Barry Hinde
Biographic Data
| ID | 104818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry Hinde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry |
| FAMILY NAME | Hinde |
| SIGNATURE | HINDE B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 531 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Karl Polanyi
Gareth Dale could hardly have chosen a more propitious time to publish this substantial political and intellectual biography. Today, many years after his death in 1964, Karl Polanyi’s star is risin
Liberalism
The paper addresses two issues arising from Foucault's work. One concerns his treatment of liberalism in The Birth of Biopolitics, which is probably more familiar through the work of the (mostly) British ‘governmentality’ school, and the other concerns a comment on relations between the West and the rest in The Order of Things that seems to express an insensitive Eurocentrism. I argue that we cannot make sense of liberalism without grasping the p…
How Useful Is the Concept of GlobalSociety
How useful is the concept of global society? This question has been raised in different ways by several contributors to IPS, most forcefully by Mathias Albert (2007), who argues that globalization theory needs to turn to theories of society. My initial response is to note that two claims are raised by this proposition: first, that there is a significant body of literature which might usefully be called “globalization theory”; and second, that, if…
A Tale of Origins and Disparity
Foucault's works are always a challenge, and this set of lectures raises more questions than most. The first and most obvious concerns his choice of title (the title given in the course summary pub
Been there, done that
The familiar phrase in my title is usually understood as indicating that one has already experienced the topic under discussion and become bored with it. Here it flags the view, first, that all portions of humanity go through essentially the same historical stages that can be identified in the history of the West, and thus that, whatever our non-Western contemporaries may now be experiencing, the West has already ‘been there, done that’. This vie…
Government and Discipline
In a recent discussion of the second, much expanded edition of Stephen Lukes’Power: A Radical View, I argued that the system of states is the site of a major limitation in Lukes’ analysis (Hindess 2007). Not only does Lukes in this book say nothing about power in international affairs, but also his focus on what he takes to be the “generic” meaning of power (2005:69), and thus on domination, is likely to obscure important aspects of the workings …
Corruption
The most general meaning of corruption is that of impurity, infection, or decay. Corruption can happen to anything – a piece of fruit, a sporting event, a religious community, or a university – but the term is now most commonly used to suggest that there is something rotten in the government of the state. Thus, as conceptions of the naturally sound condition of government change, so too does the focus of concern regarding its corruption. In the s…
Uneven development in the moment of theory1
Contributors to the History of Theory Seminar were invited to include ‘historical reflection’ on the emergence of the ‘moment of theory’, a period running from the late 1960s through to the early 1
The Past Is Another Culture
This article addresses two questions relating to the modern Western treatment of contemporaries as belonging to the past; how has Western social thought come to treat belonging to the past as a bad thing, that is, as a kind of moral and intellectual failure; and how has it learned to assign some of our contemporaries to the world of the past. My response to the first question is in two parts. One examines the conventional modern division between …
The battle of the ancient economy
Ancient Athens and Modern Ideology addresses the battle between primitivism and modernism over the ancient economy, focusing especially on the contributions of three major figures, Max Weber, Karl Polanyi and Moses Finley. Finally, a short Epilogue returns to the examination of Marx's puzzle and his manifestly unsuccessful attempt to resolve it. Mohammad Nafissi uses this discussion to put this dispute out of its misery by advancing his own resol…
The Althusserian moment and the concept of historical time
The period running from the late 1960s through to the 1980s is often seen as one in which theory assumed a particular importance in many areas of the humanities and social sciences. This paper focuses on the Althusserian component of this moment of theory in Britain, but it also reflects on the emergence of the form of historical understanding, and of the understanding of historical time in particular, in which such objects as 'the moment of theo…
Bringing States Back In
There is little of value to be said about the concept of power as such. The term itself is best seen as invoking the ‘total structure of actions brought to bear’ by some on the actions of others. What is of interest, then, is not power as such but rather the special cases in which relatively stable configurations of power can be identified. Lukes' focus on domination obscures the significance of other configurations. One is the political power of…
The temporalizing of difference
Said, E. (1977) Orientalism . New York: Random House.Spivak, G.C. (1987) In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics. New York:Methuen.Weber, M. (1968[1922]) Economy and Society: Volume I . New York: Bedminster.Yu, H. (2001) Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in ModernAmerica . Oxford: Oxford
Us and Them
Citizenship for all
Peter Nyers has suggested that the title of this special issue, ‘What's Left of Citizenship?’, can be interpreted in at least two ways. On the one hand, it is a question of what remains of citizens
Responsibility for others in the modern system of states
L'A. developpe une analyse critique du traitement reserve dans les pays occidentaux, et plus particulierement en Australie, aux refugies et aux demandeurs d'asile. Il expose les liens et les contradictions existant entre ces politiques et le projet liberal de mondialisation, en tant que regulation et controle des populations a travers les marches
Neo-liberal Citizenship
The government of populations within states and the government of states themselves within the international arena are intimately connected. Thus, in order to understand the character of citizenship in the modern world, it is necessary to locate it as part of a supra-national governmental regime in which the system of states, international agencies and multinational corporations play a fundamental role. A brief history of the modern system of sta…
The Liberal Government of Unfreedom
Perhaps the most influential aspect of Michel Foucault's work on government has been his treatment of liberalism as distinctive form of political reason. Liberalism is commonly regarded as normative political doctrine or theory that treats the maintenance of individual liberty as an end in itself and therefore views liberty as setting limits of principle both to the legitimate objectives of government and to the manner in which those objectives m…
Not at Home in the Empire
The distaste for the work of a colonial official, so clearly expressed in George Orwell's 'Shooting an Elephant', is often seen as reflecting a straightforward liberal commitment to freedom. This interpretation misrepresents both Orwell's standpoint and the character of liberal political reason. As a doctrine of government, liberalism is indeed committed to ruling over, and as far as possible to ruling through, the activities of free individuals.…
Representation ingrafted upon democracy
This article aims to clarify issues in dispute between the 'realist' account of democracy and its deliberative and participatory democratic opponents. It argues that the classical fear of the corruption of government by the people has been a long‐standing feature of western discussions of democracy. The emergence of representative democracy has added a further set of concerns regarding the corruption of government by the private interests of poli…
Citizenship in the International Management of Populations
Academic discussion of citizenship focuses primarily on the citizen in relation to the particular state of which he or she is a member. From this perspective, the modern spread of citizenship is usually regarded as a definite advance in human well-being, turning what had once been the privileges of the few into the rights of the many. This article argues that an understanding of the impact of citizenship in the modern world must consider not just…
Divide and Rule
Academic discussion of citizenship focuses primarily on the citizen in relation to the particular state of which s/he is a member. From this perspective the modern spread of citizenship, first in a few western states and then somewhat more generally, is usually regarded as a definite advance in human well-being, as turning what had once been the privileges of the few into the rights of the many. This paper aims, if not entirely to undermine, then…
Democracy and Disenchantment
The victory of democracy in its ideological battle with communism has coincided with widespread voter disaffection in established democracies and with the rapid emergence of disillusion in recently 'democratised' societies. These developments raise at least two more general problems concerning the democratic dream of a self-governing community. First, there is the problem of democratic deficit: the fact that democratic arrangements are invariably…
The Greeks Had a Word for It
Liberalism, socialism and democracy
Liberalism is commonly understood as a political doctrine or ideology concerned with the maximization of individual liberty. However, following Foucault's work on governmentality, a different usage has been suggested, based on the idea of a liberal mode of government. I argue that the differences between these accounts of liberalism derive from a fundamental ambiguity in the liberal project, as a result of which the figure of a community of auton…
The Liberal Government of Unfreedom
Perhaps the most influential aspect of Michel Foucault's work on government has been his treatment of liberalism as distinctive form of political reason. Liberalism is commonly regarded as normative political doctrine or theory that treats the maintenance of individual liberty as an end in itself and therefore views liberty as setting limits of principle both to the legitimate objectives of government and to the manner in which those objectives m…
Neo-liberal Citizenship
The government of populations within states and the government of states themselves within the international arena are intimately connected. Thus, in order to understand the character of citizenship in the modern world, it is necessary to locate it as part of a supra-national governmental regime in which the system of states, international agencies and multinational corporations play a fundamental role. A brief history of the modern system of sta…
Citizenship in the International Management of Populations
Academic discussion of citizenship focuses primarily on the citizen in relation to the particular state of which he or she is a member. From this perspective, the modern spread of citizenship is usually regarded as a definite advance in human well-being, turning what had once been the privileges of the few into the rights of the many. This article argues that an understanding of the impact of citizenship in the modern world must consider not just…
The Past Is Another Culture
This article addresses two questions relating to the modern Western treatment of contemporaries as belonging to the past; how has Western social thought come to treat belonging to the past as a bad thing, that is, as a kind of moral and intellectual failure; and how has it learned to assign some of our contemporaries to the world of the past. My response to the first question is in two parts. One examines the conventional modern division between …
Power, Interests and the Outcomes of Struggles
This paper criticizes the ways in which 'power', 'interests', and related notions are used in the analysis of social relations. Two broad approaches to power analysis are considered. The first involves 'capacity-outcome' conceptions in which power is defined in terms of the capacity of an agent to secure particular outcomes. The second involves more general usages in which power is supposed to be effective not only as regards the outcomes of part…
Citizenship for all
Peter Nyers has suggested that the title of this special issue, ‘What's Left of Citizenship?’, can be interpreted in at least two ways. On the one hand, it is a question of what remains of citizens
Imaginary presuppositions of democracy∗
The new democratic left interprets socialism as involving the radical democratization of civil society and the state. Both conceptions of democracy and conceptions of socialism are variations on the theme of a self-govering community. The first part of this paper explores the diversity of accounts of democracy and of the issues in dispute between them. Part 2 then proceeds to identify conceptual difficulties with these ideas, and to examine some …
Liberalism, socialism and democracy
Liberalism is commonly understood as a political doctrine or ideology concerned with the maximization of individual liberty. However, following Foucault's work on governmentality, a different usage has been suggested, based on the idea of a liberal mode of government. I argue that the differences between these accounts of liberalism derive from a fundamental ambiguity in the liberal project, as a result of which the figure of a community of auton…
Rational choice theory and the analysis of political action
The rational choice approach to the analysis of political action takes as its starting point the need to construct a model of the individual actor and its choices as the basis for its investigations of the interactions of a plurality of actors. This paper questions the theoretical foundations of that approach, concentrating on its postulates of rationality, homogeneity, and individualism. It argues that the conceptualisation of actors, their deci…
The Decline of Working Class Politics
The 'phenomenological' sociology of Alfred Schutz
Schutz's basic project is to show that 'the world of objective mind' can be reduced to the behaviour of individuals. This basic project governs his philosophy and his sociology. After a preliminary examination of his account of how the social scientist proceeds it is shown that Schutz's humanism induces a psychologistic distortion of Husserl's phenomenology which leads to a 'sociologising' of his realm of transcendental intersubjectivity. It also…
Divide and Rule
Academic discussion of citizenship focuses primarily on the citizen in relation to the particular state of which s/he is a member. From this perspective the modern spread of citizenship, first in a few western states and then somewhat more generally, is usually regarded as a definite advance in human well-being, as turning what had once been the privileges of the few into the rights of the many. This paper aims, if not entirely to undermine, then…
The temporalizing of difference
Said, E. (1977) Orientalism . New York: Random House.Spivak, G.C. (1987) In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics. New York:Methuen.Weber, M. (1968[1922]) Economy and Society: Volume I . New York: Bedminster.Yu, H. (2001) Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in ModernAmerica . Oxford: Oxford
Representation ingrafted upon democracy
This article aims to clarify issues in dispute between the 'realist' account of democracy and its deliberative and participatory democratic opponents. It argues that the classical fear of the corruption of government by the people has been a long‐standing feature of western discussions of democracy. The emergence of representative democracy has added a further set of concerns regarding the corruption of government by the private interests of poli…
Democracy and Disenchantment
The victory of democracy in its ideological battle with communism has coincided with widespread voter disaffection in established democracies and with the rapid emergence of disillusion in recently 'democratised' societies. These developments raise at least two more general problems concerning the democratic dream of a self-governing community. First, there is the problem of democratic deficit: the fact that democratic arrangements are invariably…
Bringing States Back In
There is little of value to be said about the concept of power as such. The term itself is best seen as invoking the ‘total structure of actions brought to bear’ by some on the actions of others. What is of interest, then, is not power as such but rather the special cases in which relatively stable configurations of power can be identified. Lukes' focus on domination obscures the significance of other configurations. One is the political power of…
The Althusserian moment and the concept of historical time
The period running from the late 1960s through to the 1980s is often seen as one in which theory assumed a particular importance in many areas of the humanities and social sciences. This paper focuses on the Althusserian component of this moment of theory in Britain, but it also reflects on the emergence of the form of historical understanding, and of the understanding of historical time in particular, in which such objects as 'the moment of theo…
Not at Home in the Empire
The distaste for the work of a colonial official, so clearly expressed in George Orwell's 'Shooting an Elephant', is often seen as reflecting a straightforward liberal commitment to freedom. This interpretation misrepresents both Orwell's standpoint and the character of liberal political reason. As a doctrine of government, liberalism is indeed committed to ruling over, and as far as possible to ruling through, the activities of free individuals.…
The politics of social mobility∗
The Structure of Sociological Inference
Choice, Rationality and Social Theory
Been there, done that
The familiar phrase in my title is usually understood as indicating that one has already experienced the topic under discussion and become bored with it. Here it flags the view, first, that all portions of humanity go through essentially the same historical stages that can be identified in the history of the West, and thus that, whatever our non-Western contemporaries may now be experiencing, the West has already ‘been there, done that’. This vie…
Local Elections and the Labour Vote in Liverpool
It is sometimes possible, using census data and overall voting figures, to estimate the voting behaviour of various socio-economic groups. In particular this involves, under certain assumptions, the use of least square regression analysis. The results themselves provide a partial check on the validity of these assumptions. This study shows, taking the city of Liverpool as a whole, that there is no consistent relationship between socio-economic gr…
How Useful Is the Concept of GlobalSociety
How useful is the concept of global society? This question has been raised in different ways by several contributors to IPS, most forcefully by Mathias Albert (2007), who argues that globalization theory needs to turn to theories of society. My initial response is to note that two claims are raised by this proposition: first, that there is a significant body of literature which might usefully be called “globalization theory”; and second, that, if…
A Tale of Origins and Disparity
Foucault's works are always a challenge, and this set of lectures raises more questions than most. The first and most obvious concerns his choice of title (the title given in the course summary pub
Local Elections and the Labour Vote in Liverpool
It is sometimes possible, using census data and overall voting figures, to estimate the voting behaviour of various socio-economic groups. In particular this involves, under certain assumptions, the use of least square regression analysis. The results themselves provide a partial check on the validity of these assumptions. This study shows, taking the city of Liverpool as a whole, that there is no consistent relationship between socio-economic gr…
Autonomous Group Functioning
Power and Leadership in Pluralist Systems
Theory Construction
Basic Concepts of Measurement
The 'phenomenological' sociology of Alfred Schutz
Schutz's basic project is to show that 'the world of objective mind' can be reduced to the behaviour of individuals. This basic project governs his philosophy and his sociology. After a preliminary examination of his account of how the social scientist proceeds it is shown that Schutz's humanism induces a psychologistic distortion of Husserl's phenomenology which leads to a 'sociologising' of his realm of transcendental intersubjectivity. It also…
The Decline of Working Class Politics
An introduction to Charles Bettelheim, 'State property and socialism
Transcendentalism and history
This paper is an analysis of Husserl's theory of the nature of the sciences and of philosophy in The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. Husserl's position is shown to be structured around a central contradiction between his objective (a rational, non-subjectivist history of the sciences) and the problematic of transcendental empiricism in which that objective is to be realised. The effect of this contradiction is a disc…
Models and masks
There are four chief obstacles to graping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to knowledge; namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by the ostentatious display of our knowledge. (Rogern Bacon) Theorising means ordering, structuring; as such it is an isomorphic correlate of material practi…
On Three-Dimensional Power
Evidence and Explanation in Social Science
Equilibrium and historical change. 2. Versions of Structure. 3 Scientific Inquiry. 4 Statistical Models and Social Structures. 5 Causes and Structure. 6 Rationality and Structure. 7 Levels of Theory. 8 Theories and Explanations. Conclusions
The Structure of Sociological Inference
Philosophy and Methodology in the Social Sciences
Reply to Llobera
The Anatomy of Capitalist Societies
The politics of social mobility∗
Power, Interests and the Outcomes of Struggles
This paper criticizes the ways in which 'power', 'interests', and related notions are used in the analysis of social relations. Two broad approaches to power analysis are considered. The first involves 'capacity-outcome' conceptions in which power is defined in terms of the capacity of an agent to secure particular outcomes. The second involves more general usages in which power is supposed to be effective not only as regards the outcomes of part…
Discourse, Interests and Subjects
This paper argues that interests have consequences in so far as they provide actors with reasons for action, and that actors may find reasons for action in interests they ascribe to themselves and in interests they ascribe to others. This argument undermines many of the ways in which concepts of interests have traditionally been used in social and political analysis. Section I is an introductory discussion of the uses of concepts of interests in …
Rational choice theory and the analysis of political action
The rational choice approach to the analysis of political action takes as its starting point the need to construct a model of the individual actor and its choices as the basis for its investigations of the interactions of a plurality of actors. This paper questions the theoretical foundations of that approach, concentrating on its postulates of rationality, homogeneity, and individualism. It argues that the conceptualisation of actors, their deci…
Analyzing Actors' Choices
Critical examination of the concept of actor shows, first, that actors' choices are an important part of the explanation of their actions (but those choices are not reducible to the rationality of the actors concerned or to effects of their structural location) and, second, that there are actors whose concerns and objectives are not reducible to those of human individuals (but classes are not among them). These arguments undermine analyses of pol…
Choice, Rationality and Social Theory
Political Equality and Social Policy
Rationality and Modern Society
In his discussion of the forms of legitimate domination Weber notes that rational, legal domination is frequently combined with an important element of plebiscitarian democracy. He also suggests that the fact that the chief may be represented as the servant or agent of the people naturally does nothing whatever to disprove the quality of dominance (Weber 1978, p. 215). The element of democracy, then, does not mean here that the people rule. Rathe…
Taking Socialism Seriously
Sociology (46 works) · Philosophy (35 works) · Political science (35 works) · Epistemology (30 works) · Law (29 works) · Politics (28 works) · Economics (19 works) · Philosophy (19 works) · Law (14 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (12 works)