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Tue 13 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 14 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 15 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 16 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

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Tuesday 13 April 2010 10.45
N-2 ELI17 Workshop: the concept of power, applied (double session)
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Marianna Muravyeva
Organizer: Marja Vuorinen Discussants: -
Francesco Aimerito : Judicial and legal professions in the States of Savoy: élites and 'middle-class' (XVI-XIX centuries)
The paper would deal about the elites in judicial and
> legal professions in the States of Savoy (Piedmont, Savoie, Nice)
> during the Modern and Contemoprary era, with special regards to some
> 'borderline' figures, as those of the "procuratori", "attuari",
> "liquidatori", notaries, judges of the lower courts, ... (Show more)
The paper would deal about the elites in judicial and
> legal professions in the States of Savoy (Piedmont, Savoie, Nice)
> during the Modern and Contemoprary era, with special regards to some
> 'borderline' figures, as those of the "procuratori", "attuari",
> "liquidatori", notaries, judges of the lower courts, which were far
> away form beeing part of the real élite represented by the high
> courts judges and the lawyers, but that represented in their own a
> sort of middle class of the world of justice continuously struggling
> for entering the highets degrees of the "société judiciaire" by
> imporving their studies and practical attitudes. (Show less)

Jaana Gluschkoff : Innovations and the rise and fall of elites
Social mobility is a process that develops over a period of several generations. Decisions that may have seemed unproductive in the short term worked as long-term investments spanning several generations to produce cumulative cultural and economic capital.
Invisible social capital were transferred from generation to generation in ways that were ... (Show more)
Social mobility is a process that develops over a period of several generations. Decisions that may have seemed unproductive in the short term worked as long-term investments spanning several generations to produce cumulative cultural and economic capital.
Invisible social capital were transferred from generation to generation in ways that were difficult to perceive but had important and influential effects on the future, such as through skills, knowledge, operating methods, culture, social relations and reputation.
Wealth and the level of education, in turn, supported and maintained the possibility of exercising social and economic power. This study convincingly shows the importance of education. Replacing traditional educational paths with modern future-oriented studies was decisive. The transfer of technology and know-how and the implementation of innovations didn´t only provide positions to the functioning of the ruling technological system but were also cultural processes: values, organisation models and trust, as well as the expectations of the social group at the receiving end, set limits for purely commercial motives. In terms of societal development, the question of who determined the direction of education and scientific policies was an exceedingly important one.
Also patent legislation laid the path for the adoption of innovations, for education and for scientific policies in the broad sense. This was closely linked to the birth, utilisation and control of innovations ─ not only from a material, but also from an immaterial point of view. The question of who controlled innovations, the content and transfer of information and oversaw the economic and social discourse is of great interest. (Show less)

Carlos Eduardo Rebello De Mendonça : Trotsky and counter-hegemony in Western Europe in the interwar period
Before and during his last exile, Trotsky busied himself, at various times and circunstances, with the practical task of developing a revolutionary socialist movement in Western Europe in conditions far different from those that had prevailed in pre-revolutionary Russia, having to face at the same time the existence of an ... (Show more)
Before and during his last exile, Trotsky busied himself, at various times and circunstances, with the practical task of developing a revolutionary socialist movement in Western Europe in conditions far different from those that had prevailed in pre-revolutionary Russia, having to face at the same time the existence of an long existing bourgeois hegemony and an established socialist movement, both social-democratic and communist, therefore his necessity of developing a counter-hegemonic strategy that could, firstly, reach beyond the already existing workers' constituencies and, secondly, appeal to society at large in a revolutionary sense. This paper aims at establishing, from an analysis of Trotsky's 1920s and 1930s writings on Western European politics, to strike a comparative analysis between the Gramscian concept of counter-hegemony, and Trotsky's more practical blueprints for the building of a such a counterhegemonic movement in opposition to a developed capitalist socio-political environment. (Show less)

Raquel Sánchez : Cultural politics and national identity in Spain
In the years of transition to democracy (the seventies and the eighties), Spain has to design a new image of herself through the political use of cultural institutions as the Prado Museum, The Contemporary Art Musem, etc. It was an image of modernity and democracy that allowed the country to ... (Show more)
In the years of transition to democracy (the seventies and the eighties), Spain has to design a new image of herself through the political use of cultural institutions as the Prado Museum, The Contemporary Art Musem, etc. It was an image of modernity and democracy that allowed the country to identify itself with the neighbouring democratic and European countries. The governments (from the left and the right-wing) used exhibitions, museums and the state money to subsidize cultural and artistic activities to create this project. My paper deals with this topic without forgetting the special case of regional and local governments, which were looking for their own regional, local or national identity in a complicated relationship with the Spanish one. (Show less)

Alex Snellman : Remodelling Bourdieu's Capitals as Power Resources
The system of interchangeable capitals that Pierre Bourdieu has proposed overlooks some important power sources that could incorporated to the model. In addition to economic, cultural and social capital, three more capitals should be taken into consideration. In my paper I propose that the power resources of the individual could ... (Show more)
The system of interchangeable capitals that Pierre Bourdieu has proposed overlooks some important power sources that could incorporated to the model. In addition to economic, cultural and social capital, three more capitals should be taken into consideration. In my paper I propose that the power resources of the individual could be divided into six different capitals.

The most fundamental power resource, the capital of coercion, force and violence, must be included in a model that is applied to historical societies. The organization of communities and societies and the institutionalization of their formal positions, be it that of a chieftain, a boss or a modern executive, legislative or judicial official, has created a clearly defined power resource: political capital. The power resource provided by prestige, esteem and popularity could be conceptualized as status capital in a Weberian sense. Bourdieu's somewhat cryptic symbolic capital, which has been interpreted in several conflicting ways, shall be omitted in this model. (Show less)

Pedro Urbano : The Portuguese constitutional monarchy
Norbert Elias, in his Die Höfische Gesellsfhaft, analyzes the French court of ancient regime in different approaches to the power’s theory: the nobles’ houses, their expenses, the etiquette and ceremonial.
But in the industrial societies, as Norbert Elias called the subsequent societies of the court society, these last societies also coexisted ... (Show more)
Norbert Elias, in his Die Höfische Gesellsfhaft, analyzes the French court of ancient regime in different approaches to the power’s theory: the nobles’ houses, their expenses, the etiquette and ceremonial.
But in the industrial societies, as Norbert Elias called the subsequent societies of the court society, these last societies also coexisted – it is the case of Portugal. Although after 1822 the Portuguese monarchy became a Constitutional Monarchy, lasting until the Republic implantation in 1910, it continued to be a Court Society, in which the main positions on the Royal Household were played by aristocrats.
Our main question is to know whether the Court’s Society model could be applied to the D. Carlos reign (1889-1908), as well as to know the terms those hypotheses are valid in this particular Constitutional Monarchy where even the royal power itself is limited by a Constitution. (Show less)

Marja Vuorinen : What makes people tick? Cross-discipline approaches to ideological power
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