State

La politització del camp sociològic a Catalunya: un indicador estructural comparatiu

by Xavier Gimeno Torrent

Paper presented at the IV Catalan Conference of Young Sociologists, Bellaterra, 2011.

Objective: This paper is part of the research program on the institutionalization of sociology in Catalonia. It is a... more Objective: This paper is part of the research program on the institutionalization of sociology in Catalonia. It is a first attempt to establish an analytical model and a system of hypotheses to study the phenomenon of politicization of Catalan sociology. Method: In this sense, two databases have been developed, one of sociologists (409 valid records) and the other of political scientists (131 valid records) in order to create a preliminary structural indicator of politicization of the sociological field in comparative terms. The work is supported by theoretical background proposed by Franck Poupeau, Pierre Bourdieu and Raimon Bonal, and escapes from the subjectivist alternative, since the adopted standpoint goes beyond attitudes, motivations and individual positions. Results: The outcomes shows that relations established between the sociological field and State as a political power are identical to those established between the field of political science and State: 48% of sociologist and 47% of political scientist in the population sample are working for the State. A result that invites further study of the relations established between sociological field and political power.

Afghanistan's Security: Political Process, State-Building and Narcotics

by sule toktas

La corrupción del Estado

by Fernando Filgueiras

Chapter published in MARQUEZ-FERNADES, Alvaro; DIAZ-MONTIEL, Zulay (eds.)."Justicia Social Emancipatoria, Democracia Ciudadana y Crisis del Estado". Buenos Aires: Aleph, 2010.

Pensar el Estado en Latinoamérica pos década neoliberal: capacidades del Estado regional para promocionar el desarrollo productivo de base industrial

by María Cecilia Güemes

Tesis Maestría FLACSO diciembre 2008.

Buscando los puentes perdidos del nuevo regionalismo Dinámicas productivas y calidad socioeconómica territorial

by María Cecilia Güemes

En coautoría con Fernández, Víctor Ramiro y Magnin, Juan Pablo. Revista CENDES N° 65. Período mayo agosto de 2007 Caracas, Venezuela.

The mainstream of regional and local development has omitted both, the evaluation of the socioeconomic and demographic... more The mainstream of regional and local development has omitted both, the evaluation of the socioeconomic and demographic conditions (SEDC) of the population where productive agglomerations (clusters) dominating its analysis operate,
and up to what point these SEDC internally depend on those agglomerations and localities.
The paper shows how in Santa Fe (Argentina), during the neo-liberal nineties, the performance of highly outstanding productive agglomerations did not correlate with the local cohesion and social quality, and how the macroeconomic dynamics contribute to explain the SEDC of such localities.
Strategies connecting the economic dynamic/structures with the social ones, and the international and national with the local, are extremely relevant to achieve an integral regional development.

Estado y desarrollo en los discursos del Banco Mundial

by María Cecilia Güemes

En coautoría con V.R. Fernández y J. Vigil Revista Problemas del Desarrollo UNAM, México, Vol. 37, Núm. 144, Enero - Marzo, 2006 Pag. 33-72. (Articulo seleccionado y reeditado en Problemas del Desarrollo Edición Cono Sur, VOL 1.Nº1, ED. UNAM –CLACSO, 2006 pag 59-99)

Focusing on an analysis of the role provided to the State by the World Bank in development
processes since the... more Focusing on an analysis of the role provided to the State by the World Bank in development
processes since the 1990s, this paper emphasizes the noteworthy continuity exhibited by the
WB’s proposals to separate the State from any involvement in industrial production processes.
Based on Argentina’s experience in the 1990s, evidence is also presented of two clear
inconsistencies shown by policies inspired by such continuity: a) the constant growth of the
State starting with the reforms that were paradoxically oriented towards its reduction;
b) the emptying of state structures and capacities in the industrial production area, whose
existence the WB demands as a condition for enabling complex industrial policies. Finally, it
deals with the Latin American scenario to reflect on how the mentioned inconsistencies
contribute to and explain structural reversal in the region in a global context

De ciudadanos, Estado, derechos y ética

by Juan Antonio Fernández Manzano

This paper analyzes the concept of citizenship and some of its implications in the context of current Western... more This paper analyzes the concept of citizenship and some of its implications in the context of current Western democracies. Starting from the premise that citizenship implies a certain relation to a State, we review some of the classic foundations of the concept, concluding that what matters is the variety of substantive rights that the State recognizes to its political subjects. The essence of citizenship is revealed by reviewing the portfolio of rights included in their legal status. The reflection starts from the present moment, taking into consideration that the power loss of the states reduces political and civil rights and causes disaffection towards traditional politics, creating new forms of political participation whose potentialities and risks are highlighted.
Finally, we stress the need to generate power structures in which citizens have the opportunity to exercise their political rights and how that claim is linked to the cosmopolitan ideal of citizenship and to the presence of international institutions able to accommodate cultural diversity. We conclude by pointing out the role that ethical reflection plays in the recognition of minimum values which allow to achieve agreements that can result in universal rights.
Keywords: citizenship, rights, globalization and ethics of minimums, cosmopolitanism

Post-Crisis Perspectives in Europe on State Intervention in the Economy: So Long to “United in Diversity”?

by Riccardo de Caria

in M. Rogoff (Ed.), The Financial Crisis of 2008: French and American Responses, pp. 325-343 (2011)

This article explores the current debate among European economists and legal thinkers about the crisis, its causes,... more This article explores the current debate among European economists and legal thinkers about the crisis, its causes, and its possible remedies. In particular, the article focuses on two French books, taken as paradigmatic examples of two opposite views on the crisis, one that blames it on a lack of government intervention in the economy, and the one that blames it on too much state interference in the market. The books are respectively La crise, et après? by Jacques Attali and Revenir au capitalisme. Pour éviter les crises by Pascal Salin. In the final part, the article considers what the analysis of these works tells us about the European understanding of the crisis, and more broadly if the famous European Union motto of “united in diversity” corresponds to what is actually the state of current thinking among European writers, governments, and peoples.

The Concept of the Political in the Concept of Transnational Constitutionalism: A Sociological Perspective

by Poul F. Kjaer

AFTER GLOBALIZATION - NEW PATTERNS OF CONFLICT AND THEIR SOCIOLOGICAL AND LEGAL RECONSTRUCTION, pp. 285 - 321, Christian Jorges & Tommi Ralli, eds., Oslo: Arena Report Series, 2011

The question whether constitutions exists or can exist at all beyond the state has been a central theme of academic... more The question whether constitutions exists or can exist at all beyond the state has been a central theme of academic dispute in the last decades. This contribution departs from the historical insight that extensive forms of ordering possessing constitutional qualities always have existed beneath, beside and above the state. In the last decades the debate on constitutionalism beyond the state has however unfolded in two separate discourses: One which focuses on public international organizations and another which focuses on private structures. The former is mainly driven by political scientists and public lawyers and is characterized by an attempt to rework nation state concepts of the political in order to make them compatible with transnational developments. The latter is, on the other hand, systematically downplaying the political dimension of transnational structures. In order to bridge this gap a number of key dimensions of a specific transnational concept of the political is being fleshed out.

The Warlord as Arbitrageur, Theory & Society

by Ariel Ahram

Co-authored with Charles King

What Happens While the Official Looks the Other Way? Citizenship, Transnational Sport Migrants, and the Circumvention of the State.

by Thomas Carter

Sport in Society (2011) 14 (2): 223-240.

The era of transnational sport migration (TSM) has been one of heady celebration, seemingly free movement across... more The era of transnational sport migration (TSM) has been one of heady celebration, seemingly free movement across borders, and lucrative business. The predominant (and outmoded) models of sport migration currently ignore state controls of migration. This paper brings the state back into analyses of TSM and looks at strategies migrants have used to skirt governmental attempts to control their movements. Understanding the issues surrounding state constructions of national citizenship is essential – both for this paper but also for migrants themselves in order to manipulate these controlling mechanisms to work in their favour. After identifying classificatory themes for determining national and professional status, this paper draws on several examples to highlight states’ attempts to control the movements of sport professionals. Using a combination of ethnographic material gathered over the past decade along with interviews and investigative reports, this article argues that an updated theory for understanding transnational sport migration must incorporate and reflect the actual experiences routes and roots of TSM and the multiple forces that contour theseprocesses.

"Reflections on Summer Reading"

by Richard Amesbury

From "The Immanent Frame," 31 August 2011.

MENYUDAHI ANALOGI—MENDAMAIKAN BIOLOGI DAN SOSIOLOGI MELALUI PSIKOANALISIS

by Hizkia Yosie Polimpung

Makalah disajikan pada Kelompok Kajian Kognisi, Sejarah dan Perubahan Sosial, Fakultas Psikologi, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, 11 Mei 2011

Di kalangan ilmu sosial, psikologi (dan psikoanalisis)  sosial terkenal buruk dalam begitu saja menganalogikan... more Di kalangan ilmu sosial, psikologi (dan psikoanalisis)  sosial terkenal buruk dalam begitu saja menganalogikan individu dengan kolektivitas (dalam hal ini masyarakat). Masyarakat, yang secara nominal merupakan suatu kolektivitas individu, direduksi menjadi seekor individu saja. Akibatnya, seakan-akan suatu masyarakat memiliki ketidaksadaran dan superego kolektif yang mentsruktur prilaku mereka, atau mungkin, sebagaimana Freud menunjuk Jermannya Nazi, menderita psikopatologi kolektif. Hal ini uniknya juga terjadi di kalangan Sosiolog. Emile Durkheim misalnya, mengikuti Herbert Spencer, menggunakan metafora organisme untuk memahami unit-unit sosial yang menjadi obyek kajiannya. Kosakata yang ia gunakan untuk menjelaskan, misalnya, masyarakat dan negara sarat dengan yang biasa digunakan untuk menunjuk tubuh manusia:

Illegitimacy of the State in Bihar

by Avinash Kumar Mishra

Published in Economic and Political Weekly, Oct 2009

State nouns are K-states

by Antonio Fábregas

With Rafael Marín. Submitted to Selected Proceedings of Going Romance 24.

From psych verbs to nouns

by Antonio Fábregas

With Louise McNally & Rafael Marín. To appear in an edited volumen in OUP.