day; this essay is meant to fill that gap, in particular with regard to the history of Smith’s reception in France. Mathiot sought to understand better the “impartial spectator” using a new character whom he claimed Smith was implicitly sketching, and whom he called “the impartial laborer”. To Mathiot’s mind, from theTheory of moral sentiments(1759) to theWealth of Nations(1776), the link is nothing else than Smith’s own philosophy.

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