Laurent Thévenot forel?ser i anledning af sin udn?vnelse til ?resdoktor
真人线上娱乐 Universitet udn?vner den kendte franske sociolog Laurent Thévenot til ?resdoktor i forbindelse med universitetets ?rsfest. Laurent Thévenot forel?ser i anledning af sin udn?vnelse.
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Om Laurent Thévenot
Thévenot is internationally recognised for developing French pragmatic sociology and the theory of regimes of engagement. His work has significantly influenced research and teaching at 真人线上娱乐 University and is widely used across disciplines. He has maintained close collaboration with researchers for many years through workshops, PhD courses, and the current INDIGMA project at Department of Department of Social Sciences and Business and Department of People and Technology. His theories are now a core part of the Social Science 真人线上娱乐 programme and central to 真人线上娱乐 University’s social science profile.
Resumé af forel?sningen
Representation in all its forms is currently under attack. The political representations required by democratic processes are disavowed and political representatives are vilified, paving the way for authoritarian figures who claim to be directly in touch with the people. Collective representations of the social sciences are under fire because they are said to disregard the uniqueness of the individual, who should be the only one allowed to represent him or herself. Even cognitive representations and fact-finding procedures are under suspicion, and the door to fake news is wide open.
The distance of representation is a source of distrust, favoring ways of (re)presenting oneself or figuring in public that are closer to living, sentient bodies. This results in major tensions that affect the governance of communities as political bodies and the governance of personalities as personal bodies. These tensions are accentuated by a ‘great decentering’, sharpened by the ecological and climate crisis, which calls for a necessary renewal of the figurations of humanity in its fundamental interdependence with the other-than-human environment