Papers by Michalis Lianos
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CARTOGRAFIE SOCIALI Rivista di sociologia e scienze umane, 2024
This is an AI translation of the French paper. Without being perfect, it is quite accurate and gi... more This is an AI translation of the French paper. Without being perfect, it is quite accurate and gives a fair impression of the content of the original paper.
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CARTOGRAFIE SOCIALI Rivista di sociologia e scienze umane, 2024
The paper explores the emerging link between individual experience and political expression and p... more The paper explores the emerging link between individual experience and political expression and proposes that contemporary social movements seek structural political changes based on individually negotiated principles, rather than on ideologies that are taken for granted. It proceeds to interrogate the possibility that this development may signal a new relation to all things political, as it is participation that determines and amends in real time the political and ideological framework which guides a movement. Since the WTO protests of Seattle in 1999, it has become increasingly clear that a unified ideological framework is not indispensable for initiating collective action. The French Yellow Vest movement offers a good case in point to observe the continuation of that trend. Like other contemporary social movements, the Yellow Vests refused massification and assimilation. “Apolitical” or “non-partisan”, they rejected a single ideological platform, a structured organization, or a pyramidal leadership. In that context, the paper revisits some aspects of Tilly’s tutelary concepts on social movements.
Keywords:Experiential Politics; New Social Movements; Yellow Vests; Depoliticization; Individuation.
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Cartografie sociali. Rivista di sociologia e scienze umane, Jun 28, 2017
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Droit social, 2021
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Is violent conflict inevitable? What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genoc... more Is violent conflict inevitable? What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we are programmed to bond and form communities that demand loyalty in order to let us belong. The analysis in this book cuts through the social sciences in order to show the fundamentals of violent conflict. The book investigates conflict at the level of sociality. It reorganises existing theories of conflict under that perspective and brings them to bear upon the link between violence and togetherness. It introduces the key concept of closure to describe the conditions under which human groups start to perceive their position as similar and their reality as polarised. This is how normality starts breaking down and fault lines appear. Violent conflict is then analysed as a reaction that seeks change more rapidly than conditions seem to allow. Global comparative data from numerous studies-including M. Mousseau's works-are used to disentangle the factors that contribute to "democratic peace", that is, the fact that democratic societies do not go to war with each other. This inquiry reveals the new dimension of sociodiversity, which allows societies where individuality is strong to constantly produce alternatives and avoid closure. The book concludes with a coda on peace and sociodiversity which explains how contemporary societies can ensure durable peace and adequate social justice at the same time. Written in a clear and direct style, this volume will appeal to students, researchers and scholars with an interest in political sociology, anthropology, international relations or war studies, as well as conflict and peace studies.
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European Societies, 2015
I would like to thank my predecessor, Professor Goran Therborn, for his hard work over four years... more I would like to thank my predecessor, Professor Goran Therborn, for his hard work over four years as the Editor of this journal. Just where Goran situated his farewell editorial, I would like to st...
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En plus des analyses socioéconomiques et politiques, l’élaboration de stratégies de transition ap... more En plus des analyses socioéconomiques et politiques, l’élaboration de stratégies de transition appropriées, viables et réalistes, exige également un réel travail de mise en démocratie, centré sur la préservation du bien commun et des générations futures. Quelles transformations des rapports entre autorité des connaissances scientifiques et ouverture du débat démocratique s’opèrent alors quand les politiques publiques entendent s’ancrer dans la citoyenneté renouvelée qu’appelle la transition écologique? Aussi, quelles sont les relations entre les divers savoirs, connaissances, expertises et normes dans ces politiques et dans la production scientifique? Ces questions sont la trame qui a nourri les textes de ce numéro de VertigO - la revue électronique en sciences de l’environnement consacré à la transition énergétique notamment dans les filières de l’éolien et de l’hydrogène
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L’objectif de cet article est de decrire tres brievement les premisses d’un modele emergeant de l... more L’objectif de cet article est de decrire tres brievement les premisses d’un modele emergeant de leadership portant sur tous les domaines d’activite, mais dans des mesures differentes. Les initiatives politiques, economiques et technoscientifiques dans le domaine de l’environnement sont particulierement concernees. Il s’agit de contribuer a la comprehension, l’anticipation et eventuellement l’acceleration, des changements dans le fonctionnement du leadership. Le modele est issu de recherches empiriques approfondies sur les mouvements sociaux, l’incertitude et la complexite des societes postindustrielles, la perception du risque et le role de l’environnement dans cette perception. Il n’est pas possible d’inclure les liens detailles a ces travaux dans un seul et meme article. Par consequent, je me concentre ici strictement sur la presentation d’un modele tout en fournissant un echantillon representatif des references empiriques de base, tant primaires que secondaires.
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Keywords:Experiential Politics; New Social Movements; Yellow Vests; Depoliticization; Individuation.
Keywords:Experiential Politics; New Social Movements; Yellow Vests; Depoliticization; Individuation.
Thus, we are increasingly controlled not by coercion but by competition and efficiency, aspiration and fear, to the point where a new era in human sociality is starting. Moving beyond existing critiques, Lianos argues that capitalism does not show itself as a conspiracy of the powerful but rather manifests as the lowest common denominator of our collective weaknesses. Control, therefore, lies in practice and freedom lies in consciousness.
"This book transforms our view of social control. It is undoubtedly the first work to expose a decisive social mutation and reveal to us the logic and the disturbing power of a post-disciplinary, new social control, just as Foucault masterfully revealed to us the logic of disciplinary control."
- Robert Castel, École des hautes études en sciences sociales.