Norbert Elias and Empirical Research

1. Therapeutic Culture and Self-help Literature. The 'positive psychology' Code; Helena Béjar 2. Elias and Literature (Psychogenesis of Brazil in French Books for Young People); Andréa Borges Leão 3. The Civilization of Capital Punishment in France; Emmanuel Taïeb 4. Civilizing and Decivilizing Characteristics of the Contemporary Penal Field; John Pratt 5. Jurists, Police, Doctors and Psychologists - Discussing Sexual Violence in 20th-century Brazil; Tatiana Savoia Landini 6. Civilising 'life itself': Elias and Foucault; Dominique Memmi 7. The New Style: Etiquette During the Exile of the Portuguese Court in Rio de Janeiro (1808-1821); Jurandir Malerba 8. Principal Elements of Ottoman State-formation Process Through Eliasian Perspective; Irem Ozgoren Kinli 9. The Metamorphoses of the Dacha: Some Processual Thinking; François Dépelteau and Ronan Hervouet 10. Revisiting Relations between the Sexes in Sport on the Island of Ireland; Katie Liston 11. Germany's Special Path to Where? Elias in the Eurozone; Matt Clement 12. Norbert Elias and the Enigma of Time; Ji?í Subrt 13. Comparing Norbert Elias and Mikhail Bakhtin – the History of Laughter and the Civilizing Process; Thomas Maxwell Shore