Bernardo Zacka
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 198908 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bernardo Zacka |
| NOMBRES | Bernardo |
| APELLIDO | Zacka |
| FIRMA | ZACKA B |
| AFILIACIONES | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6037-3015 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 192 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The architectures of waiting
Political Theory Rediscovers Public Administration
Political theory is rediscovering the colossus of public administration—the vast public service and regulatory bureaucracies and their countless employees and extensions that conduct the daily business of government. This review explains how something so visible could ever have fallen from view, and surveys four burgeoning areas of research. These pertain to the legitimacy of public administration, to the articulation of standards of good governm…
The Politics of Sight
In his ethnography of industrialized slaughter,Every Twelve Seconds, Timothy Pachirat coins a label to describe political interventions that use visibility as a catalyst for reform-the "politics of sight." We argue that the politics of sight rests on three premises that are all mistaken or misspecified: (1) that exposing morally repugnant practices will make us see them, (2) that seeing such practices will stop us from acquiescing to them, and (3…
Political Theory with an Ethnographic Sensibility
Political Theory and Architecture
What can political theory teach us about architecture, and what can it learn from paying closer attention to architecture? The essays assembled in this volume begin from a common postulate: that architecture is not merely a backdrop to political life but a political force in its own right. Each essay aims to give countenance to that claim, and to show how our thinking about politics can be enriched by reflecting on the built environment. The coll…
What’s in a Balcony? The In-Between as Public Good
Political Theory in an Ethnographic Key
Should political theorists engage in ethnography? In this letter, we assess a recent wave of interest in ethnography among political theorists and explain why it is a good thing. We focus, in particular, on how ethnographic research generates what Ian Shapiro calls "problematizing redescriptions"-accounts of political phenomena that destabilize the lens through which we traditionally study them, engendering novel questions and exposing new avenue…
Security
Security may be defined as the absence of threat, real or perceived, to what we value. Any discussion of security presupposes a referent—a specification of what it is that must be secured—and a threat—an indication of what the referent must be protected from. For much of the twentieth century, the study of security was the purview of scholars of international relations, who put the accent on the state as a referent of security and on threats that…
When the State Meets the Street
Bernardo Zacka probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats-the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government's human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield significant discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people's lives
When the State Meets the Street
Fieldwork in Political Theory
This article makes a positive case for an ethnographic sensibility in political theory. Drawing on published ethnographies and original fieldwork, it argues that an ethnographic sensibility can contribute to normative reflection in five distinct ways. It can help uncover the nature of situated normative demands (epistemic argument); diagnose obstacles encountered when responding to these demands (diagnostic argument); evaluate practices and insti…
Adhocracy, security and responsibility
Every twelve seconds
Travel as Ethos
January 01 2013 Travel as Ethos: Spatial Exercises in the Work of Tony Chakar Bernardo Zacka Bernardo Zacka Bernardo Zacka is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His dissertation, tentatively titled “Personifying the State,” draws on empirical research and normative political theory to examine the everyday moral life of frontline bureaucrats. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Schola…
The Two Bodies of the Bureaucrat
Abu Ghraib, the security apparatus, and the performativity of power
The critical discourse on U.S. military detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison has been dominated by Weberian-style arguments (a bureaucracy gone wrong, insufficient or badly applied administrative rules, or individuals acting as cogs in a machine). We argue that Michel Foucault's "security apparatus" provides a more insightful model for understanding the Abu Ghraib phenomenon. According to this model, the prison becomes a nodal point in an informat…
The policy state
Fieldwork in Political Theory
This article makes a positive case for an ethnographic sensibility in political theory. Drawing on published ethnographies and original fieldwork, it argues that an ethnographic sensibility can contribute to normative reflection in five distinct ways. It can help uncover the nature of situated normative demands (epistemic argument); diagnose obstacles encountered when responding to these demands (diagnostic argument); evaluate practices and insti…
Political Theory in an Ethnographic Key
Should political theorists engage in ethnography? In this letter, we assess a recent wave of interest in ethnography among political theorists and explain why it is a good thing. We focus, in particular, on how ethnographic research generates what Ian Shapiro calls "problematizing redescriptions"-accounts of political phenomena that destabilize the lens through which we traditionally study them, engendering novel questions and exposing new avenue…
Political Theory Rediscovers Public Administration
Political theory is rediscovering the colossus of public administration—the vast public service and regulatory bureaucracies and their countless employees and extensions that conduct the daily business of government. This review explains how something so visible could ever have fallen from view, and surveys four burgeoning areas of research. These pertain to the legitimacy of public administration, to the articulation of standards of good governm…
Political Theory with an Ethnographic Sensibility
Abu Ghraib, the security apparatus, and the performativity of power
The critical discourse on U.S. military detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison has been dominated by Weberian-style arguments (a bureaucracy gone wrong, insufficient or badly applied administrative rules, or individuals acting as cogs in a machine). We argue that Michel Foucault's "security apparatus" provides a more insightful model for understanding the Abu Ghraib phenomenon. According to this model, the prison becomes a nodal point in an informat…
Every twelve seconds
The Politics of Sight
In his ethnography of industrialized slaughter,Every Twelve Seconds, Timothy Pachirat coins a label to describe political interventions that use visibility as a catalyst for reform-the "politics of sight." We argue that the politics of sight rests on three premises that are all mistaken or misspecified: (1) that exposing morally repugnant practices will make us see them, (2) that seeing such practices will stop us from acquiescing to them, and (3…
The architectures of waiting
Adhocracy, security and responsibility
The policy state
Abu Ghraib, the security apparatus, and the performativity of power
The critical discourse on U.S. military detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison has been dominated by Weberian-style arguments (a bureaucracy gone wrong, insufficient or badly applied administrative rules, or individuals acting as cogs in a machine). We argue that Michel Foucault's "security apparatus" provides a more insightful model for understanding the Abu Ghraib phenomenon. According to this model, the prison becomes a nodal point in an informat…
The Two Bodies of the Bureaucrat
Travel as Ethos
January 01 2013 Travel as Ethos: Spatial Exercises in the Work of Tony Chakar Bernardo Zacka Bernardo Zacka Bernardo Zacka is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His dissertation, tentatively titled “Personifying the State,” draws on empirical research and normative political theory to examine the everyday moral life of frontline bureaucrats. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Schola…
Every twelve seconds
Adhocracy, security and responsibility
When the State Meets the Street
Bernardo Zacka probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats-the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government's human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield significant discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people's lives
When the State Meets the Street
Fieldwork in Political Theory
This article makes a positive case for an ethnographic sensibility in political theory. Drawing on published ethnographies and original fieldwork, it argues that an ethnographic sensibility can contribute to normative reflection in five distinct ways. It can help uncover the nature of situated normative demands (epistemic argument); diagnose obstacles encountered when responding to these demands (diagnostic argument); evaluate practices and insti…
Security
Security may be defined as the absence of threat, real or perceived, to what we value. Any discussion of security presupposes a referent—a specification of what it is that must be secured—and a threat—an indication of what the referent must be protected from. For much of the twentieth century, the study of security was the purview of scholars of international relations, who put the accent on the state as a referent of security and on threats that…
Political Theory in an Ethnographic Key
Should political theorists engage in ethnography? In this letter, we assess a recent wave of interest in ethnography among political theorists and explain why it is a good thing. We focus, in particular, on how ethnographic research generates what Ian Shapiro calls "problematizing redescriptions"-accounts of political phenomena that destabilize the lens through which we traditionally study them, engendering novel questions and exposing new avenue…
Political Theory and Architecture
What can political theory teach us about architecture, and what can it learn from paying closer attention to architecture? The essays assembled in this volume begin from a common postulate: that architecture is not merely a backdrop to political life but a political force in its own right. Each essay aims to give countenance to that claim, and to show how our thinking about politics can be enriched by reflecting on the built environment. The coll…
What’s in a Balcony? The In-Between as Public Good
Political Theory with an Ethnographic Sensibility
Political Theory Rediscovers Public Administration
Political theory is rediscovering the colossus of public administration—the vast public service and regulatory bureaucracies and their countless employees and extensions that conduct the daily business of government. This review explains how something so visible could ever have fallen from view, and surveys four burgeoning areas of research. These pertain to the legitimacy of public administration, to the articulation of standards of good governm…
The Politics of Sight
In his ethnography of industrialized slaughter,Every Twelve Seconds, Timothy Pachirat coins a label to describe political interventions that use visibility as a catalyst for reform-the "politics of sight." We argue that the politics of sight rests on three premises that are all mistaken or misspecified: (1) that exposing morally repugnant practices will make us see them, (2) that seeing such practices will stop us from acquiescing to them, and (3…
The architectures of waiting
The policy state
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