Телеграм канал «Политическая теория и философия (Political theory and philosophy)»

Eugénie Mérieau - French dual constitutionalism, Tocqueville and Algeria: liberal authoritarianism as constitutional technique of liberal imperialism

This paper argues that to liberal authoritarianism defined here as a liberal technique of government fusing authoritarianism with liberalism for the purpose of the ‘free market’, following Hermann Heller corresponds a form of dual constitutionalism or fragmented legality. Dual constitutionalism, originally a colonial technique of governance, relies on a liberal constitution enshrining a state of exception which suspends it on specific matters, territories, and during certain times. It can be either military called in France the ‘state of siege’, the continental version of the British Martial Law or civilian the ‘state of emergency’. In the case of France, liberal authoritarianism has witnessed several declinations since the French Revolution, flourishing in the liberal colonialism of the late 19th century, then the full-fledged liberal authoritarianism of the interwar period, and eventually in the neoliberal authoritarianism of the 4th and 5th republic. Focusing on the relationship between France and its Algerian colony during the Third Republic (1870–1940), one of the most liberal periods ever in French history, it documents how the State of Exception was used to establish a legalised state of dictatorship where all executive, legislative and judicial powers were vested in the hands of a governor, in order to force the creation of markets by breaking down collective land ownership and use and other non-liberal economic customs of the local population, using, in particular, the legal tool of the ‘sequestre’ which allowed the State to forcibly expropriate land and seize assets of the local population without compensation, forced labour and internment camps all in order to incentivise ‘free enterprise’ by the colonisers. Many of these legal tools and techniques migrated back to the metropolis when the Third Republic officially dissolved into a Nazi State in 1940, through legal means and in accordance with the constitutional procedures of the Third Republic.

Statephobia: Whose Sovereignty? Anti-lockdown Protests and the (Geo)Politics of Statephobia

In this first episode of the Statephobia and Statephilia Series, political philosopher Mitchell Dean, one of the foremost contemporary theorists of state power, and political geographer Luiza Bialasiewicz discuss the nature of the current Covid-19 protests and their wider political as well as geopolitical implications.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o3KYf5Q0i0

Cris Shore, Susan Wright - Audit Culture: How Indicators and Rankings are Reshaping the World

All aspects of our work and private lives are increasingly measured and managed. But how has this 'audit culture' arisen and what kind of a world is it producing? Cris Shore and Susan Wright provide a timely account of the rise of the new industries of accounting, enumeration, and ranking from an anthropological perspective, drawing on political economy, ethnographic observation, and genealogical excavation. Audit Culture is the first book to systematically document and analyze these phenomena and their implications for democracy. The book explores how audit culture operates across a wide range of fields, including health, higher education, NGOs, finance, the automobile industry, and the military. The authors build a powerful critique of contemporary public sector management in an age of neoliberal market-making, privatization, and outsourcing. They conclude by offering a raft of suggested actions to reverse its damaging effects on communities, reclaim professional autonomy, and restore the democratic accountability that audit culture is systematically undermining.

Тоштендаль Р. Профессионализм историка и историческое знание

В книге рассматривается возникновение профессии историка и ее эволюция. Автор представляет профессиональное историописание "как поиск исторического знания, когда условия этого поиска постепенно совершенствуются сообществом ученых для того, чтобы по возможности максимально отказаться от догадок и предубеждений". Книга охватывает европейское историописание вплоть до XXI века.

Наталья Беглова - Московская семья рязанского разлива

Воспоминания дочери известного журналиста-международника Спартака Беглова о детстве в России и Бангладеш, учебе в МГИМО, работе в Институте США и Канады. В мемуарах рассказывается о культурной атмосфере и политических взглядах в кругах советских политиков и дипломатов 1950–70-х гг. Упоминаются Арбатовы, Букреевы, Снегиревы, Меликянцы, Фанталовы, Юлины, Бойченко и др.