Culture, Practice & Europeanization

This article focuses on responses to drought among Polish farmers. Framed by the concept of the involvement–detachment continuum, as proposed by Norbert Elias, this article shows the unbreakable bond between natural occurrences and social life,...

Climate change is one of the most important pieces of evidence for what is currently discussed as ‘the Anthropocene’, the age of human domination of the planet. At the same time, it poses a real threat to the survival of human civilisation. This...

Military force has historically shaped human societies and their environments, often leaving profound and lasting ecological impacts. The environmental consequences of military activities – even in peacetime – can endure for generations. This...

This article explores the analytical potential of Norbert Elias’s notion of social habitus for understanding resistance and change in everyday practices relevant to demand-side climate mitigation. It unfolds in two steps. First, it revisits the...

This paper revisits Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilising process in light of the ecological, economic, and political transformations of the 21st century. It argues that Elias’s triad of controls – over the self (psychogenesis), over others...

This paper provides a specific sociological explanation of the failing in effective climate protection, analysing the unique societal constellations in which a socio-ecological transformation is embedded. Starting with the urgent calls by the IPCC...