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Statistics and social critique
This paper focuses on the history of the uses of statistics as a tool for socialcritique. Whereas nowadays they are very often conceived as being in the hands of the powerful, there are many historical cases when they were, on the contrary, used to ...
Alain Desrosières
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Moral Judgment and Social Critique in Journalistic News Satire
Journalistic news satire is a satire subgenre that is gaining legitimacy in academic research as well as in the journalistic field as an opinion news format and arena for public debate.
Sara Ödmark
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Creativity as social critique: a case study of the opera Have a Good Day!
The article explores the communication of social critique in contemporary art. The article aims to reveal the connections between art and politics existing in the theory of art aesthetics and art practice.
Justina Paltanavičiūtė
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Imagination, attention et philosophie sociale
This article proposes a critical reading of different contemporary social philosophies. More specifically, it looks at the sociology of Luc Boltanski and the ethics of recognition developed by Axel Honneth, and then in its extension by Emmanuel Renault ...
Alain Loute
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Affective recognition and social freedom - the psychoanalytic and normative-reconstructive logics of grounding social critique in Axel Honneth’s work [PDF]
The task of this paper is the following: how should one explain and solve the theory-immanent tension in Honneth’s recent works, i.e. the tension that reflects the difference between the concept of social freedom (a concept grounded in Hegel’s ...
Euler Werner L.
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Social Critique and the Imagining of Perversion as Satire in Hard Times
This essay studies how Charles Dickens’s Hard times problematizes social issues by imagining a heteroglossia of perverted rhetoric. I argue that perversion, as a limited and distorted form of fancy/imagining, is rhetorically used in the novel as a ...
Yuanyuan Zhu
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Did the Prophets Teach Us to Protest?
If we pay attention to biblical prophets, we can hear in their messages a calling to seek out the liberation of the downtrodden and oppressed. Despite the common tendency to interpret biblical prophets as predictors of the future, their focus was not on ...
Jeremiah Cataldo
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Going beyond Western dualism: towards corporate nature responsibility reporting [PDF]
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to outline an ecofeminist lens for the analysis of accounting, which is applied to: first, the critique of corporate social responsibility reporting (CSRR); second, the elaboration of elements of a framework for a ...
Gallhofer, Sonja
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What Drives the Rise of the Right?
Book Review of Simon Winlow, Steve Hall, & James Treadwell, The Rise of the Right: English Nationalism and the Transformation of the Working Class, Bristol: Policy Press, 2017. ISBN 9978-1-4473-2848-3 (paperback). GBP 10.39.
Tereza Kuldova
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The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the contribution of pragmatic sociology on a conceptual level and to attempt to bring its political implications to light.
Cyril Lemieux
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