Artikler

Indhold : Nr. 2 : Årgang 8 : 2005

 

Tema

Politisk protest/offentlighed

af Thomas Olesen

Operation Occupation – and the politics of protest

af Charlotte Fridolfsson

Civilsamfundet mellem partnerskab og protest: Informations- og kommunikationsteknologi udsat for rundbordspolitik

af Mikkel Flyverbom

Magt og Modmagt i netværkssamfundet

af Bolette M. Christensen

The Militant Political as Embodiment of Democracy

af Tim Appleton

Zizek og revolutionen

af Carsten Bagge Laustsen

 

Artikler

Teknologiens betydning for amerikansk sikkerhedspolitik

af Troels Burchall Henningsen

En dansk model? Statsborgerskabets udvikling i Danmark 1776-1990

af Simon Kjær Hansen & Thomas Jelstrup 

 

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Anatole France sagde engang, at de sejrrige aldrig er oprørere. Men er oprør en vej til sejr? Som politisk strategi er protest for nogen tidens løsen, den rette vej i kampe for universalistiske goder som frihed og demokrati. For andre er protest en forældet og uhensigtsmæssig vej, der tillader partikulære interesser at skævvride fælles politiske institutioner. I hvilket omfang man lægger sig nærmere den ene eller den anden position i opfattelsen af konkrete protester afhænger selvfølgelig af omstændighederne og ens vurdering af tingenes tilstand.

Uanset hvor man står, trækker disse linier tre aspekter af dette nummers temas grundproblematik op - protest som politisk strategi. Der er nogen, der benytter protest som en politisk strategi. Der er autoriteter, de retter deres protester mod. Der er en omverden, som alene i kraft af sin opfattelse af protesten som relation mellem protesterende og autoritet påvirker dens mulighed og konsekvenser.

 

Abstracts:

 

Politisk protest/offentlighed

Thomas Olesen, assistant professor, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.

 

The article problematizes the absence of a public sphere dimension in the study of political protest. The problem is that the public sphere is often reduced to a framework within which protest is played out. But the public sphere is not simply a framework; it is itself part of the dynamics of political protest. This is not least the case because the media are crucial to the success of political protest today. The political protest of social movements attempts to generate a public dynamic and what E. E. Schattschneider calls an enlargement of the scope of conflict. Enlarging the scope of conflict implies that a wide range of actors (not just civil society organizations) becomes involved and that the pressure on authorities thereby increases. This perspective on political conflict has important consequences for theory, analysis and methodology.

 

Operation Occupation - and the politics of protest.

Charlotte Fridolfsson, research student, Department of Political Science, Örebro University

 

The purpose of this paper is to reactivate the contingency of a seemingly steady structure organizing and, to a various extent, recognizing the means of political protest. Occupations are conventionally viewed as an extreme form of protest. Nevertheless, activists at the small town hospital in Mariestad achieved their political goal, to sustain surgical activity in the operation theater, through the occupation of these public utilities. The conditions of possibility for their success realized only through renegotiation of what their measure signified and by their identification as peaceful pensioners and responsible citizens compelled to act. In the process of making this particular struggle legitimate a constitutive outside, a troublesome political activist is reinforced that continues to pose a phantasmic threat to liberal democracy.

 

 

Civilsamfundet mellem partnerskab og protest: Informations- og kommunikationsteknologi udsat for rundbordspolitik.

Mikkel Flyverbom, research student, Centre for Media and Democracy (MODINET) and Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School.

 

This article explores the link between political protests and incorporation in two UN-foras for information- and communications technology. It argues that the empowered social movements tend to seek a consensusbased rationality instead of conflict.

 

Magt og modmagt i netværkssamfundet

Bolette M. Christensen, Associate professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.

 

This article focuses on networks as based on the exclusion of democratic elected representatives and the public. In this perspective political protesting becomes a necessary form of power that can neutralize the tendency to incorporate the innovative elements of social movements in global networks and thereby marginalizing their critical and political aspects.

 

The Militant Political Subject as Embodiment of Democracy

Tim Appleton, research student, Department of Government, University of Essex.

 

Against the theoretical background of the political philosophy of Alain Badiou and Jacques Ranciére this essay argues that intolerance and militant activism can be a necessary condition for democracy as long as it is practiced along particular ethical guidelines.

 

Žižek og revolutionen

Carsten Bagge Laustsen, assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

 

By zooming in on the myth of revolution this article combines a number of points from the works of Slavoj Zizek with reflections on, how political protesting can be conceived in a modern capitalist society.

 

Teknologiens betydning for amerikansk sikkerhedspolitik

Troels Burchall Henningsen, Head of Section, Statistics Denmark.

 

The development within the military technology has been more than obvious during the wars that the US has fought over the last decade. This article explores the link between security politics and technology in order to understand the meaning of the current “Revolution in Military Affairs” for the warfare of the future.

 

En dansk model? Statsborgerskabets udvikling i Danmark 1776-1990

Simon Kjær Hansen, Head of Section, Danish Ministry of Finance & Thomas Hjortenberg Jelstrup, Senior consultant, Deloitte Denmark.

 

This article analyzes the development of the Danish model for citizenship between 1776 and 1990. Based on an analytical framework of the German and French models for citizenship the authors show that throughout history the Danish institution of citizenship has been based on both the both ideal types. Furthermore the article argues that because of this shifting back and forth between models of citizenship, Danish citizenship cannot claim to be based on the protection of the cultural homogeneity of the Danish people.