Mathias Klitgård Sørensen

Fiches de l’auteur

• Foucault and Galtung on structural violence

  With the French thinker Michel Foucault’s conception of power and domination, a reinterpretation of Galtung’s famous concepts of structural violence and positive and negative peace is called for. When Foucault forces us to consider power as productive and when the aim of social justice is problematized, how do we then address the issue of structural violence as an object of transformation?

• Foucault on Power Relations

• Foucault’s Genealogy and the Pillar Tool

  The Pillar Tool for critical analysis of the possibility of overturning unjust systems of oppression is read together with Foucault’s genealogical method of revealing the contingencies that uphold systems of oppression

• Hegelian Dialectics and Conflict Transformation

  The theoretical roots of Conflict Transformation is in this article sought by means of analysis of the (in)famous German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel’s dialectical view of progress. The focal questions for this analysis are: what are the conceptual processes in the workings and transformations of conflicts, how can we understand obstacles to development in a broader theoretical framework, and how do we know that what we are doing is actually creating a positive development?

• References: Foucault and Galtung on structural violence

• References: Foucault on Power Relations

• References: Hegelian Dialectics and Conflict Transformation