By Mark Bahnisch on May 21, 2010
Over at Overland, Jeff Sparrow takes a look at the ridiculous controversy surrounding Rima Fakih’s victory in the Miss USA contest: For the last few weeks, we’ve learned, over and over again, why the burqa must be banned. A visible [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, International, Politics, Religion | Tagged anti-semitism, burqa, daniel pipes, Islam, Jeff Sparrow, Miss USA, modernity, Religion, Rima Fakih |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 12, 2009
SocProf links to a really fascinating piece on Obama’s Nobel Prize [previous LP discussion here] by Don Waisanen at ThickCulture, riffing on Weber’s characterisation of modernity as disenchantment of the world. It would appear that the Nobel committee at least [...]
Posted in Culture, Imperialism, International, Politics, Sociology, USA, War | Tagged barack obama, Bush administration, disenchantment, George W. Bush, Max Weber, modernity, Nobel Peace Prize, Politics, postmodernism, postmodernity, reenchantment, rhetoric, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 20, 2009
One of the most interesting teaching assignments I’ve had for a while is tutoring in a course in New Communications Technologies offered through the School of Humanities at Griffith. Some of the class discussions we’ve had so far this semester [...]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, Language, Life, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged cultural studies, dedifferentiation, digital natives, distributed cognition, employers, facebook, Facebook privacy, figurational sociology, Griffith University, historical sociology, human rights, informalisation, Law, Legal Eagle, Melissa Gregg, modernity, New communications technologies, New Communications Technology, Norbert Elias, personality, privacy, recruitment, School of Humanities, self, skepticlawyer, social media, Sociology, subjectivity, Sydney University, web 2.0, workplace rights |
By dk.au on December 9, 2008
The big questions for those in Poznan are those around financing. In what ways do existing instruments need reform? What novel measures could be devised to reign in emissions growth in areas like air and sea transport? So it was [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Howardia, Markets, Sociology, Technology | Tagged aesthetics, CDM, Climate change, development, finance, modernism, modernity, Photography, Sociology, UNFCCC |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 1, 2008
On a couple of reports on tonight’s tv news, I saw a citizen of Mumbai being interviewed who demanded the Indian government go to war with Pakistan. That set me to wondering what such a war – and God forbid [...]
Posted in Disasters, Government, History, International, Politics, Sociology, Terrorism, War | Tagged assymetrical warfare, attacks, Eric Hobsbawm, global sociology, globalisation, globalism, India, Max Weber, modernity, Mumbai, Norbert Elias, pakistan, political sociology, Saskia Sassen, Sociology, state, state power, Terrorism, Urbanism, War, warfare |
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