POLITICIZING THE NEW NORMAL: SUBPOLITICAL RISK SOCIETY OR POST-POLITICAL SOCIETY AT RISK?
| Autor: | Jasmin Hasanović |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Bezbednosni Dijalozi, Vol 12, Iss 2, Pp 107-119 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1857-7172 1857-8055 |
| DOI: | 10.47054/SD21122107h |
| Popis: | Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, along with the longings for a return to “normal state”, statements that nothing will be the same afterwards could also be heard. However, the real task remains in deconstructing the relationship between the pre-pandemic normality and the political consequences that coronavirus has shed light on. Hence, the idea of a global risk society, developed by sociologist Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens, could easily be recalled within those circumstances. Questioning the role of politics and political science while assuming that we live in a post-industrial age, the central idea presupposes that politics is displaced from the traditional areas of big, ideological questions. In other words, in the age of Anthropocene marked as reflexive modernization, it is being considered that politics is merely taking place as sub-politics, dealing with individual things considering small, everyday life politics. Deprived of big questions, it rather anticipates manmade risks as the consequences of modernization and achievements of the changed nature related to production and distribution in capitalist societies. Though, this paper aims to see how the global state of emergency – as a state of exception – shook such ideas, illuminating their hidden ideological charge with the goal to normalize the relations of power and domination within society. In this regard, the paper also seeks to contribute to the discussion of the importance of social and political crises and transformations, and to affirm a critical concept of theoretical practice. |
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