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View article: Planetary Sociology
Planetary Sociology Open
In Planetary Sociology: Beyond the Entanglement of Identity and Social Structure, Harry F. Dahms gathers a team of interdisciplinary junior social scientists who examine their individual identity as being shaped by specific social contexts…
View article: Investment and Rapid Climate Change as Biopolitics: Foucault and Governance of the Self and Others through ESG
Investment and Rapid Climate Change as Biopolitics: Foucault and Governance of the Self and Others through ESG Open
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies today are an established practice in personal and public finance. They also provide crucial benchmarks for corporate social responsibility policy in gauging the performance o…
View article: Collective Writing: The Continuous Struggle for Meaning-Making
Collective Writing: The Continuous Struggle for Meaning-Making Open
This paper is a summary of philosophy, theory, and practice arising from collective writing experiments conducted between 2016 and 2022 in the community associated with the Editors’ Collective and more than 20 scholarly journals. The main …
View article: Resourcification: A non‐essentialist theory of resources for sustainable development
Resourcification: A non‐essentialist theory of resources for sustainable development Open
Overuse of resources is accelerating current negative trends in climate change, ecosystem destruction, and biodiversity loss. The ultimate outcome is that contemporary human society is reaching or exceeding the limits of planetary boundari…
View article: The China-threat discourse, trade, and the future of Asia. A Symposium
The China-threat discourse, trade, and the future of Asia. A Symposium Open
Michael A. PetersOnce commentators and policy-makers divest themselves of deep cultural Western assumptions that only democracies can prosper economically, or that capitalism and liberal democracy ...
View article: Democracy under threat after 2020 national elections in the USA: ‘Stop the steal’ or ‘give more to the grifter-in-chief?’
Democracy under threat after 2020 national elections in the USA: ‘Stop the steal’ or ‘give more to the grifter-in-chief?’ Open
The shameless struggle by the Trump White House to maintain its rule after Election Day 2020 should startle no one. From President Trump’s first days on the campaign trail in 2016, his cynical will...
View article: The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications
The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications Open
In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluab…
View article: The Social Crises, Political Conflicts and Cultural Contradictions of “Nixonland:” Tracing Constitutional Crisis in the USA from Nixon to Trump
The Social Crises, Political Conflicts and Cultural Contradictions of “Nixonland:” Tracing Constitutional Crisis in the USA from Nixon to Trump Open
Many developments, like greater domestic turmoil, economic dislocation, social immobility, and political gridlock, suggest "the public" and "the private" are different domains with the US than they were decades ago in 1969 when President N…
View article: The Trek with Telos: A Remembrance of Paul Piccone (January 17, 1940 — July 12, 2004)
The Trek with Telos: A Remembrance of Paul Piccone (January 17, 1940 — July 12, 2004) Open
was one of this generation's most influential critical intellectuals, whose analytical work ranged from phenomenological Marxism to analyses of neo-Stalinism in Eastern Europe to Carl Schmitt's geopolitical visions for new modes of civic a…
View article: The nuclear condition in the twenty-first century: Techno-political aspects in historical and contemporary perspectives
The nuclear condition in the twenty-first century: Techno-political aspects in historical and contemporary perspectives Open
This Introduction presents the seven closely interlinked papers that explore the theme of this Special Issue, and one of the enduring existential questions for International Relations: the nuclear condition in the twenty-first century. The…
View article: Spinning Anthropocenarios: Climate Change Narratives as Geopolitics in the Late Holocene
Spinning Anthropocenarios: Climate Change Narratives as Geopolitics in the Late Holocene Open
This essay reconsiders research programs in environmental studies as they confront the Anthropocene.While scientific investigations are conducted with a commitment to clarifying the scientific record for geological sciences, the interpreta…
View article: Introduction to Fast Capitalism 15.1
Introduction to Fast Capitalism 15.1 Open
Since 2005, Fast Capitalism has worked to serve as an academic journal with a political intent.For now thirteen years, fifteen numbers, and nineteen issues (with a 1.2 issue in 2005, a 2.2 issue in 2006, a 5.2 issue in 2009, and an 8.2 iss…
View article: Have a Heart for the Holocene: The Politics of Ark Activism, Collaborative Conservation, and Sponsored Survival at Museums
Have a Heart for the Holocene: The Politics of Ark Activism, Collaborative Conservation, and Sponsored Survival at Museums Open
Science should never fully rest upon settled consensus, even though intense conflicts at key conjunctures in many scientific research programs often trigger such demands.Proponents of the Anthropocene thesis in various disciplines and diff…
View article: Frontmatter
Frontmatter Open
The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library is a project of international and interfaith scope in which Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish scholars from many countries contribute individual volumes.The project is not sponsored by any ecclesiasti…
View article: Introduction to Fast Capitalism 14.1
Introduction to Fast Capitalism 14.1 Open
Ben also served as the Director of the Center for Theory, and founding editor of this journal, Fast Capitalism.Both of these projects are also based in the Sociology Program in the College of Liberal Arts at Texas-Arlington
View article: Exploring the Chaos of Commodification: From the Arcades to the Cascades with Benjamin and Leopold
Exploring the Chaos of Commodification: From the Arcades to the Cascades with Benjamin and Leopold Open
In this study, I work through ideas from Ben Agger on critical theory to develop a provisional exploration of how Walter Benjamin helps us understand the chaos of commodification.This analysis also unfolds as a thought experiment about the…
View article: The Dissipation of American Democracy in 2016: On the Emptiness of Elitism and the Poverty of Populism in the Trump Zone
The Dissipation of American Democracy in 2016: On the Emptiness of Elitism and the Poverty of Populism in the Trump Zone Open
In the contemporary capitalist global economy, as many of the authors in this issue of Fast Capitalism assert, markets have been remade by neoliberal leaders and organizations to favor greater global finance, manufacturing, and trade over …