SocietyPub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1007/s12115-023-00941-x
Neville Morley
{"title":"Polly Low (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides","authors":"Neville Morley","doi":"10.1007/s12115-023-00941-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00941-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47267,"journal":{"name":"Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139210522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SocietyPub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1007/s12115-023-00940-y
Graham McCann
{"title":"Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time","authors":"Graham McCann","doi":"10.1007/s12115-023-00940-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00940-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47267,"journal":{"name":"Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139211673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SocietyPub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1007/s12115-023-00937-7
William A. Calvo-Quirós
{"title":"The Standpoint of Hope and the Decolonial Ethno-Poetics of Radical Love","authors":"William A. Calvo-Quirós","doi":"10.1007/s12115-023-00937-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00937-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article argues that love and care, and more specifically, the hope of a new world, were central to the ethos of the US Civil Rights movement of the late 1960s and the decolonial projects inspired by it. Starting from the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other central activists of the era, this article explores how hope guided their visionary work. This article examines what differentiates the forms of hope deployed by civil rights activists and those of more recent US nationalist movements. This piece also traces the work of US third-wave feminists in creating a theory around radical hope, and the creation of what I define as a standpoint of hope: a type of consciousness that rejects the consumption of hope for selfish purposes and promotes a style of life that looks after the most vulnerable beyond one’s own group. As the article explains, hope works multi-dimensionally, as it can help people navigate their everyday struggles, envision a different outcome, and critically analyze their own history and experiences of oppression.</p>","PeriodicalId":47267,"journal":{"name":"Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138512613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SocietyPub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1007/s12115-023-00945-7
Sohini Saha
{"title":"The Bio-moral Politics of Semen","authors":"Sohini Saha","doi":"10.1007/s12115-023-00945-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00945-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article focuses on the bio-moral politics of semen in India. By engaging with religious, ascetic, scientific, and medical discourses on semen in the context of India, it emphasises that semen and the regimes of its control were shaped by complex discourses on health, immortality, and modern politico-medical notions of immunity. Based on sociohistorical and ethnographic perspectives, the article is an exploration of the <i>modern scientific</i> turn to semen in the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and how the <i>politics</i> of Indian (Hindu) nationalism enmeshed science, morality, and politics into a biopolitics of semen control. Based on my ethnographic fieldwork in the <i>bayam samitis</i> (traditional gymnasiums) and <i>akharas</i> (places of wrestling) of Kolkata, India, at present, I argue that the bio-moral politics of semen continues to remain entangled with the constitution of the <i>virile</i> and <i>potent</i> body of men and their national and community identities, sexuality, masculinity, health, and fitness with the help of <i>songjom</i> (self-restraint) exercised over masturbatory practices, diet, and night emissions. I conclude the article with the possibility to further think about the relation between the concepts of immortality and immunity that constitute masculine health based on the cultivation of a <i>potent</i> body through embodied practices of <i>bayam</i> (exercise), healthy diet, and semen control.</p>","PeriodicalId":47267,"journal":{"name":"Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138526729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SocietyPub Date : 2023-11-27DOI: 10.1007/s12115-023-00942-w
Andrew Gamble
{"title":"Rory Stewart, Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within","authors":"Andrew Gamble","doi":"10.1007/s12115-023-00942-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00942-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47267,"journal":{"name":"Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139229601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SocietyPub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1007/s12115-023-00938-6
D. Roochnik
{"title":"Malcolm Schofield, How Plato Writes: Perspectives and Problems","authors":"D. Roochnik","doi":"10.1007/s12115-023-00938-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00938-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47267,"journal":{"name":"Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139254357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SocietyPub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1007/s12115-023-00936-8
Patricia Thane
{"title":"Chris Mullin, Didn’t You Use To Be Chris Mullin? Diaries 2010-2022","authors":"Patricia Thane","doi":"10.1007/s12115-023-00936-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00936-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47267,"journal":{"name":"Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139265583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SocietyPub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1007/s12115-023-00908-y
Simon Susen
{"title":"A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere? With, against, and beyond Habermas","authors":"Simon Susen","doi":"10.1007/s12115-023-00908-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00908-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The main purpose of this paper is to assess the validity of the contention that, over the past few decades, the public sphere has undergone a new structural transformation. To this end, the analysis focuses on Habermas’s recent inquiry into the causes and consequences of an allegedly ‘new’ or ‘further’ [<i>erneuten</i>] structural transformation of the political public sphere. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part considers the central arguments in support of the ‘new structural transformation of the public sphere’ thesis, shedding light on its historical, political, economic, technological, and sociological aspects. The second part offers some reflections on the most important limitations and shortcomings of Habermas’s account, especially with regard to key social developments in the early twenty-first century. The paper concludes by positing that, although the constitution of the contemporary public sphere is marked by major—and, in several respects, unprecedented—structural transformations, their significance should not be overstated, not least due to the enduring role of critical capacity in highly differentiated societies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47267,"journal":{"name":"Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138512614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SocietyPub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1007/s12115-023-00928-8
Zhang Jingting, Jia Chao
{"title":"The “Only Hope”: China’s One-Child Generation in the Context of Modernization","authors":"Zhang Jingting, Jia Chao","doi":"10.1007/s12115-023-00928-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00928-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47267,"journal":{"name":"Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136281817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}