21 Newsletter of the Norbert Elias Foundation EDITORS ’ NOTES (original) (raw)

2011

Abstract

• This issue marks the tenth anniversary of Figurations. The first was produced to coincide with the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Bielefeld in 1994. Stephen Mennell has edited Figurations since its inception, and Aoife Rickard has been the Assistant Editor since issue number 7 in 1997, the year of the Elias centenary. • Some things do change, however. The first twenty issues of Figurations were published for the Norbert Elias Foundation by SISWO, the Netherlands Universities Institute for Co-ordination of Research in the Social Sciences. As mentioned in the last issue, SISWO is now withdrawing from all its publishing activities, and the present issue is the first to be published by the Foundation itself. Annette van de Sluis, who undertook the layout and design at SISWO, will continue to perform that task on a freelance basis, but Saskia Visser, Secretary to the Foundation, will now handle distribution. • In January, Ton Zwaan gave evidence for the prosecution at the trial of Slobodan Milosovic at the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. Ton’s book Civilisering en decivilisering: Studies over staatsvorming en geweld, nationalisme en vervolging (Amsterdam: Boom, 2001 – see Figurations 16) was based substantially on a study of the conflict in Yugloslavia, and Ton was the only Dutch expert to be called. He was cross-questioned for two hours by the accused. It is not very common for sociologists to be recognised as expert witnesses in such a highprofile international trial as this, and we may take some pride that Ton’s use of the figurational concepts of civilising

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