How Does Politics Take Closeness into Account? Returns from Russia

Thévenot, Laurent

doi:10.1007/s10767-019-9322-5

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“…The good of ease in familiarity can turn into evil when oppressing other engagements, or made instrumental in populist politics. On these issues, see Thévenot (2014Thévenot ( , 2020. 20.…”

Section: Some Lessons Learnt On the "Judicial" Legitimacy Of Governing By Certification Standardsmentioning

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A New Calculable Global World in the Making: Governing Through Transnational Certification Standards

Thévenot

2021

The New Politics of Numbers

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Governing with quantification rests on preliminary processes of transforming the world to make it quantifiable through conventions of formatting and equivalence-making. This chapter investigates a new globalized mode of governing, operating, away from states, through voluntary certification standards. Considering the case of sustainable palm oil certification, it follows the most vulnerable “stakeholders”, from their daily life in remote rural areas to the governing public roundtables and private confidential negotiations. Fostering the dialogue between the extended convention theory framework and governmentality studies, the chapter shows that in a new kind of “standardizing liberalism” [libéralisme normalisateur], “governing by standards” shifts the political debate about power, legitimacy and the common good onto measurable certifiable characteristics of goods and services to be chosen by autonomous opting individuals.

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Section: Some Lessons Learnt On the "Judicial" Legitimacy Of Governing By Certification Standardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A New Calculable Global World in the Making: Governing Through Transnational Certification Standards

Thévenot

2021

The New Politics of Numbers

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“…Second, the fact that the background of the other, both literally and cognitively, was out of sight during most sessions could prevent volunteers from developing curiosity and concern about the structural factors causing the need for tutoring in the first place. The possibility of avoiding intimacy may, in other words, be conducive to ‘avoiding politics’ (Eliasoph, 1998 ), preventing personal experiences from transitioning into subjects of public engagement (Thévenot, 2019 ). Whether fragmented, digital interaction may sustain or deter civic action in the long run is another question that merits further study.…”

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Avoiding Intimacy—An Ethnographic Study of Beneficent Boundaries in Virtual Voluntary Social Work

Grubb¹

2021

Voluntas

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Within the rich literature on volunteering, the topic of volunteer–user interaction and the mechanisms causing or mitigating inequality in this interaction remain understudied. Moreover, knowledge on how digitalization affects voluntary interaction is scarce. Based on a qualitative study of a Danish organization that offers virtual voluntary tutoring, this paper shows how technological and formal aspects of the organizational context may mitigate the risk of volunteers engaging in paternalistic, intimacy-seeking behaviour. First, reliance on information and communications technology (ICT) and managerial logics sustains a bounded form of interaction in which solving a problem is the focal point, while access to personal background information is limited. Second, the organizational design suspends sociability as a criterion for differential treatment of users. Third, anonymous mediated interaction enables temporal and audio–visual asymmetry, allowing users to perform ‘digitally sustained impression management’.

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“…From the perspective of Discursive Institutionalism, the struggle for legitimacy is socially constructed from social practices carried out by constituents who react differently (Peda & Vinnari, 2019). The complexity of the role of actors and interests between actors in political parties as explained by Intra-Party Democracy gets an additional explanation of how relations between actors that run inclusive in matters related to party policy and attraction of interest within it which is also related to elements of external forces and plural communities for broader public legitimacy (Thévenot, 2019).…”

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Discursive Institutionalism as Framework of Analysis for Multi-Vector Power Relations in Organizing Political Parties

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Nugroho³

2020

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This article investigates power relations in Intra-Party Democracy in the study of organizing political parties. Intra-Party Democracy refers to the notion of formal political institutions, whereas the political process more often occurs informally, personally, multi-vector which involves multi actors, multi political resources and power relations no longer come from formal institutional sources but any direction and beyond the reach of formal institutions. Using the literature review method, this article enhances the explanation of Intra-Party Democracy by presenting the perspective of Discursive Institutionalism as an analytical framework that bridges multi-vector power relations that occur in organizing political parties. Discursive Institutionalism explores the actors' discursive capabilities, namely coordinative discourse and communicative discourse in the discursive process in organizing political parties.

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How Does Politics Take Closeness into Account? Returns from Russia

Cited by 24 publications

References 63 publications

A New Calculable Global World in the Making: Governing Through Transnational Certification Standards

A New Calculable Global World in the Making: Governing Through Transnational Certification Standards

Avoiding Intimacy—An Ethnographic Study of Beneficent Boundaries in Virtual Voluntary Social Work

Discursive Institutionalism as Framework of Analysis for Multi-Vector Power Relations in Organizing Political Parties

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