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Assimilation and liberal government1
van Krieken, RobertPublished 2005-01-01This paper discusses the place of concepts and practices of assimilation within liberal strategies of government generally, as the foundation for understanding the ways in which they were mobilised in relation to Indigenous ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Beyond the ‘Parsonian Problem of Order’: Elias, Habit and Contemporary Sociology or Hobbes was Right
van Krieken, RobertPublished 2003-06-30The way in which Simmel answered the question ‘How is society possible?’ provided a variety of important and fruitful foundations for subsequent sociological theory and research. However, the reformulation of the sociological ...Open AccessConference paper -
Citizenship and Democracy in Germany: implications for understanding globalization
van Krieken, RobertPublished 2000-01-01This chapter outlines the particular character of the development of the German nation and state, of German citizenship and democracy, to chart the problems and issues which this history has produced, and to highlight the ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Crime, government and civilization: Rethinking Elias in Criminology
van Krieken, RobertPublished 2006-05-10The placement of criminal law under the control of the public authority of the sovereign or the state has always been part of an attempt to civilize its operation, both restraining the workings of law on those inflicting ...Open AccessArticle -
From miscegenation to assimilation: rationalities of child removal in Australian colonial administration
Watson, Virginia; van Krieken, RobertPublished 2000-12-01This paper presents the results of an ARC Small Grant titled “The Bringing them Home ‘Stolen Generations’ Report: a sociological analysis of the evidence”. It examines the governmental rationalities which informed policies ...Open AccessConference paper -
Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and the politics of natural justice under settler-colonialism
van Krieken, RobertPublished 2006-05-04This paper examines the progression of the Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) case, and the legal construction of public participation in the making of political decsions. In the process of examining the politics of competing ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Legal Reasoning as a Field of Knowledge Production: Luhmann, Bourdieu and Law’s Autonomy
van Krieken, RobertPublished 2004-05-01This paper pursues an improved theoretical understanding of the particular position of legal rationality in relation to other, competing, modes of thinking about human behaviour and social institutions. Against the background ...Open AccessConference paper -
Occidental self-understanding and the Elias-Duerr dispute: ‘thick’ versus ‘thin’ conceptions of human subjectivity and civilization
van Krieken, RobertPublished 2005-01-01It has become central to Occidental self-understanding to see Western European identities and forms of social relations as historically unique. This is true both in everyday, commonsense understandings of what it means to ...Open AccessArticle -
A Post-Colonial Comment on Collins
Clegg, Stewart; van Krieken, RobertPublished 2006-05-05This paper responds to Randall Collins' critique of R.W. Connell's 1997 paper, 'Why is classical theory classical' arguing that the the history of the discipline should in fact be redrawn.Open AccessWorking Paper -
Social Discipline and State Formation: Weber and Oestreich on the historical sociology of subjectivity
van Krieken, RobertPublished 1990-05-01The concept of discipline has come to be associated with the work of Michel Foucault, but Max Weber and Gerhard Oestreich also made extensive use of it, and this paper explores their contribution to our understanding of ...Open AccessArticle -
The sovereignty of the governed
van Krieken, RobertPublished 2006-05-10This paper examines the significance of the High Court cases on ‘freedom of communication’ in the 1990s for the nature of sovereignty in Australia. Rather than cutting the King’s head off, as Foucault urged us to do, these ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
State intervention, welfare and the social construction of girlhood in Australian history
van Krieken, RobertPublished 1992-12-13This paper provides a historical analysis of the role that state intervention into family life has played in the social construction of Australian `girlhood'. It outlines the discourses and practices surrounding child ...Open AccessConference paper -
What Does it Mean to be Civilised? Norbert Elias on the Germans and Modern Barbarism
van Krieken, RobertPublished 1998-01-01Review of Norbert Elias, The Germans.Open AccessArticle, Letter
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