Rethinking Order
Idioms of Stability and Destabilization
1st Edition
Published on 15. November 2015
226 pages
978-3-8394-2472-8 (ISBN)
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Stability is at the core of every discussion of order, organization or institutionalization. From an »inside« perspective, the stability of each order-constituting element is assumed. In contrast, in critical discourses instability (e.g. through ambiguity or non-control) is located at the outside of the social order as its negative. By treating this argumentative symmetrical structure as »idioms of stability and destabilization«, the articles try to rethink order: How can we describe structures from a perspective in which instability, non-control and irrationality are not contrary to ordering systems, but contribute to their stability? How might the notions of identity, knowledge and institutions in social and cultural studies be contested by this change of perspective?
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Nicole Falkenhayner, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Deutschland
Nicole Falkenhayner (PD Dr.), geb. 1976, lehrt an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Englische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. Die Alumna des Konstanzer Exzellenzclusters »Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration« hat zur Repräsentationsgeschichte britischer Muslime sowie zur Verzahnung von Medien, öffentlichen Emotionen und Überwachung geforscht und veröffentlicht. Ihre momentanen Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Helden und Heroisierungen in der Populärkultur.
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Andreas Langenohl, University of Giessen, Germany
Andreas Langenohl (Prof. Dr.) lehrt Soziologie an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Kulturtheorie, Finanzmarktsoziologie und sozialwissenschaftliche Epistemologie.
Doris Schweitzer, University of Konstanz, Germany
Kacper Szulecki, University of Oslo, Norway
Content
- Cover Rethinking Order
- Contents
- Idioms of Stability and Destabilization. Introducing the Concept of >Idiom< to the Epistemology of Social Analysis
- The Function and Functioning of Idioms of Stability and Destabilization
- Stability through Probability - and the Destabilizing Threat of Society's >Other<. Some Reflections on Nineteenth-Century Statistics
- Bad Habits and the Origins of Sociology
- Between Engaged Science and Theorized Practice. The Concept of >Case< in Social Work Studies
- Questioning Orders
- The Flexibility of Internet Time. Network Society and the Fleeting Stability of Sociotechnical Collectives
- Order of the Orderless. Dissident Identity between De-Stabilization and Re-Stabilization
- Political Order of the Multitude. Hobbes, Spinoza and the Arab Spring
- Rethinking Order
- >I Am Inclined Not To<. Circumventing Contestation and Competition
- Stability through Indeterminacy?. Jacques Derrida, >Indefinite Legal Concepts< and the Topology of Order
- The English Ruin(ed). An Idiom of Victorian Aesthetics
- False Enemies of Stability in the Political Philosophy of the Heterogeneous
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