Jack Barbalet is Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Australian Catholic University. His research interests include sociological theory, political sociology, and the sociology of modern China. He has published extensively on the sociology of Max Weber, including Weber, Passion and Profits and Confucianism and the Chinese Self: Re-examining Max Weber’s China. His most recent book is The Theory of Guanxi and Chinese Society.

• Introduction: an irrepressible political thread1. Politics as violence 2. Race as a political project3. Citizenship and its military basis4. A calling for political educationConclusion: lessons, sociological and political

Jack Barbalet is Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Australian Catholic University. His research interests include sociological theory, political sociology, and the sociology of modern China. He has published extensively on the sociology of Max Weber, including Weber, Passion and Profits and Confucianism and the Chinese Self: Re-examining Max Weber’s China. His most recent book is The Theory of Guanxi and Chinese Society.

• Introduction: an irrepressible political thread1. Politics as violence 2. Race as a political project3. Citizenship and its military basis4. A calling for political educationConclusion: lessons, sociological and political

Jack Barbalet is Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Australian Catholic University. His research interests include sociological theory, political sociology, and the sociology of modern China. He has published extensively on the sociology of Max Weber, including Weber, Passion and Profits and Confucianism and the Chinese Self: Re-examining Max Weber’s China. His most recent book is The Theory of Guanxi and Chinese Society.

• Introduction: an irrepressible political thread1. Politics as violence 2. Race as a political project3. Citizenship and its military basis4. A calling for political educationConclusion: lessons, sociological and political