Reflections on an academic life

2021 ◽  
pp. 194277862110462
Author(s):  
David Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Alternative Mode ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
Personal Politics ◽  
Positivist Science ◽  
Epistemological Break ◽  
Intellectual Journey

David Harvey traces his intellectual journey reflecting on what he calls “the central animating theme of his thinking” starting from his days as a positivist geographer and the publication of Explanation. Harvey clarifies that his transition from Explanations to Social Justice, which has often been touted as a radical-epistemological break in his work should actually be seen as a complimentary productive tension. In making this transition, Harvey decided to reject the scientific orthodoxy of positivist science and instead, use dialectics derived from Marx as alternative mode of scientific inquiry. Harvey narrates his Baltimore experience of combatting local racial discrimination as formative in his understandings of the motions of capital and dynamics of uneven development thus imbricating personal politics and Marx's theory of capitalism in his work ever after. Harvey also recalls how teaching of Capital furthered his exploration of the urban condition and accumulation of capital, ultimately leading to the concept of “spatial fix.” Conditions of Postmodernity contends Harvey, taught him the importance of gender and feminist perspective and Justice, Nature written under extreme physical, professional, intellectual duress was intended to bring the “metabolic relation to nature” at the forefront. Economic liberalism propelled Harvey to introspect on his many volumes on the global neoliberal conditions, which he argues is now imbricated with issues of identity and intersectionality involving Black Lives and Me too. Harvey concludes that his intellectual journey has been a preoccupation to understand “contradictory unity between social relations in constant transformation” through Marx's power of abstraction to imagine an “anti-capitalist” future.

The Stabilisation of the Capitalist Order and Liberal Value Orientations in Serbia

Südosteuropa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 386-407
Author(s):  
Mladen Lazić ◽  
Jelena Pešić
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Value Changes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Normative Value ◽  
Value Dissonance

AbstractBased on research data from 2003, 2012, and 2018, the authors examine the extent to which capitalist social relations in Serbia have determined liberal value orientations. The change of the social order in Serbia after 1990 brought about a radical change of the basis upon which values are constituted. To interpret the relationship between structural and value changes, the authors employ the theory of normative-value dissonance. Special attention in the analysis is paid to the interpretation of value changes based on the distinction between intra- and inter-systemic normative-value dissonance. In the first part of their study, the authors examine changes in the acceptance of liberal values over the period of consolidation of capitalism in Serbia, while in the second part they focus on the 2018 data and specific predictors of political and economic liberalism.

scholarly journals Følelser og sociale bånd i Akademia

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Charlotte Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Social Bond ◽  
Emotional Culture ◽  
Collective Creativity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Emotional Dimensions

Charlotte Bloch: Emotions and Social Bonds in Academia The purpose of this article is to expand our understanding of social relations in academia by examining the role that the emotional dimensions of these social relations play in academic life. It is based on the results of an interview study of emotions and emotional culture among people in various scholarly positions in academia. The article makes analytical distinctions between the structural conditions of emotions, the emotional culture of academia, lived or felt emotions and the management of emotions. And it identifies different ways of managing the emotions of uncertainty, shame, anger, pride and laughter. These feelings emerge from the structural conditions of the social relations in academic life, and the tacit rules of feeling in academic life define how these feelings are managed. Life in academia presupposes a certain amount of feeling labour and management of feelings. Thomas Scheff’s theory about emotions and social bonds is employed to identify what this management of feelings means for social relations in academia. Bonds in academia are stable and fluctuate between solidarity, isolation and engulfment, but primarily the last two. Loneliness, group conformity, absence of real cooperation, and weakening of individual and collective creativity are some of the consequences of this kind of social bond.

Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Political Freedom ◽  
Euro Crisis ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
German Question ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World ◽  
Interwar Era

<Online Only>This book recounts the transformation of Europe from the interwar era until the euro crisis, using the tools of constitutional analysis and critical theory. The central claim is twofold: post-war Europe is reconstituted in a manner combining political authoritarianism and economic liberalism, producing an order which is now in a critical condition. The book begins in the interwar era, when liberalism, unable to deal with mass democracy and the social question, turns to authoritarianism in an attempt to suppress democracy, with disastrous consequences in Weimar and elsewhere. After the Second World War, partly on the basis of a very different diagnosis of interwar collapse, and initially through a passive authoritarianism, inter-state sovereignty is reconfigured, state-society relations are depoliticized, and social relations transformed. Integration is substituted for internationalism, technocracy for democracy, and economic liberty for political freedom and class struggle. This transformation takes time to unfold, and it presents continuities as well as discontinuities. It is deepened by the neo-liberalism of the Maastricht era and the creation of Economic and Monetary Union, and yet countermovements then also emerge: geopolitically, in the return of the German question; and domestically, in the challenges presented by constitutional courts and anti-systemic movements. Struggles over sovereignty, democracy, and political freedom resurface, but are then more actively repressed through the authoritarian liberalism of the euro crisis phase. This leads now to an impasse. Anti-systemic politics return but remain uneasily within the EU, suggesting that the post-war order of authoritarian liberalism is reaching its limits. As yet, however, there has been no definitive rupture.</Online Only>

scholarly journals Global Free Trade and the Fragmentation of Capitalist Classes: An Uneven and Combined Development Approach to MUSIAD in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akif Avcı
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Uneven And Combined Development ◽  
Main Class ◽  
Twitter Account ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Development Approach

“A small group of young Turkish patriots who have fallen in love with their country have laid the foundation of MUSIAD 30 years ago”. This passage has been taken from the official Twitter account of MUSIAD whose categorisation has always been a contested issue. MUSIAD has been called the “Anatolian Capital”, “Muslim Bourgeoisie”, “Devout Bourgeoisie”, and finally “patriots who have fall in love with their country”. The uniqueness of this study lays in its class-based approach to the MUSIAD affiliates, as it argues that MUSIAD is composed of three main class fractions which are nationally oriented, internationally oriented and transnational. This categorisation is based on the ways in which MUSIAD affiliates engage in social relations of production rather than matters of religion, culture, and ideology. Subsequently, this study argues that the rise of MUSIAD is part of a process of transformation in the patterns of capital accumulation and uneven development of capitalism in Turkey. Accordingly, this study draws on the uneven and combined development approach to understand why MUSIAD affiliates could not catch up with TUSIAD affiliated companies which mostly represent the transnational fraction of Turkish capital. 

The ‘Place’ of Land in Japan's Postwar Development, and the Dynamic of the 1980s Real-Estate ‘Bubble’ and 1990s Banking Crisis

10.1068/d323 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Banking Crisis ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Real Estate Bubble ◽  
Fictitious Capital ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spatial Restructuring ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
The Way

In this paper I seek to unfold the place of landed property within Japan's postwar uneven development and the way in which this found expression in the 1980s real-estate ‘bubble’ and subsequent 1990s banking crisis. I argue that landed property was both internal to and constitutive of the social relations that marked the specificity of Japan's postwar capitalism. As a national state within the accumulation of global capital, however, Japan's specificity only existed as ‘difference-in-unity’. Furthermore, I suggest that the 1980s real-estate ‘bubble’ and 1990s banking crisis were specific and culminating expressions of changes within the form of those social relations, as mediated by Japan's changing position within the process of global uneven development. Important in this respect was the way in which credit, fictitious capital, and spatial restructuring became precarious expressions of attempts to achieve a temporal and spatial displacement of crisis.

scholarly journals The category of truth in Bakunin's political and legal theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Sergey Demin
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
Mikhail Bakunin ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
The 19Th Century

The subject of the study is the problem of truth in the political and legal theory of Mikhail Bakunin. The object of the study is the social relations that form different interpretations of the concept of truth in the teachings of M. Bakunin. The author examines in detail the correlation of truth in the works of the anarchist theorist from both a philosophical and a dogmatic point of view. It is analyzed in detail in the doctrine of interspersed jurisprudence from an economic point of view, as well as the theory of knowledge, which was understood by M.Bakunin as phenomena in their pure completeness without any admixture of fantasies, assumptions or other attachments of human consciousness, in which the difference between epistemology and law is manifested. Special attention is paid to M. Bakunin's reflection on the laws of nature and lawmaking. The main conclusions of the study are: - the reason for the utopianism of Bakunin's teaching, in our opinion, is his rejection of the legislative consolidation of the fundamental principles of law, which in turn replaces law with morality. A special contribution of the author to the study of the topic is the conclusion that the most developed economic liberalism in the middle of the 19th century in Russia was in Siberia, which was facilitated by the patronage of the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia Muravyov. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that for the first time M. Bakin's ideas about truth are analyzed not from the point of view of criticism of Marxism-Leninism, but from the philosophical and legal-dogmatic side.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF MODERN JURISPRUDENCE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
R. S. Prytchenko
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
Uniform Rule ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Methodological Approaches

This article identifies the main methods of jurisprudence research. Classical and new methodological approaches to understanding the essence and content of jurisprudence and defining existing forms of jurisprudence are analysed. The study of jurisprudence, taking into account classical and new methodological approaches, provides a more accurate understanding of jurisprudence; contributes to a more detailed analysis of the content of jurisprudence; allows for a more grounded identification of forms of jurisprudence. The evolutionary path of jurisprudence is directly linked at each stage to the state system, the economy, the legal culture and the legal consciousness in society. The regulation of social relations is achieved through customs, contracts, judicial precedents, and regulations. However, it is the responsibility of the courts to resolve conflict situations and, after consideration of the dispute, make a decision accordingly. Repeated application by the courts of the norms governing disputed social relations creates uniformity in the dispute resolution process and develops a uniform rule for the application of these norms in a certain disputed situation, i. e. creates jurisprudence. At present, only on the basis of dialectical materialism, using the principles of pluralism of opinion, comprehensiveness and complexity of knowledge, as well as the principles of determinism, correspondence and additionality, applying classical and modern methods of scientific inquiry, can one approach the study of judicial practice in an objective and harmonious way. This will allow to reveal general regularities in the emergence and development of judicial practice, to identify its content, forms, functions, interaction with other legal phenomena, to determine its influence on law-making and law-enforcement, to understand procedures of formation and process of practical application of its results, to develop a unified understanding of the nature of judicial practice.

Sex and Society: A Research Note from Social History and Anthropology

1981 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Ross ◽  
Rayna Rapp
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Personal Politics ◽  
Lesbian Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Meaning ◽  
Intimate Life ◽  
Erotic Art

“The personal is political” was a central insight of the wave of feminism which gathered momentum in the 1960s. Within that phrase is condensed the understanding that the seemingly most intimate details of private existence are actually structured by larger social relations. Attention to the personal politics of intimate life soon focused on sexuality, and many canons of sexual meaning were challenged. The discovery of erotic art and symbols as malecentered, the redefinition of lesbian sexuality as positive and life-affirming, and the dismantling of the two-orgasm theory as a transparently male perception of the female body were among the products of this critique.

Massey, Marx, and human geography: disjunctures and provocations

2020 ◽  
pp. 194277862097309
Author(s):  
Kevin Cox
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
The Social ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Mode Of Production ◽  
The Way

Doreen Massey made contributions that command the attention of historical geographical materialists. Although she was close to the left, her work strayed very significantly from Marx. Nevertheless, through her emphases she revealed, intentionally or not, important lacunae in the work of Marxist geography. Methodologically she was close to critical realism. She accepted the idea of separate structures of social relations and patriarchy was one that she emphasized. This put her at odds with Marxist views of the social process as constituted by moments that internalize one another. Her work on space was set in opposition to classical Marxist views, most notably in its insistent particularizing tendency as opposed to one that recognizes particularity but also the way in which it gets structured by the capitalist social process as a whole. This emphasis is also apparent in her work on uneven development where production and the contradictions entailed by the capitalist mode of production get neglected. Even so, in her emphasis on particularity, she provided an important challenge, not least for the way in which we approach questions of gender, the constitution of regions and countries, and the importance of the particularity of place for understanding uneven development.

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