How happenings do (not) turn into events: A typology and an application to the case of 9/11 in the American and Dutch public spheres

Dooremalen, Thijs van

doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12847

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“…With the discipline’s cultural turn, comparative historical sociology started building on—and often expanding—the cultural concepts described previously (Adams, Clemens, and Orloff 2005). With the transformation of social structures now seen as inherently eventful (Sewell 1996, 2005; Sahlins 1991; van Dooremalen 2021; Wagner-Pacifici 2010, 2017), attention turned to the radical uncertainty engendered in times of crisis (Sendroiu 2019). For instance, studying the Iranian revolution, Kurzman (2004) emphasizes that in such times of crisis, individuals have little sense of what is happening around them.…”

Section: Crises As Self-evidentmentioning

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“All the Old Illusions”: On Guessing at Being in Crisis

Sendroiu

2022

Sociological Theory

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Models of culture and action argue that crises can be generative of change, with changing contexts setting off reflexivity—a view of crisis as self-evident that is echoed in comparative historical work. Looking to the beginning of the Cold War in Romania and France, this article elaborates two instances when crises did not produce reflexive recognition. This echoes performative approaches that highlight actors needing to interpret crises into being yet underscores that crisis claims nonetheless take place in contexts potentially marked by shifting sociocultural scaffoldings. Rooted in the empirical finding that actors can live through—and be affected by—structural transformations without thinking of themselves as being in crisis, I put forward a conception of crises as unclear as they are taking place. Actors can guess at being or not being in crisis, with no guarantee their guess is fortuitous. Crisis management will be the result of these guesses: some informed, some lucky—and some, indeed, disastrous.

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Section: Crises As Self-evidentmentioning

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“All the Old Illusions”: On Guessing at Being in Crisis

Sendroiu

2022

Sociological Theory

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“…Crises -- including “shock” events like the 9/11 terrorist attacks or moments of widespread uncertainty -- represent contextual stressors that create rupture from the past, as former worldviews, habits, and routines are thrown into disarray ( Bourdieu, 2000 ; Sewell, 1996 ; Swidler, 1986 ; van Dooremalen, 2021 ; Wagner-Pacifici, 2010 ). The resulting unpredictability and disruption in turn threaten psychosocial health ( Glynn et al, 2019 ).…”

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How American college students understand social resilience and navigate towards the future during covid and the movement for racial justice

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Zilberstein

2022

Social Science & Medicine

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The tempest within: the origins and outcomes of intense national emotions in times of national division

Feinstein

2024

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Theories of intense national emotions have focused on affection for the home nation and antagonism for national others but overlooked antagonism for fellow nationals. The article introduces a comprehensive theory of intense national emotions. It first discusses the sources of the potential energy stored in national identities, pointing to a combination of two factors: the nation is at once potent due to its capacity to shield against existential threats and precarious due to its dependence on the reproduction of contested narratives. The article then explains that events that—through a construction process elaborated in the text—seem to threaten or promise to alter perceived core elements of the nation (i.e., “nation-disrupting events”) evoke intense emotions. Next, the article explains why some periods of "hot" nationalism increase national division rather than unity. The conclusion proposes a promising direction for future research on intense national emotions as a mechanism of eventfulness.

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How happenings do (not) turn into events: A typology and an application to the case of 9/11 in the American and Dutch public spheres

Abstract: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Cited by 9 publications

References 48 publications

“All the Old Illusions”: On Guessing at Being in Crisis

“All the Old Illusions”: On Guessing at Being in Crisis

How American college students understand social resilience and navigate towards the future during covid and the movement for racial justice

The tempest within: the origins and outcomes of intense national emotions in times of national division

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