Carl Wilén
Biographic Data
| ID | 292851 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl Wilén |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilén |
| SIGNATURE | WILÉN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1408-2866 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Movement texts: Materiality, social practice, and discursive genre
This article aims to conceptualize movement texts as a crucial yet often overlooked phenomenon in the articulation of collective identity and narratives in the context of social movements. We define movement texts as symbolic acts that publicly manifest a social movement as a collective actor. Against the backdrop of the “narrative turn” in social movement studies and adjacent fields, we argue that the concept of movement text can be understood a…
Formalism and Instrumentalism in the Marxist Critique of Right: With What Must Pashukanian Theory Begin
The critique of the legal form of capitalism by E. B. Pashukanis has risen to prominence once again. However, the negative origin of the concept of the legal form, the critique of formalism and instrumentalism, has received too little attention. This essay substantiates the significance of Pashukanis’s critique, avoiding both overly general and narrow conceptions. Moreover, it proposes that his negative contribution is best understood as a critiq…
Why Pashukanis was right: Abstraction and form in The General Theory of Law and Marxism
The area of Marxism and law has long been considered marginalised. However, hand in hand with the renaissance of Marxist theory in recent decades, neglect has finally been put to rest. As Marxists increasingly explore the connections between rights, law, democracy and capitalism, one text in particular has taken centre stage: The General Theory of Law and Marxism , published by E. B. Pashukanis in 1924. This article seeks to make three contributi…
Against underdog metaphysics: Alvin Gouldner and the Marxist critique of post-theory
A major target of the Marxist critique of 'post-theory'-a broad term encompassing post-structuralism, post-Marxism, and postcolonial theory-has been its notorious deconstruction of the subject. The affirmation of marginal, excluded, and deviant subject positions within the same corpus has been noted less frequently. To recalibrate the Marxist critique of post-theory to also encompass its affirmative moment, we consult Alvin Gouldner and his overl…
The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics
Historicizing the Historical Turn in Human Rights Studies: Origins, Inequality, and Neoliberalism in the Modern Epoch
The historical turn in human rights studies is characterized by a deep cleavage between scholars who locate the origins of human rights in the Atlantic Revolutions of the late 18th century, and scholars who instead focus on the post-WWII period in general, and on the 1970s in particular as a breakthrough decade for international human rights. Against the background of what has been described as the threatened status of human rights today, we cont…
Rethinking the Haitian Turn – Beyond the Universality Paradigm and Its Enemies
Recent assessments of the literature on the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) offer radically different images, ranging from the identification of a politics of universal human rights to objections against conservative assumptions. The present article instead uncovers an overarching conflict between what is named the universality paradigm and the sceptical responses. However, in the outskirts of the controversy, its participants agree that the Haiti…
Structure, Temporality, and Theories of Revolution. Reading Alberto Melucci in Revolutionary Saint Domingue, 1791–1804
This article addresses the debate on structure, agency, and process in contemporary revolution theory, drawing on social movement theory and using the Haitian Revolution as an illustrative case. The article seeks to make three main contributions. Firstly, while accepting the critique against the failure of structuralist revolution theory to explain why revolutions can occur under difficult circumstances, the article proposes a structuralist solut…
Remarks on the sceptical turn in the historiography of the Haitian Revolution: Lessons from the art of abstraction
One of the major arguments made in the current boom in Haitian revolutionary studies connects today’s conditions of possibility for modern democracy and human rights to the abolition of slavery during the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). During the last decade, however, this connection between the Haitian Revolutionary period and our own age has been questioned by an increasing number of scholars: a phenomenon that this article conceptualizes as t…
Ancient equality against modern democracy: Resources of critique in Hannah Arendt and Ellen Meiksins Wood
Increasing discontent with the current status of democracy has prompted a renewed interest in Athenian democracy. This article contributes with the first comparative analysis of two political theoreticians – Hannah Arendt and Ellen Meiksins Wood – whose reactivations of ancient political experiences significantly predate recent trends. Despite the fact that Arendt levelled fierce critique against the Marxist tradition of which Wood was a part, it…
Structure, Temporality, and Theories of Revolution. Reading Alberto Melucci in Revolutionary Saint Domingue, 1791–1804
This article addresses the debate on structure, agency, and process in contemporary revolution theory, drawing on social movement theory and using the Haitian Revolution as an illustrative case. The article seeks to make three main contributions. Firstly, while accepting the critique against the failure of structuralist revolution theory to explain why revolutions can occur under difficult circumstances, the article proposes a structuralist solut…
Remarks on the sceptical turn in the historiography of the Haitian Revolution: Lessons from the art of abstraction
One of the major arguments made in the current boom in Haitian revolutionary studies connects today’s conditions of possibility for modern democracy and human rights to the abolition of slavery during the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). During the last decade, however, this connection between the Haitian Revolutionary period and our own age has been questioned by an increasing number of scholars: a phenomenon that this article conceptualizes as t…
Why Pashukanis was right: Abstraction and form in The General Theory of Law and Marxism
The area of Marxism and law has long been considered marginalised. However, hand in hand with the renaissance of Marxist theory in recent decades, neglect has finally been put to rest. As Marxists increasingly explore the connections between rights, law, democracy and capitalism, one text in particular has taken centre stage: The General Theory of Law and Marxism , published by E. B. Pashukanis in 1924. This article seeks to make three contributi…
Ancient equality against modern democracy: Resources of critique in Hannah Arendt and Ellen Meiksins Wood
Increasing discontent with the current status of democracy has prompted a renewed interest in Athenian democracy. This article contributes with the first comparative analysis of two political theoreticians – Hannah Arendt and Ellen Meiksins Wood – whose reactivations of ancient political experiences significantly predate recent trends. Despite the fact that Arendt levelled fierce critique against the Marxist tradition of which Wood was a part, it…
Structure, Temporality, and Theories of Revolution. Reading Alberto Melucci in Revolutionary Saint Domingue, 1791–1804
This article addresses the debate on structure, agency, and process in contemporary revolution theory, drawing on social movement theory and using the Haitian Revolution as an illustrative case. The article seeks to make three main contributions. Firstly, while accepting the critique against the failure of structuralist revolution theory to explain why revolutions can occur under difficult circumstances, the article proposes a structuralist solut…
Remarks on the sceptical turn in the historiography of the Haitian Revolution: Lessons from the art of abstraction
One of the major arguments made in the current boom in Haitian revolutionary studies connects today’s conditions of possibility for modern democracy and human rights to the abolition of slavery during the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). During the last decade, however, this connection between the Haitian Revolutionary period and our own age has been questioned by an increasing number of scholars: a phenomenon that this article conceptualizes as t…
Rethinking the Haitian Turn – Beyond the Universality Paradigm and Its Enemies
Recent assessments of the literature on the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) offer radically different images, ranging from the identification of a politics of universal human rights to objections against conservative assumptions. The present article instead uncovers an overarching conflict between what is named the universality paradigm and the sceptical responses. However, in the outskirts of the controversy, its participants agree that the Haiti…
Historicizing the Historical Turn in Human Rights Studies: Origins, Inequality, and Neoliberalism in the Modern Epoch
The historical turn in human rights studies is characterized by a deep cleavage between scholars who locate the origins of human rights in the Atlantic Revolutions of the late 18th century, and scholars who instead focus on the post-WWII period in general, and on the 1970s in particular as a breakthrough decade for international human rights. Against the background of what has been described as the threatened status of human rights today, we cont…
Movement texts: Materiality, social practice, and discursive genre
This article aims to conceptualize movement texts as a crucial yet often overlooked phenomenon in the articulation of collective identity and narratives in the context of social movements. We define movement texts as symbolic acts that publicly manifest a social movement as a collective actor. Against the backdrop of the “narrative turn” in social movement studies and adjacent fields, we argue that the concept of movement text can be understood a…
Formalism and Instrumentalism in the Marxist Critique of Right: With What Must Pashukanian Theory Begin
The critique of the legal form of capitalism by E. B. Pashukanis has risen to prominence once again. However, the negative origin of the concept of the legal form, the critique of formalism and instrumentalism, has received too little attention. This essay substantiates the significance of Pashukanis’s critique, avoiding both overly general and narrow conceptions. Moreover, it proposes that his negative contribution is best understood as a critiq…
Why Pashukanis was right: Abstraction and form in The General Theory of Law and Marxism
The area of Marxism and law has long been considered marginalised. However, hand in hand with the renaissance of Marxist theory in recent decades, neglect has finally been put to rest. As Marxists increasingly explore the connections between rights, law, democracy and capitalism, one text in particular has taken centre stage: The General Theory of Law and Marxism , published by E. B. Pashukanis in 1924. This article seeks to make three contributi…
Against underdog metaphysics: Alvin Gouldner and the Marxist critique of post-theory
A major target of the Marxist critique of 'post-theory'-a broad term encompassing post-structuralism, post-Marxism, and postcolonial theory-has been its notorious deconstruction of the subject. The affirmation of marginal, excluded, and deviant subject positions within the same corpus has been noted less frequently. To recalibrate the Marxist critique of post-theory to also encompass its affirmative moment, we consult Alvin Gouldner and his overl…
The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics
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