Leviathan

The study focuses on a group of agents that can influence the quality and development of democracies considerably, but have scarcely been the subject of research. It deals with „participation practitioners“ or „professionals“, i.e....

The aim of this article is to demonstrate the potential of the intrinsic logic of the cities for critical urban research. The perspective of the inherent logic of cities provides a reconstruction of urban everyday certainties (doxa). However,...

Where people live has a fundamental impact on their life chances. Against this background, processes of international migration are at the center of interest in social science and economics. While migration ethics and neoclassical economics are two...

Both in Ukraine and in Russia, the level of national consciousness and pride was at a low level after the breakdown of Communism, but increased strongly in the course of the years meanwhile. The reasons for this, however, were extremely different....

The article introduces the concept of „Verdeckung“ as a key category for the critical analysis of relations of inclusion and exclusion in contemporary democratic societies. In this context, contemporary democratic societies are understood as...

Closely linked to current conflicts on minority rights, anti-discrimination, and diversity, awareness has recently emerged as a specific practice of discrimination avoidance. Awareness is a political practice and an emotional program that aims to be...

Recent Arendt scholarship emphatically stresses that Arendt categorically rejected any distinction between the perspectives of participants and observers. This article, however, recalls those moments in her thought in which she affirmed and/or even...

Starting from Bourdieu’s theory of capital, this article discusses to what extent economically exploitable personal data can be seen as the foundation of an independent form of new digital capital. As a valuable and contested commodity, it unfolds...