This article introduces the special issue on Elites and Power after Financialization'. It is presented in three parts. The first sets out the original Weberian problematic that directed the work of Michels and Mil...
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This article introduces the special issue on Elites and Power after Financialization'. It is presented in three parts. The first sets out the original Weberian problematic that directed the work of Michels and Mills, in the 1910s and 1950s respectively. It then discusses how this framework was appropriated and then cast aside as our understanding of capitalism changed. The second section makes the case for a reset of elite studies around the current capitalist conjuncture of financialization. It is explained how this unifying theme allows for a diverse set of approaches for answering old and new questions about elites and power. The third part identifies four key themes or sites of investigation that emerge within the nine papers offered here. These are: new state-capital relations, innovative forms of value extraction, new elite insecurities and resources in liquid times and the role of elite intermediaries and experts.
The class of '92 is a documentary film featuring six Manchester United F.c. players who recount their time during a pivotal period for the club, English football and English society. The documentary claims to offe...
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The class of '92 is a documentary film featuring six Manchester United F.c. players who recount their time during a pivotal period for the club, English football and English society. The documentary claims to offer a commentary on Britain in the 1990s, but appears, without acknowledging the fact, to be a promotional vehicle to establish the six men as a brand labeled the class of '92 (cO92). creating this brand necessarily involved presenting a selective account of their time and places with the film being little more than an advertisement, masquerading as an observational documentary. The film draws freely upon the symboliccapital held by the club and the city of Manchester and uses the Busby Babes/Munich chapter and the more recent Madchester scene to forge the class of '92 brand by editing out those elements that did not accord with this project. The article argues that a more complete representation of '90s Britain, while disrupting the intended narrative, would acknowledge the significant structural and commercial changes experienced by the club, the sport, and the city in the last decade of the 20th century. We suggest that the class of '92 invites the viewer to consider how the documentary film genre can contribute to brand development and promotion.
A country that has not gone through a revolution, India has been the crucible of several reform movements as early as the nineteenth century. But none of them intended to break with the past. They even sometimes prepa...
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A country that has not gone through a revolution, India has been the crucible of several reform movements as early as the nineteenth century. But none of them intended to break with the past. They even sometimes prepared the ground for revivalism. In parallel, Hindu traditionalism developed in reaction to social and cultural change. In the twentieth century, these schools of thought found political expressions in the congress party where they inhibited the fights against the caste system and land reform. These trends continued after 1947, in reaction to Nehruvian views, till conservative congressmen created the Swatantra party and then the congress (O).
The dominant theory of elite power, grounded in Weberian bureaucracy, has analyzed elites in terms of stable positions at the top of enduring institutions. Today, many conditions that spawned these stable command post...
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The dominant theory of elite power, grounded in Weberian bureaucracy, has analyzed elites in terms of stable positions at the top of enduring institutions. Today, many conditions that spawned these stable command posts' no longer prevail, and elite power thus warrants rethinking. This article advances an argument about contemporary influence elites'. The way they are organized and the modus operandi they employ to wield influence enable them to evade public accountability, a hallmark of a democratic society. Three cases are presented, first to investigate changes in how elites operate and, second, to examine varying configurations in which the new elites are organized. The cases demonstrate that influence elites intermesh hierarchies and networks, serve as connectors, and coordinate influence from multiple, moving perches, inside and outside official structures. Their flexible and multi-positioned organizing modes call for reconsidering elite theory and grappling with the implications of these elites for democratic society.
The book Temporality and Shame: Perspectives in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (2018) includes eleven beautifully crafted, interdisciplinary chapters on shame and its relationship to time, ethics, culture, religion, mo...
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The book Temporality and Shame: Perspectives in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (2018) includes eleven beautifully crafted, interdisciplinary chapters on shame and its relationship to time, ethics, culture, religion, morality, human nature, and clinical work. It is edited by two Jungian analysts, both editors of the Journal of Analytical Psychology (JAP), Drs. Ladson Hinton and Hessel Willemsen. The chapters are written by contemporary Jungian analysts, philosophers, a filmmaker, and an anthropologist who was a witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Each chapter teaches us about shame in our lives, from a reflection on shame and technology to an astute analysis of new ways to help those suffering from both personal and ontological shame.
The idea and archetype of the Wounded Healer is informative for depth psychotherapy and Jungian analysis. In this enterview, three seasoned Jungian analysts share what it has meant to them in their work and life.
The idea and archetype of the Wounded Healer is informative for depth psychotherapy and Jungian analysis. In this enterview, three seasoned Jungian analysts share what it has meant to them in their work and life.
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