Yves Winter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3935549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yves Winter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yves |
| FAMILY NAME | Winter |
| SIGNATURE | WINTER Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4562-7881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Imperial Nostalgia as Patrimony: Shipwrecks and Treasures in the Colonial Museum
This article examines two Spanish museum exhibitions on the frigate Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes to show how these exhibitions convert recovered colonial treasure into national patrimony and thereby stage imperial nostalgia. Using museum, media, and scholarly archives, I analyze how the displays recode coins and artifacts as inalienable heritage while bracketing the colonial relations—Andean extraction, coerced Indigenous labor, and slavery—tha…
Class and racial capitalism: Lessons from Valdez’ Democracy and Empire
What Is an Imaginary
Over the last few decades, the neologisms social imaginary and political imaginary have become ubiquitous in the jargon of the humanities and the theoretical social sciences. And yet, despite the pervasive use, there is remarkably little convergence on what these terms mean. How have they captivated the vernacular of contemporary social, cultural, and political theory? Tracing the sources of the idiom imaginary to phenomenological studies of psyc…
Does the Left Need New Imaginaries
In recent years, writers, scholars, and commentators on the left have called for the development of new collective “imaginaries” to kindle hope and desire, which are expected to catalyze radical social change. This project of hope building constitutes a neo-utopian endeavor, despite many of its advocates’ distancing themselves from the utopian tradition. It rests on largely implicit theoretical assumptions about the political subject and the coll…
Capitalist Democracy and Socialist Strategy
Are Social Imaginaries Immune to Ideology Critique
A Government of Creditors: Machiavelli on Genoa, the Bank of San Giorgio, and the Financial Oligarchy
If Machiavelli was a committed republican, as the dominant interpretations suggest, then why did he heap praise on an oligarchic creditor government that ran the city of Genoa in the fifteenth century? In the Florentine Histories, Machiavelli offers a curious encomium to a remarkable oligarchic institution in Genoa: the Bank of Saint George (Casa di San Giorgio). A creditor association and oldest chartered bank in the world, San Giorgio owned Gen…
Response to Michelle T. Clarke’s review of Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence
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The Siege of Gaza: Spatial Violence, Humanitarian Strategies, and the Biopolitics of Punishment
Shipwrecked Sovereignty: Neoliberalism and a Disputed Sunken Treasure
In 2007, a private corporation specializing in deep-sea salvage retrieved a treasure-laden shipwreck in international waters southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. The wreck was that of a Spanish warship that sunk during the Napoleonic wars. Following the discovery, a legal dispute arose in U.S. federal courts, between the corporate salvors, the Kingdom of Spain, and other litigants. At issue in the legal proceedings was the status of the shipwreck …
Debating violence on the desert island: Engels, Dühring and Robinson Crusoe
The Prince and His Art of War: Machiavelli's Military Populism
In chapter XIV of The Prince, Machiavelli warns present and prospective princes not to neglect the art of war and to be a “professore di questa arte.” By exhorting the prince to be an expert in the art of war, this passage establishes the paradigmatic status of the arte della guerra for the arte dello stato. But what precisely is this art of war, which the prince is supposed to master? In order to answer this question, I offer a new interpretatio…
Plebeian Politics: Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising
In his Florentine Histories, Machiavelli offers an ambivalent portrayal of the revolt of the textile workers in late fourteenth-century Florence, known as the tumult of the Ciompi. On the face of it, Machiavelli’s depiction of the insurgent workers is not exactly flattering. Yet this picture is undermined by a firebrand speech, which Machiavelli invents and attributes to an unnamed leader of the plebeian revolt. I interpret this speech as a radic…
Revisiting Johan Galtung's Concept of Structural Violence
Violence and Visibility
La violence des hommes a ceci de particulier que meme si on la tait, surtout si on la tait, elle se propage aux generations suivantes. What is particular about the violence of men is that if silenc
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
The asymmetric war discourse and its moral economies: A critique
Contemporary military conflicts are frequently referred to as ‘new’, ‘irregular’, or ‘asymmetric’, labels that are meant to distinguish contemporary conflict formations from previous ones. Yet the language of asymmetry is not just a conveniently vague gloss for a variety of conflicts; it also introduces a normative schema that moralizes and depoliticizes the difference between states and non-state actors. The description of contemporary conflicts…
Gouvernementalität und Sicherheit: Zeitdiagnostische Beiträge im Anschluss an Foucault
Im Unterschied zu aktuellen Lektüren von Foucaults Gouvernementalität, die sich vor allem auf die Logik des Ökonomischen beziehen, werden in diesem Band die politischen Dimensionen seiner Theorie in den Vordergrund gerückt. Die Analyse der gegenwärtigen Sicherheitsgesellschaft dient als Ausgangspunkt für eine kritische Revision von Foucaults Machttypologie von Souveränität, Disziplin und Regierung. Die Beiträge konturieren gegenwärtige Aspekte de…
Violence and Visibility
La violence des hommes a ceci de particulier que meme si on la tait, surtout si on la tait, elle se propage aux generations suivantes. What is particular about the violence of men is that if silenc
The Siege of Gaza: Spatial Violence, Humanitarian Strategies, and the Biopolitics of Punishment
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
Plebeian Politics: Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising
In his Florentine Histories, Machiavelli offers an ambivalent portrayal of the revolt of the textile workers in late fourteenth-century Florence, known as the tumult of the Ciompi. On the face of it, Machiavelli’s depiction of the insurgent workers is not exactly flattering. Yet this picture is undermined by a firebrand speech, which Machiavelli invents and attributes to an unnamed leader of the plebeian revolt. I interpret this speech as a radic…
The asymmetric war discourse and its moral economies: A critique
Contemporary military conflicts are frequently referred to as ‘new’, ‘irregular’, or ‘asymmetric’, labels that are meant to distinguish contemporary conflict formations from previous ones. Yet the language of asymmetry is not just a conveniently vague gloss for a variety of conflicts; it also introduces a normative schema that moralizes and depoliticizes the difference between states and non-state actors. The description of contemporary conflicts…
The Prince and His Art of War: Machiavelli's Military Populism
In chapter XIV of The Prince, Machiavelli warns present and prospective princes not to neglect the art of war and to be a “professore di questa arte.” By exhorting the prince to be an expert in the art of war, this passage establishes the paradigmatic status of the arte della guerra for the arte dello stato. But what precisely is this art of war, which the prince is supposed to master? In order to answer this question, I offer a new interpretatio…
Are Social Imaginaries Immune to Ideology Critique
A Government of Creditors: Machiavelli on Genoa, the Bank of San Giorgio, and the Financial Oligarchy
If Machiavelli was a committed republican, as the dominant interpretations suggest, then why did he heap praise on an oligarchic creditor government that ran the city of Genoa in the fifteenth century? In the Florentine Histories, Machiavelli offers a curious encomium to a remarkable oligarchic institution in Genoa: the Bank of Saint George (Casa di San Giorgio). A creditor association and oldest chartered bank in the world, San Giorgio owned Gen…
Class and racial capitalism: Lessons from Valdez’ Democracy and Empire
Capitalist Democracy and Socialist Strategy
Shipwrecked Sovereignty: Neoliberalism and a Disputed Sunken Treasure
In 2007, a private corporation specializing in deep-sea salvage retrieved a treasure-laden shipwreck in international waters southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. The wreck was that of a Spanish warship that sunk during the Napoleonic wars. Following the discovery, a legal dispute arose in U.S. federal courts, between the corporate salvors, the Kingdom of Spain, and other litigants. At issue in the legal proceedings was the status of the shipwreck …
Gouvernementalität und Sicherheit: Zeitdiagnostische Beiträge im Anschluss an Foucault
Im Unterschied zu aktuellen Lektüren von Foucaults Gouvernementalität, die sich vor allem auf die Logik des Ökonomischen beziehen, werden in diesem Band die politischen Dimensionen seiner Theorie in den Vordergrund gerückt. Die Analyse der gegenwärtigen Sicherheitsgesellschaft dient als Ausgangspunkt für eine kritische Revision von Foucaults Machttypologie von Souveränität, Disziplin und Regierung. Die Beiträge konturieren gegenwärtige Aspekte de…
The asymmetric war discourse and its moral economies: A critique
Contemporary military conflicts are frequently referred to as ‘new’, ‘irregular’, or ‘asymmetric’, labels that are meant to distinguish contemporary conflict formations from previous ones. Yet the language of asymmetry is not just a conveniently vague gloss for a variety of conflicts; it also introduces a normative schema that moralizes and depoliticizes the difference between states and non-state actors. The description of contemporary conflicts…
Plebeian Politics: Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising
In his Florentine Histories, Machiavelli offers an ambivalent portrayal of the revolt of the textile workers in late fourteenth-century Florence, known as the tumult of the Ciompi. On the face of it, Machiavelli’s depiction of the insurgent workers is not exactly flattering. Yet this picture is undermined by a firebrand speech, which Machiavelli invents and attributes to an unnamed leader of the plebeian revolt. I interpret this speech as a radic…
Revisiting Johan Galtung's Concept of Structural Violence
Violence and Visibility
La violence des hommes a ceci de particulier que meme si on la tait, surtout si on la tait, elle se propage aux generations suivantes. What is particular about the violence of men is that if silenc
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
Debating violence on the desert island: Engels, Dühring and Robinson Crusoe
The Prince and His Art of War: Machiavelli's Military Populism
In chapter XIV of The Prince, Machiavelli warns present and prospective princes not to neglect the art of war and to be a “professore di questa arte.” By exhorting the prince to be an expert in the art of war, this passage establishes the paradigmatic status of the arte della guerra for the arte dello stato. But what precisely is this art of war, which the prince is supposed to master? In order to answer this question, I offer a new interpretatio…
Shipwrecked Sovereignty: Neoliberalism and a Disputed Sunken Treasure
In 2007, a private corporation specializing in deep-sea salvage retrieved a treasure-laden shipwreck in international waters southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. The wreck was that of a Spanish warship that sunk during the Napoleonic wars. Following the discovery, a legal dispute arose in U.S. federal courts, between the corporate salvors, the Kingdom of Spain, and other litigants. At issue in the legal proceedings was the status of the shipwreck …
The Siege of Gaza: Spatial Violence, Humanitarian Strategies, and the Biopolitics of Punishment
Response to Michelle T. Clarke’s review of Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Government of Creditors: Machiavelli on Genoa, the Bank of San Giorgio, and the Financial Oligarchy
If Machiavelli was a committed republican, as the dominant interpretations suggest, then why did he heap praise on an oligarchic creditor government that ran the city of Genoa in the fifteenth century? In the Florentine Histories, Machiavelli offers a curious encomium to a remarkable oligarchic institution in Genoa: the Bank of Saint George (Casa di San Giorgio). A creditor association and oldest chartered bank in the world, San Giorgio owned Gen…
Does the Left Need New Imaginaries
In recent years, writers, scholars, and commentators on the left have called for the development of new collective “imaginaries” to kindle hope and desire, which are expected to catalyze radical social change. This project of hope building constitutes a neo-utopian endeavor, despite many of its advocates’ distancing themselves from the utopian tradition. It rests on largely implicit theoretical assumptions about the political subject and the coll…
Capitalist Democracy and Socialist Strategy
Are Social Imaginaries Immune to Ideology Critique
Imperial Nostalgia as Patrimony: Shipwrecks and Treasures in the Colonial Museum
This article examines two Spanish museum exhibitions on the frigate Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes to show how these exhibitions convert recovered colonial treasure into national patrimony and thereby stage imperial nostalgia. Using museum, media, and scholarly archives, I analyze how the displays recode coins and artifacts as inalienable heritage while bracketing the colonial relations—Andean extraction, coerced Indigenous labor, and slavery—tha…
Class and racial capitalism: Lessons from Valdez’ Democracy and Empire
What Is an Imaginary
Over the last few decades, the neologisms social imaginary and political imaginary have become ubiquitous in the jargon of the humanities and the theoretical social sciences. And yet, despite the pervasive use, there is remarkably little convergence on what these terms mean. How have they captivated the vernacular of contemporary social, cultural, and political theory? Tracing the sources of the idiom imaginary to phenomenological studies of psyc…
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