by Liam Gillespie | 6 Aug 2019 | Key Concepts
In Outline of a Theory of Practice (1977) Pierre Bourdieu provides a framework both for understanding the way that cultural settings (re)produce the means of their own production, and for analysing the effect of this (re)production on the particular subjects of a...
by Leila Faghfouri Azar | 12 Jul 2019 | Key Concepts
Hannah Arendt. From ‘Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt’. ZEITGEIST FILMS Shortly after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, the English translation of Hannah Arendt’s essay was published under the title...
by Stephen M Young | 26 Feb 2019 | Key Concepts
High Court of Australia Building (Canberra). Photo: S Young. Discipline is one of Foucault’s most intriguing and widely discussed concepts. This explanatory post broadly examines discipline and disciplinary power by considering how Foucault conceptualises the...
by Luca Siliquini-Cinelli | 1 Feb 2019 | Key Concepts
Key Concept At a time when the world seems to be rejecting the universalist neo-liberal logic of governance to embrace various modes of cultural, political, socio-economical, and juridical nationalisms, an engagement with Giorgio Agamben’s concept of stasis becomes...
by Calvin Dieter Ullrich | 3 Jul 2018 | Key Concepts
1531 – Celestial swordsman, castle and army over Strasbourg | Src The concept of the katechon first appears in biblical literature with two hapaxlegomena occurring in the second deutero-Pauline epistle to the Thessalonians: “And now you know what is now restraining...
by William M. A. Chandler | 13 Dec 2017 | Key Concepts
Key Concept Whether one believes that law is provided by God (Natural Law), is created by human intellect (Positivism), a gendered institution perpetuating patriarchy (Feminism) or the maintainer of the status quo against marginalised groups (Critical Legal Studies),...
