Norbert Elias and Violence

Norbert Elias and Violence

Tatiana Savoia Landini François Dépelteau Editors Norbert Elias and Violence

Editors Tatiana Savoia Landini Universidade Federal de São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil François Dépelteau Laurentian University Sudbury, Ontario, Canada ISBN 978-1-137-56117-6 ISBN 978-1-137-56118-3 (ebook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56118-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017934716 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover design by Samantha Johnson Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Nature America Inc. The registered company address is: 1 New York Plaza, New York, NY 10004, U.S.A.

Contents 1 Introduction 1 Tatiana Savoia Landini and François Dépelteau Part I An Introduction to Elias s Views on Violence 11 2 War, Hope and Fear: Writings on Violence at the End of a Long Life 13 Tatiana Savoia Landini 3 Figurational Analysis of Michael Haneke s Time of the Wolf 33 Iṙem Özgören Kınlı Part II Strengths and Limits 53 4 Violence and Civilité: The Ambivalences of the State 55 Florence Delmotte and Christophe Majastre 5 Elias s Civilizing Process and Janus-Faced Modernity 81 François Dépelteau v

vi Contents 6 Civilisation and Violence at the Periphery of Capitalism: Notes for Rethinking the Brazilian Civilizing Process 117 Juliano de Souza and Wanderley Marchi Jr. 7 Self-Inflicted Wound: On the Paradoxical Dimensions of American Violence 139 Kyle W. Letteney Part III Post-Conflict Processes and Democracy 159 8 Norbert Elias and State Building After Violent Conflict 161 Gëzim Visoka 9 The Figurational Approach and Commemorating Violence in Central and Eastern Europe 183 Marta Bucholc 10 Parliamentary Form of Government, Habitus and Violence: The Case of Iran (1906 1925) 205 Behrouz Alikhani Index 227

Notes on Contributors Behrouz Alikhani completed his Masters degree in political sciences at Teheran University and his PhD in sociology and social psychology at Leibniz University of Hanover. Currently, he is a lecturer at the Institute of Sociology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Muenster, Germany. His main research focus is on democratization and dedemocratization processes in different structured societies as well as the connection between democratization and de-democratization and social inequalities. Marta Bucholc is a professor of sociology at Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg Recht als Kultur of Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. She obtained her habilitation (2014) and her PhD (2006) in sociology at the University of Warsaw, having graduated from there in sociology, philosophy and law. Her research focus is history of social theory, sociology of law and sociology of knowledge. Her recent books include Sociology in Poland: To Be Continued? (2016), Global Community of Self-Defense (2015), Samotnosć długodystansowca. Na obrzezȧch socjologii Norberta Eliasa (2013), and Konserwatywna utopia kapitalizmu (2012). She has translated several books into Polish, including The Sociological Imagination by Charles Wright Mills, Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas and Le Temps de Tribus by Michel Maffesoli. Florence Delmotte is Research Associate at the Belgian Foundation for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS) and professor at the Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles. Her research focuses on the relevance of Elias and other classics in sociology to think about the future of the nation-state in Europe and beyond. vii

viii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS She is the author of number of articles in French and English. She also published Norbert Elias: la civilisation et l État (Bruxelles, Éditions de l Université de Bruxelles, 2007). François Dépelteau is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Laurentian University. He is specialized in sociological theory and relational sociology. He has published many books on research methods, N. Elias, relational sociology, Shrek and Belarus, and articles in journals such as Sociological Theory and the International Review of Sociology. Tatiana Savoia Landini is Associate Professor at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil. She received her MA in sociology in 2000 and her PhD in 2005, both from the University of São Paulo. She is a specialist in the figurational/processual sociology of Norbert Elias and on the topic of sexual violence against children and adolescents. She has published books and articles on both of these topics, including two books on Norbert Elias (Norbert Elias and Social Theory, 2013 and Norbert Elias and Empirical Research, 2014). Kyle W. Letteney received his BA in Criminal Justice with a minor in Sociology at Rochester Institute of Technology. From 2011 until 2013 he worked at the Center for Public Safety Initiatives in Rochester, NY, conducting research on state-level narcotics laws and community empowerment projects. He later received his MA in sociology from the University of Tennessee. He is currently working on his PhD in sociology. His research interests include restorative justice in contemporary society, the social impacts of law, policing practices in the United States, and societal responses to various forms of violence. His chapter in this book was supported by a McClure Scholarship which enabled him to travel to Marbacham- Neckar, Germany where he studied the original works of Norbert Elias at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv. Christophe Majastre is an F.R.S.-FNRS Research Fellow and is currently completing his PhD at Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles on the role of lawyers in representing public opposition to European integration in Germany. He is interested in the methodological aspects of sociological approaches and in EU studies. Wanderley Marchi Jr. graduated in Physical Education and Sport Training from State University Julio de Mesquita Filho (1987), gained a Masters (1994) and a PhD (2001) in Physical Education at State University

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ix of Campinas and post-doctoral in the sociology of sport at West Virginia University (2012). He is currently Associate Professor at the Federal University of Parana where he teaches on graduate programmes in the departments of Physical Education and Social Sciences. His research interests are in Physical Education with an emphasis on the sociology of sport, including sport and society, volleyball and sport history. He coordinates the research group CEPELS/Center of Research in Sport, Leisure and Society, registered at CNPq. He is president of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios del DeporteSocioculturales/ALESDE. He is corresponding editor of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sport Sociology. He is a member of the Extended Board of the International Sociology of Sport Association. Member of Brazilian Olympic Academy. He s researcher of the CNPq/Brazil. İrem Özgören Kınlı is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Iżmir Kâtip Çelebi University in Turkey. She graduated from Marmara University (Istanbul), the Francophone Department of Political and Administrative Sciences in 2001. She received her first MA in International Relations from Ege University (Izmir) in 2004, a second MA in political sociology from Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris) in 2005, and was awarded her PhD in political science by Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 2011. She worked as a research assistant in the International Relations Department at Ege University (2001 2004) and was a full-time lecturer in the Media and Communication Department at Izmir University of Economics (2006 2016). Her research interests are interdisciplinary and cover the issues of figurational sociology, gender and political sociology. Juliano de Souza has a BA in Physical Education from Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (UNICENTRO), Brazil, and an MA and a PhD in Physical Education from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Brazil. He has worked as a professor at the Department of Physical Education of the Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM), Brazil, lecturing on undergraduate and graduate programmes as well as supervising research projects and MA dissertations. He is an assistant editor of the Journal of the Latin American Socio-Cultural Studies of Sport. He has broad teaching experience of Physical Education and social projects at various levels. He is a researcher at the Centro de Pesquisa em Esporte, Lazer e Sociedade (CEPELS Centre for Public Policy for Sport and Recreation of the State of Parana)

x NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS and at the Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioculturales del Deporte (ALESDE Latin American Association for Sociocultural Studies of Sport). His research dialogically articulates the use of sociological analysis models produced by classic and contemporary social theories with the investigation of empirical realities related to the universe of physical education, sports and leisure in modern society. Gëzim Visoka is a lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at Dublin City University in Ireland. His research focuses on post-conflict state building and peace-building, the ethics and politics of interventions, and the foreign policies of small states. His most recent books include: Peace Figuration after International Intervention: Intentions, Events and Consequences of Liberal Peacebuilding (Routledge, 2016), and Shaping Peace in Kosovo: The Politics of Peacebuilding and Statehood (Palgrave, 2017).

List of Figures Fig. 2.1 Empirical levels and explanatory hypothesis in TCP 26 Fig. 5.1 Some key processes explaining the ambivalent relationship between modernity and violence 113 xi