2170 - Social Theory and Political Modernity in Crisis: Authority, Power, Violence

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

The rise of new nationalisms, the breakdown of governmental norms, the reconfiguration of the post-1989 order: the world outruns theoretical schemas designed to comprehend the trentes glorieuses and the Reagan era. What conceptual resources can be made available for both identifying and explaining the prevailing social and political trends of our own era? And what can these concepts help us comprehend about the relationship between authority and authoritarianism, power and crisis, symbolic violence and bodily harm? This session will explore these themes, with a particular eye towards the crisis of liberal politics.

Sub Unit

• Theory Section

Session Organizers

• Isaac Ariail Reed, University of Virginia

• Anne Marie Champagne, Yale University

Presider

• Isaac Ariail Reed, University of Virginia

Panelists

• Julia Potter Adams, Yale University

• Michael Rodriguez-Muñiz, Northwestern University

• Jeffrey Goldfarb, New School for Social Research

• Dylan John Riley, University of California-Berkeley