Norbert Elias in Troubled Times

Florence Delmotte is Research Associate at the Belgian Foundation for Scientific Research (FNRS) and Professor of Political Science at Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles, Belgium. Her research focuses on the relevance of Norbert Elias and processual sociology for thinking through such political issues as citizenship, legitimacy, belonging and national habitus in today's Europe. She is the author of a number of articles in English and French on these topics.  

Barbara Górnicka is Lecturer in Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is a graduate of UCD's School of Sociology, where she completed her doctoral degree in 2016. She is a Fellow of the Norbert Elias Foundation and a Co-Editor of the Human Figurations Journal. She is the author of Nakedness, Shame and Embarrassment: A Long-term Sociological Perspective (Springer, 2016).

1. Troubled Times: Editors' Introduction.- Part I: Renewing Classical Themes.- 2. The Question of Inequality: Trends of Functional Democratisation and De-democratisation.- 3. Vox Populi Then and Now.- 4. Figurational Sociology of the Rule of Law: A Case of Central and Eastern Europe.- 5. Transformations of Human Rights within Ruptures and Continuity: A Historico-Sociological Approach.- 6. Civilising Digitalisation: In Search of a New balance with Today's Technological Innovations.- 7. Confronting Uncertainties: Process Sociology Converges with the Ecological Risk Society of the Becks.- Part II: Violence and Faces of the War.- 8. The Civilising Process, Decline of Homicide and Mass Murder Societies: Norbert Elias and the History of Violence.- 9. A Throwback to Violence? Outline for a Process-Sociological Approach to 'Terror' and 'Terrorism'.- 10.  Violence and Power: The Kaiowá and Guarani Indigenous Peoples.- 11. Analysing European Defence with Elias's Historical Sociology (1990-2020).- Part III: Established-Outsiders Relations and Habitus Issues.- 12. Weaving Elias's Thought with Indigenous Perspectives and Lives: Proposal for a Research Agenda.- 13. A Question of Function: Unequal Power Ratios and Asylum Seekers in Ireland.- 14. Thoughts on Describing Established and Outsider Figurations in Inner Mongolia- 15. Generational Figuration and We-Group Formation in the Palestinian West Bank since the 1970s.- 16. The Israeli National Habitus and Historiography: The Importance of Generations and State Building.- 17. The Established and The Outsiders: An Incomplete Study?.- Part IV: Conclusive Reflections.- 18. Some Political Implications of Sociology from an Eliasian Point of View.