Redeeming W.E.B. Du Bois
by Aldon Morris, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA Aldon Morris is well known for his paradigm-changing research on social movements and in particular his prize-winning book, The Origins of the...
View ArticleEditorial: Sociology from the Margins
The most innovative sociology often comes from the margins of academia and sometimes even from outside academia altogether. A case in point is W.E.B. Du Bois, probably the most significant US...
View ArticleOn Being Human in an Inhuman World: Remembering Vladimir Yadov
by Dmitri N. Shalin, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA In the 1960s, the Laboratory of Concrete Social Research in Leningrad was a hotbed of newfangled sociological science, fighting to secure a...
View ArticleProtecting Civilians: Response to Hajjar
by Amitai Etzioni, George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA Lisa Hajjar has positioned an op-ed I wrote as a next step in a multifaceted Israeli campaign to bring “its violence into the law.”...
View ArticleNormalizing Extreme Violence: The Israeli Case
by Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA On February 15, 2016, Amitai Etzioni, sociologist and professor at George Washington University, published an op-ed in Israel’s Ha’aretz...
View ArticleThe Biopolitics of the Lebanese Garbage Crisis
by Nisrine Chaer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands In August 2015, Lebanon’s protests, responding to a garbage crisis, transformed into a popular anti-corruption movement. The waste management...
View ArticleSociology in the Arab World: An Interview with Sari Hanafi
Sari Hanafi is currently a Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies at the American University of Beirut. He is also the editor of Idafat: the...
View ArticleThe Pluralism of Social Movement Studies
by Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy Donatella della Porta is one of the internationally best known and most prolific scholars in the area of social movements. Her work...
View ArticleRedeeming W.E.B. Du Bois
by Aldon Morris, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA Aldon Morris is well known for his paradigm-changing research on social movements and in particular his prize-winning book, The Origins of the...
View ArticleEditorial: Sociology from the Margins
The most innovative sociology often comes from the margins of academia and sometimes even from outside academia altogether. A case in point is W.E.B. Du Bois, probably the most significant US...
View ArticleJohn Urry – Sociologist of the Future
John Urry, who recently passed away, was one of the UK’s most cited sociologists, with some twenty books, many of them very influential. After graduating from Cambridge University, John spent his whole...
View ArticleRemembering John Urry and his Work
When you’ve known someone for a long time, it’s hard to separate the person from their work, and it’s probably best not to try. John Urry contributed to social science not just by publishing, but...
View ArticleThe “Sociology Wars” in Canada
by Neil McLaughlin, McMaster University, Canada, and Antony Puddephatt, Lakehead University, Canada At the turn of the 21st century, several senior scholars sounded alarm bells about the state of...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Corporate University in the UK
by Huw Beynon, Cardiff University, UK British universities are changing, in ways so fundamental that it is not easy to predict where it will end. Certainly working and studying in a university here...
View ArticleThe American Right: Its Deep Story
by Arlie Russell Hochschild, University of California, Berkeley, USA As in much of Europe, India, China and Russia, the American political right is on the move. In some ways, America’s leftward...
View ArticleLabor Politics and the Return of Neoliberalism in Argentina
by Rodolfo Elbert, Conicet and University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and member of the ISA Research Committee on Labour Movements (RC44) On November 22, 2015, Argentines elected Mauricio Macri as...
View ArticleThe End of Lulism and the Palace Coup in Brazil
by Ruy Braga, University of São Paulo, Brazil and Member of ISA Research Committee on Labor Movements (RC44). In general, analyses of Brazil’s current political and economic crisis emphasize the...
View ArticleTurkish Totalitarianism: A Trendsetter rather than a Cultural Curiosity?
by Cihan Tuğal, University of California, Berkeley, USA Turkey’s sharp authoritarian turn has surprised many observers: not so long ago, the country was celebrated as an exemplar of liberalism that...
View ArticleA Democracy at War with Itself
by Nandini Sundar, Delhi School of Economics, India Nandini Sundar is a well-known sociologist of political violence. She has spent more than 25 years studying Bastar, an intense zone of conflict...
View ArticleEditorial: Populism of the 21st Century
Between 2011 and 2014 Global Dialogue reported optimistically on the social movements engulfing the world – Arab Uprisings, Occupy movements, Indignados, labor movements, student movements,...
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