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Recreational experientialism at 'the abyss': rethinking the sustainability crisis and experimental politics
In light of mounting complexity and uncertainty, and challenged by the ever-accelerating pace of societal change, politics and policy making have become increasingly experimental. This also applies to sustainability politics and the project of a socio-ecological transformation. But can late-modern societies experiment themselves out of their sustainability crisis? Prompted by this question and seeking to contribute to a more complex understanding of experimental politics, this article first rethinks the notion of the sustainability crisis and, on that basis, then reconsiders established understandings of experimental politics. It focuses on self-proclaimed advanced-modern societies in the global North and suggests that, reaching well beyond more established readings of the term, their much-debated sustainability crisis ought to be understood as a crisis of their ideal and self-understanding as liberal, democratic open societies. As regards experimental politics, the article focuses specifically on social movement-based experimental politics which is widely regarded as a promising pathway toward a socio-ecological transformation. Yet, the conceptualization of the sustainability crisis suggested here raises questions about this interpretation. Supplementing established readings of social movement politics as transformative experimentalism, it prompts a reinterpretation as recreational experientialism: helping to cope with the transition of late-modern societies toward a modernity beyond the ideal of the open society. The article takes a mainly conceptual, social theory-oriented approach.
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Spirituality in Late Modernity: Exploring the Tenets of Spirituality of Camino de Santiago Pilgrims
This article delves into the intriguing phenomenon of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, which is gaining increasing attention in the Western world’s realm of religion and spirituality. Employing a cultural sociological lens, the study contextualizes pilgrims’ spirituality within the larger landscape of late modern spirituality. By juxtaposing pilgrims’ spiritual experiences with the well-defined tenets of the “religion of the heart,” a coherent cultural structure emerges, shedding light on the core attributes of late modern societies that shape these beliefs. Through a comprehensive analysis of thirty-two travelogue testimonies related to the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, utilizing the framework of exceptional experiences (EEs) and their transformative aftereffects (TAs), this study scrutinizes the prevalence of these experiences during the pilgrimage and their enduring impact in the post-pilgrimage phase. Survey data from 501 pilgrims further enriches these insights. The study finds that pilgrims’ spirituality aligns with the nine established tenets of the “religion of the heart” while complementing the tenth and a novel eleventh tenet. Moreover, it highlights how the spirituality of pilgrims leads to a deep understanding of the self, which is a condition for sustaining trust through mutual disclosure and creating pure relationships with others. Significantly, this spirituality appears to be molded by the defining characteristics of late modern societies. These attributes impact the shaping of moral standards, religiosity, and spirituality that are distinctive to the late modern era. Notably, these factors contribute significantly to the growing popularity of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage.
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The state = الحالة
\"The State is [a] sociohistorical forum & journal that intends to instigate change in social cognition and behaviour via monitorship, advice, education and entertainment.\"
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Introduction and prefaces to the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe
This is the first English translation of Reinhart Koselleck's \"Introduction\" to the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe (GG, Basic Concepts in History: A Historical Dictionary of Political and Social Language in Germany), which charts how in German-speaking Europe the accelerated changes occurring between the Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution were perceived, conceptualized and incorporated into political and social language, registering the transition from a hierarchy of orders to modern societies.
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Is the United States a Counterexample to the Secularization Thesis?
Virtually every discussion of secularization asserts that high levels of religiosity in the United States make it a decisive counterexample to the claim that modern societies are prone to secularization. Focusing on trends rather than levels, the authors maintain that, for two straightforward empirical reasons, the United States should no longer be considered a counterexample. First, it has recently become clear that American religiosity has been declining for decades. Second, this decline has been produced by the generational patterns underlying religious decline elsewhere in the West: each successive cohort is less religious than the preceding one. America is not an exception. These findings change the theoretical import of the United States for debates about secularization.
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Architecture matters
\"Architecture matters. To our cities, to our planet, to our personal lives. How we design and what we build has an impact that usually lasts for generations. The more we understand the importance of architecture, and the thinking and decisions behind the buildings we create, the better world we will construct. Who better to guide readers into the rich and complex world of contemporary architecture than Aaron Betsky, former architect, author, curator and museum director, and today dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Combining his early experiences working and meeting cutting-edge architects with his frequent role as jury member selecting the world's most prominent global architects to build icon for cities, Betsky possesses rare insight into the mechanisms, politics and personalities that play a role in how buildings in our societies and urban centres come to be. In some fifty themes and drawing from his own experiences and encounters with people and buildings around the world, he explores a broad spectrum of topics, from the meaning of domestic space to the spectacle of the urban realm.\"--Publisher's description.
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Awareness Context and Social Recognition: Reconsidering a Case Study of “Dialogue” between Different Ethnic Persons in Japan
This study incorporates Honneth’s social recognition into awareness context theory by reconsidering a case study of the dialogue between Zainichi Korean and Japanese people in Japan. It revitalizes the theoretical significance of Strauss’ symbolic interactionism in terms of its focus on power dynamics and conflicts between the majority and minorities that differ in the cultural or ethnic background in modern global society. Incorporating critical theory into symbolic interactionism is a method of enhancing its contemporary significance. However, the discrepancy between them remains unresolved. There are some previous studies on Zainichi Koreans’ dialogue and the public sphere. Still, this case uniquely fits the aim of this study. As a result, it proposes both a substantive theory as a social justice inquiry in Japanese society and a modified formal theory of awareness context by adopting the theoretical perspective coined in this study and using abductive reasoning in the reconsideration. The substantive theory proposes a joint action characterized by unending mutual recognition and pragmatist dissent as a pragmatist public sphere between different ethnic persons in Japan. It is a method of grassroots communication that realizes liberal democracy as the form of modern society in Japan, liberating people from the Japanese communitarian mindset of Wa. The formal theory proposes new awareness contexts focusing on information and social recognition, which applies to the majority-minority relationship that differs in cultural or ethnic backgrounds from a theoretical perspective by focusing on conflicts between traditional cultural communities and modern society. Additionally, as an implication of this study, a pluralistic character of symbolic interactionism united by common frameworks of formal theories is proposed.
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