W Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 25566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | W |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9506-969X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1924 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Another Age of Anxiety: Psychological Distress and the 'Asset Economy
Rates of 'anxiety disorder' have risen rapidly in the 21st century, provoking much public debate as to the causes. However, despite attending to varieties of mental distress over its history, sociology has said little about the context of this 'epidemic'. By contrast, the rise of depression and anti-depressants in the 1980s has been viewed by cultural theorists and critics as a distinctly neoliberal affliction, that casts light on its sociologica…
Reaction value: Affective reflex in the digital public sphere
The concept of ‘reaction’ has been frequently viewed pejoratively in the history of social and moral theory, as unthinking and often resentful. But ‘reactions’ of various kinds play a central role in the contemporary digital public sphere, of a sort that deserve attention from sociologists of value and valuation. The article identifies three forms of reaction: as ‘feedback’, as ‘content’ and as ‘chains’. It then argues that reactions exert their …
Owning towards death: The asset condition as existential conundrum
Moral and pragmatist sociology has studied capitalism as a set of institutions that require justification, which has historically been offered through forms of rewarding and meaningful work, anchoring the human life course in a narrative of individual and collective progress. However, emerging with neoliberalism, then becoming explicit after 2008, contemporary capitalism has become organised around the logic of assets and wealth as opposed to lab…
Anti-equivalence: Pragmatics of post-liberal dispute
In the early twenty-first century, liberal democracies have witnessed their foundational norms of critique and deliberation being disrupted by a combination of populist and technological forces. A distinctive style of dispute has appeared, in which a speaker denounces the unfairness of all liberal and institutional systems of equivalence, including the measures of law, economics and the various other 'tests' which convention scholars have deemed …
The Revenge of Sovereignty on Government? The Release of Neoliberal Politics from Economics Post-2008
Liberal government, as analysed by Foucault, is a project of measured, utilitarian political activity, that takes 'population' as its object, dating back to the late 17th century. The rise of nationalism, authoritarianism and populism directly challenges this project, by seeking to re-introduce excessive, gratuitous and performative modes of power back into liberal societies. This article examines the relationship and tensions between government …
Post-Neoliberalism? An Introduction
This article provides an introduction to the special issue on post-neoliberalism. It does so by considering challenges to the neoliberal order that have come, post-financial crisis, from the political right. It looks closely at the relation of neoliberalism to conservatism, on one hand, and libertarianism, on the other, in order to address the threat posed to the neoliberal order by paleoconservatism, neoreactionary politics, ordonationalism, lib…
Response to critics of Nervous States
Anger fast and slow: Mediations of justice and violence in the age of populism
The rise of populist political rhetoric and mobilisation, together with a conflict-riven digital public sphere, has generated growing interest in anger as a central emotion in politics. Anger has long been recognised as a powerful driver of political action and resistance, by feminist scholars among others, while political philosophers have reflected on the relationship of anger to ethical judgement since Aristotle. This article seeks to differen…
Because ‘grown-ups don’t always get it right’: Allyship with children in research – from research question to authorship
This study engaged children as research allies throughout the research process from developing research questions to authorship. Our approach recognises children’s right to participation under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by developing a form of inquiry that invited children’s critique of adult knowledge and authority. The project was fully co-constructed with children, with adults who guided them through planning, ana…
A Response to Nicholas Gane’s ‘The Emergence of Neoliberalism’
This commentary responds to Nicholas Gane’s article on the early history of neoliberalism. Gane contends that many histories, Foucault’s in particular, do not account for the very earliest period of neoliberal thought, during the 1920s, which was dominated by Ludwig von Mises. Gane also argues that by ignoring this period, critical scholars have misidentified the critical distantiation from John Stuart Mill that was definitive for early neolibera…
Puissants et miserables: Systeme social et monde paysan dans l'Europe des Francs (VIe-IXe siecles), by J.-P. Devroey
This is an extremely substantial work, the fruit of decades of thought and of a deep knowledge of primary sources of all types, and of the Francophone historiography of the past two generations—though other historiographies are noticed. It is also informed throughout by the thinking of sociologists, especially Weber, and of social anthropologists. A brief introduction outlines the aim: given that medieval schemes of social organisation tend to be…
Lordship and Community: Northern Spain on the Eve of the Year 1000
Rodney was my colleague when I came to Birmingham in 1970 to my first teaching job. Working with him—designing courses, co-teaching, graduate seminars—was a revelation and has had a profound impact on the work I have tried to do ever since. What follows picks up some of the themes which always interested him, but does so in the context of northern Spain in the tenth century—northern Spain because the extension of lordship is a key issue in histor…
Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages
Journal Article Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages Get access Davies W. Fouracre P. eds., Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 xiv, 322 pp. $59.95. Richard Gerberding Richard Gerberding University of Alabama in Huntsville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 41, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 511–513, https://do…
Charles Villiers Stanford
Post-Neoliberalism? An Introduction
This article provides an introduction to the special issue on post-neoliberalism. It does so by considering challenges to the neoliberal order that have come, post-financial crisis, from the political right. It looks closely at the relation of neoliberalism to conservatism, on one hand, and libertarianism, on the other, in order to address the threat posed to the neoliberal order by paleoconservatism, neoreactionary politics, ordonationalism, lib…
The Revenge of Sovereignty on Government? The Release of Neoliberal Politics from Economics Post-2008
Liberal government, as analysed by Foucault, is a project of measured, utilitarian political activity, that takes 'population' as its object, dating back to the late 17th century. The rise of nationalism, authoritarianism and populism directly challenges this project, by seeking to re-introduce excessive, gratuitous and performative modes of power back into liberal societies. This article examines the relationship and tensions between government …
Owning towards death: The asset condition as existential conundrum
Moral and pragmatist sociology has studied capitalism as a set of institutions that require justification, which has historically been offered through forms of rewarding and meaningful work, anchoring the human life course in a narrative of individual and collective progress. However, emerging with neoliberalism, then becoming explicit after 2008, contemporary capitalism has become organised around the logic of assets and wealth as opposed to lab…
Anger fast and slow: Mediations of justice and violence in the age of populism
The rise of populist political rhetoric and mobilisation, together with a conflict-riven digital public sphere, has generated growing interest in anger as a central emotion in politics. Anger has long been recognised as a powerful driver of political action and resistance, by feminist scholars among others, while political philosophers have reflected on the relationship of anger to ethical judgement since Aristotle. This article seeks to differen…
Reaction value: Affective reflex in the digital public sphere
The concept of ‘reaction’ has been frequently viewed pejoratively in the history of social and moral theory, as unthinking and often resentful. But ‘reactions’ of various kinds play a central role in the contemporary digital public sphere, of a sort that deserve attention from sociologists of value and valuation. The article identifies three forms of reaction: as ‘feedback’, as ‘content’ and as ‘chains’. It then argues that reactions exert their …
Anti-equivalence: Pragmatics of post-liberal dispute
In the early twenty-first century, liberal democracies have witnessed their foundational norms of critique and deliberation being disrupted by a combination of populist and technological forces. A distinctive style of dispute has appeared, in which a speaker denounces the unfairness of all liberal and institutional systems of equivalence, including the measures of law, economics and the various other 'tests' which convention scholars have deemed …
Another Age of Anxiety: Psychological Distress and the 'Asset Economy
Rates of 'anxiety disorder' have risen rapidly in the 21st century, provoking much public debate as to the causes. However, despite attending to varieties of mental distress over its history, sociology has said little about the context of this 'epidemic'. By contrast, the rise of depression and anti-depressants in the 1980s has been viewed by cultural theorists and critics as a distinctly neoliberal affliction, that casts light on its sociologica…
A Response to Nicholas Gane’s ‘The Emergence of Neoliberalism’
This commentary responds to Nicholas Gane’s article on the early history of neoliberalism. Gane contends that many histories, Foucault’s in particular, do not account for the very earliest period of neoliberal thought, during the 1920s, which was dominated by Ludwig von Mises. Gane also argues that by ignoring this period, critical scholars have misidentified the critical distantiation from John Stuart Mill that was definitive for early neolibera…
Charles Villiers Stanford
Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages
Journal Article Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages Get access Davies W. Fouracre P. eds., Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 xiv, 322 pp. $59.95. Richard Gerberding Richard Gerberding University of Alabama in Huntsville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 41, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 511–513, https://do…
Lordship and Community: Northern Spain on the Eve of the Year 1000
Rodney was my colleague when I came to Birmingham in 1970 to my first teaching job. Working with him—designing courses, co-teaching, graduate seminars—was a revelation and has had a profound impact on the work I have tried to do ever since. What follows picks up some of the themes which always interested him, but does so in the context of northern Spain in the tenth century—northern Spain because the extension of lordship is a key issue in histor…
Puissants et miserables: Systeme social et monde paysan dans l'Europe des Francs (VIe-IXe siecles), by J.-P. Devroey
This is an extremely substantial work, the fruit of decades of thought and of a deep knowledge of primary sources of all types, and of the Francophone historiography of the past two generations—though other historiographies are noticed. It is also informed throughout by the thinking of sociologists, especially Weber, and of social anthropologists. A brief introduction outlines the aim: given that medieval schemes of social organisation tend to be…
A Response to Nicholas Gane’s ‘The Emergence of Neoliberalism’
This commentary responds to Nicholas Gane’s article on the early history of neoliberalism. Gane contends that many histories, Foucault’s in particular, do not account for the very earliest period of neoliberal thought, during the 1920s, which was dominated by Ludwig von Mises. Gane also argues that by ignoring this period, critical scholars have misidentified the critical distantiation from John Stuart Mill that was definitive for early neolibera…
Response to critics of Nervous States
Anger fast and slow: Mediations of justice and violence in the age of populism
The rise of populist political rhetoric and mobilisation, together with a conflict-riven digital public sphere, has generated growing interest in anger as a central emotion in politics. Anger has long been recognised as a powerful driver of political action and resistance, by feminist scholars among others, while political philosophers have reflected on the relationship of anger to ethical judgement since Aristotle. This article seeks to differen…
Because ‘grown-ups don’t always get it right’: Allyship with children in research – from research question to authorship
This study engaged children as research allies throughout the research process from developing research questions to authorship. Our approach recognises children’s right to participation under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by developing a form of inquiry that invited children’s critique of adult knowledge and authority. The project was fully co-constructed with children, with adults who guided them through planning, ana…
Anti-equivalence: Pragmatics of post-liberal dispute
In the early twenty-first century, liberal democracies have witnessed their foundational norms of critique and deliberation being disrupted by a combination of populist and technological forces. A distinctive style of dispute has appeared, in which a speaker denounces the unfairness of all liberal and institutional systems of equivalence, including the measures of law, economics and the various other 'tests' which convention scholars have deemed …
The Revenge of Sovereignty on Government? The Release of Neoliberal Politics from Economics Post-2008
Liberal government, as analysed by Foucault, is a project of measured, utilitarian political activity, that takes 'population' as its object, dating back to the late 17th century. The rise of nationalism, authoritarianism and populism directly challenges this project, by seeking to re-introduce excessive, gratuitous and performative modes of power back into liberal societies. This article examines the relationship and tensions between government …
Post-Neoliberalism? An Introduction
This article provides an introduction to the special issue on post-neoliberalism. It does so by considering challenges to the neoliberal order that have come, post-financial crisis, from the political right. It looks closely at the relation of neoliberalism to conservatism, on one hand, and libertarianism, on the other, in order to address the threat posed to the neoliberal order by paleoconservatism, neoreactionary politics, ordonationalism, lib…
Reaction value: Affective reflex in the digital public sphere
The concept of ‘reaction’ has been frequently viewed pejoratively in the history of social and moral theory, as unthinking and often resentful. But ‘reactions’ of various kinds play a central role in the contemporary digital public sphere, of a sort that deserve attention from sociologists of value and valuation. The article identifies three forms of reaction: as ‘feedback’, as ‘content’ and as ‘chains’. It then argues that reactions exert their …
Owning towards death: The asset condition as existential conundrum
Moral and pragmatist sociology has studied capitalism as a set of institutions that require justification, which has historically been offered through forms of rewarding and meaningful work, anchoring the human life course in a narrative of individual and collective progress. However, emerging with neoliberalism, then becoming explicit after 2008, contemporary capitalism has become organised around the logic of assets and wealth as opposed to lab…
Another Age of Anxiety: Psychological Distress and the 'Asset Economy
Rates of 'anxiety disorder' have risen rapidly in the 21st century, provoking much public debate as to the causes. However, despite attending to varieties of mental distress over its history, sociology has said little about the context of this 'epidemic'. By contrast, the rise of depression and anti-depressants in the 1980s has been viewed by cultural theorists and critics as a distinctly neoliberal affliction, that casts light on its sociologica…
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