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By tigtog on August 16, 2011
The last thread has grown long and slow to load. Here’s two kick-starters for further discussion – Zygmunt Bauman on the UK Riots and this photo of Londoners coordinating to clean up their neighbourhoods after calm was restored.
Posted in Crime, Europe, Politics, Sociology | Tagged civil disorder, collective behaviour, England, London, order, political sociology, riots, roundtable, social disorder, Zygmunt Bauman |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 10, 2011
It’s time for another thread on the English riots, since the last one is now rather long.
To update on some of the analysis, the prediction that a number of the usual suspects would turn the events into a partisan football has unsurprisingly been borne out. So let’s ignore that, and have a look at what we know about what’s happened and what it means.
Posted in Crime, Europe, Featured, Politics, Sociology | Tagged civil disorder, collective behaviour, Daniel Hind, England, feminist philosophers, London, order, political sociology, Politics, riots, roundtable, social disorder, Sociology |
By Kim on September 6, 2010
As we get closer to decision time, I’ve been reflecting on the idea of “stability” that seems key to the rural Independents’ choice or choices. I watched last week’s Q&A on repeat – I turned it off last Monday when [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Politics, Sociology | Tagged David Penberthy, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Independents, Jessica Rudd, John Keane, Kevin Rudd, modernist, partisan de-identification, political science, political sociology, Polls, post industrial politics, post-partisan politics, Q&A, Qanda, stability |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 12, 2010
Last week, I published a piece at The Drum refuting Bernard Keane’s claim that the current state of our politics is somehow primarily our fault as citizens. Yesterday, in Crikey, Guy Rundle also responded: Here we come back to Bernard [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged apathy, bernard keane, Crikey, Federal Election 2010, Guy Rundle, political participation, political sociology, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 3, 2010
In a lot of the discussion here and elsewhere about the drift of ALP voters to The Greens, there’s an assumption that The Greens represent a purer left alternative to Labor. That assumption might be a tad simplistic, if Tad [...]
Posted in Activism, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, APSA, Australian Greens, Ben Spies-Butcher, Bob Brown, class politics, data, Ethics, ideology, Labor, left, Macquarie University, neoliberalism, overland, Peter Singer, political parties, political science, political sociology, psephology, social democracy, Sociology, Stewart Jackson, Sydney University, Tad Tietze, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 1, 2010
As already documented on LP, Kevin Rudd occupied himself this week by performing perhaps the most spectacular policy backflip imaginable, the sidelining of the CPRS. Or perhaps unimaginable, because I suspect very few people saw this coming. Rudd’s climate change [...]
Posted in Climate change, Federal Elections, Howardia, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, backflip, class cleavages, Climate change, cprs, ets, Federal Election 2010, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lindsay Tanner, martin ferguson, May Day, paul norton, political culture, political sociology, reform, reversal, social democracy, Tanya Plibersek, The Greens, Tony Abbott, unions |
By Kim on April 8, 2010
The latest controversy to emerge from the inquiry into the Victorian bushfires revolves around Christine Nixon going off for dinner in the middle of the conflagration. The usual partisan football stuff, you might think. Guy Rundle disagrees. In a powerful [...]
Posted in Disasters, Ethics, Government, Politics, Sociology, Victoria | Tagged black saturday, bushfires, Guy Rundle, inquiry, john brumby, Max Weber, political sociology, state governments, Victorian government, Victorian politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 31, 2010
At Eureka Street, John Warhurst has written a piece about Tony Abbott, Santamaria and the Liberal Party. The illustration (reproduced below) is interesting for all sorts of reasons: <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/03/abbott-pope1.jpg" The article Tony Abbott penned for the Weekend Australian colour [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged Australian Catholicism, B.A. Santamaria, Barnaby Joyce, Bob Katter, Catholic Church, clerical child abuse, Democratic Labor Party, DLP, economic policy, Eureka Street, John Warhurst, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, National civic Council, political behaviour, political catholicism, political culture, political sociology, Pope Benedict, Queensland Nationals, religion and politics, religiosity, secularisation, Speech, symbolism, the movement, Tony Abbott, World Youth Day |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 15, 2010
Today’s Essential Research poll might show the reversal in the movement of the polls, which I suspected prompted Tony Abbott’s parental leave thought bubble last week. My view was that Abbott’s speech was a ‘crazy brave’ attempt to shake things [...]
Posted in Parenting, Policy, Politics, Polls, Sociology, Women | Tagged Coalition, Essential Research, Kevin Rudd, leadership, Liberal Party, parental leave, party images, political science, political sociology, polling, possum, public opinion, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 26, 2010
There’s been a bit of word play on another thread about John Quiggin‘s discussion of the coinage of the term ‘Agnatology’ to describe “the study of the manufacture of ignorance”. There are resonances between his diagnosis of the political right [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Feminism, History, International, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, autonomy, bogan politics, Donald Sassoon, end of ideology, Feminism, Geoffrey Barker, ideology, ignorance, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labour party, labourism, left, Liberal Democrats, liberation movements, light on the hill, managerialism, mutulalism, New Labour, Nina Power, Nordic democracies, political culture, political economy, political institutions, political sociology, right, Rudd government, social change, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, sweden, Third Way, transformation |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 11, 2010
Bernard Keane in today’s Crikey email:
Posted in Climate change, Culture, Education, Politics, Sociology | Tagged bernard keane, climate change policy, Culture Wars, education revolution, federalism, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, managerialism, myschool, Paul Keating, political culture, political sociology, Politics, roof insulation, Rudd government, spin, state labor, stimulus, Tony Abbott |
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