Exploring Taboos in the Public Sphere. Methodological Cosmopolitanism about Symbolic Violence Cover Image

Odkrywanie tabu w sferze publicznej. Metodologiczny kosmopolityzm wobec przemocy symbolicznej
Exploring Taboos in the Public Sphere. Methodological Cosmopolitanism about Symbolic Violence

Author(s): Mariusz Baranowski
Subject(s): Anthropology, Civil Society, Governance, Communication studies, Government/Political systems, Politics and society, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Nationalism Studies, Social Norms / Social Control, Sociology of Politics, Globalization, Geopolitics, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture; taboo; public body; globalisation; democracy; liberalism and neoliberalism;

Summary/Abstract: Taboo issue of the public sphere, understood as the “inarticulate” prohibition of the reflection of fundamental foundations of social discourse itself, is one of the principal elements that prevent conclusive analysis of the mechanisms of power in the symbolic space. Therefore, the main aim of the present paper is to reveal – by using the paradigm of methodological cosmopolitanism (Ulrich Beck) – the problematic areas of – what Pierre Bourdieu has called – symbolic violence, and what the proposed approach here is synonymous with the subtle and often di cult to articulate mechanism of power in a broad sense.

  • Issue Year: 34/2012
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 8-13
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Polish