Comparative and Historical Sociology
Section of the American Sociological Association
Hammer, Ricarda. “Decolonizing the Civil Sphere: The Politics of Difference, Imperial Erasures, and Theorizing from History.” Sociological Theory (2020): 0735275120921215. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0735275120921215 Thomas, Jacob. “From local control to remote control: an …
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Stephan, Rita, and Mounira M. Charrad, eds. Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring. NYU Press, 2020. Images of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to …
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Here are some recent publications from members of our section: Charrad, Mounira M., and Nicholas E. Reith. “Local Solidarities: How the Arab Spring Protests Started.” In Sociological Forum, vol. 34, …
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Plys, Kristin Victoria Magistrelli. Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India. Cambridge University Press, 2020. In 1947, decolonization …
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Here are some recent publications from members of our section: Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2020. “Anti-Impunity Transnational Legal Ordering and Human Rights – Formation, Institutionalization, Consequences, and the Case of Darfur.” …
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Here are some recent publications from members of our section: Burchardt, Marian, and Ann Swidler. “Transplanting Institutional Innovation: Comparing the Success of NGOs and Missionary Protestantism in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Theory …
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Michael Hechter. Rational Choice Sociology: Essays on Theory, Collective Action, and Social Order. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019. Whereas rational choice theory has enjoyed considerable success in economics and political science, …
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Steven Pfaff and Michael Hechter, The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance and Mutiny in the Age of Sail. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. The Age of Sail has …
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Breaching the Civil Order: Radicalism and the Civil Sphere. 2020. Edited by Jeffrey Alexander, Trevor Stack and Farhad Khosrokhavar. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108427234 (hardback) It is not only …
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Richard Lachmann, First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers (Verso, 2020) The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious …
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