J Dobbernack
Biographic Data
| ID | 27112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Dobbernack |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Dobbernack |
| SIGNATURE | DOBBERNACK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8511-7192 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Why Neoliberalism Doesn't Spell the Death of Society: Commonality, Regulation, and the Politics of Social Cohesion
Perspectives on neoliberal political-economic practice often frame its dominance in terms of harms to 'society'. Prominently, Wendy Brown (2019, 52) offers an account of the 'neoliberal revolution', claiming that, when 'the social vanishes from our ideas, speech, and experience', commonality disappears, democracy diminishes, and authoritarianism prevails. The paper considers this understanding to argue for the importance of political articulation…
The Spectacular Politics of the United Kingdom's 'Small Boats Crisis
The article examines the performance of crisis in the UK Government's push toward the Illegal Migration Act 2023. It considers political operations underpinning this campaign as 'crisis work,' drawing attention to the staging of dangerous, harmful, and tragic subjects in a panoramic space of spectacular visibility. I develop this perspective based on a review of programmatic speeches, parliamentary debate, and the coverage of UK newspapers with e…
Making the left behind as a subject of crisis
Working through the narrative construction of the left behind, the article explores how groups become visible as subjects of crisis, with reference to material conditions, attitudinal disposition and moral outlook. It suggests that crisis provides a panoramic vision that is crucial for understanding how authors delineate left behind subjectivity, suggest relational dispositions and put audiences and spectators into the frame. Considering book-len…
Civic inclusion for permanent minorities: Thinking through the politics of “ghetto” and “separatism” laws
Over the past twenty years, prominent theorists of citizenship envisaged cosmopolitan openings, the re-making of national identity, and progressive multicultural change. The paper explores perspectives on civic inclusion in Kymlicka's Multicultural Odysseys, Soysal's Limits of Citizenship, and Benhabib's Another Cosmopolitanism. It explores this work in light of two recent political episodes, the formulation of an “anti-separatism” law in France …
Making a presence: Images of polity and constituency in British Muslim representative politics
In its current shape, British Muslim politics has been described as following a ‘democratic constellation’. The idea challenges conventional understandings of post-immigrant agency, especially assumptions underpinning political representation. Recent contributions to the study of representation draw attention to assertions of ‘presence’ or highlight ‘acts of representation’. Both of these perspectives struggle to capture the self-conscious calibr…
The missing politics of muscular liberalism
The article examines the idea of muscular liberalism, first invoked by David Cameron as a paradigm of assertive policymaking in opposition to ‘state multiculturalism’. The rhetoric of muscular liberalism is present across western Europe, but its political effects have not been convincingly explored. In scholarship on ethnic minority integration, a ‘stimulus–response model’ credits Muslim intransigence as the trigger for the muscular stance. Other…
What is important in theorizing tolerance today
The Politics of Social Cohesion in Germany, France and the United Kingdom
Across Western Europe, 'social cohesion' is seen to be at risk, and its protection has become an important objective for social governance. Exploring the emergence of a politics of cohesion in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, this book draws attention to an unexplored connection: the coincidence between the cohesive society and the active society. It examines political agendas of cohésion sociale, Bürgergesellschaft and community cohesion …
Misrecognition and Political Agency. The Case of Muslim Organisations in a General Election
Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Examines the meaning of claims for ‘recognition’ and struggles against ‘misrecognition’ by working through aspects of Muslim political agency in contemporary British politics; Contributes to research on the political mobilisation of Muslims in Britain by examining how civil society organisations respond to perceived stigmas and project a Muslim civic identity; Contributes to research that investigate…
Tolerance, Intolerance and Respect: Hard to Accept?
The Crises of Multiculturalism. Racism in a Neoliberal Age
THE CRISES OF MULTICULTURALISM. RACISM IN A NEOLIBERAL AGE." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35(8), pp. 1514–1515
Things fall apart’: Social imaginaries and the politics of cohesion
‘Social cohesion’ has been adopted on policy agendas across Europe. In the way the notion has been applied on recent public policy agendas, social problems are generally brought into connection with deficiencies in the social fabric and with scenarios of social disintegration. Policies towards cohesion, in turn, rely on ideas of civic activation and the inculcation of a sense of individual responsibility. Cohesion thus appears intimately linked t…
Misrecognition and Political Agency. The Case of Muslim Organisations in a General Election
Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Examines the meaning of claims for ‘recognition’ and struggles against ‘misrecognition’ by working through aspects of Muslim political agency in contemporary British politics; Contributes to research on the political mobilisation of Muslims in Britain by examining how civil society organisations respond to perceived stigmas and project a Muslim civic identity; Contributes to research that investigate…
Things fall apart’: Social imaginaries and the politics of cohesion
‘Social cohesion’ has been adopted on policy agendas across Europe. In the way the notion has been applied on recent public policy agendas, social problems are generally brought into connection with deficiencies in the social fabric and with scenarios of social disintegration. Policies towards cohesion, in turn, rely on ideas of civic activation and the inculcation of a sense of individual responsibility. Cohesion thus appears intimately linked t…
Making the left behind as a subject of crisis
Working through the narrative construction of the left behind, the article explores how groups become visible as subjects of crisis, with reference to material conditions, attitudinal disposition and moral outlook. It suggests that crisis provides a panoramic vision that is crucial for understanding how authors delineate left behind subjectivity, suggest relational dispositions and put audiences and spectators into the frame. Considering book-len…
Making a presence: Images of polity and constituency in British Muslim representative politics
In its current shape, British Muslim politics has been described as following a ‘democratic constellation’. The idea challenges conventional understandings of post-immigrant agency, especially assumptions underpinning political representation. Recent contributions to the study of representation draw attention to assertions of ‘presence’ or highlight ‘acts of representation’. Both of these perspectives struggle to capture the self-conscious calibr…
What is important in theorizing tolerance today
Things fall apart’: Social imaginaries and the politics of cohesion
‘Social cohesion’ has been adopted on policy agendas across Europe. In the way the notion has been applied on recent public policy agendas, social problems are generally brought into connection with deficiencies in the social fabric and with scenarios of social disintegration. Policies towards cohesion, in turn, rely on ideas of civic activation and the inculcation of a sense of individual responsibility. Cohesion thus appears intimately linked t…
The Crises of Multiculturalism. Racism in a Neoliberal Age
THE CRISES OF MULTICULTURALISM. RACISM IN A NEOLIBERAL AGE." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35(8), pp. 1514–1515
Tolerance, Intolerance and Respect: Hard to Accept?
The Politics of Social Cohesion in Germany, France and the United Kingdom
Across Western Europe, 'social cohesion' is seen to be at risk, and its protection has become an important objective for social governance. Exploring the emergence of a politics of cohesion in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, this book draws attention to an unexplored connection: the coincidence between the cohesive society and the active society. It examines political agendas of cohésion sociale, Bürgergesellschaft and community cohesion …
Misrecognition and Political Agency. The Case of Muslim Organisations in a General Election
Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Examines the meaning of claims for ‘recognition’ and struggles against ‘misrecognition’ by working through aspects of Muslim political agency in contemporary British politics; Contributes to research on the political mobilisation of Muslims in Britain by examining how civil society organisations respond to perceived stigmas and project a Muslim civic identity; Contributes to research that investigate…
What is important in theorizing tolerance today
The missing politics of muscular liberalism
The article examines the idea of muscular liberalism, first invoked by David Cameron as a paradigm of assertive policymaking in opposition to ‘state multiculturalism’. The rhetoric of muscular liberalism is present across western Europe, but its political effects have not been convincingly explored. In scholarship on ethnic minority integration, a ‘stimulus–response model’ credits Muslim intransigence as the trigger for the muscular stance. Other…
Making a presence: Images of polity and constituency in British Muslim representative politics
In its current shape, British Muslim politics has been described as following a ‘democratic constellation’. The idea challenges conventional understandings of post-immigrant agency, especially assumptions underpinning political representation. Recent contributions to the study of representation draw attention to assertions of ‘presence’ or highlight ‘acts of representation’. Both of these perspectives struggle to capture the self-conscious calibr…
Civic inclusion for permanent minorities: Thinking through the politics of “ghetto” and “separatism” laws
Over the past twenty years, prominent theorists of citizenship envisaged cosmopolitan openings, the re-making of national identity, and progressive multicultural change. The paper explores perspectives on civic inclusion in Kymlicka's Multicultural Odysseys, Soysal's Limits of Citizenship, and Benhabib's Another Cosmopolitanism. It explores this work in light of two recent political episodes, the formulation of an “anti-separatism” law in France …
Making the left behind as a subject of crisis
Working through the narrative construction of the left behind, the article explores how groups become visible as subjects of crisis, with reference to material conditions, attitudinal disposition and moral outlook. It suggests that crisis provides a panoramic vision that is crucial for understanding how authors delineate left behind subjectivity, suggest relational dispositions and put audiences and spectators into the frame. Considering book-len…
Why Neoliberalism Doesn't Spell the Death of Society: Commonality, Regulation, and the Politics of Social Cohesion
Perspectives on neoliberal political-economic practice often frame its dominance in terms of harms to 'society'. Prominently, Wendy Brown (2019, 52) offers an account of the 'neoliberal revolution', claiming that, when 'the social vanishes from our ideas, speech, and experience', commonality disappears, democracy diminishes, and authoritarianism prevails. The paper considers this understanding to argue for the importance of political articulation…
The Spectacular Politics of the United Kingdom's 'Small Boats Crisis
The article examines the performance of crisis in the UK Government's push toward the Illegal Migration Act 2023. It considers political operations underpinning this campaign as 'crisis work,' drawing attention to the staging of dangerous, harmful, and tragic subjects in a panoramic space of spectacular visibility. I develop this perspective based on a review of programmatic speeches, parliamentary debate, and the coverage of UK newspapers with e…
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (3 works)