Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 174990 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup |
| PRENOMES | Johan |
| SOBRENOME | Gøtzsche-Astrup |
| ASSINATURA | GØTZSCHE-ASTRUP J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7514-1375 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Democracy From Within
Are members of the public still committed to democracy? Existing studies often ask whether members of the public sanction political actors who break institutional or procedural norms. In contrast, we study a shared cultural horizon, which grounds democracy as a way of living. Drawing on Civil Sphere Theory and the sociology of culture and cognition, we conceptualise the horizon as a binary discourse, which can be internalised as a cultural schema…
More Productive Bodies Faster! Human Capital and Anti‐Intellectualism in Danish University Reform
This article examines the current Danish reform of master's programmes as a case of contested marketization in higher education. While the reform aims to produce "labour-market-relevant" graduates by shortening degrees, introducing corporate programmes, and reducing enrolment, it reveals a fundamental tension between two competing economic logics: a neoliberal conception of students as human capital and a conventional view of labour as quantifiab…
The dispositif is alive! Recovering social agents in Foucauldian analysis
Michel Foucault's concept of the dispositif is increasingly salient in sociological scholarship. We identify and criticise an ‘anonymous’ emphasis in this scholarship, which often presents the dispositif as an anonymous network that acts without human agents. To remedy this tendency we develop an agent‐inclusive version of the dispositif for sociological research. Turning to Foucault's work from the 1970s, we recover descriptions of how social gr…
Pacts of democratic truth-telling
The relation between democracy and truth is deeply contested. While some political thinkers argue that truth is essential to democratic flourishing, others warn that it threatens the conflictual logic of democracy. I develop a sociological perspective on this question by constructing an analytical framework for studying democratic truth-telling as a practice. Drawing on Foucault, I argue that democratic truth-telling is marked by a tension betwee…
Toward a Sociology of Democratic Truth-Telling
The erosion of truth-telling is central to discussions of democratic decline. However, these discussions often gloss over how democratic truth-telling is constituted as a practice. I develop the concept of democratic alethurgies to tackle this problem by drawing on civil sphere theory and Foucauldian studies of truth-telling. Focusing on practices of critique, I situate democratic truth-telling within a discourse that contrasts curious, courageou…
Stability and Volatility in Cultural Models of Contention
How stable are the public's assumptions about the legitimacy of contentious tactics? Previous studies show that the public hold a set of assumptions about what counts as legitimate and illegitimate tactics. We enrich this literature by studying the stability of these assumptions through the case of partisan protesting in the United States. Leveraging panel data collected during the 2020 Black Lives Matter and anti-lockdown protests as well as two…
The Activist Character
This article introduces the activist as a widely disseminated character within the culture of social movement societies. Drawing on studies of activist identities, Alasdair MacIntyre on characters, and the sociology of critique, it argues that the activist provides one way of imagining unjust structures of power and the possibilities of critical empowerment. The article unpacks this character in 20 bestselling activist memoirs in the United State…
The political signification of riots
This article suggests a new perspective on the political signification of riots, using the 2011 England riots as a case. The sociological literature tends to look for the political signification of riots in the riots themselves. Drawing on Michel Foucault's notion of the dispositive, the article develops a new approach that analyses the optical grids in which riots are made visible as objects for thought and action that can be either political or…
Cultural Models of Contention
The literature on contention tends to conflate contentious actions and audience's interpretation of those actions. This is problematic because interpretation is central to how contention unfolds and brings about social change. We theorise that interpretation is patterned by one or more cultural models of contention. These provide background assumptions about what actions count as political and what actions are legitimate. We show the fruitfulness…
Becoming an Activist
The article explores a new aspect of the interplay of individualisation and democracy. I ask how individualisation affects a contentious ethos, a set of ethical relations that contentious actors cultivate towards themselves and others in articulating their idea of the good. I analyse the ethea in the public through 'how to become an activist' books. The books instruct individuals in how they should turn inwards and work on themselves to become ac…
The constitution of political contention
How is political contention constituted as an intelligible political practice, distinct from mere social disorders? This article gets at the question by analysing the relation between protests and riots at the turn of the 19th century in England. Drawing on Michel Foucault's discussion of visibilities and post-foundational political theory, it contrasts the 1760s Wilkes and Liberty agitations with that of the London Corresponding Society in the 1…
Contention and social order
The relation between political contention and social order is a fundamental field of sociological inquiry. This article puts forward a dispositive perspective on the relation by analysing its constitution in concrete objects of control. Focusing on the object of riots, I uncover a significant change at the turn of the nineteenth century. Before the change, political and social riot dispositives were both mutually exclusive and in danger of transf…
A Sociological Perspective on the Experience of Contention
Contention in the form of protests, riots, and direct action is a central political practice in contemporary democracies. It is also a staple of sociological analysis, after slowly crystallizing as a distinct object of analysis from the 1970s onward. Lately, however, it has become unclear what this distinctiveness consists of and how it may help guide studies of contention: What distinguishes contention from other practices? I argue that contenti…
Civil society and its outside
The literature on the boundary between civil and uncivil society has reached an impasse between approaches that oppose these societies to each other and those that dismiss the boundary altogether. This article suggests an analytical shift to a governmental approach that asks how the relation between civil and uncivil society figures in social practices. The approach is applied to the case of the Danish anti-radicalization discourse which revolves…
A Sociological Perspective on the Experience of Contention
Contention in the form of protests, riots, and direct action is a central political practice in contemporary democracies. It is also a staple of sociological analysis, after slowly crystallizing as a distinct object of analysis from the 1970s onward. Lately, however, it has become unclear what this distinctiveness consists of and how it may help guide studies of contention: What distinguishes contention from other practices? I argue that contenti…
The constitution of political contention
How is political contention constituted as an intelligible political practice, distinct from mere social disorders? This article gets at the question by analysing the relation between protests and riots at the turn of the 19th century in England. Drawing on Michel Foucault's discussion of visibilities and post-foundational political theory, it contrasts the 1760s Wilkes and Liberty agitations with that of the London Corresponding Society in the 1…
Toward a Sociology of Democratic Truth-Telling
The erosion of truth-telling is central to discussions of democratic decline. However, these discussions often gloss over how democratic truth-telling is constituted as a practice. I develop the concept of democratic alethurgies to tackle this problem by drawing on civil sphere theory and Foucauldian studies of truth-telling. Focusing on practices of critique, I situate democratic truth-telling within a discourse that contrasts curious, courageou…
The Activist Character
This article introduces the activist as a widely disseminated character within the culture of social movement societies. Drawing on studies of activist identities, Alasdair MacIntyre on characters, and the sociology of critique, it argues that the activist provides one way of imagining unjust structures of power and the possibilities of critical empowerment. The article unpacks this character in 20 bestselling activist memoirs in the United State…
The political signification of riots
This article suggests a new perspective on the political signification of riots, using the 2011 England riots as a case. The sociological literature tends to look for the political signification of riots in the riots themselves. Drawing on Michel Foucault's notion of the dispositive, the article develops a new approach that analyses the optical grids in which riots are made visible as objects for thought and action that can be either political or…
Becoming an Activist
The article explores a new aspect of the interplay of individualisation and democracy. I ask how individualisation affects a contentious ethos, a set of ethical relations that contentious actors cultivate towards themselves and others in articulating their idea of the good. I analyse the ethea in the public through 'how to become an activist' books. The books instruct individuals in how they should turn inwards and work on themselves to become ac…
The dispositif is alive! Recovering social agents in Foucauldian analysis
Michel Foucault's concept of the dispositif is increasingly salient in sociological scholarship. We identify and criticise an ‘anonymous’ emphasis in this scholarship, which often presents the dispositif as an anonymous network that acts without human agents. To remedy this tendency we develop an agent‐inclusive version of the dispositif for sociological research. Turning to Foucault's work from the 1970s, we recover descriptions of how social gr…
Stability and Volatility in Cultural Models of Contention
How stable are the public's assumptions about the legitimacy of contentious tactics? Previous studies show that the public hold a set of assumptions about what counts as legitimate and illegitimate tactics. We enrich this literature by studying the stability of these assumptions through the case of partisan protesting in the United States. Leveraging panel data collected during the 2020 Black Lives Matter and anti-lockdown protests as well as two…
Cultural Models of Contention
The literature on contention tends to conflate contentious actions and audience's interpretation of those actions. This is problematic because interpretation is central to how contention unfolds and brings about social change. We theorise that interpretation is patterned by one or more cultural models of contention. These provide background assumptions about what actions count as political and what actions are legitimate. We show the fruitfulness…
Civil society and its outside
The literature on the boundary between civil and uncivil society has reached an impasse between approaches that oppose these societies to each other and those that dismiss the boundary altogether. This article suggests an analytical shift to a governmental approach that asks how the relation between civil and uncivil society figures in social practices. The approach is applied to the case of the Danish anti-radicalization discourse which revolves…
Contention and social order
The relation between political contention and social order is a fundamental field of sociological inquiry. This article puts forward a dispositive perspective on the relation by analysing its constitution in concrete objects of control. Focusing on the object of riots, I uncover a significant change at the turn of the nineteenth century. Before the change, political and social riot dispositives were both mutually exclusive and in danger of transf…
A Sociological Perspective on the Experience of Contention
Contention in the form of protests, riots, and direct action is a central political practice in contemporary democracies. It is also a staple of sociological analysis, after slowly crystallizing as a distinct object of analysis from the 1970s onward. Lately, however, it has become unclear what this distinctiveness consists of and how it may help guide studies of contention: What distinguishes contention from other practices? I argue that contenti…
The political signification of riots
This article suggests a new perspective on the political signification of riots, using the 2011 England riots as a case. The sociological literature tends to look for the political signification of riots in the riots themselves. Drawing on Michel Foucault's notion of the dispositive, the article develops a new approach that analyses the optical grids in which riots are made visible as objects for thought and action that can be either political or…
Cultural Models of Contention
The literature on contention tends to conflate contentious actions and audience's interpretation of those actions. This is problematic because interpretation is central to how contention unfolds and brings about social change. We theorise that interpretation is patterned by one or more cultural models of contention. These provide background assumptions about what actions count as political and what actions are legitimate. We show the fruitfulness…
Becoming an Activist
The article explores a new aspect of the interplay of individualisation and democracy. I ask how individualisation affects a contentious ethos, a set of ethical relations that contentious actors cultivate towards themselves and others in articulating their idea of the good. I analyse the ethea in the public through 'how to become an activist' books. The books instruct individuals in how they should turn inwards and work on themselves to become ac…
The constitution of political contention
How is political contention constituted as an intelligible political practice, distinct from mere social disorders? This article gets at the question by analysing the relation between protests and riots at the turn of the 19th century in England. Drawing on Michel Foucault's discussion of visibilities and post-foundational political theory, it contrasts the 1760s Wilkes and Liberty agitations with that of the London Corresponding Society in the 1…
The Activist Character
This article introduces the activist as a widely disseminated character within the culture of social movement societies. Drawing on studies of activist identities, Alasdair MacIntyre on characters, and the sociology of critique, it argues that the activist provides one way of imagining unjust structures of power and the possibilities of critical empowerment. The article unpacks this character in 20 bestselling activist memoirs in the United State…
The dispositif is alive! Recovering social agents in Foucauldian analysis
Michel Foucault's concept of the dispositif is increasingly salient in sociological scholarship. We identify and criticise an ‘anonymous’ emphasis in this scholarship, which often presents the dispositif as an anonymous network that acts without human agents. To remedy this tendency we develop an agent‐inclusive version of the dispositif for sociological research. Turning to Foucault's work from the 1970s, we recover descriptions of how social gr…
Pacts of democratic truth-telling
The relation between democracy and truth is deeply contested. While some political thinkers argue that truth is essential to democratic flourishing, others warn that it threatens the conflictual logic of democracy. I develop a sociological perspective on this question by constructing an analytical framework for studying democratic truth-telling as a practice. Drawing on Foucault, I argue that democratic truth-telling is marked by a tension betwee…
Toward a Sociology of Democratic Truth-Telling
The erosion of truth-telling is central to discussions of democratic decline. However, these discussions often gloss over how democratic truth-telling is constituted as a practice. I develop the concept of democratic alethurgies to tackle this problem by drawing on civil sphere theory and Foucauldian studies of truth-telling. Focusing on practices of critique, I situate democratic truth-telling within a discourse that contrasts curious, courageou…
Stability and Volatility in Cultural Models of Contention
How stable are the public's assumptions about the legitimacy of contentious tactics? Previous studies show that the public hold a set of assumptions about what counts as legitimate and illegitimate tactics. We enrich this literature by studying the stability of these assumptions through the case of partisan protesting in the United States. Leveraging panel data collected during the 2020 Black Lives Matter and anti-lockdown protests as well as two…
Democracy From Within
Are members of the public still committed to democracy? Existing studies often ask whether members of the public sanction political actors who break institutional or procedural norms. In contrast, we study a shared cultural horizon, which grounds democracy as a way of living. Drawing on Civil Sphere Theory and the sociology of culture and cognition, we conceptualise the horizon as a binary discourse, which can be internalised as a cultural schema…
More Productive Bodies Faster! Human Capital and Anti‐Intellectualism in Danish University Reform
This article examines the current Danish reform of master's programmes as a case of contested marketization in higher education. While the reform aims to produce "labour-market-relevant" graduates by shortening degrees, introducing corporate programmes, and reducing enrolment, it reveals a fundamental tension between two competing economic logics: a neoliberal conception of students as human capital and a conventional view of labour as quantifiab…
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