Noel Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noel Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noel |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6936-9071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 326 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Concluding remarks to the special issue ‘Rethinking periphery in Europe: Redistributing the cards’
The articles in the present issue update, exemplify and deepen the ideas on Europe’s margins that I and fellow researchers developed in the context of the 1990s enlargement. There are two broad categories of pressure from the margins of Europe upon its centre: attempts to reinterpret and/or relocate Europe’s central identity; and attempts to challenge it, by claiming alternative identities for Europe. Articles examining the latter are particularl…
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. \n \nCovering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre an…
Picking and Choosing the 'Sovereign' Border: A Theory of Changing State Bordering Practices
We argue that the continued persistence of borders is an effect of their constitutive role for the many dimensions of a social particular. States cannot choose to have a border; but they can and do make choices amongst the materials available on the various planes of inscription for bordering. For contemporary states the planes have become increasingly disaggregated, in the sense that they do not fall into place at one and the same border. Thus, …
Critical Border Studies: Broadening and Deepening the 'Lines in the Sand' Agenda
This edited collection formalises Critical Border Studies (CBS) as a distinctive approach within the interdisciplinary border studies literature. Although CBS represents a heterogeneous assemblage of thought, the hallmark of the approach is a basic dissatisfaction with the ‘Line in the Sand’ metaphor as an unexamined starting point for the study of borders. A headline feature of each contribution gathered here is a concerted effort to decentre th…
Imperial power and the organization of space in Europe and North America
Empires seem never to disappear. When the last self-proclaimed empires dissolved in the wake of decolonization, the USSR seemed to be the last remaining empire. But when it dissolved in the early 1
Imperial rule and the art of managing diversity
Imperialism, territory, and liberation: On the dynamics of empire stemming from Europe
This article tries to understand the deeply ambivalent role in modern global world history of imperialism originating from Europe. It follows a long, genealogical narrative, beginning in the inherent structure and tensions of empire per se on the European mainland. Nonetheless, there was a partially successful attempt at empire in the primarily spiritual ‘imperial’ power emanating from Rome, which in due course evoked a matching response in relig…
Empire as a Geopolitical Figure
This article analyses the ingredients of empire as a pattern of order with geopolitical effects. Noting the imperial form's proclivity for expansion from a critical reading of historical sociology, the article argues that the principal manifestation of earlier geopolitics lay not in the nation but in empire. That in turn has been driven by a view of the world as disorderly and open to the ordering will of empires (emanating, at the time of geopol…
From Borders to Margins: A Deleuzian Ontology for Identities in the Postinternational Environment
While concepts of a postinternational politics properly highlight the constant variance of entities in play in international relations, the approach lacks an ontology that shows how such an unstable variety of types of players can coexist in a common field in the first place. This article draws upon Deleuze's philosophy to set out an ontology in which the continual reformulation of entities in play in “postinternational” society can be grasped. T…
Lines in the Sand? Towards an Agenda for Critical Border Studies
Europeanization of National Security Identity: The EU and the Changing Security Identities of the Nordic States – By P. Rieker
Unmaking the West: "What-If?" Scenarios That Rewrite World History
What if the Persians had won at Salamis? What if Christ had not been crucified? What if the Chinese had harnessed steam power before the West? Disparaged by some as a mere parlor game, counterfactual history is seen by others as indispensable historical tool. Taking as their point of inquiry the debate over the inevitability of the rise of the West, the eminent scholars in Unmaking the West argue that there is no escaping counterfactual history. …
Religion and Politics: Voltaire's and Rousseau's Enlightenment Strategies
The article analyzes in the work of two leading 18th-century thinkers' two dominant strategies to decide the relationship between religion and politics in modern thought as it has been derived from the 18th-century Enlightenment: exclusion and/or inclusion subject to the requirements of politics. It begins by setting out how the underlying problem was experienced from the Enlightenment's historical moment, taking stock as it does so of how their …
European Democratic Culture
General preface to What is Introduction Part I The growth of democracy Essay 1: Scientific revolutions and ideas of democracy Essay 2: The conditions for the development of democracy Part II Essay 3: Democracy and individual freedom Essay 4: The state under the rule of Law Part III Public opinion and the role of criticism Essay 5: The role and the realities of public opinion Essay 6: Democracy as a critique of politics Part IV The institutions of…
Differentiating, Collaborating, Outdoing: Nordic Identity and Marginality in the Contemporary World
This article compares the interplay between Europe and Scandinavian countries with interactions at other margins, and speculates on the prospects for Nordic identity. It uses an idea of the possibilities inherent in the "marginality" of a society, applying that conception to situations past and present. A summary exposition indicates how Scandinavian countries have negotiated their marginality in a "Nordic posture" of political independence and e…
Carlyle’s Metaphorical Dynamic of History: Or How to Trace a Grand Narrative in the French Revolution
Apart from specialists in literature and Victorian cultural history, not many people refer to Thomas Carlyle as an authoritative literary critic. He is not many people's idea of a historian either — though his The French Revolution: A History was republished in a new edition in the recent bicentenary year.1 Yet, he was an enormous figure in the nineteenth-century intellectual world and he has continued to intrigue a considerable band of analysts …
Objects of all Sorts: A Philosophical Grammar , by Vincent Descombes (translated by L. Scott-Fox and J. Harding)
Lines in the Sand? Towards an Agenda for Critical Border Studies
Critical Border Studies: Broadening and Deepening the 'Lines in the Sand' Agenda
This edited collection formalises Critical Border Studies (CBS) as a distinctive approach within the interdisciplinary border studies literature. Although CBS represents a heterogeneous assemblage of thought, the hallmark of the approach is a basic dissatisfaction with the ‘Line in the Sand’ metaphor as an unexamined starting point for the study of borders. A headline feature of each contribution gathered here is a concerted effort to decentre th…
Picking and Choosing the 'Sovereign' Border: A Theory of Changing State Bordering Practices
We argue that the continued persistence of borders is an effect of their constitutive role for the many dimensions of a social particular. States cannot choose to have a border; but they can and do make choices amongst the materials available on the various planes of inscription for bordering. For contemporary states the planes have become increasingly disaggregated, in the sense that they do not fall into place at one and the same border. Thus, …
From Borders to Margins: A Deleuzian Ontology for Identities in the Postinternational Environment
While concepts of a postinternational politics properly highlight the constant variance of entities in play in international relations, the approach lacks an ontology that shows how such an unstable variety of types of players can coexist in a common field in the first place. This article draws upon Deleuze's philosophy to set out an ontology in which the continual reformulation of entities in play in “postinternational” society can be grasped. T…
Empire as a Geopolitical Figure
This article analyses the ingredients of empire as a pattern of order with geopolitical effects. Noting the imperial form's proclivity for expansion from a critical reading of historical sociology, the article argues that the principal manifestation of earlier geopolitics lay not in the nation but in empire. That in turn has been driven by a view of the world as disorderly and open to the ordering will of empires (emanating, at the time of geopol…
Europeanization of National Security Identity: The EU and the Changing Security Identities of the Nordic States – By P. Rieker
Objects of all Sorts: A Philosophical Grammar , by Vincent Descombes (translated by L. Scott-Fox and J. Harding)
Carlyle’s Metaphorical Dynamic of History: Or How to Trace a Grand Narrative in the French Revolution
Apart from specialists in literature and Victorian cultural history, not many people refer to Thomas Carlyle as an authoritative literary critic. He is not many people's idea of a historian either — though his The French Revolution: A History was republished in a new edition in the recent bicentenary year.1 Yet, he was an enormous figure in the nineteenth-century intellectual world and he has continued to intrigue a considerable band of analysts …
Differentiating, Collaborating, Outdoing: Nordic Identity and Marginality in the Contemporary World
This article compares the interplay between Europe and Scandinavian countries with interactions at other margins, and speculates on the prospects for Nordic identity. It uses an idea of the possibilities inherent in the "marginality" of a society, applying that conception to situations past and present. A summary exposition indicates how Scandinavian countries have negotiated their marginality in a "Nordic posture" of political independence and e…
European Democratic Culture
General preface to What is Introduction Part I The growth of democracy Essay 1: Scientific revolutions and ideas of democracy Essay 2: The conditions for the development of democracy Part II Essay 3: Democracy and individual freedom Essay 4: The state under the rule of Law Part III Public opinion and the role of criticism Essay 5: The role and the realities of public opinion Essay 6: Democracy as a critique of politics Part IV The institutions of…
Unmaking the West: "What-If?" Scenarios That Rewrite World History
What if the Persians had won at Salamis? What if Christ had not been crucified? What if the Chinese had harnessed steam power before the West? Disparaged by some as a mere parlor game, counterfactual history is seen by others as indispensable historical tool. Taking as their point of inquiry the debate over the inevitability of the rise of the West, the eminent scholars in Unmaking the West argue that there is no escaping counterfactual history. …
Religion and Politics: Voltaire's and Rousseau's Enlightenment Strategies
The article analyzes in the work of two leading 18th-century thinkers' two dominant strategies to decide the relationship between religion and politics in modern thought as it has been derived from the 18th-century Enlightenment: exclusion and/or inclusion subject to the requirements of politics. It begins by setting out how the underlying problem was experienced from the Enlightenment's historical moment, taking stock as it does so of how their …
Europeanization of National Security Identity: The EU and the Changing Security Identities of the Nordic States – By P. Rieker
From Borders to Margins: A Deleuzian Ontology for Identities in the Postinternational Environment
While concepts of a postinternational politics properly highlight the constant variance of entities in play in international relations, the approach lacks an ontology that shows how such an unstable variety of types of players can coexist in a common field in the first place. This article draws upon Deleuze's philosophy to set out an ontology in which the continual reformulation of entities in play in “postinternational” society can be grasped. T…
Lines in the Sand? Towards an Agenda for Critical Border Studies
Empire as a Geopolitical Figure
This article analyses the ingredients of empire as a pattern of order with geopolitical effects. Noting the imperial form's proclivity for expansion from a critical reading of historical sociology, the article argues that the principal manifestation of earlier geopolitics lay not in the nation but in empire. That in turn has been driven by a view of the world as disorderly and open to the ordering will of empires (emanating, at the time of geopol…
Imperial power and the organization of space in Europe and North America
Empires seem never to disappear. When the last self-proclaimed empires dissolved in the wake of decolonization, the USSR seemed to be the last remaining empire. But when it dissolved in the early 1
Imperial rule and the art of managing diversity
Imperialism, territory, and liberation: On the dynamics of empire stemming from Europe
This article tries to understand the deeply ambivalent role in modern global world history of imperialism originating from Europe. It follows a long, genealogical narrative, beginning in the inherent structure and tensions of empire per se on the European mainland. Nonetheless, there was a partially successful attempt at empire in the primarily spiritual ‘imperial’ power emanating from Rome, which in due course evoked a matching response in relig…
Picking and Choosing the 'Sovereign' Border: A Theory of Changing State Bordering Practices
We argue that the continued persistence of borders is an effect of their constitutive role for the many dimensions of a social particular. States cannot choose to have a border; but they can and do make choices amongst the materials available on the various planes of inscription for bordering. For contemporary states the planes have become increasingly disaggregated, in the sense that they do not fall into place at one and the same border. Thus, …
Critical Border Studies: Broadening and Deepening the 'Lines in the Sand' Agenda
This edited collection formalises Critical Border Studies (CBS) as a distinctive approach within the interdisciplinary border studies literature. Although CBS represents a heterogeneous assemblage of thought, the hallmark of the approach is a basic dissatisfaction with the ‘Line in the Sand’ metaphor as an unexamined starting point for the study of borders. A headline feature of each contribution gathered here is a concerted effort to decentre th…
Concluding remarks to the special issue ‘Rethinking periphery in Europe: Redistributing the cards’
The articles in the present issue update, exemplify and deepen the ideas on Europe’s margins that I and fellow researchers developed in the context of the 1990s enlargement. There are two broad categories of pressure from the margins of Europe upon its centre: attempts to reinterpret and/or relocate Europe’s central identity; and attempts to challenge it, by claiming alternative identities for Europe. Articles examining the latter are particularl…
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. \n \nCovering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre an…
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