Liberation and limitation: Emancipatory politics, socio-ecological transformation and the grammar of the autocratic-authoritarian turn
| Autor: | Ingolfur Blühdorn |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Mobilization
Sociology and Political Science Grammar media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Authoritarianism 010501 environmental sciences Autocracy 01 natural sciences Transformation (music) 0506 political science Politics Political economy Planetary boundaries 050602 political science & public administration Social inequality Sociology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Social Theory. 25:26-52 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7137 1368-4310 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/13684310211027088 |
| Popis: | Despite decades of emancipatory mobilization, there is no realistic prospect for any profound socio-ecological transformation of contemporary consumer societies. Instead, social inequality and ecological destruction are on the rise and an autocratic-authoritarian turn is reshaping even the most established liberal democracies. In explaining these phenomena, the struggle for autonomy and emancipation is an important parameter that has not received sufficient attention so far. This article investigates these phenomena through the lens of the dialectic of emancipation – a concept that I have suggested elsewhere and that I here further elaborate, placing particular emphasis on the relationship between the rule-transgressing and the rule-setting capacities of the emancipatory project. The article specifies constitutive dimensions of the emancipatory project, explores their ongoing reinterpretation and reconfiguration and thus explains how the emancipatory logic itself has come to obstruct the socio-ecological transformation and to nurture new forms of authoritarian governance. |
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