Joan Cocks
Biographic Data
| ID | 273795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Cocks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Cocks |
| SIGNATURE | COCKS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5861-4791 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
"What Am I To Do?" Review of Critique & Praxis: A Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Action by Bernard E. Harcourt
What Am I To Do?" Review of Critique & Praxis:A Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Action by Bernard E. Harcourt Joan Cocks (bio) Bernard E. Harcourt. Critique & Praxis: A Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Action. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 684 pp. $40.00 (hc). ISBN: 9780231195720. Bernard E. Harcourt's aim in this hefty work is to recover the emphasis on praxis that he argues once animated critical philosop…
Between nativism and displacement: Citizens, strangers, and surplus status in the contemporary age
After noting similarities between 1930s Europe and the Western political climate today, this article probes the looming surplus status of migrants fleeing crises in their countries of departure who confront popular animus and border closures in their countries of arrival. The article examines the investments that citizens have in four key border functions of contemporary states, to see which investments lead citizens to deny border-crossing stran…
Response to Carmen Pavel’s review of On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions
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Dignity and the Limits of Liberal Individualism
This article accords with recent liberal defenses of the political significance of dignity and the value in distinguishing between assaults on dignity and assaults on the body aimed at causing physical pain. However, it breaks with liberal individualist approaches in three ways. It shifts its focus of attention from the state to social groups as key sources of dignity injuries; from abstract individuals to collective identities as key targets and…
On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions
Global forces are eroding the ability of states to exert sovereign control over their populations, territories, and borders. Yet when dominated subjects across the world dream of freedom, they continue to conceive of it in sovereign terms. Sovereign freedom haunts the imagination of oppressed ethnic minorities, popular masses ruled by foreign powers or homegrown tyrants, indigenous peoples, and individuals chafing under customary or governmental …
The Death of Politics as a Liberal Art
This paper argues that the study of politics as a liberal art is under assault today, both from outside pressures on liberal arts education and from the discipline’s vision of the study of politics as a narrow “political science
Corporate Sovereignty: Law and Government under Capitalism
Foundational Violence and the Politics of Erasure
Revisiting Johan Galtung's Concept of Structural Violence
The Violence of Structures and the Violence of Foundings
Western liberal democracies have long prided themselves on grounding political rule in the consent and representation of the governed, settling differences through deliberation and compromise, admi
Revisiting Johan Galtung’s Concept of Structural Violence
This symposium is organized around a common concern: if we, as political scientists, limit ourselves to an analytics of violence that points solely to agents and intentions, we are sure to miss the
Oh Say Can You See: Looking for Creepy-Crawlies in American National Identity
Sovereignty, Identity, and Insecurity: A Commentary on Patchen Markells's Bound by Recognition
The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global
The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global. By Virginia Held. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 220p. $45. In her latest book, Virginia Held elaborates on themes from previously published articles to explicate and defend the ethics of care. For those unfamiliar with this well-developed tendency of feminist thought, she reviews its evolution from the 1980s writings of Sara Ruddick, Carol Gilligan, and Nel Noddings to the more recen…
Jewish Nationalism and the Question of Palestine
This essay seeks to answer the following two questions. What fears and psychological defenses fuel the various refusals of recognition of Palestinians by Jewish society and the Israeli state? What form of polity can transcend the conditions that gave rise to those fears and defenses, and hence offer hope for a just and lasting solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict? The essay examines the persecution anxieties that have animated Jewish ethn…
Collectivities and Cruelty
A New Cosmopolitanism? V.S. Naipaul and Edward Said
The Orders of Discourse . John G. Gunnell
Feminist Nationalism . Lois A. West Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism . Uma Narayan
Fetishizing Ethnicity, Locality, Nationality: The Curious Case of Tom Nairn
Theory & Event - Volume 1, Issue 3, 1997
Touche! Marx on nations and nationalism
From Politics to Paralysis: Critical Intellectuals Answer the National Question
No political mentality, tendency, or movement is more perplexing than nationalism. The perplexity begins with category itself. On one hand, and its cognates the nation, nationality, and the nationstate can be said to cover political identities based on experience of shared ethnic ancestry, or blood; cultural heritage; and memory, if not physical actuality, of a homeland.1 On other hand, ethnonationalism can be considered only one variety of most …
Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power, and the Body . Jana Sawicki Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America . Lee Quinby
Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill. Linda G. Zerilli Micro-Politics: Agency in a Postfeminist Era. Patricia Mann
Augustine, Nietzsche, and Contemporary Body Politics
Research Article| April 01 1991 Augustine, Nietzsche, and Contemporary Body Politics Joan Cocks Joan Cocks Joan Cocks is associate professor of Politics and chair of Critical Social Thought at Mount Holyoke College. She is author of The Oppositional Imagination: Feminism, Critique and Political Theory (London: Routledge, 1989) and has published articles on rationalism, Marxism, feminist theory, and collective identity. Search for other works by t…
Revisiting Johan Galtung’s Concept of Structural Violence
This symposium is organized around a common concern: if we, as political scientists, limit ourselves to an analytics of violence that points solely to agents and intentions, we are sure to miss the
Revisiting Johan Galtung's Concept of Structural Violence
Wordless Emotions: Some Critical Reflections on Radical Feminism
The Violence of Structures and the Violence of Foundings
Western liberal democracies have long prided themselves on grounding political rule in the consent and representation of the governed, settling differences through deliberation and compromise, admi
A New Cosmopolitanism? V.S. Naipaul and Edward Said
Corporate Sovereignty: Law and Government under Capitalism
Augustine, Nietzsche, and Contemporary Body Politics
Research Article| April 01 1991 Augustine, Nietzsche, and Contemporary Body Politics Joan Cocks Joan Cocks Joan Cocks is associate professor of Politics and chair of Critical Social Thought at Mount Holyoke College. She is author of The Oppositional Imagination: Feminism, Critique and Political Theory (London: Routledge, 1989) and has published articles on rationalism, Marxism, feminist theory, and collective identity. Search for other works by t…
Hegel's Logic, Marx's Science, Rationalism's Perils
Marx's use of Hegel's logic in the Grundrisse and Capital allows him to analyse society as objectively determined while avoiding the crudities of mechanistic explanation. However, when combined with its influence on his theory of history, the logic's influence on Marx's science precipitates a fracture between the ideas of a past governed by a hidden dynamic and a future governed by human reason; and between the methods required to make sense of a…
Between nativism and displacement: Citizens, strangers, and surplus status in the contemporary age
After noting similarities between 1930s Europe and the Western political climate today, this article probes the looming surplus status of migrants fleeing crises in their countries of departure who confront popular animus and border closures in their countries of arrival. The article examines the investments that citizens have in four key border functions of contemporary states, to see which investments lead citizens to deny border-crossing stran…
Jewish Nationalism and the Question of Palestine
This essay seeks to answer the following two questions. What fears and psychological defenses fuel the various refusals of recognition of Palestinians by Jewish society and the Israeli state? What form of polity can transcend the conditions that gave rise to those fears and defenses, and hence offer hope for a just and lasting solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict? The essay examines the persecution anxieties that have animated Jewish ethn…
From Politics to Paralysis: Critical Intellectuals Answer the National Question
No political mentality, tendency, or movement is more perplexing than nationalism. The perplexity begins with category itself. On one hand, and its cognates the nation, nationality, and the nationstate can be said to cover political identities based on experience of shared ethnic ancestry, or blood; cultural heritage; and memory, if not physical actuality, of a homeland.1 On other hand, ethnonationalism can be considered only one variety of most …
Foundational Violence and the Politics of Erasure
Sovereignty, Identity, and Insecurity: A Commentary on Patchen Markells's Bound by Recognition
The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global
The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global. By Virginia Held. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 220p. $45. In her latest book, Virginia Held elaborates on themes from previously published articles to explicate and defend the ethics of care. For those unfamiliar with this well-developed tendency of feminist thought, she reviews its evolution from the 1980s writings of Sara Ruddick, Carol Gilligan, and Nel Noddings to the more recen…
Hegel's Logic, Marx's Science, Rationalism's Perils
Marx's use of Hegel's logic in the Grundrisse and Capital allows him to analyse society as objectively determined while avoiding the crudities of mechanistic explanation. However, when combined with its influence on his theory of history, the logic's influence on Marx's science precipitates a fracture between the ideas of a past governed by a hidden dynamic and a future governed by human reason; and between the methods required to make sense of a…
Books in Review
Wordless Emotions: Some Critical Reflections on Radical Feminism
Augustine, Nietzsche, and Contemporary Body Politics
Research Article| April 01 1991 Augustine, Nietzsche, and Contemporary Body Politics Joan Cocks Joan Cocks Joan Cocks is associate professor of Politics and chair of Critical Social Thought at Mount Holyoke College. She is author of The Oppositional Imagination: Feminism, Critique and Political Theory (London: Routledge, 1989) and has published articles on rationalism, Marxism, feminist theory, and collective identity. Search for other works by t…
Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power, and the Body . Jana Sawicki Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America . Lee Quinby
Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill. Linda G. Zerilli Micro-Politics: Agency in a Postfeminist Era. Patricia Mann
From Politics to Paralysis: Critical Intellectuals Answer the National Question
No political mentality, tendency, or movement is more perplexing than nationalism. The perplexity begins with category itself. On one hand, and its cognates the nation, nationality, and the nationstate can be said to cover political identities based on experience of shared ethnic ancestry, or blood; cultural heritage; and memory, if not physical actuality, of a homeland.1 On other hand, ethnonationalism can be considered only one variety of most …
Fetishizing Ethnicity, Locality, Nationality: The Curious Case of Tom Nairn
Theory & Event - Volume 1, Issue 3, 1997
Touche! Marx on nations and nationalism
Feminist Nationalism . Lois A. West Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism . Uma Narayan
The Orders of Discourse . John G. Gunnell
A New Cosmopolitanism? V.S. Naipaul and Edward Said
Collectivities and Cruelty
Sovereignty, Identity, and Insecurity: A Commentary on Patchen Markells's Bound by Recognition
The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global
The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global. By Virginia Held. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 220p. $45. In her latest book, Virginia Held elaborates on themes from previously published articles to explicate and defend the ethics of care. For those unfamiliar with this well-developed tendency of feminist thought, she reviews its evolution from the 1980s writings of Sara Ruddick, Carol Gilligan, and Nel Noddings to the more recen…
Jewish Nationalism and the Question of Palestine
This essay seeks to answer the following two questions. What fears and psychological defenses fuel the various refusals of recognition of Palestinians by Jewish society and the Israeli state? What form of polity can transcend the conditions that gave rise to those fears and defenses, and hence offer hope for a just and lasting solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict? The essay examines the persecution anxieties that have animated Jewish ethn…
Oh Say Can You See: Looking for Creepy-Crawlies in American National Identity
Foundational Violence and the Politics of Erasure
Revisiting Johan Galtung's Concept of Structural Violence
The Violence of Structures and the Violence of Foundings
Western liberal democracies have long prided themselves on grounding political rule in the consent and representation of the governed, settling differences through deliberation and compromise, admi
Revisiting Johan Galtung’s Concept of Structural Violence
This symposium is organized around a common concern: if we, as political scientists, limit ourselves to an analytics of violence that points solely to agents and intentions, we are sure to miss the
On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions
Global forces are eroding the ability of states to exert sovereign control over their populations, territories, and borders. Yet when dominated subjects across the world dream of freedom, they continue to conceive of it in sovereign terms. Sovereign freedom haunts the imagination of oppressed ethnic minorities, popular masses ruled by foreign powers or homegrown tyrants, indigenous peoples, and individuals chafing under customary or governmental …
The Death of Politics as a Liberal Art
This paper argues that the study of politics as a liberal art is under assault today, both from outside pressures on liberal arts education and from the discipline’s vision of the study of politics as a narrow “political science
Corporate Sovereignty: Law and Government under Capitalism
Dignity and the Limits of Liberal Individualism
This article accords with recent liberal defenses of the political significance of dignity and the value in distinguishing between assaults on dignity and assaults on the body aimed at causing physical pain. However, it breaks with liberal individualist approaches in three ways. It shifts its focus of attention from the state to social groups as key sources of dignity injuries; from abstract individuals to collective identities as key targets and…
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