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Inspired by “possible symptoms of decivilising processes” (Mennell, International Sociology 5(2):205–223, 1990) and by “a workable synthesis”of “universally applicable criteria for doing figurational process sociology” (Wouters, Human Figurations: Long-Term Perspectives on the Human Condition 3(1), 2014), this chapter analyzes how changes in structural processes, in manners/culture, in social habitus and in modes of knowledge are depicted in Michael Haneke’s movie Le temps du loup (2003) [The Time of the Wolf]. Four conceptual tools are applied: change in pattern of co-operation and competition; we–I balance between established and outsider groups; changes in control of nature, in social controls and in self-controls; and changes in modes of knowledge, and the balance of involvement and detachment.
I am very grateful to Dr. Onur Kınlı for introducing Hanekean cinema to me, watching and discussing all his movies with me, encouraging me to write this article and giving me intellectual and moral support during the writing of this chapter. I would also like to thank Tatiana Savoia Landini and François Dépelteau for their helpful comments on an earlier version. Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to François Dépelteau and Simon Edward Mumford for proofreading the chapter.
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Kınlı, İ.Ö. (2017). Figurational Analysis of Michael Haneke’s Time of the Wolf . In: Landini, T., Dépelteau, F. (eds) Norbert Elias and Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56118-3_3
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