Raia Prokhovnik
Biographic Data
| ID | 1357008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raia Prokhovnik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raia |
| FAMILY NAME | Prokhovnik |
| SIGNATURE | PROKHOVNIK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Nature and Artifice
Rethinking Sovereignty
From Sovereignty in Australia to Australian Sovereignty
The article argues that sovereignty in Australia is as yet incomplete, but that full sovereignty could be achieved through engagement with the indigenous Aboriginal ‘first nations’. First, the inter-constitution of the concepts of sovereignty and politics is outlined. Then the unfinished character of sovereignty since white settlement is examined, indicating the default nature of the sovereignty settlement. The challenge arising from complex indi…
Introduction: The Body as a Site for Politics: Citizenship and Practices of Contemporary Slavery
This special issue of Citizenship Studies brings the meaning of citizenship into dialogue with recent work on the body and with practices of contemporary slavery. In bringing the concepts of citizenship, bodies and slavery into collision, we highlight the need to couple slavery with possibilities of citizenship as an alternative to the way in which, as Paddy McQueen below puts it, 'citizenship and slavery are mutually exclusive: one can be either…
Embodied Relationality and Caring after Death
We explore contested meanings around care and relationality through the under-explored case of caring after death, throwing the relational significance of 'bodies' into sharp relief. While the dominant social imaginary and forms of knowledge production in many affluent western societies take death to signify an absolute loss of the other in the demise of their physical body, important implications follow from recognising that embodied relational …
Rational Woman: A Feminist Critique of Dichotomy
To feminists and some postmodernists reason/emotion and man/woman represent two fundamental polarities, fixed deep within Western philosophy and reflected in the structures of our languages, and two sets of hierarchical power relations in patriarchal society. Raia Prokhovnik challenges the tradition of dualism and argues that rational woman need no longer be a contradiction in terms. Prokhovnik examines in turn: · the nature of dichotomy, its pro…
Dialogues with Contemporary Political Theorists
A lively and engaging collection which explains the various strands of political theory, identifies key futures trends and explores the foundations of contemporary debate. Features interviews with pre
An interview with Quentin Skinner
Men are not born fit for citizenship, but must be made so': Spinoza and citizenship
The modern conception of citizenship contains often unacknowledged key background assumptions - about the role of rights in citizenship, about the citizen modelled on a liberal autonomous and rational individual, and about the equality of citizens within a democratic state. Spinoza's political works give us a useful perspective on the historicity of these assumptions. Whereas the modern conception is abstract, universalist, and depoliticised, Spi…
Sovereignties: Contemporary Theory and Practice
Raia Prokhovnik develops a strong argument for sovereignty as a robust concept with many conceptualizations, and capable of further fruitful reconceptualization. The book explores contemporary theoret
The Politics of Protection: Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency
Following the end of the Cold War, the security agenda has been transformed and redefined, both academically and politically. This book focuses on the theme of protection and ways in which political agency emerges in the regulation and definition of protection and insecurity. It poses the question of political agency in relation to some of the most significant questions raised in relation to the governance of insecurity and protection in the cont…
Hobbes's Artifice as Social Construction
The paper argues that Leviathan can be interpreted as employing a constructionist approach in several important respects. It takes issue with commentators who think that, if for Hobbes man is not naturally social, then man must be naturally unsocial or naturally purely individual. First, Hobbes's key conceptions of the role of artifice and nature-artifice relations are identified, and uncontroversially constructionist elements outlined, most nota…
Imagining the State
Public & Private. Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives
Spinoza's Conception of Sovereignty
The article argues that Spinoza's principle of political order represents a conception of sovereignty which is both historically intelligible and analytically coherent. The appropriateness of four meanings of sovereignty to Spinoza's political theory is considered. Then, after examining Spinoza's use of Hobbes's still influential touchstone for the modern theory of sovereignty, Spinoza's conception is discussed in the light of the role that custo…
The State of Liberal Sovereignty
This paper outlines the features of a reconceptualised sovereignty. It offers an alternative to the view of sovereignty which has been pronounced dead, diminished or redundant. Two points in particular represent a contribution to the contemporary debate on sovereignty. First, the paper details the liberal character of orthodox state sovereignty. It identifies the correspondence between liberal principles and the features of state sovereignty and …
Public and Private Citizenship: From Gender Invisibility to Feminist Inclusiveness
Conceptions of citizenship which rest on an abstract and universal notion of the individual founder on their inability to recognize the political relevance of gender. Such conceptions, because their 'gender-neutrality' has the effect of excluding women, are not helpful to the project of promoting the full citizenship of women. The question of citizenship is often reduced to either political citizenship, in terms of an instrumental notion of polit…
From democracy to aristocracy: Spinoza, reason and politics
Etude de la conception de la democratie chez Spinoza, a travers une evaluation des concepts de raison, liberte et equalite qui constituent le coeur de sa theorie politique, d'une part, et a travers l'analyse du contexte religieux du «Traite theologico-politique» de 1670 et du contexte proprement politique du «Traite politique» de 1677, d'autre part. L'A. montre que la preference pour l'aristocratie resulte chez Spinoza d'une trasformation de la n…
Sovereignty in Hobbes, Spinoza, and contemporary Europe
Internal/external: The state of sovereignty
1996). Internal/external: The state of sovereignty. Contemporary Politics: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 7-20
Hobbes, Hegel and modernity
The Politics of Protection: Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency
Following the end of the Cold War, the security agenda has been transformed and redefined, both academically and politically. This book focuses on the theme of protection and ways in which political agency emerges in the regulation and definition of protection and insecurity. It poses the question of political agency in relation to some of the most significant questions raised in relation to the governance of insecurity and protection in the cont…
Public and Private Citizenship: From Gender Invisibility to Feminist Inclusiveness
Conceptions of citizenship which rest on an abstract and universal notion of the individual founder on their inability to recognize the political relevance of gender. Such conceptions, because their 'gender-neutrality' has the effect of excluding women, are not helpful to the project of promoting the full citizenship of women. The question of citizenship is often reduced to either political citizenship, in terms of an instrumental notion of polit…
Embodied Relationality and Caring after Death
We explore contested meanings around care and relationality through the under-explored case of caring after death, throwing the relational significance of 'bodies' into sharp relief. While the dominant social imaginary and forms of knowledge production in many affluent western societies take death to signify an absolute loss of the other in the demise of their physical body, important implications follow from recognising that embodied relational …
Introduction: The Body as a Site for Politics: Citizenship and Practices of Contemporary Slavery
This special issue of Citizenship Studies brings the meaning of citizenship into dialogue with recent work on the body and with practices of contemporary slavery. In bringing the concepts of citizenship, bodies and slavery into collision, we highlight the need to couple slavery with possibilities of citizenship as an alternative to the way in which, as Paddy McQueen below puts it, 'citizenship and slavery are mutually exclusive: one can be either…
An interview with Quentin Skinner
Internal/external: The state of sovereignty
1996). Internal/external: The state of sovereignty. Contemporary Politics: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 7-20
From Sovereignty in Australia to Australian Sovereignty
The article argues that sovereignty in Australia is as yet incomplete, but that full sovereignty could be achieved through engagement with the indigenous Aboriginal ‘first nations’. First, the inter-constitution of the concepts of sovereignty and politics is outlined. Then the unfinished character of sovereignty since white settlement is examined, indicating the default nature of the sovereignty settlement. The challenge arising from complex indi…
Spinoza's Conception of Sovereignty
The article argues that Spinoza's principle of political order represents a conception of sovereignty which is both historically intelligible and analytically coherent. The appropriateness of four meanings of sovereignty to Spinoza's political theory is considered. Then, after examining Spinoza's use of Hobbes's still influential touchstone for the modern theory of sovereignty, Spinoza's conception is discussed in the light of the role that custo…
The State of Liberal Sovereignty
This paper outlines the features of a reconceptualised sovereignty. It offers an alternative to the view of sovereignty which has been pronounced dead, diminished or redundant. Two points in particular represent a contribution to the contemporary debate on sovereignty. First, the paper details the liberal character of orthodox state sovereignty. It identifies the correspondence between liberal principles and the features of state sovereignty and …
Rethinking Sovereignty
Hobbes, Hegel and modernity
Sovereignty in Hobbes, Spinoza, and contemporary Europe
Internal/external: The state of sovereignty
1996). Internal/external: The state of sovereignty. Contemporary Politics: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 7-20
From democracy to aristocracy: Spinoza, reason and politics
Etude de la conception de la democratie chez Spinoza, a travers une evaluation des concepts de raison, liberte et equalite qui constituent le coeur de sa theorie politique, d'une part, et a travers l'analyse du contexte religieux du «Traite theologico-politique» de 1670 et du contexte proprement politique du «Traite politique» de 1677, d'autre part. L'A. montre que la preference pour l'aristocratie resulte chez Spinoza d'une trasformation de la n…
Public and Private Citizenship: From Gender Invisibility to Feminist Inclusiveness
Conceptions of citizenship which rest on an abstract and universal notion of the individual founder on their inability to recognize the political relevance of gender. Such conceptions, because their 'gender-neutrality' has the effect of excluding women, are not helpful to the project of promoting the full citizenship of women. The question of citizenship is often reduced to either political citizenship, in terms of an instrumental notion of polit…
The State of Liberal Sovereignty
This paper outlines the features of a reconceptualised sovereignty. It offers an alternative to the view of sovereignty which has been pronounced dead, diminished or redundant. Two points in particular represent a contribution to the contemporary debate on sovereignty. First, the paper details the liberal character of orthodox state sovereignty. It identifies the correspondence between liberal principles and the features of state sovereignty and …
Spinoza's Conception of Sovereignty
The article argues that Spinoza's principle of political order represents a conception of sovereignty which is both historically intelligible and analytically coherent. The appropriateness of four meanings of sovereignty to Spinoza's political theory is considered. Then, after examining Spinoza's use of Hobbes's still influential touchstone for the modern theory of sovereignty, Spinoza's conception is discussed in the light of the role that custo…
Public & Private. Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives
Hobbes's Artifice as Social Construction
The paper argues that Leviathan can be interpreted as employing a constructionist approach in several important respects. It takes issue with commentators who think that, if for Hobbes man is not naturally social, then man must be naturally unsocial or naturally purely individual. First, Hobbes's key conceptions of the role of artifice and nature-artifice relations are identified, and uncontroversially constructionist elements outlined, most nota…
Imagining the State
The Politics of Protection: Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency
Following the end of the Cold War, the security agenda has been transformed and redefined, both academically and politically. This book focuses on the theme of protection and ways in which political agency emerges in the regulation and definition of protection and insecurity. It poses the question of political agency in relation to some of the most significant questions raised in relation to the governance of insecurity and protection in the cont…
Sovereignties: Contemporary Theory and Practice
Raia Prokhovnik develops a strong argument for sovereignty as a robust concept with many conceptualizations, and capable of further fruitful reconceptualization. The book explores contemporary theoret
Men are not born fit for citizenship, but must be made so': Spinoza and citizenship
The modern conception of citizenship contains often unacknowledged key background assumptions - about the role of rights in citizenship, about the citizen modelled on a liberal autonomous and rational individual, and about the equality of citizens within a democratic state. Spinoza's political works give us a useful perspective on the historicity of these assumptions. Whereas the modern conception is abstract, universalist, and depoliticised, Spi…
An interview with Quentin Skinner
Rational Woman: A Feminist Critique of Dichotomy
To feminists and some postmodernists reason/emotion and man/woman represent two fundamental polarities, fixed deep within Western philosophy and reflected in the structures of our languages, and two sets of hierarchical power relations in patriarchal society. Raia Prokhovnik challenges the tradition of dualism and argues that rational woman need no longer be a contradiction in terms. Prokhovnik examines in turn: · the nature of dichotomy, its pro…
Dialogues with Contemporary Political Theorists
A lively and engaging collection which explains the various strands of political theory, identifies key futures trends and explores the foundations of contemporary debate. Features interviews with pre
Introduction: The Body as a Site for Politics: Citizenship and Practices of Contemporary Slavery
This special issue of Citizenship Studies brings the meaning of citizenship into dialogue with recent work on the body and with practices of contemporary slavery. In bringing the concepts of citizenship, bodies and slavery into collision, we highlight the need to couple slavery with possibilities of citizenship as an alternative to the way in which, as Paddy McQueen below puts it, 'citizenship and slavery are mutually exclusive: one can be either…
Embodied Relationality and Caring after Death
We explore contested meanings around care and relationality through the under-explored case of caring after death, throwing the relational significance of 'bodies' into sharp relief. While the dominant social imaginary and forms of knowledge production in many affluent western societies take death to signify an absolute loss of the other in the demise of their physical body, important implications follow from recognising that embodied relational …
Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Nature and Artifice
Rethinking Sovereignty
From Sovereignty in Australia to Australian Sovereignty
The article argues that sovereignty in Australia is as yet incomplete, but that full sovereignty could be achieved through engagement with the indigenous Aboriginal ‘first nations’. First, the inter-constitution of the concepts of sovereignty and politics is outlined. Then the unfinished character of sovereignty since white settlement is examined, indicating the default nature of the sovereignty settlement. The challenge arising from complex indi…
Political science (20 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (6 works)