@misc{FitziTurner2019, author = {Fitzi, Gregor and Turner, Bryan S.}, title = {Introduction: From politics as a vocation to politics as a profession}, series = {Journal of Classical Sociology}, volume = {19}, journal = {Journal of Classical Sociology}, number = {4}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {London}, issn = {1468-795X}, doi = {10.1177/1468795X19851341}, pages = {311 -- 315}, year = {2019}, language = {en} } @misc{Turner2019, author = {Turner, Bryan S.}, title = {Time, Science and the Critique of Technological Reason: Essays in Honor of Herminio Martins}, series = {European Journal of Social Theory}, volume = {22}, journal = {European Journal of Social Theory}, number = {4}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {London}, issn = {1368-4310}, doi = {10.1177/1368431018824454}, pages = {571 -- 574}, year = {2019}, language = {en} } @article{Turner2019, author = {Turner, Bryan S.}, title = {A Nineteenth-Century Turning Point}, series = {Regimes of happiness : comparative and historical studies}, journal = {Regimes of happiness : comparative and historical studies}, publisher = {Anthem Press.}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-1-78308-886-7}, pages = {235 -- 248}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Happiness as the ultimate goal of human endeavour is a thread running through theology and philosophy from the ancient Greeks to modern times. Such a claim raises immediately a host of critical objections and problems relating to the idea of cultural relativism. Can the theme of happiness be continuous and how would we know that? One way to overcome this dilemma is to identify 'regimes of happiness' - that is, clusters of ideas, practices and institutions that in one way or another connect to broad ideas of human wellbeing, flourishing and satisfaction or Eudaimonia to use the word that dominates Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Contreras- Vejar and Turner, 2018). Contemporary discussions of happiness almost invariably start with Aristotle (Nagel, 1972). However, the methodology here is to some extent borrowed from Michel Foucault to understand the 'genealogy' of happiness across different social and cultural formations. In the Western world one could identify an Aristotelian regime of happiness based on the idea of a sound polity and flourishing citizens. There is also a Christian regime of happiness around such figures as St. Augustine and within which there have been radical shifts most notably brought about by Luther and the Protestant Reformation. Regimes of happiness can overlap with each other and their borders are obviously fuzzy. Some regimes may last a long time in various forms. For example, Aristotle's treatment of happiness is one of the most cited versions of happiness across the West. The idea of happiness is, however, not confined to the West. For example, the Vietnamese Constitution that was devised by Ho Chi Minh, an admirer of America society, crafted the 1945 Constitution with three key words as its primary values - Independence-freedom-happiness (or niem hanh phuc). The 2013 version of the Constitution in Article 3 says, 'The state guarantees […] that people enjoy what is abundant and free for a happy life with conditions for all- round development.' One further notion behind our discussion of 'regimes of happiness' is that in principle we can detect important shifts in regimes that are associated both with specific networks of individual thinkers, and with institutional changes in the location of intellectuals in these networks. In this chapter I am especially interested in the transitions in thinking about happiness from the late eighteenth century and through the nineteenth century.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Turner2019, author = {Turner, Bryan S.}, title = {Introduction}, series = {Populism and the crisis of democracy. Volume 3. Migration, gender and religion}, booktitle = {Populism and the crisis of democracy. Volume 3. Migration, gender and religion}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-1-138-09138-2}, pages = {1 -- 8}, year = {2019}, language = {en} } @misc{TurnerContrerasVejar2019, author = {Turner, Bryan S. and Contreras-Vejar, Yuri}, title = {Introduction}, series = {Regimes of happiness : comparative and historical studies}, journal = {Regimes of happiness : comparative and historical studies}, publisher = {Anthem Press}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-1-78308-886-7}, pages = {1 -- 8}, year = {2019}, abstract = {This book started as a conversation about successful societies and human development. It was originally based on a simple idea— it would be unusual if, in a society that might be reasonably deemed as successful, its citizens were deeply unhappy. This combination— successful societies and happy citizens— raised immediate and obvious problems. How might one define "success" when dealing, for example, with a society as large and as complex as the United States? We ran into equally major problems when trying to understand "happiness." Yet one constantly hears political analysts talking about the success or failure of various democratic institutions. In ordinary conversations one constantly hears people talking about being happy or unhappy. In the everyday world, conversations about living in a successful society or about being happy do not appear to cause bewilderment or confusion. "Ordinary people" do not appear to find questions like— is your school successful or are you happily married?— meaningless or absurd. Yet, in the social sciences, both "successful societies" and "happy lives" are seen to be troublesome. As our research into happiness and success unfolded, the conundrums we discussed were threefold: societal conditions, measurements and concepts. What are the key social factors that are indispensable for the social and political stability of any given society? Is it possible to develop precise measures of social success that would give us reliable data? There are a range of economic indicators that might be associated with success, such as labor productivity, economic growth rates, low inflation and a robust GDP. Are there equally reliable political and social measures of a successful society and human happiness? For example, rule of law and the absence of large- scale corruption might be relevant to the assessment of societal happiness. These questions about success led us inexorably to what seems to be a futile notion: happiness. Economic variables such as income or psychological measures of well- being in terms of mental health could be easily analyzed; however, happiness is a dimension that has been elusive to the social sciences. In our unfolding conversation, there was also another stream of thought, namely that the social sciences appeared to be more open to the study of human unhappiness rather than happiness.}, language = {en} } @article{YılmazTurner2019, author = {Y{\i}lmaz, Zafer and Turner, Bryan S.}, title = {Turkey's deepening authoritarianism and the fall of electoral democracy}, series = {British journal of Middle Eastern studies}, volume = {46}, journal = {British journal of Middle Eastern studies}, number = {5}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1353-0194}, doi = {10.1080/13530194.2019.1642662}, pages = {691 -- 698}, year = {2019}, language = {en} }