The Secular and the Religious in Tajikistan

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélène Thibault
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Literature ◽  
Local Perceptions ◽  
Islamic Revival ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Do So

The increasing practice of Islam in Tajikistan in the last few years has contributed to rising social and political tensions. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Northern Tajikistan between May and October 2010, this article intends to highlight underlying religious tensions in Tajikistan, which, I argue, are the result of the emergence of conflicting voices contesting current political spaces. My intention is to revisit two concepts abundantly used in the religious literature. First, I intend to deconstruct the dichotomous relation between the state and society and try to uncover the power relations that lie behind the making, dissemination and understanding of narratives addressing the place of Islam in society. Second, I reconsider the categories of the secular and the religious by illustrating the porous character of these concepts in the Tajik context. I do so by providing accounts of local perceptions of religious politics expressed by politicians and bureaucrats, ordinary believers and representatives of the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan. Finally, I argue that the coexistence of different sets of religious and secular norms reveals that the struggle for political power in Tajikistan is now increasingly articulated around religious issues.

Authorizing Judgment

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas John Casson
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Abstract Theory ◽  
Natural Right ◽  
State Of Nature ◽  
Tangible Support ◽  
Heuristic Device ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

This chapter illustrates how Locke's Second Treatise can be read as a revolutionary call for subjects to employ this new notion of probable judgment. In order to teach his readers to be active, critical, and even revolutionary members of the polity, Locke sets out to convince them not only that they are capable of making crucial determinations concerning the limits of political power, but also that they are obligated to do so. His account of the state of nature is not simply a heuristic device illustrating an abstract theory of government, but an attempt to provide tangible support to his contention that individuals have a natural right of judgment. Along the way he seeks to guide his readers in the proper exercise of this capacity by showing them the reasonableness of limiting their judgment to the concrete, visceral experiences of neediness and injury.

scholarly journals Forvaltningen af det bestående:

2015 ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Mathias Hein Jessen
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The State ◽  
The West ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
Point Of Intersection ◽  
The Given

The article investigates Giorgio Agamben’s turn to, and radicalization of, Foucault’s concept of governmentality, which Agamben argues constitutes a ’decisive point’ in the Homo sacer-series. The article shows that in the investigation of the Trinitarian oikonomia, Agamben finds the point of intersection between the ‘totalizing procedures’ of the state and ‘individualizing techniques’ of biopolitics thereby disclosing the ‘zone of indistinction’ between sovereignty and government and politics and economy, which constitutes power in the West. Furthermore, the article argues that Agamben shows how the economy is not something distinct from politics, encroaching on its logic, but rather how the governmental paradigm of the West constitutes the continual administration of the given, the continual and perpetual government of the economy and thereby of the existing economic and political power-relations.

Power and Obligation

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilan Zvi Baron
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Model ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Obligation ◽  
Power Means ◽  
Empirical Condition

In this chapter, the author suggests that power is an important and underexplored element in theories of political obligation and argues that there exists an alternative model of political power that is not statist and thus avoids the necessity of accepting anything like the particularity principle. It is possible to argue for an account of obligation that is political because of the power relations contained within, but which are not defined or framed by the state. In other words, while I accept the claim that politics is defined by power relations, I contest the traditional Weberian framing of what power means in this context. Once political obligation becomes deterritorialized in this way, it remains to explain the empirical condition of transnational political obligation.

scholarly journals PRISÃO COMO GUETO: a dinâmica de controle e de extermínio de jovens negros pobres

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Analía Soria Batista ◽  
Welliton Caixeta Maciel
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
State Control ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Do So

Este artigo rejeita a visão convencional do Estado que se revela na afirmação de perda de controle do Estado nas prisões geridas pelas gangues. Para tanto, adota uma narrativa histórico-analítica seletiva e uma abordagem sociológica das características culturais, sociais e políticas do processo de formação da República brasileira e da produção de determinados habitus de relacionamento entre o Estado e a sociedade, traduzidos em práticas de negociações entre os diversos agentes sociais. Considera os episódios denominados midiaticamente de “guerra nas prisões” como analisadores dos complexos processos sociais de produção do controle social e de manutenção da ordem pelo Estado baseados na guetização dos presídios e nas dinâmicas de violência e de negociação entre o Estado e as gangues prisionais.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Estado; controle social; prisões; gangues; guetização prisional.   ABSTRACT This article rejects the conventional view of the state that is revealed in the claim of loss of state control in gang-managed prisons. In order to do so, it adopts a selective analytical historical narrative and a sociological approach to the cultural, social and political characteristics of the process of formation of the Brazilian Republic and the production of certain habitus of relationship between the State and society, translated into practices of negotiations between the different Social agents. It considers the so-called mediatic episodes of “war in prisons” as interpretive keys to the complex social processes of production of social control and maintenance of order by the state based on the ghettoization of prisons and on the dynamics of violence and negotiation between the state and prison gangs .   KEYWORDS: State; social control; prisons; gangs; prison ghettoization.   RESUMEN El presente articulo rechaza la visión convencional del Estado subjacente en la afirmación de que el Estado perdió el control en las prisiones gerenciadas por gangues. Para fundamentar el análisis, utiliza una narrativa histórico-analítica selectiva y una abordaje sociológica sobre las características culturales, sociales y politicas del proceso de formación de la República brasileña e de la producción de determinados habitus en los agentes sociales  que caracterizan  las relaciones entre el Estado y la sociedade y que son visíbles en sus prácticas comunes de negociación. La guerra en las prisiones es considerada un analizador de los complejos procesos sociales relativos a la producción de control e de ordem en la sociedad, que se apoyan en la guetización de las prisiones y en las dinámicas de violencia y negociación entre el Estado y las gangues de las prisiones.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Estado; control social; prisiones; gangues; guetización prisional.

scholarly journals CИЁСИЙ ИНТЕРНЕТ-КОММУНИКАЦИЯ –– ИЖТИМОИЙ РИВОЖЛАНИШ ОМИЛИ СИФАТИДА

2019 ◽  
pp. 158-163
Author(s):  
Hilola Abdurakhmonova
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Past ◽  
State And Society

Замонавий шароитда сиёсий коммуникацияни тадқиқ этишнинг умумназарий ва методологик жиҳатлари ахборотлаштиришда ижтимоий омиллар таҳлили, ўтмиш олимларининг сиёсий назариянинг умумий муаммоларига бағишланган асарлари, давлат ва жамиятнинг ўзаро муносабатлари, сиёсий ҳокимиятнинг моҳияти ва механизмлари кўриб чиқилган. В статье рассматриваются общетеоретические и методологические стороны политической коммуникации в контексте современных социально-политических аспектов коммуникации, дается анализ социальных факторов формирования информационного общества, а также рассматриваются общие проблемы политической теории различных ученых, взаимодействие государства и общества, сущность и механизмы политической власти. This article discusses various aspects of political communication, the context of modern social and political aspects of political communication, the analysis of social factors in the formation of information society, the general problems of the political theory of the past, the interaction of the state and society, the essence and mechanisms of political power.

Colonialism in the Region

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark LeVine
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
Islamic Jurisprudence

This chapter offers a decolonial historical sociology of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), one focused on the ongoing coloniality of power as a core discourse of governance across the region whether two centuries ago or today. After critiquing research grounded on subaltern and postcolonial studies for failing to capture the colonial dynamics operating in post-independence political systems across the MENA, the author explores how Timothy Mitchell’s seminal analysis of the state as an discursive effect of power relations, as well as the present-day relevance of the idea of ahl al-hall wa-l-‘aqd (“those who have binding authority”) in traditional Islamic jurisprudence, can together promote a more perceptive and illuminating discussion of the dynamics of political power across the region, whether in the past or present day.

scholarly journals STATE AND RELIGION: PROBLEMS OF INTERACTION

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
Zhan T. Toshchenko
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Influence ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
Religious Issues

The article analyzes the modern forms of relations between the state and religion: a theocracy, a state religion, confessional structure, political nondenominational state resurgent religious influence on government. Particular attention is paid to the ways and methods of solving the state-religious issues (the war between and within religious conflicts, overcoming discord in the interpretation of the canons and dogmas, flirting with clerics). The analysis is based on a broad historical context. Finally, it analyzes the reality of the interaction between religion and political power in modern Russia and the reaction of the population to these relationships.

A Re-Appraisal of the Role of Blood Coagulation and Platelets in the Generalized Shwartzman Phenomenon

1966 ◽  
Vol 15 (03/04) ◽  
pp. 519-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Levin ◽  
E Beck
Keyword(s):  
Blood Coagulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Coagulation System ◽  
Renal Lesions ◽  
Intravascular Coagulation ◽  
Renal Glomeruli ◽  
Coagulation Mechanism ◽  
Shwartzman Phenomenon ◽  
Do So

SummaryThe role of intravascular coagulation in the production of the generalized Shwartzman phenomenon has been evaluated. The administration of endotoxin to animals prepared with Thorotrast results in activation of the coagulation mechanism with the resultant deposition of fibrinoid material in the renal glomeruli. Anticoagulation prevents alterations in the state of the coagulation system and inhibits development of the renal lesions. Platelets are not primarily involved. Platelet antiserum produces similar lesions in animals prepared with Thorotrast, but appears to do so in a manner which does not significantly involve intravascular coagulation.The production of adrenal cortical hemorrhage, comparable to that seen in the Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, following the administration of endotoxin to animals that had previously received ACTH does not require intravascular coagulation and may not be a manifestation of the generalized Shwartzman phenomenon.

Историософия русского сознания в творческом консерватизме Л.А. Тихомирова. Об упущенных возможностях национально-государственного развития России в начале ХХ века

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 613-620
Author(s):  
Igor N. Tyapin
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
The State ◽  
Russian History ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Working Out

The author of the article uses the works of L.A. Tikhomirov as the basis when examining the problem of criticism of the conditions of the state and society in monarchic Russia during the last decade of its existence from the part of the conservative figures who not only advocated the necessity to preserve the autocracy but also substantially contributed to the working out of the main principles of Russian social development. In particular, the “creative conservators” managed to accomplish the deep philosophic conceptualization of Russian history while trying to find the previously lost ideal of social organization. Tikhomirov’s relevant concepts of the mutual conditionality of Russian national consciousness underdevelopment and state degradation, as well as of the necessity to realize the model of the moral state of justice on the basis of the national idea, were not accepted by the bureaucratic system that resulted before long in the collapse of Russian monarchic state.

State-Minority Contestations in Post-colonial Sri Lanka

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 157-165
Author(s):  
Mansoor Mohamed Fazil
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Research Method ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Social Force ◽  
State Structure ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Military

Abstract This research focuses on the issue of state-minority contestations involving transforming and reconstituting each other in post-independent Sri Lanka. This study uses a qualitative research method that involves critical categories of analysis. Migdal’s theory of state-in-society was applied because it provides an effective conceptual framework to analyse and explain the data. The results indicate that the unitary state structure and discriminatory policies contributed to the formation of a minority militant social force (the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – The LTTE) which fought with the state to form a separate state. The several factors that backed to the defeat of the LTTE in 2009 by the military of the state. This defeat has appreciably weakened the Tamil minority. This study also reveals that contestations between different social forces within society, within the state, and between the state and society in Sri Lanka still prevail, hampering the promulgation of inclusive policies. This study concludes that inclusive policies are imperative to end state minority contestations in Sri Lanka.

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