Empire's Legacy: Roots of a Far-Right Affinity in Contemporary France

ISBN-13: 9780190875664 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str.

John W. P. Veugelers

Recenzje

Veugelers brilliantly traces the 'career of a potential'—a disposition formed in specific circumstances, incubating over time, and emerging contingently. His work suggests that it's not enough for political sociologists to focus only on what becomes manifest as political events. We need to also consider what exists in potentia. We need to be on the lookout for 'subterranean currents, countervailing forces, and lost causes.' Otherwise we cultivate blind spots. This is a sociology of possibility but not of the kind sociologists have traditionally looked out for–utopias and the like—but, rather, the negative of this: dark, authoritarian undercurrents. The committee felt that Empire's Legacy pushed the boundary of our subdiscipline forward and expanded the field of political inquiry in ways that felt imperative for our times.

O autorze

John W.P. Veugelers is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. He has written widely on the far right, immigration politics, social movements, and voluntary associations in Canada, France, and Italy. The recipient of awards for outstanding teaching at the University of Toronto, Veugelers has been a visiting professor at universities in Africa, Asia, and Europe, and a visiting fellow at the Camargo Foundation in France.