Public Sociology for Human Rights as Rites of Rule
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2305528 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Mooney Nickel (0000-0002-9307-3908, Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 420-442 |
| Publication date | 2010-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3921 • E-ISSN: 1461-7064 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0011392110364038 |
| OpenAlex | W2167533987 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article critically considers Michael Burawoy's 'public sociology for human rights' through the lens of Timothy W. Luke's 'rites of rule'. The author argues that, while admirable in its stated aim, public sociology for human rights neglects to reveal its roots in governmentality and thus does not recognize the empirical practice of human rights within cosmopolitan global governance as a shift to consolidated contragovernmentality. The author concludes that public sociology for human rights as it is currently framed stabilizes the practice of human rights as rites of rule in an attempt to stabilize knowledge and the relations that it orders
Corporate governance · Economics · Governmentality · Human rights · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Public sociology · Rule of law · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of law · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Social Science and Policy Research
The Great Transformation
Discipline and Punish
The coming crisis of western sociology
Response
Human Rights and DevelopmentTowards Mutual Reinforcement
Social Theory and Modernity
Spaces of Global Capitalism
Cyborg Enchantments
For Public Sociology
The Order of Things
For Public Sociology
Rule of Experts
Network Governance and the New Constitutionalism
Toward a Rational Society
The Crisis of One-Dimensionality
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Governmentality and contragovernmentality
How not to become a museum piece
American Sociological Association Presidential address
Dissolving the difference between humanitarianism and development
The Postmodern Condition
Unbundling the State
The Rites of Passage
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Cosmopolitan Citizenship
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2014 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |