Editorial: What’s Next?
For all our sophisticated survey research very few predicted the election of Donald Trump. This suggests US sociologists have a limited knowledge of their own country. While there are notable studies...
View ArticleRemembering Zygmunt Bauman
When the Emperor departs, there is often mourning, and some gloating. Is this an interregnum? Was Zygmunt Bauman an emperor? I don’t think so. He was a latecomer to fame, a reluctant celebrity,...
View ArticleZygmunt Bauman, the Skeptical Utopian
Zygmunt Bauman’s biography could be easily molded into a dominant narrative of twentieth-century Polish intelligentsia. After the traumatic experience of war, fascinated by the communist project, this...
View ArticleZygmunt Bauman’s Moral Vision
The Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman has died at the age of 91, bringing to an end his remarkable career as one of the contemporary world’s leading sociologists. It is very difficult to sum up the...
View ArticleSociology From Pakistan: The Politics of Infrastructure
by Amen Jaffer, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Since the last decade of the twentieth century, the Pakistani economy has been transformed by privatization and deregulation – a...
View ArticleSociology from Pakistan: Islamophobia and the British Security Agenda
by Tania Saeed, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Britain’s educational institutions are increasingly being drawn into the state’s security agenda. Under the Counter-Terrorism and...
View ArticleSociology from Pakistan: Divorce in the Diaspora
by Kaveri Qureshi, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Thirty-eight-year-old Sukaina is a Londoner of Pakistani heritage. Married at eighteen to a cousin in Lancashire, Sukaina had three...
View ArticleSociology from Pakistan: Economic Participation and Violence against Women
by Nida Kirmani, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Development agencies and international financial institutions argue that increasing women’s economic participation will lead to both...
View ArticleSociology from Pakistan: Surveillance of Gulf Migration
by Ayaz Qureshi, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Over the past three decades, as more and more developing countries have sent their citizens overseas to work, Pakistani citizens have...
View ArticleDuterte’s Revolt against Liberal Democracy
by Walden Bello, State University of New York, Binghamton and former member of the Philippine House of Representatives. With the victory of the Nazi counterrevolution, Joseph Goebbels famously said,...
View ArticleEditorial: Sociology in an Age of Reaction
Duterte, Erdogan, Orban, Putin, Le Pen, Modi, Zuma and Trump – they all seem to be cut from a similar nationalist, xenophobic, authoritarian cloth. The triumph of Trump has given new energy to...
View ArticleSociology from Aotearoa New Zealand: Power Politics in Post-Disaster Ōtautahi
by Steve Matthewman, The University of Auckland and President of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand On a rapidly urbanizing planet facing unprecedented wealth disparities, global...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Colonialism in Kosova: An Interview with Ibrahim Berisha
Ibrahim Berisha was born in the Republic of Kosova. He completed undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Sociology in Prishtina, and then went on to postgraduate studies in Zagreb, Croatia, where he...
View ArticleThe End of the Global Age? An Interview with Martin Albrow
Martin Albrow, the eminent British sociologist, made an early name for himself as a scholar of Max Weber and author of the widely read monograph Bureaucracy (1970). An early theorist of globalization,...
View ArticleA Dominated Discipline in the Italian Academy
by Massimiliano Vaira, University of Pavia, Italy Long contested, the recognition of sociology as a scientific and academic discipline in the Italian university is a recent event. As a latecomer, its...
View ArticleGender Stereotypes in Italian Sociology
by Annalisa Murgia, Leeds University Business School, UK and Barbara Poggio, University of Trento, Italy Italian sociology’s relationship with gender studies is rather complex, linked as it is to a...
View ArticleInternationalizing Sociology in Italy, 1970s-2010s
by Flaminio Squazzoni and Aliakbar Akbaritabar, University of Brescia, Italy Italian sociologists work in a wide range of educational and research institutions located in different regions of Italy....
View ArticleJanus-faced Italian Sociology, 1945-1965
by Andrea Cossu, University of Trento, Italy For scientific disciplines, the path leading to intellectual acceptance and institutionalization is almost invariably difficult, involving not only debates...
View ArticleGramsci, A Stranger in his Own Land
by Riccardo Emilio Chesta, European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy In contemporary debates in the social sciences, critical sociology and Marxism are typically located in the same box. In fact,...
View ArticleItalian Sociology at the Turn of the 21st Century
by Matteo Bortolini, University of Padova, Italy As Andrea Cossu and I have argued in Italian Sociology 1945-2010: An Intellectual and Institutional Profile, the early 1990s marked the end of the...
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