Postmodern melancholia

Article Abstract:

Joel F. Handler is of two minds as to postmodernism's value in a politics of change. His misgivings can best be addressed by considering how the organization of power and thus the possibility of challenging it has changed in the postmodern world. Power has become technical and faceless, and thus much harder to resist collectively. Organized resistance to those in positions of economic power is also more difficult because of the diffuse way contemporary markets are organized. Postmodernism also views the development of social change as reflexive rather than linear.

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On rattling cages: Joel Handler goes to Philadelphia and gives a presidential address

Article Abstract:

Joel F. Handler raises important questions for members of the Law & Society Assn. Throughout his career, Handler has been studying the interactions of ordinary people with government bureaucracy. He has not done this in a vacuum but with a deep empathy for the powerless. He wants collective social action to effect change and in this desire speaks also to lawyer whose goal is to right injustice.

Social change

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