Barry Smart
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 124242 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Barry Smart |
| NOMBRES | Barry |
| APELLIDO | Smart |
| FIRMA | SMART B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6737-4571 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 68 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 612 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Costing the Earth
The paper provides a critical analysis of the growth of FIFA’s World Cup tournaments. Consideration is given to FIFA’s status as a global organization, specifically its extensive reach, standing, and responsibility, as well as the interests and concerns driving its expansion policies. While expansion has fostered greater inclusion and increased global engagement it has also aroused growing climate and environmental concerns. FIFA claims to have a…
Marxism and Postmodernism
Major changes in production and consumption, communications and culture, and knowledge and information confirm that the process of constant revolutionising, uninterrupted disturbance, uncertainty, and agitation, identified by Marx and Engels in The Communist Manifesto has far from abated. The idea of an emerging postmodern condition, or condition of postmodernity, has been addressed in a number of different ways within the broad parameters of his…
Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies
In this accomplished, comprehensive and accessible book Barry Smart explores these questions. The book examines the social and economic processes which have shaped and continue to shape life today. It also provides exemplary critical assessments of the various `modern' and `postmodern' thinkers who have sought to explain these processes. Judicious in its judgements and superbly informed, the text is a major contribution to the debate on Modernity…
Ontology Matters
An overview and analysis of Salla Tuomivaara's comparison of the respective views of Emile Durkheim and Edward Westermarck on sociology, humans, and other animals
Phenomenology
Phenomenology is both a philosophy and a method and it has secured a place in many disciplinary fields in the humanities and social sciences. The term is generally employed to describe developments in philosophy that have their roots in the early twentieth century. Within the social sciences, and sociology in particular, phenomenology is associated with innovative forms of theorizing, sometimes described as “social phenomenology,” as well as vari…
Tester, Keith (1960–2019)
Keith Tester (1960–2019) displayed a persistent critical sociological imagination. He spent his career engaging with the question “What use is sociology?” In order to consider this question he explored the complex interconnections between culture and morality, drawing on the social thought of Zygmunt Bauman. Tester published at least 13 sole‐authored and four coauthored monographs as well as edited collections and numerous essays, journal article…
Ethical Consumption
A genealogy of ethical consumption and consideration of the respects in which consumption has been problematized is revealing of the increasing significance being accorded to the need to live differently, in particular to consume ethically. Ethical consumption means consuming responsibly. It denotes the purchase and use of products and services that have been ethically produced, that is, without detriment to the rights, interests, and welfare or …
Consuming Olympism
The roots of Olympism lie in the late 19th century and Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s revival of the Olympic Games. The values of Olympism have been increasingly compromised by subsequent developments which have significantly transformed modern sport. Professionalism, commercialism, proliferating forms of spectacular media representation and a globalising consumer culture have transformed the Olympic Games and reduced the values of Olympism to marke…
Scp>Foucault,Michel (1926–1984)
The work of Michel Foucault overflows the boundaries of conventionally established disciplinary fields. Foucault challenged the designation of his work as philosophy or history and chose “The History of Systems of Thought” for the title of his chair at the Collège de France. His wide‐ranging analyses have informed discussion and debate in a multiplicity of academic fields including anthropology, architecture, accountancy, business and cultural st…
Nonhuman Animal Suffering
Each year millions of nonhuman animals are exposed to suffering in universities as they are routinely (ab)used in teaching and research in the natural sciences. Drawing on the work of Giroux and Derrida, we make the case for a critical pedagogy of nonhuman animal suffering. We discuss critical pedagogy as an underrepresented form of teaching in universities, consider suffering as a concept, and explore the pedagogy of suffering. The discussion fo…
Military-industrial complexities, university research and neoliberal economy
The article provides an analysis of the militarization of scientific research and the scale and consequences of military and defence-related research on university campuses in the United States and United Kingdom. It achieves this through an analysis of the historical background to the complex forms of articulation which have developed between the military, industry and university research. Particular consideration is given to developments in the…
Sport and the Corporate World
Sport has become increasingly immersed in the corporate world and ever more dependent on the lucrative financial returns that flow from commercial sponsorship, endorsement contracts, and media broadcasting rights. An economic and cultural affinity between sport and the corporate capitalist world was identified by the German social and economic analyst Max Weber early in the twentieth century. The sale of broadcasting rights has become a major sou…
Good for business, good without reservation? Veblen's critique of business enterprise and pecuniary culture
Thorstein Veblen's work undoubtedly has a place within the field of institutional economics but he has been a relatively marginal figure within the discipline of sociology. If Veblen is discussed at all within contemporary sociology, it is almost without exception in relation to his first major work The Theory of the Leisure Class and his principal contribution to our understanding of modern social life is considered to flow from observations on …
Foucault, Marxism and Critique
In this work, originally released in 1983, Barry Smart examines the relevance of Foucault's work for developing an understanding of those issues which lie beyond the limits of Marxist theory and analysis - issues such as 'individualising' forms of power, power-knowledge relations, the rise of 'the social', and the associated socialisation of politics. He argues that there exist clear and substantial differences between Foucault's genealogical ana…
Sociology, Phenomenology and Marxian Analysis
Sociology is an established academic discipline but there has been continuing debate over its status as a science and the nature of its subject matter. This led to the emergence of a phenomenological sociology and to critiques of positivist sociology. This critical reappraisal of the relevance of Marxian analysis for a science of society shows how these developments within sociology have had their counterpart in Marxism. The author analyses the s…
Michel Foucault
Fiscal crisis and creative destruction
Two matters addressed in the analyses of Joseph Schumpeter, namely fiscal crises to which modern 'tax states' are vulnerable and processes of 'creative destruction' intrinsic to modern capitalism, have grown steadily in significance since the mid-twentieth century. Schumpeter anticipated a continuing growth in demand for public services and forms of social provision and drew on aspects of Rudolf Goldscheid's innovative designation of a critical n…
Post-Industrial Society
VOLUME 1 Introductory Essay: and Information Technology - Barry Smart Section One: Post-industrialism: Genealogy Before Bell 'The Chapter on Capital' And 'The Chapter on Capital (Continuation)' - Karl Marx Extracts from Post-Industrialism - Arthur Penty Arthur Penty's Post-industrial Utopia - David Lyon A Postindustrial Prelude to Postcolonialism: John Ruskin, William Morris, and Gandhism - Patrick Brantlinger Leisure and Work in Postindustrial -…
Another 'Great Transformation' or Common Ruin
In the aftermath of the 1930s Great Depression, and as the Second World War was drawing to a close, Karl Polanyi concluded a critical analysis of market capitalism on an optimistic - and with the benefit of hindsight we can add premature - note, remarking that the 'primacy of society' over the economic system had been 'secured'. Eighty years later, amidst the unresolved turmoil of another comparable global capitalist economic crisis and accumulat…
Consumer Society: Critical Issues and Environmental Consequences
Has consumer culture got out of hand? Are the costs of universal access and pollution too great to bear? This lively and informative book brings together resources for thinking about consumer culture and examining its origins and consequences within a global context. It uses examples to inform and enhance understanding
Consumer Society
Michel Foucault
Economics, Politics and Sociology
Classical sociology is generally equated with analyses of late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century thinkers whose writings ranged seamlessly across what, subsequently, would become differentiated fields of inquiry. One twentieth-century analyst whose texts replicate aspects of the works of the classical sociologists is J.K. Galbraith, a figure whose disciplinary home is conventionally considered to be economics, but whose writings transcend di…
Not playing around
The development of modern sport is bound up with processes of economic and cultural transformation associated with the global diffusion of capitalist forms of consumption. In this article I draw attention to aspects of the globalization of modern sport that were becoming apparent towards the close of the nineteenth century and then move on to consider the factors that contributed to sport becoming a truly global phenomenon in the course of the tw…
Modern Condtns Post Mod Contrv
Post-Industrial Society
VOLUME 1 Introductory Essay: and Information Technology - Barry Smart Section One: Post-industrialism: Genealogy Before Bell 'The Chapter on Capital' And 'The Chapter on Capital (Continuation)' - Karl Marx Extracts from Post-Industrialism - Arthur Penty Arthur Penty's Post-industrial Utopia - David Lyon A Postindustrial Prelude to Postcolonialism: John Ruskin, William Morris, and Gandhism - Patrick Brantlinger Leisure and Work in Postindustrial -…
Women, sexuality and social control
Foucault, sociology, and the problem of human agency
Military-industrial complexities, university research and neoliberal economy
The article provides an analysis of the militarization of scientific research and the scale and consequences of military and defence-related research on university campuses in the United States and United Kingdom. It achieves this through an analysis of the historical background to the complex forms of articulation which have developed between the military, industry and university research. Particular consideration is given to developments in the…
Not playing around
The development of modern sport is bound up with processes of economic and cultural transformation associated with the global diffusion of capitalist forms of consumption. In this article I draw attention to aspects of the globalization of modern sport that were becoming apparent towards the close of the nineteenth century and then move on to consider the factors that contributed to sport becoming a truly global phenomenon in the course of the tw…
Handbook of Social Theory
A Political Economy of New Times
Situating Manuel Castells's three-volume work, The Information Age, within a broad tradition of classical social theory that has sought to come to terms with the emergence of new forms of social, economic and cultural life, critical consideration is given to a series of concerns, including questions of analytic perspective and in particular the relevance of the work of Marx; the concept of the network society; the movement from production to cons…
Sociology, Globalisation and Postmodernity
As processes of globalisation transform economic and cultural life and render the received image of society problematic, what are the prospects for sociology? One view is that there has been a retreat from international endeavour and an increasing preoccupation with diversity, difference, tradition, locality and indigenisation as the discipline has embraced postmodernism. In contrast, it is argued that postmodernism already constitutes an interna…
Sociology, Phenomenology and Marxian Analysis
Sociology is an established academic discipline but there has been continuing debate over its status as a science and the nature of its subject matter. This led to the emergence of a phenomenological sociology and to critiques of positivist sociology. This critical reappraisal of the relevance of Marxian analysis for a science of society shows how these developments within sociology have had their counterpart in Marxism. The author analyses the s…
On the Disorder of Things
The feasibility, relevance and value of modern sociology is in question in a number of analyses which have identified possible limits to the project of modernity. Through a discussion of the works of a number of theorists, consideration is given to (i) the effect of transformations of modernity upon sociology and (ii) the question of postmodernity and sociology. Although a preoccupation with the state of the discipline is longstanding, the curren…
Fiscal crisis and creative destruction
Two matters addressed in the analyses of Joseph Schumpeter, namely fiscal crises to which modern 'tax states' are vulnerable and processes of 'creative destruction' intrinsic to modern capitalism, have grown steadily in significance since the mid-twentieth century. Schumpeter anticipated a continuing growth in demand for public services and forms of social provision and drew on aspects of Rudolf Goldscheid's innovative designation of a critical n…
Power and the State
Facing the Body - Goffman, Levinas and the Subject of Ethics
The subject of responsibility
L'A. etudie les notions de pouvoir, liberte et subjectivite chez Foucault dans le cadre de l'elaboration d'une ethique de la responsabilite et d'une transformation de la modernite. L'A. examine la distinction entre la technologie politique des individus et les technologies du soi, et le lien qui existe entre les notions de souci de soi et d'esthetique de l'existence
Constructing Postmodernism
Foucault, Marxism and Critique
Consuming Olympism
The roots of Olympism lie in the late 19th century and Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s revival of the Olympic Games. The values of Olympism have been increasingly compromised by subsequent developments which have significantly transformed modern sport. Professionalism, commercialism, proliferating forms of spectacular media representation and a globalising consumer culture have transformed the Olympic Games and reduced the values of Olympism to marke…
Another 'Great Transformation' or Common Ruin
In the aftermath of the 1930s Great Depression, and as the Second World War was drawing to a close, Karl Polanyi concluded a critical analysis of market capitalism on an optimistic - and with the benefit of hindsight we can add premature - note, remarking that the 'primacy of society' over the economic system had been 'secured'. Eighty years later, amidst the unresolved turmoil of another comparable global capitalist economic crisis and accumulat…
An Economic Turn
While the late 19th-century analytic context in which classical sociology emerged was constituted in substantial part by a discourse of political economy, the subsequent development of the discipline has been characterized by a growing analytic distance between sociology and economics. With increasing specialization in the field of knowledge in the course of the 20th century there was a neglect of social institutions in orthodox economic analysis…
Theory and Analysis After Foucault
Nonhuman Animal Suffering
Each year millions of nonhuman animals are exposed to suffering in universities as they are routinely (ab)used in teaching and research in the natural sciences. Drawing on the work of Giroux and Derrida, we make the case for a critical pedagogy of nonhuman animal suffering. We discuss critical pedagogy as an underrepresented form of teaching in universities, consider suffering as a concept, and explore the pedagogy of suffering. The discussion fo…
Foucault, Marxism and History
Sociology, Phenomenology and Marxian Analysis
Marxian Analysis-Resource For, or a Critique of Sociology
Sociology as Social Criticism
Sociology, Phenomenology and Marxian Analysis
Existential Marxism in Postwar France
Women, sexuality and social control
Existentialism and Sociology
Power and the State
Marcuse--Dilemma and Liberation
Foucault, sociology, and the problem of human agency
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices
Foucault, Marxism and Critique
Foucault, Marxism and History
Foucault
Five Bodies
On the Disorder of Things
The feasibility, relevance and value of modern sociology is in question in a number of analyses which have identified possible limits to the project of modernity. Through a discussion of the works of a number of theorists, consideration is given to (i) the effect of transformations of modernity upon sociology and (ii) the question of postmodernity and sociology. Although a preoccupation with the state of the discipline is longstanding, the curren…
Seduction
Marxism and Phenomenology
Sociology, Ethics and the Present
Theory and Analysis After Foucault
Capitalism and Modernity
Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences
Images of Postmodern Society
Modernity and Identity
Modernity and Identity is a groundbreaking collective work whichannounces a radical new departure within contemporary debates onmodernism and postmodernism. While dominant conceptions of both modernism and postmodernism arecentered around motions of statis and fixity, for most of theotherwise quite diverse writers in this book, modernity is a matterof movement, of flux, of change and of unpredictability. Modernity and postmodernity are shown to m…
Intimations of Postmodernity
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