Depoliticisation before Neoliberalism

Adriejan van Veen is Assistant Professor of Political History at Radboud University Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. He specialises in the political culture of the Netherlands and Western Europe in the modern age. Specifically, Van Veen is interested in the history of political and societal organisation, and the theory and practice of such concepts as political representation and depoliticisation.

Theo Jung is Professor of Modern History at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, in Germany, where he specialises in the history of European culture and politics during the long nineteenth century. His research focuses on structures and moments of political interaction, historical temporalities, and the history of various social practices.

1. Depoliticisation before Neoliberalism: An Introduction; Adriejan van Veen and Theo Jung.- 2. Dimensions of the Political and Trajectories of Depoliticisation; Ido de Haan.- Part I. Conceptual Boundary Work: Ideas, Discourses, and Rhetoric.- 3. Moderation and Depoliticisation after the French Revolution: The Idéologues; Matthijs Lok.- 4. Between Religion and Politics: Constructing an A-Political Sphere after the 1848/9 German Revolutions; Tamar Kojman.- 5. Technocratic Anti-Politics in Dutch Interwar Political Culture; Ruben Ros.-  6. Doubly Politicised? Semantical Struggles around the Relation between 'the Economy' and 'Politics' in the Weimar Republic and National Socialism; Stefan Scholl.- 7. Ideology, Politicisation and Depoliticisation in Political Thought and in Parliamentary Rhetoric; Jussi Kurunmäki and Jani Marjanen.- Part II. Doing Depoliticisation: Practices and Performances.- 8. Passive Citizenship? Civil Society and Political Abstention in the Netherlands, c. 1800-1840; Adriejan van Veen.- 9.  Not Only Apathy and Disinterest in Politics: Abstention and Blank Vote as Forms of Articulated Unease in Nineteenth-Century Europe; Oriol Luján.- 10.  Empire Without Politics: Depoliticisation and Colonial Relations, c. 1900-1950; N. N..- 11. Planning the Technate: The A-Political Politics of the 1930s' Technocratic Movement; Eva Visser.- 12. 'Don't Go Fishing this Sunday': The Limits of Depoliticising Non-Voting in France under De Gaulle, 1958-1969; Zoé Kergomard.- 13. Anti-Politics as an Efficient Political Tool: The Anti-Political Thought in the Czechoslovak Dissident Movement and its Second Life After 1989; Adéla Gjuricova.- Part III. Delegation and Integration: Depoliticisation in and through Institutions.- 14. Access Denied: The Institutional Depoliticisation of Representative Government during the Dutch Revolution, 1780-1800; Mart Rutjes.- 15. Unpolitical Islam? Strategies of Depoliticisation Surrounding Islam in Republican Turkey; Jan-Markus Vömel.- 16. Politicising the Police? The Problem of Depoliticisation in the Public History of Democratic Municipal Policing in the Netherlands, 1945-2019; Wim de Jong.- 17. An Administered Society? Planning and (De)Politicisation in the Late Franco Dictatorship, 1964-1973; Anna-Catharina Hofmann.- 18. Uprooting Pests, Uprooting Politics? The European Community's Regulation of Pesticides, 1958-1992; Koen van Zon.