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- Title
Three faces of civilization: 'In the beginning all the world was Ireland'.
- Authors
van Krieken, Robert
- Abstract
This paper outlines a refinement of the sociological usage of the concept 'civilization' by distinguishing between three different 'faces' of civilization - as the opposite of barbarism, as equivalent to culture, and in Elias's sense as capturing a particular trajectory of socio-historical development. I then illustrate how this distinction between three different faces of civilization can be deployed in relation to the history of the various attempts by the English to civilize the population of Ireland. Finally, I reflect on the centrality of the experience of the colonization of Ireland for the English conception of how 'barbarism' should be understood and opposed to 'civilization' (which was then later mobilized in the colonization of the New World), as well as on the ways in which the colonization of Ireland constituted a binding together of both civilizing and decivilizing processes.
- Subjects
CIVILIZATION; SOCIOLOGICAL research; SOCIAL development; COLONIZATION; CULTURE; HISTORY
- Publication
Sociological Review, 2011, Vol 59, Issue 1, p24
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.01977.x