George Steinmetz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Steinmetz |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Steinmetz |
| SIGNATURE | STEINMETZ G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1511 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 22 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Social Sciences in the Looking Glass: Studies in the Production of Knowledge
In recent years, social scientists have turned their critical lens on the historical roots and contours of their disciplines, including their politics and practices, epistemologies and methods, institutionalization and professionalization, national development and colonial expansion, globalization and local contestations, and public presence and role in society. The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass offers current social scientific perspective…
Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire
Liberalism without Democracy: Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922–1936
The history of Western intervention in the Middle East stretches from the late eighteenth century to the present day. All too often, the Western rationale for invading and occupying a country to liberate its people has produced new forms of domination that have hindered rather than encouraged the emergence of democratic politics. Abdeslam M. Maghraoui advances the understanding of this problematic dynamic through an analysis of efforts to achieve…
The Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma
In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent shot van Gogh, slit his throat, and pinned a five-page indictment of Western society to his body. The murder set off a series of reactions, including arson against Muslim schools and mosques. In The Assassination of Theo van Gogh, Ron Eyerman explores the multiple meanings of the murde…
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India
Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge "traveled" to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India's British rulers funded schools and universities to disseminate modern, western knowledge in the expectation that it would gradually replace indigenous ways of knowing. From the start, western education was endowed with great significance in India, not onl…
Narrating the Future of the National Economy and the National State: Remarks on Remapping Regulation and Reinventing Governance
On-Line Papers – Copyright This online paper may be cited or briefly quoted in line with the usual academic conventions. You may also download them for your own personal use. This paper must not be published elsewhere (e.g. to mailing lists, bulletin boards etc.) without the author's explicit permission. Please note that if you copy this paper you must: • include this copyright note • not use the paper for commercial purposes or gain in any way •…
Introduction: Culture and the State
I. Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field
Critical Realism, History, and Philosophy in the Social Sciences
Social science, history, and philosophy have often been neglect in thinking through their fundamentally intertwined relationship. The result is often an inattention to philosophy where social science and history is concerned, or a neglect of historicity and social analysis where philosophy is concerned. Meanwhile, the place of values in research is often uneasily passed over in silence. The inattention to, and loss of, the intersection between th…
Europe's Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive "workfare" and expansive "prisonfare" under a philosophy of moral behaviorism. This paternalist program of penalizati…
Ruling oneself out: A Theory of Collective Abdications
The author distinguishes several mechanisms of alignment in troubled and uncertain times and assesses their significance through a fine-grained examination of actors' beliefs, shifts in perceptions, and subjective states. To this end, he draws on the analytical and methodological resources of perspectives that usually stand apart : primary historical research, formal decision theory, the phenomenology of group processes, quantitative analyses, an…
Beyond Belief: India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism
Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China
The Art of the Network: Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence
American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism
When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial officials built extensive public school systems, and they set up American-style elections and governmental institutions. The officials aimed their lessons in democratic gove…
Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey
Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy. Forster's epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the "friend" stands as a metaphor for dissident cross-cultural collaboration, holds the key, Leela Gandhi argues in Affective Communities, to the hitherto neglected history of western anti-imperialism. F…
Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century
For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the "new imperial history," Gregory Mann argues that this shared military experience between France and Africa was fundamental not only to their colonial relationship but also to the reconfiguration o…
Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910
Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology
Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo
"What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the benefits of the market and access to the rewards of globalization. Markets of Dispossession is a theoretically sophisticated and sobering account of t…
States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection
The Poetics of Ghosts: Social Reproduction in the Archive of the Nation
The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism
I been panic.I been have to get up.I been
States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
Contents: States of imagination Thomas Blom Hansen University of Edinburgh and Finn Stepputat Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen I State as governance Demonic societies: Liberalism, bio-politics and sovereignty Mitchell Dean Macquarie University Governing population: The integrated child development services program in Indian Akhil Gupta Stanford University The battlefield and the prize: ANC's bid to reform the South African state Steffe…
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive "workfare" and expansive "prisonfare" under a philosophy of moral behaviorism. This paternalist program of penalizati…
American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism
When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial officials built extensive public school systems, and they set up American-style elections and governmental institutions. The officials aimed their lessons in democratic gove…
Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century
For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the "new imperial history," Gregory Mann argues that this shared military experience between France and Africa was fundamental not only to their colonial relationship but also to the reconfiguration o…
Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910
Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology
States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection
Critical Realism, History, and Philosophy in the Social Sciences
Social science, history, and philosophy have often been neglect in thinking through their fundamentally intertwined relationship. The result is often an inattention to philosophy where social science and history is concerned, or a neglect of historicity and social analysis where philosophy is concerned. Meanwhile, the place of values in research is often uneasily passed over in silence. The inattention to, and loss of, the intersection between th…
Regulating the social: The welfare state and local politics in imperial Germany
Why does the welfare state develop so unevenly across countries, regions, and localities? What accounts for the exclusions and disciplinary features of social programs? Why is social spending generous in some places and miserly in others? How are elite and popular conceptions of social reality related to welfare policies? George Steinmetz approaches these and other issues by exploring the complex origins and development of local and national soci…
State/Culture: State-Formation After the Cultural Turn (Wilder House Series in Politics, History, and Culture)
States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
Contents: States of imagination Thomas Blom Hansen University of Edinburgh and Finn Stepputat Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen I State as governance Demonic societies: Liberalism, bio-politics and sovereignty Mitchell Dean Macquarie University Governing population: The integrated child development services program in Indian Akhil Gupta Stanford University The battlefield and the prize: ANC's bid to reform the South African state Steffe…
The Poetics of Ghosts: Social Reproduction in the Archive of the Nation
Shamed States
Mutant Messages
Index
Sex Rites, Civil Rights
The Truest Belief Is Compulsion
The Vulva Thieves (Atna Nylkna): Modal Ethics and the Colonial Archive
The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism
I been panic.I been have to get up.I been
States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection
Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology
Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo
"What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the benefits of the market and access to the rewards of globalization. Markets of Dispossession is a theoretically sophisticated and sobering account of t…
Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey
Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship
"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy. Forster's epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the "friend" stands as a metaphor for dissident cross-cultural collaboration, holds the key, Leela Gandhi argues in Affective Communities, to the hitherto neglected history of western anti-imperialism. F…
Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century
For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the "new imperial history," Gregory Mann argues that this shared military experience between France and Africa was fundamental not only to their colonial relationship but also to the reconfiguration o…
Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910
Beyond Belief: India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism
Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China
The Art of the Network: Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence
American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism
When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial officials built extensive public school systems, and they set up American-style elections and governmental institutions. The officials aimed their lessons in democratic gove…
Ruling oneself out: A Theory of Collective Abdications
The author distinguishes several mechanisms of alignment in troubled and uncertain times and assesses their significance through a fine-grained examination of actors' beliefs, shifts in perceptions, and subjective states. To this end, he draws on the analytical and methodological resources of perspectives that usually stand apart : primary historical research, formal decision theory, the phenomenology of group processes, quantitative analyses, an…
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive "workfare" and expansive "prisonfare" under a philosophy of moral behaviorism. This paternalist program of penalizati…
Europe's Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900
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