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Political Sociology for a Globalizing World Political Sociology for a Globalizing World Michael S. Drake polity Copyright © Michael S. Drake 2010 The right of Michael S. Drake to be identifi ed as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2010 by Polity Press Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 350 Main Street Malden, MA 02148, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permis- sion of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-3755-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-3827-0 (pb) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Typeset in 10.5 on 12 pt Plantin by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshires Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Group, UK The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for exter- nal websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: www.politybooks.com Contents Detailed Contents vi Introduction 1 1 Political Sociology and Social Transformation 3 2 Theorizing Power 25 3 From Identity Politics to the Politics of Representation 52 4 Sovereignty and the State 70 5 Citizens, Nations and Nationalisms 95 6 Civil Society and the Public Sphere 116 7 Social Movements 134 8 Risk and Securitization 156 9 Cosmopolitanisms and Postnational Formations 173 10 War, Terror and Security 190 Conclusion 207 References 211 Index 225 Detailed Contents Introduction 1 1 Political Sociology and Social Transformation 3 Situating political sociology 6 Resituating political sociology 10 Changing context, changing politics and the politics of change 15 From situational to transformational political sociology 22 2 Theorizing Power 25 Power and theory 26 Power, part 1 28 Power as possession: elite theory 28 Max Weber and the instrumental concept of power 31 Marxism, ideology and the structural concept of power 35 Power, part 2 38 Power revisited 38 From ideology to discourse 39 Michel Foucault 41 Constituted and constituent power 48 3 From Identity Politics to the Politics of Representation 52 Conceptualizing social identity 53 Politics of identity in practice and theory 59 Strategies and problematics of identity politics 61 From the politics of identity to the politics of representation 64 Detailed Contents v ii 4 Sovereignty and the State 70 The state and social theory 72 Historical sociology of the state 77 The state problematized 86 State-systemic sovereignty 89 Sovereignty, power and war 92 5 Citizens, Nations and Nationalisms 95 Citizenship and social citizenship 96 Citizenship as a strategy of government 99 The concept of the nation 104 From ideology to imaginary 109 National identity as ‘real’ fantasy 113 6 Civil Society and the Public Sphere 116 The power of the powerless in ‘apolitical politics’ 117 Histories of the concept of civil society 117 Critiques of the concept of civil society 121 The public sphere 122 The historical sociology of the public sphere 125 The eclipse of the public sphere 128 Public spheres today? 129 The public sphere and social control 132 7 Social Movements 134 The concept of the social movement 134 Social movements in historical context, from ‘old’ to ‘new’ 137 Social movements as resource mobilization 142 Social movements as social creativity 144 Social movements and identity 146 New social movements and the revolution of everyday life 148 Conclusion 154 8 Risk and Securitization 156 Ulrich Beck 158 Risk society as a critical theory 161 Sub-politics and life politics 163 Limits 166 Securitization 167 Securitization as a critical theory 170 viii Detailed Contents 9 Cosmopolitanisms and Postnational Formations 173 Dimensions of globalization 174 The global and the social as units of analysis 181 Cosmopolitanism and its imaginaries 183 Constitutive globalization 186 10 War, Terror and Security 190 Civilizing security? 191 New and old wars 194 New forms of violence 196 New wars 198 New ways of war 202 Conclusion 205 Conclusion 207 References 211 Index 225
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