Luca Mavelli
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 269179 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Luca Mavelli |
| PRENOMES | Luca |
| SOBRENOME | Mavelli |
| ASSINATURA | MAVELLI L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6163-2971 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 164 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Motherly oil industry
This article examines how the oil industry's recent public communication strategies operate as petro-feminine spatial imaginaries , shaping and governing desires for climate action within affluent, carbon-intensive societies. Existing scholarship has interpreted the industry's post-denialist turn primarily as an effort to deflect accountability for climate change, either by blaming consumers or through greenwashing. Analysing recent corporate cam…
With great power comes great responsibility
Research on how oil companies have misled the public and deflected responsibility for climate change suggests that, since the mid-2000s, the oil industry has shifted from traditional to new denialism regimes, including greenwashing and framing climate change as consumer-driven. I argue that a more profound transformation is underway: the oil industry is embedding itself within climate leadership not merely to circumvent the barriers posed by clim…
Neoliberalism Against Society? Spontaneous Order and Governance of Desire in Digital Societies
Critical scholarship often argues that neoliberalism has caused the 'crisis' or 'destruction' of society. Drawing on Foucault's concept of power as 'productive' and focusing on digital societies, we argue that neoliberalism seeks not to dismantle society but to create societies that govern desires through market freedom. We explore Friedrich Hayek's idea that a free society is not based on social well-being or equality, but on spontaneous norms a…
Symbiotic neoliberalism
This article brings together two distinct research trajectories – the growing characterization of neoliberalism as a monster and the recent debate on whether Foucault was a neoliberal – to investigate a dimension that these bodies of scholarship have not examined: our involvement in neoliberalism’s reproduction. To this end, the article introduces the concept of ‘symbiotic neoliberalism’. Drawing on the notion of parasitic neoliberalism (which un…
The unbearable lightness of neoliberalism
This article advances the concept of neoliberal infrastructures as the ghostly carriers of neoliberalism by drawing together two distinct research trajectories: the political critique of neoliberalism and the poetics of infrastructure. The framework of the argument is Kundera's famous dilemma in The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Should we approach life with heaviness or lightness? While lightness may be tempting, the only way for us to be ‘real’…
To be human is to bury the enemy dead
While states increasingly govern migration through the administration and distribution of death, they occasionally invest considerable resources in recovering, identifying, and burying dead migrants. How to explain this paradox? A forceful argument in the critical scholarship on migration and citizenship maintains that death sometimes compels states to acknowledge the humanity of the migrants and grant them some degree of posthumous citizenship. …
Neoliberalism as Religion
Since the 2008 financial crisis, depictions of neoliberalism as a religion, system of belief, and 'kind of faith' have multiplied in an attempt to explain neoliberalism's remarkable power and resilience. These accounts, however, have remained largely impressionistic. In this article, I interrogate the meanings, implications, and value of conceptualizing neoliberalism as religion and advance two main claims. First, the power of neoliberalism stems…
Citizenship for Sale and the Neoliberal Political Economy of Belonging
Recent research considers the proliferation of citizenship-by-investment schemes primarily as a manifestation of the commodification of citizenship and of states succumbing to the logic of the market. I argue that these schemes exceed mere processes of commodification. They are part of a neoliberal political economy of belonging which prompts states to include and exclude migrants according to their endowment of human, financial, economic, and em…
Governing populations through the humanitarian government of refugees
The notion of humanitarian government has been increasingly employed to describe the simultaneous and conflicting deployment of humanitarianism and security in the government of ‘precarious lives’ such as refugees. This article argues that humanitarian government should also be understood as the biopolitical government of host populations through the humanitarian government of refugees. In particular, it explores how the biopolitical governmental…
Governing the resilience of neoliberalism through biopolitics
Neoliberalism is widely regarded as the main culprit for the 2007/2008 global financial crisis. However, despite this abysmal failure, neoliberalism has not merely survived the crisis, but actually 'thrived'. How is it possible to account for the resilience of neoliberalism? Existing scholarship has answered this question either by focusing on the distinctive qualities of neoliberalism (such as adaptability, internal coherence and capacity to inc…
Luca Mavelli and Anne Norton Review Each Other’s Books on Discourses on Islam, the West and Post-Secularism
Most of the literature on the idea of a clash of civilization between the West and Islam has either rejected or embraced this thesis by focusing on the alleged compatibility or incompatibility of Islam with Western liberal and secular values. In On the Muslim Question, Anne Norton advances a more original perspective: The controversies surrounding Islam in the West and the idea of a clash of civilization are not a product of Islam’s democratic de…
Governing uncertainty in a secular age
This article explores the problem of governing uncertainty in a secular age by focusing on the theological notion of ‘theodicy’ as the underlying rationale for the use of torture in the so-called ‘war on terror’. With God’s departure from the world, the problem of uncertainty acquires new salience as human beings can no longer explain tragic events as part of a transcendent order and must find immanent causes for the ‘evils’ that surround them. T…
Widening participation, the instrumentalization of knowledge and the reproduction of inequality
According to Michel Foucault, modernity is predicated on the emergence of an instrumental idea of knowledge, which does not affect the constitution of the individual as a subject. This article aims to explore this thesis in the context of British Higher Education through a problematization of widening participation policies, and how they have been increasingly constructed in economic-instrumental terms. This approach suggests two main considerati…
Collective evil and individual pathology
Terrorism, organised crime and the biopolitics of violence
Despite the lack of consensus on a broadly accepted definition of terrorism, a vast majority of scholars agree that terrorist violence is intrinsically political in contrast to organised crime, which is viewed as mainly profit-driven. This article critically examines this widely accepted distinction and contends that it rests on a narrow definition of the “political”, which circumscribes political violence to organisations seeking to overthrow th…
Europe's Encounter with Islam
Europe's Encounter with Islam
In the last few years, the Muslim presence in Europe has been increasingly perceived as ‘problematic’. Events such as the French ban on headscarves in public schools, the publication of the so-called ‘Danish cartoons’, and the speech of Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg have hit the front pages of newspapers the world over, and prompted a number of scholarly debates on Muslims’ capacity to comply with the seemingly neutral and plu…
Between Normalisation and Exception
In recent political and scholarly debates, the notion of ‘securitisation of Islam’ has acquired increasing relevance, yet very little attempt has been made to investigate the theoretical implications of the securitisation of Muslim subjects carried out by secular regimes for thinking security. This article aims to partially fill this gap by exploring the securitisation of Muslim minorities in Western societies as a process of construction and rep…
The postsecular in International Relations
Over the last few years the notion of postsecularity has gained increasing relevance in the social sciences. This term has been employed in two interconnected but different ways. First, in a more descriptive fashion, it has been used to explain the return or resilience of religious traditions in modern life. This has resulted, on the one hand, in the attempt to develop conceptual frameworks that could account for this unexpected feature of modern…
Postsecular resistance, the body, and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
At the heart of the notion of the postsecular is an implied and largely under-theorised idea of resistance against the pathologies of modern secular formations. This is most notably exemplified by Jürgen Habermas's highly influential approach which argues that these pathologies can be resisted through a cooperative cognitive effort of secular and religious consciousnesses. This article contends that this understanding overlooks more embodied form…
Security and secularization in International Relations
What is the relationship between security and secularization in International Relations? The widespread acceptance of secularism as the paradigmatic framework that underlies the study of world politics has left this question largely unexplored. Yet, the recent challenges to the secularization thesis and the growing attention that is being devoted to questions of religion and secularism in international politics increasingly suggest the importance…
Political Church, Procedural Europe, and the Creation of the Islamic Other
Taking the cue from the controversial speech of Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg in 2006, this paper explores the connection between the apparently divergent positions taken by the Catholic Church and the European secular establishment on the question of European identity and Islam. The argument is advanced that the proceduralism of the European secular establishment contributes to breed its nemesis, a conservative politicised ch…
Between Normalisation and Exception
In recent political and scholarly debates, the notion of ‘securitisation of Islam’ has acquired increasing relevance, yet very little attempt has been made to investigate the theoretical implications of the securitisation of Muslim subjects carried out by secular regimes for thinking security. This article aims to partially fill this gap by exploring the securitisation of Muslim minorities in Western societies as a process of construction and rep…
Citizenship for Sale and the Neoliberal Political Economy of Belonging
Recent research considers the proliferation of citizenship-by-investment schemes primarily as a manifestation of the commodification of citizenship and of states succumbing to the logic of the market. I argue that these schemes exceed mere processes of commodification. They are part of a neoliberal political economy of belonging which prompts states to include and exclude migrants according to their endowment of human, financial, economic, and em…
Governing the resilience of neoliberalism through biopolitics
Neoliberalism is widely regarded as the main culprit for the 2007/2008 global financial crisis. However, despite this abysmal failure, neoliberalism has not merely survived the crisis, but actually 'thrived'. How is it possible to account for the resilience of neoliberalism? Existing scholarship has answered this question either by focusing on the distinctive qualities of neoliberalism (such as adaptability, internal coherence and capacity to inc…
Governing populations through the humanitarian government of refugees
The notion of humanitarian government has been increasingly employed to describe the simultaneous and conflicting deployment of humanitarianism and security in the government of ‘precarious lives’ such as refugees. This article argues that humanitarian government should also be understood as the biopolitical government of host populations through the humanitarian government of refugees. In particular, it explores how the biopolitical governmental…
The postsecular in International Relations
Over the last few years the notion of postsecularity has gained increasing relevance in the social sciences. This term has been employed in two interconnected but different ways. First, in a more descriptive fashion, it has been used to explain the return or resilience of religious traditions in modern life. This has resulted, on the one hand, in the attempt to develop conceptual frameworks that could account for this unexpected feature of modern…
Neoliberalism as Religion
Since the 2008 financial crisis, depictions of neoliberalism as a religion, system of belief, and 'kind of faith' have multiplied in an attempt to explain neoliberalism's remarkable power and resilience. These accounts, however, have remained largely impressionistic. In this article, I interrogate the meanings, implications, and value of conceptualizing neoliberalism as religion and advance two main claims. First, the power of neoliberalism stems…
Security and secularization in International Relations
What is the relationship between security and secularization in International Relations? The widespread acceptance of secularism as the paradigmatic framework that underlies the study of world politics has left this question largely unexplored. Yet, the recent challenges to the secularization thesis and the growing attention that is being devoted to questions of religion and secularism in international politics increasingly suggest the importance…
Postsecular resistance, the body, and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
At the heart of the notion of the postsecular is an implied and largely under-theorised idea of resistance against the pathologies of modern secular formations. This is most notably exemplified by Jürgen Habermas's highly influential approach which argues that these pathologies can be resisted through a cooperative cognitive effort of secular and religious consciousnesses. This article contends that this understanding overlooks more embodied form…
Governing uncertainty in a secular age
This article explores the problem of governing uncertainty in a secular age by focusing on the theological notion of ‘theodicy’ as the underlying rationale for the use of torture in the so-called ‘war on terror’. With God’s departure from the world, the problem of uncertainty acquires new salience as human beings can no longer explain tragic events as part of a transcendent order and must find immanent causes for the ‘evils’ that surround them. T…
Collective evil and individual pathology
Terrorism, organised crime and the biopolitics of violence
Despite the lack of consensus on a broadly accepted definition of terrorism, a vast majority of scholars agree that terrorist violence is intrinsically political in contrast to organised crime, which is viewed as mainly profit-driven. This article critically examines this widely accepted distinction and contends that it rests on a narrow definition of the “political”, which circumscribes political violence to organisations seeking to overthrow th…
To be human is to bury the enemy dead
While states increasingly govern migration through the administration and distribution of death, they occasionally invest considerable resources in recovering, identifying, and burying dead migrants. How to explain this paradox? A forceful argument in the critical scholarship on migration and citizenship maintains that death sometimes compels states to acknowledge the humanity of the migrants and grant them some degree of posthumous citizenship. …
Motherly oil industry
This article examines how the oil industry's recent public communication strategies operate as petro-feminine spatial imaginaries , shaping and governing desires for climate action within affluent, carbon-intensive societies. Existing scholarship has interpreted the industry's post-denialist turn primarily as an effort to deflect accountability for climate change, either by blaming consumers or through greenwashing. Analysing recent corporate cam…
With great power comes great responsibility
Research on how oil companies have misled the public and deflected responsibility for climate change suggests that, since the mid-2000s, the oil industry has shifted from traditional to new denialism regimes, including greenwashing and framing climate change as consumer-driven. I argue that a more profound transformation is underway: the oil industry is embedding itself within climate leadership not merely to circumvent the barriers posed by clim…
Symbiotic neoliberalism
This article brings together two distinct research trajectories – the growing characterization of neoliberalism as a monster and the recent debate on whether Foucault was a neoliberal – to investigate a dimension that these bodies of scholarship have not examined: our involvement in neoliberalism’s reproduction. To this end, the article introduces the concept of ‘symbiotic neoliberalism’. Drawing on the notion of parasitic neoliberalism (which un…
The unbearable lightness of neoliberalism
This article advances the concept of neoliberal infrastructures as the ghostly carriers of neoliberalism by drawing together two distinct research trajectories: the political critique of neoliberalism and the poetics of infrastructure. The framework of the argument is Kundera's famous dilemma in The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Should we approach life with heaviness or lightness? While lightness may be tempting, the only way for us to be ‘real’…
Political Church, Procedural Europe, and the Creation of the Islamic Other
Taking the cue from the controversial speech of Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg in 2006, this paper explores the connection between the apparently divergent positions taken by the Catholic Church and the European secular establishment on the question of European identity and Islam. The argument is advanced that the proceduralism of the European secular establishment contributes to breed its nemesis, a conservative politicised ch…
Europe's Encounter with Islam
In the last few years, the Muslim presence in Europe has been increasingly perceived as ‘problematic’. Events such as the French ban on headscarves in public schools, the publication of the so-called ‘Danish cartoons’, and the speech of Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg have hit the front pages of newspapers the world over, and prompted a number of scholarly debates on Muslims’ capacity to comply with the seemingly neutral and plu…
Between Normalisation and Exception
In recent political and scholarly debates, the notion of ‘securitisation of Islam’ has acquired increasing relevance, yet very little attempt has been made to investigate the theoretical implications of the securitisation of Muslim subjects carried out by secular regimes for thinking security. This article aims to partially fill this gap by exploring the securitisation of Muslim minorities in Western societies as a process of construction and rep…
The postsecular in International Relations
Over the last few years the notion of postsecularity has gained increasing relevance in the social sciences. This term has been employed in two interconnected but different ways. First, in a more descriptive fashion, it has been used to explain the return or resilience of religious traditions in modern life. This has resulted, on the one hand, in the attempt to develop conceptual frameworks that could account for this unexpected feature of modern…
Postsecular resistance, the body, and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
At the heart of the notion of the postsecular is an implied and largely under-theorised idea of resistance against the pathologies of modern secular formations. This is most notably exemplified by Jürgen Habermas's highly influential approach which argues that these pathologies can be resisted through a cooperative cognitive effort of secular and religious consciousnesses. This article contends that this understanding overlooks more embodied form…
Security and secularization in International Relations
What is the relationship between security and secularization in International Relations? The widespread acceptance of secularism as the paradigmatic framework that underlies the study of world politics has left this question largely unexplored. Yet, the recent challenges to the secularization thesis and the growing attention that is being devoted to questions of religion and secularism in international politics increasingly suggest the importance…
Terrorism, organised crime and the biopolitics of violence
Despite the lack of consensus on a broadly accepted definition of terrorism, a vast majority of scholars agree that terrorist violence is intrinsically political in contrast to organised crime, which is viewed as mainly profit-driven. This article critically examines this widely accepted distinction and contends that it rests on a narrow definition of the “political”, which circumscribes political violence to organisations seeking to overthrow th…
Europe's Encounter with Islam
Widening participation, the instrumentalization of knowledge and the reproduction of inequality
According to Michel Foucault, modernity is predicated on the emergence of an instrumental idea of knowledge, which does not affect the constitution of the individual as a subject. This article aims to explore this thesis in the context of British Higher Education through a problematization of widening participation policies, and how they have been increasingly constructed in economic-instrumental terms. This approach suggests two main considerati…
Collective evil and individual pathology
Luca Mavelli and Anne Norton Review Each Other’s Books on Discourses on Islam, the West and Post-Secularism
Most of the literature on the idea of a clash of civilization between the West and Islam has either rejected or embraced this thesis by focusing on the alleged compatibility or incompatibility of Islam with Western liberal and secular values. In On the Muslim Question, Anne Norton advances a more original perspective: The controversies surrounding Islam in the West and the idea of a clash of civilization are not a product of Islam’s democratic de…
Governing uncertainty in a secular age
This article explores the problem of governing uncertainty in a secular age by focusing on the theological notion of ‘theodicy’ as the underlying rationale for the use of torture in the so-called ‘war on terror’. With God’s departure from the world, the problem of uncertainty acquires new salience as human beings can no longer explain tragic events as part of a transcendent order and must find immanent causes for the ‘evils’ that surround them. T…
Governing populations through the humanitarian government of refugees
The notion of humanitarian government has been increasingly employed to describe the simultaneous and conflicting deployment of humanitarianism and security in the government of ‘precarious lives’ such as refugees. This article argues that humanitarian government should also be understood as the biopolitical government of host populations through the humanitarian government of refugees. In particular, it explores how the biopolitical governmental…
Governing the resilience of neoliberalism through biopolitics
Neoliberalism is widely regarded as the main culprit for the 2007/2008 global financial crisis. However, despite this abysmal failure, neoliberalism has not merely survived the crisis, but actually 'thrived'. How is it possible to account for the resilience of neoliberalism? Existing scholarship has answered this question either by focusing on the distinctive qualities of neoliberalism (such as adaptability, internal coherence and capacity to inc…
Citizenship for Sale and the Neoliberal Political Economy of Belonging
Recent research considers the proliferation of citizenship-by-investment schemes primarily as a manifestation of the commodification of citizenship and of states succumbing to the logic of the market. I argue that these schemes exceed mere processes of commodification. They are part of a neoliberal political economy of belonging which prompts states to include and exclude migrants according to their endowment of human, financial, economic, and em…
Neoliberalism as Religion
Since the 2008 financial crisis, depictions of neoliberalism as a religion, system of belief, and 'kind of faith' have multiplied in an attempt to explain neoliberalism's remarkable power and resilience. These accounts, however, have remained largely impressionistic. In this article, I interrogate the meanings, implications, and value of conceptualizing neoliberalism as religion and advance two main claims. First, the power of neoliberalism stems…
Symbiotic neoliberalism
This article brings together two distinct research trajectories – the growing characterization of neoliberalism as a monster and the recent debate on whether Foucault was a neoliberal – to investigate a dimension that these bodies of scholarship have not examined: our involvement in neoliberalism’s reproduction. To this end, the article introduces the concept of ‘symbiotic neoliberalism’. Drawing on the notion of parasitic neoliberalism (which un…
The unbearable lightness of neoliberalism
This article advances the concept of neoliberal infrastructures as the ghostly carriers of neoliberalism by drawing together two distinct research trajectories: the political critique of neoliberalism and the poetics of infrastructure. The framework of the argument is Kundera's famous dilemma in The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Should we approach life with heaviness or lightness? While lightness may be tempting, the only way for us to be ‘real’…
To be human is to bury the enemy dead
While states increasingly govern migration through the administration and distribution of death, they occasionally invest considerable resources in recovering, identifying, and burying dead migrants. How to explain this paradox? A forceful argument in the critical scholarship on migration and citizenship maintains that death sometimes compels states to acknowledge the humanity of the migrants and grant them some degree of posthumous citizenship. …
Motherly oil industry
This article examines how the oil industry's recent public communication strategies operate as petro-feminine spatial imaginaries , shaping and governing desires for climate action within affluent, carbon-intensive societies. Existing scholarship has interpreted the industry's post-denialist turn primarily as an effort to deflect accountability for climate change, either by blaming consumers or through greenwashing. Analysing recent corporate cam…
With great power comes great responsibility
Research on how oil companies have misled the public and deflected responsibility for climate change suggests that, since the mid-2000s, the oil industry has shifted from traditional to new denialism regimes, including greenwashing and framing climate change as consumer-driven. I argue that a more profound transformation is underway: the oil industry is embedding itself within climate leadership not merely to circumvent the barriers posed by clim…
Neoliberalism Against Society? Spontaneous Order and Governance of Desire in Digital Societies
Critical scholarship often argues that neoliberalism has caused the 'crisis' or 'destruction' of society. Drawing on Foucault's concept of power as 'productive' and focusing on digital societies, we argue that neoliberalism seeks not to dismantle society but to create societies that govern desires through market freedom. We explore Friedrich Hayek's idea that a free society is not based on social well-being or equality, but on spontaneous norms a…
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