«Politicization» vs «depoliticization»: The search for alternative strategic projects and possibilities of political field structuring
Abstract
The article examines the possibility of using «politicization» and «depoliticization» concepts in a theoretical analysis of processes of constituting and structuring of a political field. Different interpretations of politicization and depoliticization are conditioned by different understandings of the essence of politics / the political. The author, using an ideal-typical model of a political field, includes conflict, availability of choice, goal-setting and universality of norms into a definition of political. Thus, politicization denotes emergence of opportunities for articulation of social contradictions and realization of political subjectness in an area of choice and goal-setting, while depoliticization denotes denial of conflict, eradication of choice, and destruction of rules of political interaction. As a process of a political community’s formation out of a proto-political, politicization determines horizontal structuring of a political field. In this process alternative strategic projects are being formulated, which contain the basic principles of society’s organization, goals and directions of its development. These projects ensure the actualization of the political, and their competition serves as a mechanism for (re)production of a political field. It is necessary to discover and analyze such projects to assess the prospects for constituting of a political field.
About the Author
L. Y. Philippova
Institute of Sociology of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
References
1. Бурдье П. Социальное пространство и генезис «классов» // Бурдье П. Социология политики. - М.: Socio-Logos, 1993. - С. 53-97.
2. Козлов С.В. Социально-политические стратегии и конституирование социального порядка: Проблема легитимации (социально-философский аспект) // Вестник ТвГУ. Серия «Философия». - Тверь, 2015. - № 1. - С. 39-49.
3. Липсет С., Роккан С. Структуры размежеваний, партийные системы и предпочтения избирателей. Предварительные замечания: (Перевод) // Политическая наука / РАН. ИНИОН. - М., 2004. - № 4. - С. 204-234.
4. Муфф Ш. К агонистической модели демократии // Логос. - М., 2004. - № 2 (42). - С. 180-197.
5. Рансьер Ж. Десять тезисов о политике // Рансьер Ж. На краю политического. - М.: Праксис, 2006. - С. 193-221.
6. Beveridge R. The (ontological) politics in depoliticisation debates: Three lenses on the decline of the political // Political studies review. - Oxford; Malden, Mass., 2017. - Vol. 15 (4). - P. 589-600.
7. Brown W. Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism’s stealth revolution. - N.Y.: Zone books, 2015. - 296 p.
8. Crouch C. The march towards post-democracy, ten years on // The political quarterly. - Oxford, 2016. - Vol. 87, Issue 1. - P. 71-75. - Mode of access: http://onlinelibrary. wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-923X.12210/full (Дата посещения: 25.01.2018.)
9. Dalton R.J. Democratic challenges, democratic choices: The erosion of political support in advanced industrial democracies. - Oxford; N.Y.: Oxford univ. press, 2004. - 230 p.
10. Flinders M., Wood M. When politics fails: Hyper-democracy and hyper-depoliticization // Policy & politics conference «Transforming policy and politics: The future of the state». - Bristol, 2013.-7/18 September. - Mode of access: https://mafiadoc.com/ when-politics-fails-hyper-democracy-and-hyper-_5a1ede241723ddd0f422374a.html (Дата посещения: 03.02.2018.)
11. Hay C. Why we hate politics. - Cambridge: Polity press, 2007. - 200 p.
12. Himmelstrand U. A Theoretical and empirical approach to depoliticization and political involvement // Acta Sociologica. - Oslo; L., 1962. - Vol. 6, N 1/2: Approaches to the study of political participation. - P. 83-110.
13. Landwehr C. Depoliticization, repoliticization, and deliberative systems // Anti-politics, depoliticization, and governance / Ed. by P. Fawcett, M. Flinders, C. Hay, M. Wood. - N.Y.: Oxford univ. press, 2017. - P. 49-67.
14. Lipset S.M., Rokkan S. Cleavage structures, party systems, and voter alignments // The West European party system / ed. by P. Mair. - N.Y.: Oxford univ. press. - 1990. - P. 91-138.
15. Mouffe Ch. On the political. - L.; N.Y.: Routledge, 2005. - 144 p.
16. Mouffe Ch. The return of the political. - L.; N.Y.: Verso books, 1993. - 156 p.
17. Pettit P. Depoliticizing democracy // Ratio Juris. - Oxford, 2004. - Vol. 17, N 1. - P. 52-65. - Mode of access: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a631/d0dba95b9b 3a3841f858cef38f8827c768e1.pdf (Дата посещения: 03.02.2018.)
18. Wood M. Depoliticisation: What is it and why does it matter? // Sheffield political economy research institute. - Sheffield, 2017. - Mode of access: http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2017/09/07/depoliticisation-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter/ (Дата посещения: 06.01.2018.)
19. Wood M. Politicisation, depoliticisation and anti-politics: Towards a multilevel research agenda // Political studies review. - Oxford; Malden, Mass., 2016. - Vol. 14 (4). - P. 521-533.
20. Wood M., Flinders M. Rethinking depoliticization: Beyond the governmental // Tracing the political: Depoliticisation, governance and the state / Ed. by M. Flinders, M. Wood. - Bristol: Policy press, 2015. - P. 21-45.
Review
Views:
124
Email this article 
Post a Comment 