R Van Krieken
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4727 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R Van Krieken |
| PRENOMES | R |
| SOBRENOME | Van Krieken |
| ASSINATURA | VAN KRIEKEN R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5165-6913 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 281 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The Organization of Ignorance
The 'Robodebt' scheme was an initiative pursued by the Australian Department of Human Services between 2016 and 2019 to increase the amount of money recovered from supposed 'overpayments' to recipients of welfare benefits. Drawing on the rich body of empirical material generated by the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme as well as journalists and academic observers, this paper develops an understanding of the affair from the perspective of…
The Age of Anger and Social Media
Politics and society today are characterized by anger and rancour. This paper reflects on this issue by linking: first, Norbert Elias's sociological account of the complex dynamics of processes of civilization and decivilization, his thoughts on the interrelationship between technological and social organization and human habitus; second, the work done on the concept of ressentiment, introduced by Nietzsche and developed by Scheler and others. Li…
Refeudalization and Law
A significant body of social science research is now working with the concept of refeudalization—as well as related terms such as neo-feudalism and neo-medievalism—to analyze a variety of contemporary developments. The social science scholars who use these terms challenge an oversimplified modernization model that regards power relations such as serfdom, vassalage, suzerainty, and fiefdom as merely historical relics. The refeudalization process h…
Norbert Elias and Psychoanalysis
Economy of Attention and Attention Capital
Theories of the attention economy and the economy of attention are outlined, with a particular focus on the concept “attention capital.” Key writers examined include Gabriel Tarde, Herbert Simon, Michael Davenport, Richard Lanham, Georg Franck, and Yves Citton. The significance of the economy of attention for the analysis of the mass media, advertising, marketing and public relations, celebrity, social media, and politics is explained
Goudsblom, Johan (Joop) (1932–2020)
This entry outlines the key works of influential Dutch sociologist Johan (Joop) Goudsblom: Nihilism and Culture , Sociology in the Balance , Fire and Civilization , and the essay “Public Health and the Civilizing Process.” The distinctiveness of his approach to sociology, strongly influenced by Norbert Elias and his conception of the process of civilization, is explained, emphasizing his style of theory and research as a productive alternative to…
Covid-19 and the civilizing process
This article outlines the key elements of Norbert Elias's theory of the civilizing process that can usefully be drawn upon to develop a detached, less present-focused sociological understanding of the Covid-19 pandemic. Three ideas are highlighted: first, this is in fact an old story, in the sense that we're in the middle of a constellation of long-term processes, and this matters in a number of ways. Second, human civilization, understood as bas…
Civilizing Process
The concept of “the civilizing process” aims at understanding those social and political conditions, practices, and strategies which have produced changing conceptions of civilization. The concept is used in the greatest depth by the German sociologist Norbert Elias. Elias's approach shows that what is experienced as “civilization” is founded on a psychic structure or habitus which had changed over time, and that it can only be understood in conn…
Law and Civilization
The German sociologist Norbert Elias developed a wide-ranging sociological analysis of the interconnections between processes of state formation, institutional dynamics, and individual subjectivity, or habitus, and the logic of their processes of transformation over time. His work has had significant impact on social scientific thought in a wide variety of fields, including the historical sociology of the self, violence, crime and punishment, org…
Georg Franck's 'The Economy of Attention
This article places Georg Franck's 'The Economy of Attention' in the context of the broader discussions of 'the attention economy', and the increasing significance of attention in a knowledge society characterised by ever-increasing flows of information and data. I highlight the four core elements of Franck's theory of the economy of attention: first, the importance of the fundamental human desire for attention; second, his emphasis on the parall…
Menno ter Braak on Democracy, Populism and Fascism
The concept of ressentiment is increasingly being drawn upon to analyse current political developments, but in doing so it is important to have a clear understanding of its original meaning in the work of Nietzsche and Scheler, who applied it to the inner logic of democracy, rather than political movements opposed to liberal democracy. This article introduces an important essay written in 1937, 'National Socialism as a doctrine of rancour', by th…
H uizinga, J ohan
Born in Groningen, The Netherlands, Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) was a student of Indo‐German languages and comparative linguistics, becoming a professor of general and Dutch history at Groningen University (1905–1915), and later at the University of Leiden (1915–1941). He was an outspoken critic of Nazi occupation, for which he was held in detention. Huizinga is famous for two publications: The Waning of the Middle Ages (1919; translated 1921) and…
Privatising the Public University
Celebrity Society
On television, in magazines and books, on the internet and in films, celebrities of all sorts seem to monopolize our attention. Celebrity Society brings new dimensions to our understanding of celebrity, capturing the way in which the figure of ‘the celebrity’ is bound up with the emergence of modernity. It outlines how the ‘celebrification of society’ is not just the twentieth-century product of Hollywood and television, but a long-term historica…
Between assimilation and multiculturalism
This paper outlines the ways in which the conception of social integration and its practical realization have developed over time in Australia, and the various pathways that models of integration have followed. It makes a distinction between the approaches to inclusion of the indigenous population, the Australian Aborigines in broader Australian social life and social institutions, and those dealing with populations of incoming migrants, refugees…
Experience and Representation
We Have Never Been Multicultural
Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and the Politics of Natural Justice under Settler‐Colonialism
This article examines the impact of the application of apparently impartial principles of procedural fairness and natural justice on the construction of “authentic” and “inauthentic” knowledge of Aboriginal culture. It discusses the progression of the Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) court cases and the legal construction of public participation in the making of political decisions affecting Aboriginal interests in land. In examining the politics of …
Three Faces of Civilization
This paper outlines a refinement of the sociological usage of the concept 'civilization' by distinguishing between three different 'faces' of civilization - as the opposite of barbarism, as equivalent to culture, and in Elias's sense as capturing a particular trajectory of socio-historical development. I then illustrate how this distinction between three different faces of civilization can be deployed in relation to the history of the various att…
Childhood in Australian Sociology and Society
This article outlines the specific form taken by the social scientific study of childhood in Australia, identifying both what is shared with childhood research in other English-language countries, and what is distinctive in the Australian setting. It begins by sketching the social history of childhood in Australia, with particular reference to what was specific about the childhood experiences of Aboriginal children, as well as the peculiarities o…
Reconciliation and Colonial Power
Cultural Genocide in Australia
One of the continuing disputes which have marked the history of the concept 'genocide' has been the question of how narrowly or broadly it ought to be understood. A narrow conception restricts itself to the various forms of killing and physical annihilation, whereas the broader definition addresses a wider variety of ways in which human groups can be 'eliminated', including the destruction of their distinct cultural identity. A central element of…
Persisting Inequalities
This article analyses the central themes running through the collection of papers in this special issue of Childhood, which were all given as papers at the XVI Durban World Congress of Sociology, 23-29 July 2006. These themes encompass the ways in which global processes of social change combining modernity with tradition have become important for both the perception of childhood and for childrens real lives. They also include the ways in which th…
Civilizing Process
The concept of the civilizing process arises from a particular approach to the idea of “civilization,” a word which first appeared in French and English in the eighteenth century, although there were earlier precursors. The understanding of “civilization” on which the conception of it being a process rests needs to be distinguished from other possible approaches. “Civilization” can be used in the plural to refer to particular assemblies of social…
Law’s Autonomy in Action
The barbarism of civilization
The barbarism of civilization
Norbert Elias suggested that 'civilization' involves the transformation of human habitus so that violence of all sorts is gradually subjected to greater and more sophisticated forms of management and control, whereas 'decivilization' encompasses processes which produce an increase in violence and a breakdown in the stability and consistency of on-going social relations. What remains unexplored is the extent to which 'civilizing offensives', the s…
The organization of the soul
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Towards a Theory of Social Processes
A theory of social processes must diagnose and explain those long-term and unplanned, yet structured and directional trends in the development of social and personality structures that constitute the infrastructure of what is commonly called «history». The reception of such a theoretical approach is hampered by the self-image of contemporary sociology as a discipline primarily concerned with the present and devoted to research on short-term chang…
Proto-governmentalization and the historical formation of organizational subjectivity
The defintional distinction made in organizational sociology, between organizations as entities directed towards the rational attainment of goals and a realm of society or culture which is not, results in an inadequate understanding of the relationship between organizational and extra-organizational subjectivity, and especially its historical development. This article examines the historical formation of organizational subjectivity using Foucault…
Violence, Self-Discipline and Modernity
Norbert Elias's writings on the development of self-constraint and its relationship to state formation are examined in the light of anthropological and historical critiques of his arguments and data. It is argued that state formation should not be seen as essential to self-discipline; that Elias's view of the development of self-constraint rests on a limited reading of the historical evidence on medieval personality and behaviour; and that many o…
The 'Best Interests of the Child' and Parental Separation
The concept of the ‘best interests of the child’ is both pivotal in family law and yet essentially contested. This paper reflects on the concept's position within a number of longer-term histories – of the jurisprudence surrounding child custody, of the social construction of childhood, and of the emotional constitution of family life more broadly. The turn to a co-parenting model from the 1970s onwards and the rise of the concept of the ‘civiliz…
The paradox of the 'two sociologies
So far there have usually been only two answers to the question of what to do with dichotomies in sociology, either embrace them or attempt to synthesize them. However, this has produced merely an endless vacillation between the two positions, and a paradoxical constant reproduction of dichotomous thinking, rather than its transformation. This paper works towards a 'third answer' to the question, first, by outlining how the concept of the 'Hobbes…
Policing the Poor
A crucial episode in the history of social work and social administration was the sixteenth-century reform of poor relief in both Catholic and Protestant European towns. The writings of the Catholic humanist Juan Luis Vives in particular played an important part in the subsequent development of sixteenth-century poor relief. This article analyzes his ideas, the changes of the period, the ways in which the new arrangements differed from medieval p…
Between assimilation and multiculturalism
This paper outlines the ways in which the conception of social integration and its practical realization have developed over time in Australia, and the various pathways that models of integration have followed. It makes a distinction between the approaches to inclusion of the indigenous population, the Australian Aborigines in broader Australian social life and social institutions, and those dealing with populations of incoming migrants, refugees…
The `Stolen Generations' and Cultural Genocide
From around the turn of 20th century up to the 1970s, Australian government authorities assumed legal guardianship of all Indigenous children and removed large numbers of them from their families in order to `assimilate' them into European society and culture. This policy has been described as `cultural genocide', even though at the time it was presented by state and church authorities as being `in the best interests' of Aboriginal children. This…
Three Faces of Civilization
This paper outlines a refinement of the sociological usage of the concept 'civilization' by distinguishing between three different 'faces' of civilization - as the opposite of barbarism, as equivalent to culture, and in Elias's sense as capturing a particular trajectory of socio-historical development. I then illustrate how this distinction between three different faces of civilization can be deployed in relation to the history of the various att…
Sociology and the Reproductive Self
This paper argues for the integration of a greater awareness of reproductive conduct into sociological theory and research. Instead of conceiving the relationship between demography and sociology as one where sociological concepts are used to illuminate demographic concerns, the paper works towards the development of a demographic perspective in sociological understandings of modern society and its historical development. The argument will be for…
Social theory and child welfare
The Organization of Ignorance
The 'Robodebt' scheme was an initiative pursued by the Australian Department of Human Services between 2016 and 2019 to increase the amount of money recovered from supposed 'overpayments' to recipients of welfare benefits. Drawing on the rich body of empirical material generated by the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme as well as journalists and academic observers, this paper develops an understanding of the affair from the perspective of…
Legal Informalism, Power and Liberal Governance
Although critiques of legal formalism have been rethought over recent years to produce a 'new informalism' in legal theory which draws on Michel Foucault's approach to power, this essay examines the ways in which there are still a variety of problems in the understanding of power, social control and freedom utilized by studies of 'informal' or 'popular' justice. It briefly outlines the ideas and practices encompassed by the concept of informal ju…
The Poverty of Social Control
The concept 'social control' has been criticised from a variety of quarters in recent years, particularly by historians and historical sociologists. However, it remains in common usage in sociological studies of welfare, deviance and social control. This paper shows, first, how this reliance on the concept of social control is rooted in a wider-ranging argument in social and political theory concerning the liberal-democratic fusion between the st…
Persisting Inequalities
This article analyses the central themes running through the collection of papers in this special issue of Childhood, which were all given as papers at the XVI Durban World Congress of Sociology, 23-29 July 2006. These themes encompass the ways in which global processes of social change combining modernity with tradition have become important for both the perception of childhood and for childrens real lives. They also include the ways in which th…
Law’s Autonomy in Action
Covid-19 and the civilizing process
This article outlines the key elements of Norbert Elias's theory of the civilizing process that can usefully be drawn upon to develop a detached, less present-focused sociological understanding of the Covid-19 pandemic. Three ideas are highlighted: first, this is in fact an old story, in the sense that we're in the middle of a constellation of long-term processes, and this matters in a number of ways. Second, human civilization, understood as bas…
Law and Civilization
The German sociologist Norbert Elias developed a wide-ranging sociological analysis of the interconnections between processes of state formation, institutional dynamics, and individual subjectivity, or habitus, and the logic of their processes of transformation over time. His work has had significant impact on social scientific thought in a wide variety of fields, including the historical sociology of the self, violence, crime and punishment, org…
Translators' Introduction to Norbert Elias's 'Towards a Theory of Social Processes
The Age of Anger and Social Media
Politics and society today are characterized by anger and rancour. This paper reflects on this issue by linking: first, Norbert Elias's sociological account of the complex dynamics of processes of civilization and decivilization, his thoughts on the interrelationship between technological and social organization and human habitus; second, the work done on the concept of ressentiment, introduced by Nietzsche and developed by Scheler and others. Li…
Menno ter Braak on Democracy, Populism and Fascism
The concept of ressentiment is increasingly being drawn upon to analyse current political developments, but in doing so it is important to have a clear understanding of its original meaning in the work of Nietzsche and Scheler, who applied it to the inner logic of democracy, rather than political movements opposed to liberal democracy. This article introduces an important essay written in 1937, 'National Socialism as a doctrine of rancour', by th…
We Have Never Been Multicultural
Casework Recycled—on Ron Baker's The Interpersonal Process in Generic Social Work
Children and the State
The history of the changing relationship between the state and family life has not received an enormous amount of attention, and the aim of this article is to contribute to the discussion of this topic by examining the development of child welfare in New South Wales during a period of extensive and formative change, the years between 1890 and 1915. In this period there was a gradual rationalisation, syst?matisation and expansion of the State Chil…
Social theory and child welfare
Marking and examinations in The Netherlands
Towards ‘good and useful men and women’
Violence, Self-Discipline and Modernity
Norbert Elias's writings on the development of self-constraint and its relationship to state formation are examined in the light of anthropological and historical critiques of his arguments and data. It is argued that state formation should not be seen as essential to self-discipline; that Elias's view of the development of self-constraint rests on a limited reading of the historical evidence on medieval personality and behaviour; and that many o…
Policing the Poor
A crucial episode in the history of social work and social administration was the sixteenth-century reform of poor relief in both Catholic and Protestant European towns. The writings of the Catholic humanist Juan Luis Vives in particular played an important part in the subsequent development of sixteenth-century poor relief. This article analyzes his ideas, the changes of the period, the ways in which the new arrangements differed from medieval p…
The organization of the soul
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
State Bureaucracy and Social Science
Australian historians of child welfare have shown little interest in the period after 1915, creating the general impression that it was somehow less interesting, the landscape flatter and duller than it had been between the formation of the State Children Relief Board (SCRB) in 1881 and the establishment of the Children's Court and a probation system in 1905. John Ramsland stops around 1900} and Brian Dickey's very cursory treatment of the inter-…
Die Organisierung der Seele
Aufhauend auf einem systematischen Vergleich der Theorien von Weber, Elias und Foucault wird eine Kritik der These vom »Zivilisationsprozeß « formuliert, in deren Mittelpunkt der Begriff der »Zivilisationsoffensive« steht. Danach ist die Rationalisierung menschlicher Subjektivität in der Geschichte moderner Gesellschaften weniger einem anonymen Prozeß zunehmender » Verflechtung« geschuldet, als vielmehr dem interessebedingten Handeln konkreter Ak…
The Poverty of Social Control
The concept 'social control' has been criticised from a variety of quarters in recent years, particularly by historians and historical sociologists. However, it remains in common usage in sociological studies of welfare, deviance and social control. This paper shows, first, how this reliance on the concept of social control is rooted in a wider-ranging argument in social and political theory concerning the liberal-democratic fusion between the st…
Arguing about the Welfare State
Proto-governmentalization and the historical formation of organizational subjectivity
The defintional distinction made in organizational sociology, between organizations as entities directed towards the rational attainment of goals and a realm of society or culture which is not, results in an inadequate understanding of the relationship between organizational and extra-organizational subjectivity, and especially its historical development. This article examines the historical formation of organizational subjectivity using Foucault…
Towards a Theory of Social Processes
A theory of social processes must diagnose and explain those long-term and unplanned, yet structured and directional trends in the development of social and personality structures that constitute the infrastructure of what is commonly called «history». The reception of such a theoretical approach is hampered by the self-image of contemporary sociology as a discipline primarily concerned with the present and devoted to research on short-term chang…
Translators' Introduction to Norbert Elias's 'Towards a Theory of Social Processes
Sociology and the Reproductive Self
This paper argues for the integration of a greater awareness of reproductive conduct into sociological theory and research. Instead of conceiving the relationship between demography and sociology as one where sociological concepts are used to illuminate demographic concerns, the paper works towards the development of a demographic perspective in sociological understandings of modern society and its historical development. The argument will be for…
The barbarism of civilization
Norbert Elias suggested that 'civilization' involves the transformation of human habitus so that violence of all sorts is gradually subjected to greater and more sophisticated forms of management and control, whereas 'decivilization' encompasses processes which produce an increase in violence and a breakdown in the stability and consistency of on-going social relations. What remains unexplored is the extent to which 'civilizing offensives', the s…
The `Stolen Generations' and Cultural Genocide
From around the turn of 20th century up to the 1970s, Australian government authorities assumed legal guardianship of all Indigenous children and removed large numbers of them from their families in order to `assimilate' them into European society and culture. This policy has been described as `cultural genocide', even though at the time it was presented by state and church authorities as being `in the best interests' of Aboriginal children. This…
The barbarism of civilization
Beyond the ‘Parsonian Problem of Order’
Norbert Elias is rarely regarded as a significant sociological theorist in North America, partly because he was hardly ever concerned to comment on, let alone outline or reconstruct other theorists' ideas. When he was being critical of other sociological approaches, he usually preferred to keep his critique implicit, so that only a careful 'reading between the lines' reveals the positions he was distancing himself from. Reference to Elias's work …
Norbert Elias and Process Sociology
Books
Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800–2000. By Anna Haebich. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000. Pp. 726. $35.00 paper. My Dark Brother. The Story of the Wins, a Russian‐Aboriginal Family. By Elena Govor. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 385. $34.95 cloth. Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership. By Peter Read. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. vii + 248. $29.95 …
Legal Informalism, Power and Liberal Governance
Although critiques of legal formalism have been rethought over recent years to produce a 'new informalism' in legal theory which draws on Michel Foucault's approach to power, this essay examines the ways in which there are still a variety of problems in the understanding of power, social control and freedom utilized by studies of 'informal' or 'popular' justice. It briefly outlines the ideas and practices encompassed by the concept of informal ju…
The paradox of the 'two sociologies
So far there have usually been only two answers to the question of what to do with dichotomies in sociology, either embrace them or attempt to synthesize them. However, this has produced merely an endless vacillation between the two positions, and a paradoxical constant reproduction of dichotomous thinking, rather than its transformation. This paper works towards a 'third answer' to the question, first, by outlining how the concept of the 'Hobbes…
Rethinking Cultural Genocide
This paper examines the use of the concept of cultural genocide to understand one particular episode in Australian legal, political and social history, the removal of Aboriginal children from their families, mostly during the 20th century. After outlining the approach of Australian courts to the idea of cultural genocide, the paper examines the construction of the UN Genocide Convention, particularly the clause concerning the forcible removal of …
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